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James McPherson

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 24d

Please read this short story by me. It's about growing up neurodivergent in the Scottish Borders. And Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, June 1994.

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TIGER DRIVER NINETY-ONE by James McPherson - BRUISER

The plastic chairs, the bland cream brickwork, the iron bars outside the windows. It was five years since his last drink, but Christ if the water in

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.

Venezuela opposition cooperating with Israel's Likud party

An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Zionist Likud party, which is in government through Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 3h

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 12h

I also think it's okay if you're just not a writer. you can do other stuff and be fine

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 20h

do I read another Krasznahorkai or get the new Pynchon... the lit boys are THRIVING

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 20h

he was on his phone for the Werckmeister Harmonies the entire time

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 2d

@seeemilyplay.bsky.social oh shit I did not realise who I was reposting

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maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 2d

okay you’ve got to admit: edinburgh influencers using ai to literally erase the people of edinburgh is so spectacularly on the nose

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025

1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 3d

Taylor Swift's song "Father Figure" is actually about Christian Cage

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 3d

your boyfriend's ragebait I'm afraid. your dad is ragebait too, confirmed

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 3d

no but imagine if Jesse Singal came on here and posted a Palestinian's Gofundme. would they ban him or not

James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 3d

they banned that guy for the incorrect use of the letter Ł, nothing more. the nation of Poland has shooters

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 4d

the best thing I've seen with AI is a Northern Irish girl convincing her mum she's brought a homeless guy home, and you can't reshape the western world's economy around that

James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 5d

can I ask why her blue tick says 'neck', lol

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 5d

Zukiswa Wanner is among them. A writer, an editor, a translator, a small press publisher.

Where are the writers speaking her name?

We see you, Zukiswa. We are with you. We will stay with you.

Where is this from our industry?

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Activists describe mistreatment after Israel intercepted Gaza aid flotilla and detained about 450 people.

Greta Thunberg mistreated by Israeli forces in detention, activists say

Activists describe mistreatment after Israel intercepted Gaza aid flotilla and detained about 450 people.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6d

What I hear from multiple sources in the Scottish Government is that it feels defeated by the limitless spending power of the transphobes who, of course, are explicitly or implicitly underwritten by JK Rowling's vast fortune.

rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 6d

What do you think why the Scottish Government has been targeted, such as Darlington nurses, NHS Fife?
Has Scotland really devolved? Was the Scottish Government allowed to implement its self identity legistlation or blocked by the former government? Devolution in the UK is a joke.

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 6d

is it good

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 7d

Andrade fucking rules I'm afraid

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 7d

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 8d

I Wanna Be The Autarch is this anything

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James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 8d

so instead of like... talking and writing in their target language... they're consuming content

James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 8d

there's a trend where people say you should not attempt to speak your target language for hundreds of hours. so people are seemingly just... watching videos and recording their hours, and nothing else

James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 8d

Comprehensible Input is where you listen to, watch, or read content in your target language. you don't have to know every word of what you're consuming, but enough so that your brain can understand it

James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social · 8d

something wild I've come across is language learners 100% focused on Comprehensible Input