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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · Jul 30

I have three novels to write, all different styles, and I'm worried they bleed into each other, as would whatever I'm reading - but none of them are SF, so I'm going to read the EDAs from the start, as a palette cleanser as I go along.

First up - the 8 Docs, which I remember as being shite.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 1h

Absolutely fuck that.

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 20h

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 1d

With these MAGA and now MEGA hats, I’ve never been so glad I live in a country whose name begins with a consonant.

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices

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SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)

YouTube video by The Anúna Collective

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 2d

What you won’t see on the BBC:

Scotland:

Drug Deaths ↓13%
Alcohol Deaths ↓7%
Knife Homicides no increase/decrease
Homelessness Deaths ↓18%

England:

Drug Deaths ↑11%
Alcohol Deaths ↑7%
Knife Homicides in 2023/24 ↑8%
Homelessness Deaths ↑ 16%

(@pjwoodside)

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Kenny Smith @finishedzine.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW EPISODE!�

#DoctorWho Season 13 blu-ray preview (part one)? ✔️

@petercrockersvs.bsky.social on picture restoration? ✔️

@nothinglane.bsky.social on the PDF archive? ✔️

You know what to listen to!

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442: The Making of Season 13 on Blu-ray (part one)

The countdown has begun - there's less than a week until Season 13 arrives on Blu-ray in the UK. As ever, we preview this eagerly-anticipated release by speaking to some of the people involved in the

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 1d

Until today I thought that was the lyric.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

Multi-camera drama is, I think, the best form of screen production. It allows performances to come through because actors can play out scenes in full, deriving the full depth of their situation from their interaction. 20/

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 2d

No Shankland is bizarre but I think picking three different keepers who haven’t played a single first team game all season is even madder. Scott Bain has been playing well for Falkirk, for instance.

Plus I was astonished to see Hanley and Hendry but no Halkett.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 2d

Well, he'll at least cap Shankland!

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 2d

He'd a step up. Clarke's entire international career has relied on (a) luck and (b) very easy qualifying groups. He ignores players in form, fetishises any player who's ever played in the EPL, and has no tactical ability. He's wasted what in Scottish terms was a boat load of talented players.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 2d

He does seem to be a huge fan of 'he's a bit shit, but he's my pal'.

Can't wait for Clarke to be gone.

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 2d

The sooner that dinosaur Clarke is gone, the better. embarrassing tonight, and it's largely on him and his terrible tactical and line up decisions.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

Unsolicited Brix pic.

Brix Smith playing guitar in front of signage with her name on it

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

Luckily, Jonn agrees with me that no, we shouldn't have kept drinking in that Nazi bar.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

Fucking cola bottle story ruined.

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 3d

literally can't even make a silly thread about some guy eating too much HARIBO without it becoming a national scandal because our state broadcaster decided not to include the fact this man is a racist media figure as if that's just no big deal.

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 3d

edit: turns out the guy in the story is a nasty horrible racist prick. Naturally the BBC did not feel this was important to disclose. But it absolutely is, he is not just "some guy" he's a racist media figure.

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 3d

For the first time in paperback, the Periodic Adventures of Senor 105!

3 novellas to a volume, 9 novellas in total, with books by @purserhallard.com, @stuartdouglas.com, @signorfurioso.bsky.social, @selinalock.bsky.social, 105 creator Cody Schell and others!

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Senor 105 – Obverse Books

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

I now *really* want some cola bottles.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

It is one of really odd beliefs of the shills pushing AI all over the place. Shit, 99.9% of us aren't ever going to get rich creating new things, but the joy which comes with creating something of your own is a huge reward in itself (plus AI always makes things shitter, ofc).

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 3d

'Haribo declined to comment when approached by the BBC' is the glorious capper on the whole thing.

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The Black Archive @blackarchive.co.uk · 3d

Out now in paperback, ebook and the usual combo deal - THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET, Black Archive #79, written by Jez Strickley!

A much under-rated story and Bob Holmes' last full script, MP is packed with duality - and for once, it's not just his dodgy double acts!

obversebooks.co.uk/product/79-t...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 3d

Get your own copy so that you can listen and read along!

obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 4d

For those who don't know Rose Io, she's like Aldous Harding meets early Newley-style Bowie.

Or something.

Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 4d

New Rose Io album out today, to cheer me up in my COVID misery!

roseio.bandcamp.com/album/autumn...

Autumn Automaton, by Rose Io

15 track album

roseio.bandcamp.com

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 4d

Fuck sake, America.

And ICE is the sort of evil bullshit Reform Ltd wants to introduce in the UK?

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4d

Just got this text from my daughter’s school.

On the one hand, his for her school.

On the other, fuck ICE.

LANETHS-Safety is number one priority; we were notified there may be ICE activity in the area. If students would like to remain in the building to wait for safe ride or bus, they are welcome.

Adults will be near the bus stops in case there is a need for support.

Txt STOP to cancel

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