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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 2d

#nowreading STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL, by Charlotte Wood #femalewriter #fiction #australianfiction @charlottewood.bsky.social @allenandunwin.bsky.social

ID: Photo of the book cover, showing a small rock formation on top of a low rise in an otherwise flat landscape of dry grass, with a figure of indefinite gender walking down the far side of the rise. The landscape is dwarfed by the vast, cloudy sky. The cover has badges for the shortlists of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and The Booker Prize, and the text “From the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend”

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 5d

I thought you may have been exaggerating. And then I saw the first episode, and was horrified to learn that no you were not

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 8d

#nowreading THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter #malewriter #play

ID: Photo of the cover of the 1965 Methuen Modern Plays edition. It has a blue border and features a production shot of a man holding a dining chair above his head, and being restrained by another man, who is slightly blurry due to being in motion when the picture was taken

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 9d

#nowreading THE JOY OF ABSTRACTION: An Exploration of Maths, Category Theory, and Life, by @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social #nonfiction #femalewriter #maths

ID: Photo of the book cover. It is yellow, with the title and Dr Cheng’s name in white, and the subtitle in red, as is the attribution, “author of How to Bake Pi”. The O in Joy is made up of two red arrows pointing to each other in a circle, and the word “Abstraction” disappears off the right-hand edge of the book, continuing on the next line from the left. Red arrows appear from the edges to the beginning of “Joy” and the end of “Abstraction”

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 11d

But how old was he, AP?

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 11d

I’m just relieved that is not because he did a Bad

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 11d

Oh yes.

Although, and I’m reluctant to ask a question where I may not like the answer, what happened to Rodger Corser?

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 11d

I love the way he captures motion, whether it’s dancing, walking, or just a hem stirred by a breeze

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 12d

New drag name just dropped: Val Voline

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 15d

Whoever chose that shade of blue for the Curry boys was truly doing the lord’s work. It makes their eyes look almost supernaturally blue, well done all round #amazingraceau

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 16d

In a shocking turn of events, “If you don’t do x, we’ll stop watching” turned out to be less powerful than “You did x, so we DID stop watching”

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 19d

Wow, the latest episode of @ologies.bsky.social, with guest @maryroach.bsky.social, was a wild ride. It certainly gave new meaning to “giving someone the finger”

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 22d

#nowreading THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE, by @richardosman1.bsky.social #fiction #malewriter #thursdaymurderclub

ID: Photo of the book cover. It is pale cream, with black and purple text, and the word ‘devil’ has a pair of horns, which look like inverted commas. Across the top is the text ‘the multi-million-copy bestseller’, and across the bottom, ‘a Thursday murder club mystery’. There are two quotes, “Brilliantly suspenseful” from Jeffery Deaver, and “Deplorably good” from Ian Rankin. There is also a fox in the bottom left corner, providing a flash of red

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s always either them or the Delta Creams

Having said that, I think my new drag name is Delta Creams

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Strangers on a Bus Replacement Service

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

The Acceptable Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

"Life of 3.141592652"

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Charlton Heston’s Brokeback Mountain

TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wes Craven's Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sam Peckinpah’s Finding Nemo

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

Richard O’Brien as Dr Cosmo McKinley in Shock Treatment

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sam Peckinpah’s Finding Nemo

TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · Sep 6

Alfred Hitchcock's Toy Story

Greyson Kent @greysonkentxxx.bsky.social · Sep 6

Martin Scorsese's The Little Mermaid

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 2

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

Photo of the book WHAT IF IT’S US?, by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 2

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

Cover art for Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

Dial ‘M’ for Gary

TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

Finding Gary

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Sep 1

#nowreading The Arden Shakespeare edition of OTHELLO, edited by EAJ Honigmann, with a new introduction by Ayanna Thompson #shakespeare #ardenshakespeare #play #classics #malewriter #femalewriter @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

ID: The book’s front cover, showing a bed with rumpled sheets

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Aug 30

Worth remembering that any time I refer to "it happening," I'm talking about the Australian production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

That or a local production of Smile

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Aug 29

#nowreading ALL SYSTEMS RED by @marthawells.com #fiction #femalewriter #sciencefiction #murderbot

ID: Screenshot of the cover for the TV tie-in edition featuring Alexander Skarsgård as the titular Murderbot. A hand extends from a pile of android spare parts, cradling Murderbot’s disconnected head, a perplexed expression on its face

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · Aug 24

My sister: I want to get an iPhone 13
Me: Surely there will be none available? It’s about to be four models ago
Officeworks: Do you want black white or red?

I really would have thought any existing stock would have been sold by now, or recalled and junked