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Eddie Robson

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Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres. https://eddierobson.wordpress.com

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · Feb 6

ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025.

One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3m

One of my favourite musicians is playing in Lancaster on Saturday. Am I going? No, because I've already committed to doing something else, because I didn't know it was happening until today, even though I am subscribed to the organisers' mailing list.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16m

You're not missing anything. It's just one of those things where an old tweet gets recirculated and people react to it without noticing/caring it's old.

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thelovelyeggs.bsky.social @thelovelyeggs.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t KEEP a secret! Finally we can reveal that for one weekend only, the King and Queen of Eggland are taking over a mystery room in the keep of Lancaster Castle! Closed to the public for the last 800+ years we’re finally flinging open the doors to this secret hidden location!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1h

But the Tories have been pummeling this line for years and look where they are.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 19h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3h

I just don't think there are that many people going "Well I wasn't going to vote for them before, but this policy of driving people out of studying the arts and humanities has changed my mind".

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 4h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4h

These drugs are transformative for many people and the judginess is exhausting. It’s fine for people to take medication to make them healthier! It’s also fine if they’re taking it because they’d prefer to be slimmer! That’s their business!

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 6h

When judgy people like to judge Ozempic users, I always cite my pal James who was *not well* and now is. (Also he thinks he looks hot, no question) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

I’ve lost 4 stone on Wegovy. Now I look like a weedy nerd

At 38 James Ball was overweight, suffering from sky-high blood pressure. Fifteen months later, he’s buying a new wardrobe — and has no plans to give up his jabs

www.thetimes.com

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 14h

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (DRAWING) RINGS AROUND THE WORLD

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 5h

"which is nice."

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e.g. Mark Clapham @markclapham.bsky.social · 5h

Good to see organic enthusiasm from absolutely real people in the deadline comments section.

Two suspiciously similarly worded favourable comments, ostensibly from different users, on a Deadline story about Disney signing a big deal to adapt some fantasy books.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 5h

I think it is, yes - but tbh a lot of their favourite books have one good idea that's enough for about 100 pages but has been spun out to 270, and they just want to absorb that.

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Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social · 7h

you’re in his DMs, I am in the little Gaulish village still holding out against the Roman invaders

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 6h

If people can write detailed text prompts for AI image generators then they can bloody well write alt text.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I know, I always do. I was just pointing out how stupid the AI had been in this case. It wasn't the reason I decided to use a different gif.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 7h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

I think this is all being driven by the kind of people who exclusively read productivity hack books, pop psychology, stuff like that. For them reading a book has always been about the advantage you gain from it, not whether you enjoy reading it.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 14h

I considered using this gif for that post and noticed the AI alt text either thinks Tendi is a man because she has short hair or it thinks Rutherford is the one speaking even though he isn't.

a cartoon of a man saying " i 'm trying to save you "

Alt: a cartoon of a man saying " i 'm trying to save you "

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks to all who replied and saved me from buying it even though the blu ray is cheap at the moment.

a man with a beard and a chain around his neck says " i could not have come this far without your help "

Alt: Worf says "I could not have come this far without your help"

media.tenor.com

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 15h

Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later

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Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 16h

Me, age sixteen, seeing articles about a man sniffing a lady minister's shoes and running away in every direction during English class all year: learning to read was a mistake

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Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 16h

My English teacher was married to a minister. She was physically assaulted and had her shoes stolen at a gas station by a foot fetishist. We knew this because the teacher had wallpapered his classroom with the news articles about it, which made it very clear the worst details were not fit to print

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 21h

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 19h

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 17h

@eddierobson.bsky.social wrote two very different sentient printers in WTOVPIC; one was one line: it was super-helpful and the computer got jealous/protective of its relationship with the owner, and that got a big laugh. but the other was truculent and obstructive and the audience LOVED that one

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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