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Susan Murray

@pulpthorn.bsky.social

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Writer of Fantasy & SF. Northerner. Girly swot. She/her. Ooh, squirrel...

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · Oct 23

"AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."

Morning sunlight is finding its way round (and through) a yellow curtain which is still closed over an east-facing window. In the foreground is a floofy black cat, leaning forwards and slightly sideways from the right of the frame to peer intently into the camera with wide eyes, pupils dilated.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1h

Important announcement: pears bought on 25/9 have attained peak eat-over-the-sink juiciness.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 5h

Unsolicited lick pic

Ginger Highland cow calf shoves his tongue up one nostril, because he can.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
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Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

“Portland. Shit. I'm still only in Portland. I'm here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay on this roof, I get weaker, and every minute The Frog squats in street, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.”

A woman (Kristi Noem) and a man in cammo gear at sunglasses, looking down over the edge of the roof

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 6h

What five events defined your childhood?

Torrey Canyon disaster
Moon landing
Joining the EEC
Fuel crisis (crises?)
Waist-deep snowdrifts (coinciding with the Winter of Discontent)

Benjamin Bedbreaker @defn28.bsky.social · 7h

What five events defined your childhood?

Falklands War
Prince Charles marrying Lady Dianna
Lockerbie disaster/Pan Am flight 103
Challenger Shuttle disaster
IRA bombings

🏳️‍🌈🌟 Simon will take you Hot To Go 🌟🏳️‍🌈 @thesimonc90.bsky.social · 7h

What five events defined your childhood?

9/11
The new millennium
Death of Princess Diana
The Soham murders
The Simpsons moving to Channel 4

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 7h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 7h

My right knee sends a message of solidarity.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 18h

This implies your knee joints are fully functional!

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 18h

Downward dog is really good for getting up off the floor when your knees just won’t.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20h

PUBLIC AWARENESS IS GROWING AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE TADPOLLING

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 23h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 23h

Got to wonder how much oversight there is of sampling methods. Have been wondering for a while, tbh. This makes me wonder more.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 1d

Give in to the brain weasels.

My brain weasels just want to draw pretty pictures.

A line drawing of a robin sitting on broken spear.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 23h

Fab result!

Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

It’s what the brainweasels want…

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Going to do it anyway, obv.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Domestic alert state: sanding a doorframe between coats and pondering the difference in risk inherent in developing a full-length near-future-set novel for an established male author as opposed to an unknown female author.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

So much for rigorous sampling methods…

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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · 1d

Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline 👇🏽

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d

Oisín wins the Internet today.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that the rise of the frog resistance was foretold by a great prophet, many years ago, in a more innocent time.

#PortlandFrog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fu...

Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus - We all stand together

YouTube video by Eadwig

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Have reached the first Miles novel in the saga. Very much on board so far.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 1d

www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...

Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support

More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity...

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Finished Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar audiobook yesterday. Arrived very late to her work, yet it felt hauntingly familiar at times - not the plot/characters/locations, but the voice and mindset.

Could have sworn I hadn't read any of her stuff before this year, but now it feels like a quest.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Also fascinating!

Terence Eden @edent.tel · 1d

The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!

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View of Optimal Line Length in Reading — A Literature Review

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