Lynda Clark
@lyndac.bsky.social
Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
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Beyond Kidding: An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
uk.bookshop.org
Updated links to my books that actually work:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
bookshop.org/p/books/drea...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
bookshop.org/p/books/drea...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox (urban, screaming)
Otters (they were fighting seagulls over fish)
Hedgehog
Australian Possum (pretty different to the US ones. Weird little guys)
Bush Turkeys
Fox (urban, screaming)
Otters (they were fighting seagulls over fish)
Hedgehog
Australian Possum (pretty different to the US ones. Weird little guys)
Bush Turkeys
introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
bears (so many bears)
wild turkeys
iguanas (so many)
coral snake
moose
4 baby fisher cats
bears (so many bears)
wild turkeys
iguanas (so many)
coral snake
moose
4 baby fisher cats
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox
Wolf
Otter
Bison
Cougar
Fox
Wolf
Otter
Bison
Cougar
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox (urban, screaming)
Otters (they were fighting seagulls over fish)
Hedgehog
Australian Possum (pretty different to the US ones. Weird little guys)
Bush Turkeys
Fox (urban, screaming)
Otters (they were fighting seagulls over fish)
Hedgehog
Australian Possum (pretty different to the US ones. Weird little guys)
Bush Turkeys
I quite like Dead Kennedys but every man I've ever met who was a Big Fan was the most insufferable twat. They're like the musical equivalent of Rick and Morty.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I quite like Dead Kennedys but every man I've ever met who was a Big Fan was the most insufferable twat. They're like the musical equivalent of Rick and Morty.
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We're hiring! We're looking for a Social Media & Marketing Officer to join our team in the new year.
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We're hiring! We're looking for a Social Media & Marketing Officer to join our team in the new year.
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
Can someone who understands economics better than me please explain how we ever change or improve anything if we are so completely at the mercy of the markets (who do not want change)?
Chancellors don’t want to spook investors.
How the financial markets reacted to the UK budget (and why they matter)
Chancellors don’t want to spook investors.
tcnv.link
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can someone who understands economics better than me please explain how we ever change or improve anything if we are so completely at the mercy of the markets (who do not want change)?
Since graduation the other day I just keep thinking Senatus Academicus should be a metal band.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Since graduation the other day I just keep thinking Senatus Academicus should be a metal band.
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the call is now open for our next round of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Research Fellows! - find out more here:
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...
Heritage Collections Research Fellowships | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
the call is now open for our next round of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Research Fellows! - find out more here:
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...
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Do you hate black Friday like a normal person?
Do you love books?
Two of mine are still on sale on the @srlpublishing.bsky.social website!
Belonging hardback for just £10.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/belo...
Great Romances ebook for just £2.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/grea...
Do you love books?
Two of mine are still on sale on the @srlpublishing.bsky.social website!
Belonging hardback for just £10.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/belo...
Great Romances ebook for just £2.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/grea...
Great Romances of the 20th Century – Robert Welbourn - SRL Publishing
We're all looking for The One. We all want to meet that one special person, fall in love, and live happily ever after, just like the movies. But what if it isn't?
srlpublishing.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Do you hate black Friday like a normal person?
Do you love books?
Two of mine are still on sale on the @srlpublishing.bsky.social website!
Belonging hardback for just £10.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/belo...
Great Romances ebook for just £2.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/grea...
Do you love books?
Two of mine are still on sale on the @srlpublishing.bsky.social website!
Belonging hardback for just £10.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/belo...
Great Romances ebook for just £2.49:
srlpublishing.co.uk/product/grea...
Always forget that our Doctor's hold music is a royalty free version of the Lost Boys choral intro and get a little kick out of it anew each time I hear it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Always forget that our Doctor's hold music is a royalty free version of the Lost Boys choral intro and get a little kick out of it anew each time I hear it.
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we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
PGCAP essay finished and uploaded 🥳
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
PGCAP essay finished and uploaded 🥳
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“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN OCTOBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's September's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
Some Queer Short SFF - September 2025 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN OCTOBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's September's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following:
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
events.teams.microsoft.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following:
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
1) Cultures of Natural History
2) Collecting Video Game Heritage
More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜
Always pathologically early to graduation but it does mean I get to chill in the very understated McEwan Hall.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Always pathologically early to graduation but it does mean I get to chill in the very understated McEwan Hall.
It's Graduation Day, it's Graduation Day, it's G-G-G-G-G-G-Graduation Day!
a man with dreadlocks and a beret is standing in the woods with pots on a table .
Alt: Barrington (a black man with dreadlocks and a Rastafarian hat played by Danny John Jules) from Maid Marian and her Merry Men is standing in the woods with pots on a table in the background, singing the Pancake Day Song.
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It's Graduation Day, it's Graduation Day, it's G-G-G-G-G-G-Graduation Day!
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Looking fo a gift for your favourite muppet? I done some colour ones too… :) (they look SO much better in real life!) :)
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#muppet #muppetart #prints #giftideas #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#muppet #muppetart #prints #giftideas #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Looking fo a gift for your favourite muppet? I done some colour ones too… :) (they look SO much better in real life!) :)
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#muppet #muppetart #prints #giftideas #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#muppet #muppetart #prints #giftideas #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
Yesterday I wrote a scene about someone asking for a poo shovel but really they were asking their friend how they were coping with being haunted by the bigoted ghost of a dead relative. Let's see ChatGPT do *that*!
In my survey, 39% of novelists reported that their income has already been negatively impacted by GenAI.
Half of UK authors fear AI could replace them – what my new research suggests about the future of the novel
In my survey, 39% of novelists reported that their income has already been negatively impacted by GenAI.
tcnv.link
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Yesterday I wrote a scene about someone asking for a poo shovel but really they were asking their friend how they were coping with being haunted by the bigoted ghost of a dead relative. Let's see ChatGPT do *that*!
3rd time in a row my train has actually had WiFi. Could ScotRail finally have fixed this?!
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
3rd time in a row my train has actually had WiFi. Could ScotRail finally have fixed this?!
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5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
This also reminds me of the Inbetweeners movie where I spent 90% of it being very confused by everyone's interactions with Jessica Knappett before finally realising her character was supposed to be ugly.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This also reminds me of the Inbetweeners movie where I spent 90% of it being very confused by everyone's interactions with Jessica Knappett before finally realising her character was supposed to be ugly.
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Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
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You gotta ask yourself, why do they care about higher ed so much, given the lengths they go to trivialize and ridicule everything we do? I can only assume it's because what we do actually makes a difference.
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You gotta ask yourself, why do they care about higher ed so much, given the lengths they go to trivialize and ridicule everything we do? I can only assume it's because what we do actually makes a difference.
Games and universities just keep mirroring each other in all the worst ways.
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Games and universities just keep mirroring each other in all the worst ways.
Because I'm on research leave, I only have small bits of marking here and there and its a lovely little window into what the students have been up to while I'm away rather than the usual race against time.
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Because I'm on research leave, I only have small bits of marking here and there and its a lovely little window into what the students have been up to while I'm away rather than the usual race against time.