Susan Murray
@pulpthorn.bsky.social
Writer of Fantasy & SF. Northerner. Girly swot. She/her. Ooh, squirrel...
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Susan Murray
@pulpthorn.bsky.social
· Oct 23
"AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
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The warning signs just keep on coming.
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
…with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
…with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The warning signs just keep on coming.
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ALL OUR STUFF IS ON SALE THIS WEEKEND
WE ARE SMOL
WE ARE ANTIFASCIST
and we can stop typing in capslock anytime we want
But hey, if you’d like to get a stocking stuffer and support a small press: hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
WE ARE SMOL
WE ARE ANTIFASCIST
and we can stop typing in capslock anytime we want
But hey, if you’d like to get a stocking stuffer and support a small press: hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
Book Shop – Horned Lark Press
hornedlarkpress.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ALL OUR STUFF IS ON SALE THIS WEEKEND
WE ARE SMOL
WE ARE ANTIFASCIST
and we can stop typing in capslock anytime we want
But hey, if you’d like to get a stocking stuffer and support a small press: hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
WE ARE SMOL
WE ARE ANTIFASCIST
and we can stop typing in capslock anytime we want
But hey, if you’d like to get a stocking stuffer and support a small press: hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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I did this (can't remember when so don't know which stat Debi mentions applies to me) and it is so so good. Flexible to fit round your life. You do have to commit time - but when you want, within each week. And Debi is one of the most brilliant people I know.
If you want to strengthen your muscles, you go to the gym. If you want to strengthen your manuscript, we recommend the best-selling Self-Edit Your Novel course - no spandex required!
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I did this (can't remember when so don't know which stat Debi mentions applies to me) and it is so so good. Flexible to fit round your life. You do have to commit time - but when you want, within each week. And Debi is one of the most brilliant people I know.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Out soon. Does not contain artificial intelligence. Or much intelligence of any kind.
The Essence, Dave Hutchinson - Books - The Essence
NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.
www.newconpress.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Out soon. Does not contain artificial intelligence. Or much intelligence of any kind.
Quite something to see the guy responsible for wrongful arrests of US citizens referring apparently unironically to the evils of ‘failed states’, and ‘terrors’ of ‘broken homelands.’
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Quite something to see the guy responsible for wrongful arrests of US citizens referring apparently unironically to the evils of ‘failed states’, and ‘terrors’ of ‘broken homelands.’
Meet Grumpy Side-eye McBarkface, fresh in from Berlin Christmas market (supposed to be a tree decoration but it seems a shame to hide him away in a box for 11 months of the year).
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Meet Grumpy Side-eye McBarkface, fresh in from Berlin Christmas market (supposed to be a tree decoration but it seems a shame to hide him away in a box for 11 months of the year).
It's always a good day to remove all things Zuckerberg from your life.
"[Meta] revealed in internal documents rhat around 10 per cent of its annual revenue comes from advertising placed by fraudsters. This equates to $16 billion a year in annual revenue"
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It's always a good day to remove all things Zuckerberg from your life.
Going over old emails to/from planners to tie up minor loose ends.
Planners: We think our conditions are reasonable.
Me: Pal, guidance here, here, & here says this one is 'unreasonable', 'unacceptable', & ultra vires so it's unenforceable.
I'd forgotten just how insane that whole experience was.
Planners: We think our conditions are reasonable.
Me: Pal, guidance here, here, & here says this one is 'unreasonable', 'unacceptable', & ultra vires so it's unenforceable.
I'd forgotten just how insane that whole experience was.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Going over old emails to/from planners to tie up minor loose ends.
Planners: We think our conditions are reasonable.
Me: Pal, guidance here, here, & here says this one is 'unreasonable', 'unacceptable', & ultra vires so it's unenforceable.
I'd forgotten just how insane that whole experience was.
Planners: We think our conditions are reasonable.
Me: Pal, guidance here, here, & here says this one is 'unreasonable', 'unacceptable', & ultra vires so it's unenforceable.
I'd forgotten just how insane that whole experience was.
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Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
Filling cracks on the ceiling. Prodded one of those long-legged cellar spiders with the filler knife and it promptly fell down my sleeve or somewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Filling cracks on the ceiling. Prodded one of those long-legged cellar spiders with the filler knife and it promptly fell down my sleeve or somewhere.
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30% off everything including physical books, ebooks, limiteds, and pre-orders.
