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Patrick Marlborough

@cormacmccafe.bsky.social

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writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA. The Yeah Nah Review on substack co-host of The Battler debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · Jun 24

buy NOCK LOOSE and experience the impossible: FUN OZLIT

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Nock Loose - Fremantle Press

Joy is a gifted archer, a retired Olympian and a former stuntwoman on a cult Japanese tokusatsu show. Raised by a feckless grifter, her home is Bodkins Point. For 150 years, this small town has hosted...

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote about Big Basic over on YNR.

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 4h

I declare war on Basic Art and the Basic People that pummel is with it. Check it out:

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THE ACTION IS THE JUICE

Attack on Basic

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 5h

“What if the Nazgûl had big lips” is a look people have settled on for some reason

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 5h

every day I see cosmetic surgery that makes me go “AHHH!” and “YIKES!”

spooky!

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 6h

they need to make a HEAT prequel series called YOUNG WAINGRO

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 7h

I hate working without an editor. I am literally a maniac (diagnosed) who can not behave. Somebody stop me, PLEASE!!!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 10h

Americans having their “are we the baddies?” moment 70 years too late

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

“Capitalism and democracies are both together and in their own right orchestrating a genocide as if it were the most normal and natural thing in the world…The main index of the Tel Aviv stock exchange rose 200% over the course of the genocide”

Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 17h

Maurizio Lazzarato argues that the shape of the next phase of history will not be determined economically, like an exchange between contractors, but only by forces capable of entering the strategic plane of the friend-enemy relation.
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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 22h

The Age?

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 1d

60 pages in and ready to declare this a masterpiece. i've been reading such deeply medicore books (australian) all year, it's so good to go back to the stuff i love and remember why i love it, and that it's so much better than what gets boosted in this nation of midwits. yippy!

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 1d

they’re calling this Pynchon guy “the American Marlborough.” Good for him!

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to all the Israeli ravers who got hannibal directived so their fascist state could do Holocaust 2.

i hope the molly in heaven is meth free.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 1d

Trent Dalton launched his new book on October 7 because he is Hamas

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 2d

someone should do a writers festival where you get to talk about writing

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 3d

what’s good in Sydney tn? I got 12 hours in Newtown…

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 3d

most emotionally abusive/manipulative lesbian domestic keeping me awake in the hostel rn - some real 5d chess being played between these two masters of the game.

Ladies, some of us are trying to watch Columbo!!!!

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 3d

That’s not what my Mossad handler tells me

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 4d

Australian writers festivals are establishing radical tumblr cells in YOUR regional town/city

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 4d

every Australian writer’s festival is a psy-op

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 4d

only slide from my presentation at NYWF

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 5d

nipple placement is insane ngl

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 6d

The prophecy has been fulfilled: I am 35 today.

buy NOCK LOOSE or it was all for nothin’

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!