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Gabriel Flynn

@gabrielflynn.bsky.social

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Writer. Debut novel: Poor Ghost! out now with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social. PhD at Warwick on Adorno’s aesthetics. Co-editor @creativecritical.bsky.social. Amateur footballer.

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · May 22

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.

I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

A handsome looking novel called Poor Ghost! with endorsements from Claire Messud, Lara Williams, Wendy Erskine, Tim MacGabhann, Julianne Pachico, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 4h

Berlin pals, this is happening tomorrow! Please come along. The book is great and Tim is very funny and eloquent. It’ll be nice.

Me and Tim MacGabhann talking about his memoir THE BLACK POOL at Shakespeare and Sons on Oct 9th 18:45

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 6h

highly recommend this interview with Ben Ratskoff about the Nova exhibition
thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone hasn’t seen it here’s a compilation of Eric Adams saying “New York City is the [capital of another country] of America”

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Eric Adams: "New York City is the ____ of America"

YouTube video by Avery the Cuban-American

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Some of y’all have never listened to Rock n Roll Gangster by Fieldy’s Dreams and it shows

Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 1d

The only album that escapes the nu metal period with any dignity imho

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

when I was 12 I thought Casey Chaos was the coolest guy in the world

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

lol I loved this album, haven’t listened in years but I also remember it as being actually decent

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

I never made this connection before and don’t think I’ll be able to unsee it

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

Love to see it

Jerry Howse @jerryh1962.bsky.social · 2d

Clapton CFC lose 9:0 to AFC Sudbury and exit the FA Cup in the 3rd Qualifying Round. However, once again, the team used their platform to protest against the FA’s unjust ban on trans players. Football for **ALL**.
#football #nonleaguefootball #grassrootsfootball #ladiesfootball

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

showing my wife how well I can air drum the intros to all the songs I listened to as a teenager - think she’s impressed!

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

good episode of my favourite film podcast about this one

#645 - NatSec: Shock and Terror

In WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025), Ice Cube stars as a Homeland Security analyst who uncovers a Deep State surveillance plot AND foils an alien invasion - all without ever leaving his Zoom window. We watche

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

nothing sexier than when a guy fails to make a pun but he shares his working out with you anyway

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

not work on it, but a great representation: the final scene of I’m Alan Partridge (S2, 2002), where Alan goes to see his memoir ‘Bouncing Back’ being pulped:

Alan Partridge watches bouncing back being pulped

YouTube video by Dazz B

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

I have lived in Germany for over six years now so it really shouldn’t shock me anymore, but over and again I’m astounded by the shamelessness and ignorance of these people

Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 2d

Umerziehungslager Jetzt!

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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 2d

Antifaschistische Praxis: ein Lächeln welches Antideutsche in so eine Rage versetzt, dass es ihnen Jahre vom Ticker raubt.

Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 4d

greta ily what an outfit

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 2d

This morning, The Berliner began – against the will of its staff – posting a series of advertisements for the Nova Festival Exhibition. Our concerns having been dismissed and stonewalled, we have had no choice but to strike.

The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors.

As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine.

As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue.
We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 3d

nice light in Berlin this evening

The same street in the other direction, colourful and bright

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 4d

Fresh dick milk, anyone?

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 5d

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 6d

Very sad to learn of the death of Tomas Lindberg of At The Gates and Disfear, one of the best and most influential hardcore punk and metal vocalists of his generation.