When we say everything, we mean everything!
30% OFF SITEWIDE
Use #coupon code YEAREND30
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30% off everything including physical books, ebooks, limiteds, and pre-orders.
When we say everything, we mean everything!
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
OUR ANNUAL YEAR END #SALE BEGINS ON #BLACKFRIDAY!
30% OFF SITEWIDE
Use #coupon code YEAREND30
buff.ly/BCqYRJ9
30% off everything including physical books, ebooks, limiteds, and pre-orders.
When we say everything, we mean everything!
30% OFF SITEWIDE
Use #coupon code YEAREND30
buff.ly/BCqYRJ9
30% off everything including physical books, ebooks, limiteds, and pre-orders.
When we say everything, we mean everything!
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
Not exactly a compliment, but a strong contender has to be the one-star review from a reader who loved the first two books so much they were furious that I’d *checks notes* decided* (like GRRM) not to write the final book in the series.
*_not_ my decision because publishing doesn’t work like that…
*_not_ my decision because publishing doesn’t work like that…
A few people have credited my books with getting them back into reading after a slump, and that's a pretty high compliment in my opinion.
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Not exactly a compliment, but a strong contender has to be the one-star review from a reader who loved the first two books so much they were furious that I’d *checks notes* decided* (like GRRM) not to write the final book in the series.
*_not_ my decision because publishing doesn’t work like that…
*_not_ my decision because publishing doesn’t work like that…
Almost done with novella, but the coffee's worn off. Need a different name for the journalist, his wife is going to become his husband, need to figure out who informed against him, and there's one other thing to finesse.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Almost done with novella, but the coffee's worn off. Need a different name for the journalist, his wife is going to become his husband, need to figure out who informed against him, and there's one other thing to finesse.
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One of the things I saw last Sunday with #photography at @rileybruce.bsky.social Sunday Sunrise Club, @annakassautzki.bsky.social was a Sun Pillar
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
One of the things I saw last Sunday with #photography at @rileybruce.bsky.social Sunday Sunrise Club, @annakassautzki.bsky.social was a Sun Pillar
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This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other
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November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Do we have bargains for you at angryrobotbooks.com? Why yes, yes we do. Black Friday sale. Up to 40% off!
Go to our website use code BLACKFRIDAY40 buy books, save money.
Go to our website use code BLACKFRIDAY40 buy books, save money.
Is this where we discover the decision was based on a few Twitter(x) propaganda bot posts?
Home sec lawyer says he will look for source in "underlying documents" that led up to decision
Judges also asking about role of RAF Brize Norton incursion that happened hours before ban was announced. Government position is that it wasn't part of the proscription decision but home sec knew about it
Judges also asking about role of RAF Brize Norton incursion that happened hours before ban was announced. Government position is that it wasn't part of the proscription decision but home sec knew about it
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Is this where we discover the decision was based on a few Twitter(x) propaganda bot posts?
Trying to work on the cursed novella but can't concentrate. Sod this. Going to have a COFFEE.
(Gave up drinking it in 2014. Had maybe five in the eleven years since then, so this will probably be my sixth?)
(Gave up drinking it in 2014. Had maybe five in the eleven years since then, so this will probably be my sixth?)
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trying to work on the cursed novella but can't concentrate. Sod this. Going to have a COFFEE.
(Gave up drinking it in 2014. Had maybe five in the eleven years since then, so this will probably be my sixth?)
(Gave up drinking it in 2014. Had maybe five in the eleven years since then, so this will probably be my sixth?)
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The music and the video don't really have much to do with each other, but this is great all around - The James Hunter Six (with that ol' curmudgeon Van Morrison) - video filmed at Roberts Dyers & Finishers in Keighley #AintThatATrip www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSG...
The James Hunter Six - "Ain't That A Trip" [Official Music Video] feat. Van Morrison
YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The music and the video don't really have much to do with each other, but this is great all around - The James Hunter Six (with that ol' curmudgeon Van Morrison) - video filmed at Roberts Dyers & Finishers in Keighley #AintThatATrip www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSG...
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Christ almighty. No one does media shitshows like the US. I remember when the UK got excited when that story about David Cameron and a pig dropped. It seems so tame in comparison.
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Christ almighty. No one does media shitshows like the US. I remember when the UK got excited when that story about David Cameron and a pig dropped. It seems so tame in comparison.