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Shane Carrow

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Writer, admirer of art, collector of useless scraps of information. Melbourne, Australia. Check out my adventure/horror novels here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Shane-Carrow/author/B01MY49ARP

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · Mar 26

Book 4 of the Avery & Carter series, CULT OF THE KRAKEN, now available on Amazon in ebook and paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2F54SPL

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 3h

Similar to depression manifesting as radical political beliefs, it’s anxiety manifesting as radical political beliefs

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 3h

IIRC it’s going to stop being a terminus due to post Metro tunnel tram route rejigging

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 12h

The only time I’ve ever heard of this is as a joke in the last season of Breaking Bad

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Besides the point but I’ve always thought icebreakers seem like very cosy places. All the way down there off Antarctica, tucked up in bed in your warm cabin after a long day of doing scientific experiments 😴

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts with the crew and expedition members but "ship made contact with the ocean floor" is the most insane comms staff brain way to try and spin this www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Australia's Antarctic icebreaker scrapes ocean floor near Heard Island

Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina has headed to deeper waters off remote Heard Island in the Southern Ocean while assessments are undertaken to see if the hull has suffered any damage after scraping the...

www.abc.net.au

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you on here have taken a little too closely to heart the notion that Bluesky needs sports discussion to survive.

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

When the government tried to do this even once we told them to go jump www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'We shut them up': Melbourne celebrates border force backdown

Public condemnation, including protests in central Melbourne, forces a visa operation to be shut down as ‘lower levels of the organisation’ are blamed

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

It’s darkly amusing that American right-wingers think Australia and NZ are dystopian police states because we dared enact pandemic control measures, yet meanwhile they’re abandoning the most basic tenet of English common law: nobody has a right to stop you on the street and ask you for ID

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I feel about the Salisbury poisoning - not just a political assassination but one in which an innocent British bystander was killed (!) and their govt’s reaction was to expel a few Russian diplomats

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah interesting. I’ve known people who watch plenty of films but won’t consume fiction in book format, which I find weirdly inconsistent

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

A great example of the whimsy/silly thing though - it’s the *ministry* of magic, technically subservient to the elected government, because I guess the wizards still recognise the Crown? Best not to think too much about it

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically quite an accurate portrayal of the contemporary British economy

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Though having said that, there is something unintentionally funny and fundamentally British about the fact that just about every adult in the wizarding world works for the civil service

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

And they were the better for it. As pastiches of old British boarding school stories the point where they come apart is clearly in the fourth book, when she attempts to expand beyond that walled garden

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this by Orwell has always stuck in my head because until then I hadn’t realised it was how I had also been taught (and therefore still thought of) history:

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Yes: it increasingly required this world to have some level of internal consistency where previously it had been all whimsy

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

When someone says this I’m always curious: do you watch movies? Or just documentaries?

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I need to transit my door to do things like “obtain food”

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 2d

I like that the otherwise bad T3 briefly touched upon that with John Connor: what happens to the guy raised to believe he was fated to become a hero, in an apocalypse that was then averted? A paranoid burnout drifter.

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Shifting Sands, by William Blamire Young, 1929

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Even if you're filthy rich the only good reason I can think of to choose Dubai over London, Paris, New York, the Amalfi Coast etc is if you're a fugitive from Western law enforcement

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Semi related, in a way I think other people don’t get, this is why I can’t just shove writing into a half hour block of time here or there. It’s an entire morning/afternoon/evening or nothing.

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely think people confuse him with Bernard Collaery

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 6d

Mr Mime.

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 6d

This is why America’s presidential system of government is inferior. The apparatus of the state should not be this vulnerable.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 6d

Ready Player One (2018) dir. Steven Spielberg

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6d

They’re just getting started, which means this campaign probably extends into Halloween. Imagine, standing off against riot police: inflatable T-Rex, the cast of Mario Bros, ten thousand showgirls and their boyfriends.