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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit I just saw a picture of Jack Kerouac

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 17h

The brilliant @arvonfoundation.bsky.social is launching an 18-month residency programme for emerging UK-based writers. Applications open on Monday but get a head start and read the details here: www.arvon.org/jerwood-arvo...

Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies 2026-7 | Arvon

The Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies are a fully funded, self-directed development opportunity for 12 emerging writers.

www.arvon.org

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 1d

Training my kid to respond to performers’ cries of ‘YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!’ With ‘No YOU can do better than that! The volume and enthusiasm of our participation is a direct reflection on your work thus far!’

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking French, man

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 3d

One year I just stopped watching Strictly. Just stopped. Out of nowhere. Never looked back. Never had any interest. It was like my meter was full and my whole self said, that’s it, no more. Amazing to me it still goes on.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah. Good? Fine?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

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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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 8d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

I actually thought our silly corrupt society might balk at the mistreatment of - gasp - a celebrity, people we bafflingly revere above all others. I’m genuinely chilled that Greta Thunberg’s mistreatment is sliding alongside everything else.
I thought we were better/worse than this.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13d

A good funeral would sort you out

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13d

the dread and the sad and the swelling fear, maybe it’s too much news and not enough art

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13d

@benmoor.bsky.social it was so nice to see you. I’m sorry about death.

Here we are. Looks like we’re starting again again.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 16d

I feel like I’ve left it too late to learn about everything and there’s just more everything all the time

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 16d

For a live illustration of where pragmatism without vision gets you, I offer the United Kingdom, right this fucking minute, Ezra.

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to buck the trend also to say mostly I really appreciate what Klein has been trying to do, just clear that ‘strategic and disciplined’ thought can get you to some pretty bad places too.

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting and a tiny bit sad to hear Ezra Klein’s neural networks fry in his latest with Coates. So many experts in the corruption of attention struggling with how they’ve been corrupted by attention.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 18d

September is the month of the childhood friend’s birthday

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 23d

QUaCK!

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 26d

Boycotting doing my Donald Duck impression (to EVERYONE’s relief)

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 25d

Printers should be so much better by now and I shouldn’t have to sign up to a lifetime subscription plan or somefuckingsuch

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 26d

Boycotting doing my Donald Duck impression (to EVERYONE’s relief)

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 27d

super dark version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27d

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 27d

Oh my god please do this, please show the world this, please have Vance write the monologue and radicalise every viewer in the world against state intervention and censorship

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 27d

If you can think of a better way to get merger approval, I’m sure we’d all love to hear it

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