Dutiful Murdock
@dutifulmurdock.bsky.social
3 badgers in a trench coat.
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Shout out today for the most awesome of all turkeys: the turkey who lived on the hill.
They understood the true meaning of love, and accepted those who love, unconditionally.
I'm not asking you to marry an owl with a pussycat, but accepting and celebrating? Yeah, do that.
They understood the true meaning of love, and accepted those who love, unconditionally.
I'm not asking you to marry an owl with a pussycat, but accepting and celebrating? Yeah, do that.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Shout out today for the most awesome of all turkeys: the turkey who lived on the hill.
They understood the true meaning of love, and accepted those who love, unconditionally.
I'm not asking you to marry an owl with a pussycat, but accepting and celebrating? Yeah, do that.
They understood the true meaning of love, and accepted those who love, unconditionally.
I'm not asking you to marry an owl with a pussycat, but accepting and celebrating? Yeah, do that.
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There are many other great organizations we can donate to that DON'T discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community!
remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There are many other great organizations we can donate to that DON'T discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community!
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Also while I'm at it, if you'd potentially be interested in Reviewing/ARC copies for In This City, Where it Rains (and future Luna releases including @aknighton.bsky.social's new novella, also launching Feb 3rd!) you can sign up via the form here! 👇 www.lunapresspublishing.com/reviewersand...
Excellent bookmail today, my author copies for In This City, Where it Rains arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social !! My gothic horror love letter to Edinburgh, ft. ghosts, a cursed city, a gothic house, rituals, family secrets, & weird moths is out Feb 3rd!! Pre-order now! 🏴🖤✨️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Also while I'm at it, if you'd potentially be interested in Reviewing/ARC copies for In This City, Where it Rains (and future Luna releases including @aknighton.bsky.social's new novella, also launching Feb 3rd!) you can sign up via the form here! 👇 www.lunapresspublishing.com/reviewersand...
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Right, UK gaming folk - Revelation is an amazing, focused convention in Sheffield. Quality games in a great gaming location.
The early numbers have traditionally been threadbare and I've been forced to use a Cold Hard Stare to convince people they like fun.
Lets not do that this time. Come play!
The early numbers have traditionally been threadbare and I've been forced to use a Cold Hard Stare to convince people they like fun.
Lets not do that this time. Come play!
REVELATION X (14-15 February 2026) has opened for registration.
Join us for a Valentine's Weekend full of Powered by the Apocalypse and Forged in the Dark #ttrpg games at the Garrison Hotel in Sheffield, UK!
#pbta #fitd #bladesinthedark #poweredbytheapocalypse
Register here: revelation.ttrpg.uk
Join us for a Valentine's Weekend full of Powered by the Apocalypse and Forged in the Dark #ttrpg games at the Garrison Hotel in Sheffield, UK!
#pbta #fitd #bladesinthedark #poweredbytheapocalypse
Register here: revelation.ttrpg.uk
Revelation - Revelation Convention
A Powered by the Apocalypse Gaming Convention 14-15 February, 2026, Sheffield, UK To be held face to face at The Garrison Hotel in 2026... Revelation 3:20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If a...
revelation.ttrpg.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Right, UK gaming folk - Revelation is an amazing, focused convention in Sheffield. Quality games in a great gaming location.
The early numbers have traditionally been threadbare and I've been forced to use a Cold Hard Stare to convince people they like fun.
Lets not do that this time. Come play!
The early numbers have traditionally been threadbare and I've been forced to use a Cold Hard Stare to convince people they like fun.
Lets not do that this time. Come play!
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Northodox have a sale on now for all of their books, including my fantasy murder mystery The Executioner's Blade. Go grab a copy before it goes out of print in January!
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Northodox have a sale on now for all of their books, including my fantasy murder mystery The Executioner's Blade. Go grab a copy before it goes out of print in January!
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
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I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
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Anyway, uh, my book is also called The Shape of Monsters, but it's book 1 and came out in 2025.
Book 2, A Million Points of Light, will be out in February 2026.
Despite this image, it is not YA ;)
Book 2, A Million Points of Light, will be out in February 2026.
Despite this image, it is not YA ;)
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Anyway, uh, my book is also called The Shape of Monsters, but it's book 1 and came out in 2025.
Book 2, A Million Points of Light, will be out in February 2026.
