Phantom Corsair
@phantomcorsair.bsky.social
Toby - wittering about cars, technology, showtunes and other stuff since… ooh, ages ago.
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I am a professional writer and editor - and rather good at copy-editing and proofreading. I'm happy to volunteer my services to any trans or gay rights organisation that can use them (as long as I'm not depriving anybody of a paid job!)
If you need help, contact me!
#transrights
#LGBTQI+rights
If you need help, contact me!
#transrights
#LGBTQI+rights
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You do? Oh, that's wonderful! Can you keep it for me? My name... yes, it's: J R R Tolkien.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You do? Oh, that's wonderful! Can you keep it for me? My name... yes, it's: J R R Tolkien.
Attention @bezza.bsky.social !
It’s the TALK OF THE TOWN this morning. It’s amazing.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Attention @bezza.bsky.social !
Squee! Kennedy Fisher is on the case!
#thelovecraftinvestigations
#thelovecraftinvestigations
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Squee! Kennedy Fisher is on the case!
#thelovecraftinvestigations
#thelovecraftinvestigations
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Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
I think @dieworkwear.bsky.social might have a thing or two to say about him...
Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?
Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?
Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I think @dieworkwear.bsky.social might have a thing or two to say about him...
Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?
Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?
Michael cAIne
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have inked deals for AI-generated versions of their voices with ElevenLabs
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Michael cAIne
This is a tremendous piece.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is a tremendous piece.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
And don't forget his Sterling work on Bill Evans' "At the Montreux Jazz Festival".
youtu.be/rQUxyyzgvBo?...
youtu.be/rQUxyyzgvBo?...
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And don't forget his Sterling work on Bill Evans' "At the Montreux Jazz Festival".
youtu.be/rQUxyyzgvBo?...
youtu.be/rQUxyyzgvBo?...
Here's a link to an excellent, practical piece on Internet security. Read it!
Cods Plaice: Staying safe on the Web - what can I do to make my browsing safer. Important notes for every web device.
codsplaice.blogspot.com/2019/03/stay...
codsplaice.blogspot.com/2019/03/stay...
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Here's a link to an excellent, practical piece on Internet security. Read it!
Me doing today's Clues By Sam.
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Me doing today's Clues By Sam.
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Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).
I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!
www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!
www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).
I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!
www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!
www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
If you're reading the letters pages of old Marvel comics, you're FOOMscrolling.
If you’re skimming ‘Ulysses’ so you can say you’ve read it, it’s Bloomscrolling.
If you’re in a disastrous Joseph Losey film with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Noël Coward, it’s Boom!scrolling.
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If you're reading the letters pages of old Marvel comics, you're FOOMscrolling.
It doesn't even scan!
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It doesn't even scan!
Absolutely this! It's a marvellous book.
Also, read Sydney Padua’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage!
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Absolutely this! It's a marvellous book.
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Could the Nobel Peace Prize committee perhaps give Trump some sort of certificate of participation?
#nobelpeaceprize
#nobelpeaceprize
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Could the Nobel Peace Prize committee perhaps give Trump some sort of certificate of participation?
#nobelpeaceprize
#nobelpeaceprize
Don't be a coelacanth. Be a coelaCANh!
#motivationalfossils
#motivationalfossils
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Don't be a coelacanth. Be a coelaCANh!
#motivationalfossils
#motivationalfossils
This is astonishing ambition: 24-hour-a-day energy from a solar plant with thermal battery storage, and enough output for 830,000 homes at a cost of $480m - that's around $600 per household!
China Three Gorges commissions world's largest PV-CSP solar plant www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/25/c...
China Three Gorges commissions world’s largest PV-CSP solar plant
Hybrid project pairs a 100 MW linear Fresnel concentrated solar power (CSP) with a 900 MW PV facility, delivering 24-hour output and demonstrating large-scale storage integration.
www.pv-magazine.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is astonishing ambition: 24-hour-a-day energy from a solar plant with thermal battery storage, and enough output for 830,000 homes at a cost of $480m - that's around $600 per household!
I'm enjoying Clues by Sam. It's rather a well-constructed logic game.
September 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I'm enjoying Clues by Sam. It's rather a well-constructed logic game.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer