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Tracy King
@tracyking.bsky.social
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Writer, animation producer, scicomms consultant. Currently writing about medical malpractice. Books: Learning To Think (Penguin) The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins) Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · Nov 14
A short burst of some of the amazing praise for my memoir Learning To Think. Don’t ask me about Lee Child, I still don’t know how that one happened.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h
RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
Struzan by himself
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"ew gross, the sun" - Ickarus
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1h
Oh no!
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2h
That’s English lit, not language.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 4h
Haha, What Sharpe Did On ‘is ‘Olidays
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 16h
I finished Sharpe’s Triumph. The final line is “and that was Mister Sharpe’s triumph”. That’s the name of the book!
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 19h
I would become a media spokesperson on sex robots and get that bag
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 19h
What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?
A peer-reviewed paper claimed a researcher was an expert in sex robots. He’s not.
3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?  That was the situation for one rather panicked research…
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 21h
Please, there are men outside
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 21h
Stop trying to get me killed
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 22h
If I revealed how many and which celebrity books are ghostwritten I’d be killed
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 23h
comfartable
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 23h
No she was talented
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
Wrong am still hot
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
I have had a great many eras 😄
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
Post you from a different era

2002, Birmingham Evening Mail
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
Omg
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not new (it used to be triggered by books and/or cult leaders), it’s that there’s so much more of it and now it’s deliberately exploited at a scale previously unreachable
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d
Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d
Sold!
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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d
Great thread.
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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
Right but the punchline of this quote is that the fairies do in fact exist
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 2d
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky
Cover of first edition of the book
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
Apropos, while hard to prosecute, obtaining sex by deception is technically a crime.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
The new top tier of men will be those who can confidently express an opinion and knowledge in person. The nerds. The nerds will win.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
In practice this whole thing will inspire a resurgence of in-person and phone conversations and help kill off the twitching body of app dating.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
I know Cyrano well enough to know this ends in the death of ChatGPT
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 2d
I’m cat-sitting this football
A small black and white cat
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