Despite this image, it is not YA ;)
Book 2, A Million Points of Light, will be out in February 2026.
Despite this image, it is not YA ;)
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UK readers! The ebook of THE HOLLY KING is a mere 99p over the festive season. So if you enjoy killer fairies, angry demigods, antlers and decadent orgies then this is the perfect Yuletide read. Simply pop over to wherever you get your ebooks. Also available in Kindle flavour.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
UK readers! The ebook of THE HOLLY KING is a mere 99p over the festive season. So if you enjoy killer fairies, angry demigods, antlers and decadent orgies then this is the perfect Yuletide read. Simply pop over to wherever you get your ebooks. Also available in Kindle flavour.
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A thief discovers she can use newly-returned magic, but when she accidentally 💀 a man with it, she’s dragged into the service of the king and must train alongside other emerging mages - hard to do when she’s vowed to never care about anyone again.
books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash
💙📚🪐 #Books
books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash
💙📚🪐 #Books
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A thief discovers she can use newly-returned magic, but when she accidentally 💀 a man with it, she’s dragged into the service of the king and must train alongside other emerging mages - hard to do when she’s vowed to never care about anyone again.
books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash
💙📚🪐 #Books
books.thellian.com/reborn-in-ash
💙📚🪐 #Books
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Fun Fact: I don't promote Amazon as a sales channel. I only promo my own shop.
Halfway through 2025, my sales dropped off a cliff and have not recovered.
Events and bsky posts reliably led to follow-on sales, right until Boycott Amazon... And I'm not linking to Amazon.
Halfway through 2025, my sales dropped off a cliff and have not recovered.
Events and bsky posts reliably led to follow-on sales, right until Boycott Amazon... And I'm not linking to Amazon.
I'm blocking everyone who parrots "they weren't going to buy it anyway" because that used to be the case. Now, it's the Boycott Amazon people, which *everyone* said would happen bc sales dropped like a rock overnight as pirated stuff went up.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Fun Fact: I don't promote Amazon as a sales channel. I only promo my own shop.
Halfway through 2025, my sales dropped off a cliff and have not recovered.
Events and bsky posts reliably led to follow-on sales, right until Boycott Amazon... And I'm not linking to Amazon.
Halfway through 2025, my sales dropped off a cliff and have not recovered.
Events and bsky posts reliably led to follow-on sales, right until Boycott Amazon... And I'm not linking to Amazon.
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Closing out the season & year we have @michaelrmiller.bsky.social! Because what could be more festive than dragons
Michael's Songs of Chaos series has a kitchen boy who rescues a doomed dragon egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. The latest in the series, Reckoning, was released in Sept
Michael's Songs of Chaos series has a kitchen boy who rescues a doomed dragon egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. The latest in the series, Reckoning, was released in Sept
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Closing out the season & year we have @michaelrmiller.bsky.social! Because what could be more festive than dragons
Michael's Songs of Chaos series has a kitchen boy who rescues a doomed dragon egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. The latest in the series, Reckoning, was released in Sept
Michael's Songs of Chaos series has a kitchen boy who rescues a doomed dragon egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. The latest in the series, Reckoning, was released in Sept
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a clinical trial is something you conduct to see if a drug is safe, not something you conduct to "build evidence" that a drug should be banned.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
a clinical trial is something you conduct to see if a drug is safe, not something you conduct to "build evidence" that a drug should be banned.
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Thinking about the little online community that showed me that art could be something I could participate in rather than just something I enjoyed from other people, and how much impact that has had on my life. I love how sometimes chance will put you in the company you need.
A little wave study from a stormy day at Rhossili a few weeks ago.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Thinking about the little online community that showed me that art could be something I could participate in rather than just something I enjoyed from other people, and how much impact that has had on my life. I love how sometimes chance will put you in the company you need.
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Castle visiting times.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Castle visiting times.
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I'm a big fan of the work @blog.readindiefantasy.com do so I took the opportunity to contribute a post on some of the worldbuilding I've enjoyed in indie fantasy. Talking about @patricksamphire.bsky.social , @jzacharypike.bsky.social , @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social and Hiyodori (not of this parish.)
It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and we wish you a good morning.
Today, we have a guest post written by Ben Moxon ( @glenatron.bsky.social ) who tells us about his favourite fantasy worlds and what makes them special.
