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Author of dystopian space opera, dark suspense and diverse social fiction. If you want compelling stories and characters worth caring about, then you’re in the right place. https://karldrinkwater.uk / https://karldrinkwater.substack.com

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Karl’s Author Newsletter
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Karl’s Author Newsletter

September draws to a close, so strike a pose

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Wow, you've done some hard work there! Well done. :-)

Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🌱 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 16h

Karl’s Author Newsletter
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Karl’s Author Newsletter

September draws to a close, so strike a pose

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Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🌱 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 16h

Weekly Writers: Print-On-Demand Cost Comparison
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Weekly Writers: Print-On-Demand Cost Comparison

Plus an important tip!

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Your Attitude To Life
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Your Attitude To Life

Some thoughts about autonomy and existentialism

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Starmer's a fucking idiot.

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Sometimes things work: I got Daz Studio running in Linux Mint, even though it is a complex Windows-only program. There's a performance hit, though. In other cases I found alternatives. Some people dual-boot, and only boot into Windows for one or two programs.

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Aye, it's been downhill since Windows XP!

Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🌱 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 16h

The Stream Runs Through Me
by Omar Berrada

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The Stream Runs Through Me - Mizna

Red on red The song is history moving through the present.

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Two Years of Genocide: Gaza and the Unraveling World Order

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Two Years of Genocide: Gaza and the Unraveling World Order | Al-Shabaka

Leila Farsakh and Abdaljawad Omar trace the trajectory leading to Oct 7, examine how Gaza Genocide has become a catalyst for global rupture

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I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

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I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

A doctor who has led four medical missions to the territory describes the war’s devastating impact on its inhabitants and hospitals — and his fellow medical professionals

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Let's ensure Gaza ceasefire brings reckoning for Israel's crimes

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Let’s ensure Gaza ceasefire brings reckoning for Israel’s crimes

A ceasefire may stop the bombs but it can’t undo 2 years of devastation, nor silence a global movement demanding liberation for Palestine, writes Ahmed Alnaouq.

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The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

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The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

While the golden Dome of the Rock sweltered under one-hundred-degree heat a gang of heavily armed orthodox Israelis marched on a Palestinian library. Brandishing forged documents falsely claiming t…

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In a Sane and Compassionate World...
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In a Sane and Compassionate World...

In a sane and compassionate world, would American veterans be imprisoned and tortured (and ignored by their own government) for attempting to deliver food and medicines to starving people? You decide.

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Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli
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Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli

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Netanyahu furious as Hamas releases hostages, leaving him with no excuse for genocide
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Netanyahu furious as Hamas releases hostages, leaving him with no excuse for genocide

Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be furious after Hamas took away his excuse to commit genocide by releasing all of the hostages.

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Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted
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Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted

Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate

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"They Seriously Expected Parades And Trophies For Pausing A Genocide"

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They Seriously Expected Parades And Trophies For Pausing A Genocide — And Other Notes

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I Decide Who I Am: Republishing My Sheldon Adelson ‘Obituary'
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I Decide Who I Am: Republishing My Sheldon Adelson ‘Obituary'

(If you’ve received this article by email, please click on the title to read the latest version.

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The "joys" of #Windows. Endless driver installation.

Whereas #Linux comes with all this installed, no need to do anything. That's how it should work.

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Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🌱 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 1d

Switch To Linux
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Switch To Linux

And love your PC again!

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