Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge
@turquoisefloyd.bsky.social
- Neurodivergent. She/her.
- Writes SF & a little light Horror
- One of life's great pedestrians, sometimes has the Elephant of Surprise in tow
- Daiquiri drinker
- Occasionally mistaken for an Australian
- https://linktr.ee/leoniemsmithstrawbridge
- Writes SF & a little light Horror
- One of life's great pedestrians, sometimes has the Elephant of Surprise in tow
- Daiquiri drinker
- Occasionally mistaken for an Australian
- https://linktr.ee/leoniemsmithstrawbridge
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Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze eBook : Smith, Leonie M.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze eBook : Smith, Leonie M.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
Break out the fireworks and champagne: IT'S HERE! Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze is up and available on Amazon! Or I'll sell a reasonably priced PDF or ePub to you direct if you're not into feeding the Amazon beast. Bezos-east. Bezeast. Something. *shrug* amzn.eu/d/h5WDKUh
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
George Orwell
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
George Orwell
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I’m inviting #GPs to take part in a short service evaluation on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis management in #PrimaryCare
Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions.
Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham...
#GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP
Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions.
Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham...
#GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I’m inviting #GPs to take part in a short service evaluation on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis management in #PrimaryCare
Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions.
Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham...
#GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP
Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions.
Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham...
#GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP
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We often speak of you.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We often speak of you.
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Don’t Look Up: Writing Cosmic Horror - come join the madness - 15/11/25 - 11:00
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Don’t Look Up: Writing Cosmic Horror - come join the madness - 15/11/25 - 11:00
I know from reading Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Spike Millgan wasn't a fan of the "bloody Warsaw Concerto", but I bloody love it.
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I know from reading Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Spike Millgan wasn't a fan of the "bloody Warsaw Concerto", but I bloody love it.
Passed an old folks home on my travels this morning, where the residents were having a singalong to 'Side By Side@ with a chap on a guitar. Made me wonder what us Gen Xers will be singing when we fill up the homes. Britpop? Metal? "Everybody! SOOOO SALLLLY CAN WAAAIT, SHE KNOWS IT'S TOO LAAAATE..."
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Passed an old folks home on my travels this morning, where the residents were having a singalong to 'Side By Side@ with a chap on a guitar. Made me wonder what us Gen Xers will be singing when we fill up the homes. Britpop? Metal? "Everybody! SOOOO SALLLLY CAN WAAAIT, SHE KNOWS IT'S TOO LAAAATE..."
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I’m looking for a little help with my PhD research: a service evaluation to understand how GPs assess and manage ppl presenting with #tinnitus & #hyperacusis.
If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins.
Scan QR or link in thread
If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins.
Scan QR or link in thread
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’m looking for a little help with my PhD research: a service evaluation to understand how GPs assess and manage ppl presenting with #tinnitus & #hyperacusis.
If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins.
Scan QR or link in thread
If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins.
Scan QR or link in thread
Samir Zitouni deserves the George Cross for his courageous actions on Saturday night. It's awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger", not in the enemy's presence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Samir Zitouni deserves the George Cross for his courageous actions on Saturday night. It's awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger", not in the enemy's presence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Somehow Fesshole has been invited to SWEDEN. Tell your Swedish friends. Can't quite believe this is happening.
We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates.
TICKETS --> sites.google.com/view/fesshole
We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates.
TICKETS --> sites.google.com/view/fesshole
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Somehow Fesshole has been invited to SWEDEN. Tell your Swedish friends. Can't quite believe this is happening.
We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates.
TICKETS --> sites.google.com/view/fesshole
We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates.
TICKETS --> sites.google.com/view/fesshole
New post on the Substack about my third novelette, and second in the Vespertine series. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New post on the Substack about my third novelette, and second in the Vespertine series. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...
What a cracking evening: brilliant Bugle Live show AND Gian Van Veen winning the European Darts Championships!
Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!
October 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What a cracking evening: brilliant Bugle Live show AND Gian Van Veen winning the European Darts Championships!
Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!
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I tested AI and the outcome was scarier than I expected
open.substack.com/pub/eyglo/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/eyglo/p/...
AI and Cosmic Horror: A Conversation
Know thy enemy I told myself and asked it a question. I was not quite prepared for the answer. "No malice, no motive, no reason"
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I tested AI and the outcome was scarier than I expected
open.substack.com/pub/eyglo/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/eyglo/p/...
New post on the Substack: where the writer explains! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/being-for-...
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New post on the Substack: where the writer explains! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/being-for-...
Is squeezy Nutella a thing?
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Is squeezy Nutella a thing?
It's so hard to get people to look at anything you post, isn't it? I thought I'd try doing a video of a post I wrote, to move with the times. It got three views yesterday, so here it is on BSky. Two minutes of your time to watch my whimsical noodling, if you'll indulge me.
(Please indulge me)
(Please indulge me)
October 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's so hard to get people to look at anything you post, isn't it? I thought I'd try doing a video of a post I wrote, to move with the times. It got three views yesterday, so here it is on BSky. Two minutes of your time to watch my whimsical noodling, if you'll indulge me.
(Please indulge me)
(Please indulge me)
New post at the Substack! This one has a video! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/id-settle-...
#silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies
#silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies
October 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New post at the Substack! This one has a video! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/id-settle-...
#silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies
#silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies
Superb interview of Lord Heseltine by Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, just now. Seek it out, if you can. He doesn't mince words!
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Superb interview of Lord Heseltine by Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, just now. Seek it out, if you can. He doesn't mince words!
I'm finally catching up with season 3 of The Orville, now subtitled "New Horizons". Is it just me or is Dr Finn is the Meg Griffin of the show, what with the emotional beatings she's taken in the first two shows of the season?
a man sitting at a desk with the words there it is
ALT: a man sitting at a desk with the words there it is
media.tenor.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'm finally catching up with season 3 of The Orville, now subtitled "New Horizons". Is it just me or is Dr Finn is the Meg Griffin of the show, what with the emotional beatings she's taken in the first two shows of the season?
Currently reading. I love World SF.
October 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Currently reading. I love World SF.
Come here, ya little bugger! #silliness #funnies #idiot #ideas turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/faster-tha...
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Come here, ya little bugger! #silliness #funnies #idiot #ideas turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/faster-tha...
Six years ago, I bid on this chair at the local auction house. Reader, I did not win it but I often think of it in a wistful manner.
October 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Six years ago, I bid on this chair at the local auction house. Reader, I did not win it but I often think of it in a wistful manner.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number 98: if you can't take it with you, don't go.
October 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number 98: if you can't take it with you, don't go.
The human world gets more horrible by the day, but have you ever considered the employment needs of the porcine residents of Planet Earth? New on my Substack, The "As and When, Weakly" ! open.substack.com/pub/turquois...
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The human world gets more horrible by the day, but have you ever considered the employment needs of the porcine residents of Planet Earth? New on my Substack, The "As and When, Weakly" ! open.substack.com/pub/turquois...