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w...
#AMoRaR #BookSky #WriteSky #WorldBuilding
Today, we have a guest post written by Ben Moxon ( @glenatron.bsky.social ) who tells us about his favourite fantasy worlds and what makes them special.
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w...
#AMoRaR #BookSky #WriteSky #WorldBuilding
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I'm a big fan of the work @blog.readindiefantasy.com do so I took the opportunity to contribute a post on some of the worldbuilding I've enjoyed in indie fantasy. Talking about @patricksamphire.bsky.social , @jzacharypike.bsky.social , @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social and Hiyodori (not of this parish.)
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Head up, UK types. Looks like you can pick up GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD for just 99p on ereader. So if huge trees and deep weirdness that will only get weirder are your thing THIS MAY BE FOR YOU.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
Gods of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 1: 'Avatar meets Dune - on shrooms. Five stars.' -SFX
'Avatar meets Dune - on shrooms. Five stars.' -SFX
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Head up, UK types. Looks like you can pick up GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD for just 99p on ereader. So if huge trees and deep weirdness that will only get weirder are your thing THIS MAY BE FOR YOU.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
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Reminder that all my merch is half price until Dec 1st.
Discount automatically applied in the cart, no need for a code!!
Come get your adorkable Quentin, Laurence, and Windsor shit 😁
shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...
Discount automatically applied in the cart, no need for a code!!
Come get your adorkable Quentin, Laurence, and Windsor shit 😁
shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...
Merch
shop.ravenswordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reminder that all my merch is half price until Dec 1st.
Discount automatically applied in the cart, no need for a code!!
Come get your adorkable Quentin, Laurence, and Windsor shit 😁
shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...
Discount automatically applied in the cart, no need for a code!!
Come get your adorkable Quentin, Laurence, and Windsor shit 😁
shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...
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It’s that time again - the M. R. James ghost story Christmas countdown! 👻
There are 31 days until Santa arrives, so if you read one* story a day, you’ll finish the Collected Ghost Stories in time to get merry.
Like a haunted advent calendar! ❄️
#Christmas #GhostStories
There are 31 days until Santa arrives, so if you read one* story a day, you’ll finish the Collected Ghost Stories in time to get merry.
Like a haunted advent calendar! ❄️
#Christmas #GhostStories
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It’s that time again - the M. R. James ghost story Christmas countdown! 👻
There are 31 days until Santa arrives, so if you read one* story a day, you’ll finish the Collected Ghost Stories in time to get merry.
Like a haunted advent calendar! ❄️
#Christmas #GhostStories
There are 31 days until Santa arrives, so if you read one* story a day, you’ll finish the Collected Ghost Stories in time to get merry.
Like a haunted advent calendar! ❄️
#Christmas #GhostStories
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Do you want to hear me read the opening chapter from my upcoming fantasy adventure novel This Is Where The Future Bleeds, then talk nonsense? YOU CAN!
# 240- Mike Brooks (@mikebrooks668.bsky.social) joins Ben and Nico to showcase the opening to his new book and talk about writing! Listen here:
pod.link/1524142040/e...
Mike Brooks appears this Friday @waterstones.bsky.social in Nottingham:
www.waterstones.com/events/franc...
#author #interview
pod.link/1524142040/e...
Mike Brooks appears this Friday @waterstones.bsky.social in Nottingham:
www.waterstones.com/events/franc...
#author #interview
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Do you want to hear me read the opening chapter from my upcoming fantasy adventure novel This Is Where The Future Bleeds, then talk nonsense? YOU CAN!
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Thanks to @shaunalawless.bsky.social and @kitgonzo.bsky.social I think "explaining salad cream to Americans" is my new metaphor for an impossible task.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Thanks to @shaunalawless.bsky.social and @kitgonzo.bsky.social I think "explaining salad cream to Americans" is my new metaphor for an impossible task.
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THE DEAD MAN has been out for 5 days now. Thank you to everyone who's bought it. It's been far more of you than I expected for a prequel novella!
books2read.com/thedeadman
books2read.com/thedeadman
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
THE DEAD MAN has been out for 5 days now. Thank you to everyone who's bought it. It's been far more of you than I expected for a prequel novella!
books2read.com/thedeadman
books2read.com/thedeadman