Charles EP Murphy
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
Started writing, nobody has succeeded in making him stop. Self publisher & jobbing writer, most books available: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-E.P.-Murphy/e/B015UTGDJW
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
Not on twitter; rarely checking DMs atm
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ASYLUM SEEKERS?
If they only ever have 30 month visas how are they supposed to:
👉🏼Get anything other than temporary jobs?
👉🏼Rent or buy property?
👉🏼Undertake education courses?
👉🏼Integrate into their communities?
👉🏼Learn English?
Think about it? Because they will still come.
If they only ever have 30 month visas how are they supposed to:
👉🏼Get anything other than temporary jobs?
👉🏼Rent or buy property?
👉🏼Undertake education courses?
👉🏼Integrate into their communities?
👉🏼Learn English?
Think about it? Because they will still come.
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
ASYLUM SEEKERS?
If they only ever have 30 month visas how are they supposed to:
👉🏼Get anything other than temporary jobs?
👉🏼Rent or buy property?
👉🏼Undertake education courses?
👉🏼Integrate into their communities?
👉🏼Learn English?
Think about it? Because they will still come.
If they only ever have 30 month visas how are they supposed to:
👉🏼Get anything other than temporary jobs?
👉🏼Rent or buy property?
👉🏼Undertake education courses?
👉🏼Integrate into their communities?
👉🏼Learn English?
Think about it? Because they will still come.
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A new #Discourse2000 post - DAN DARE is back, and he's here to tell #2000AD readers "we have Star Wars at home". Plus horror in space and the unspeakable menace of - THE SNAPPERS!
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A new #Discourse2000 post - DAN DARE is back, and he's here to tell #2000AD readers "we have Star Wars at home". Plus horror in space and the unspeakable menace of - THE SNAPPERS!
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
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Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) reviews #CahokiaJazz by #FrancisSpufford, an #AlternateHistory work imagining a world in which #NativeAmericans were not devastated by disease and remain a large percentage of the #UnitedStates ' demographics. #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Review: Cahokia Jazz
By Gary Oswald.The exact effect the smallpox epidemics had on the native populations of the New World is a deeply contentious historical argument. This is because there are no agreed upon population c...
www.sealionpress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) reviews #CahokiaJazz by #FrancisSpufford, an #AlternateHistory work imagining a world in which #NativeAmericans were not devastated by disease and remain a large percentage of the #UnitedStates ' demographics. #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Genuinely interesting stuff on brain development by the scientists, but also, thank God Star Trek Picard isn't coming back for S4, "oh so it turned out even more people were Borg sleepers"
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Genuinely interesting stuff on brain development by the scientists, but also, thank God Star Trek Picard isn't coming back for S4, "oh so it turned out even more people were Borg sleepers"
scrapping juries for most cases means you have to argue "it's not anti-democratic to do trial without jury, there are democracies that don't have them in Europe" AND "don't worry everyone, the _important_ cases (and most reported on ones!) will have a jury". So is it fine or are they important then?
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
scrapping juries for most cases means you have to argue "it's not anti-democratic to do trial without jury, there are democracies that don't have them in Europe" AND "don't worry everyone, the _important_ cases (and most reported on ones!) will have a jury". So is it fine or are they important then?
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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an underrated part of the British crisis is that the justice system is under massive strain, not least because criminal barristers are often being paid *less for taking a case than their costs in doing so.*.
www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
an underrated part of the British crisis is that the justice system is under massive strain, not least because criminal barristers are often being paid *less for taking a case than their costs in doing so.*.
www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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I love this element because it a) makes Vader's murderous rage make even more sense and b) it's very funny
the end of Rogue One means that at the start of Star Wars, Leia's going "oh wow can't believe you're raiding my innocent ship" to a guy who saw & she knows saw her fly away from the battle, like she's trying to lie so blatantly he'll question himself because SURELY nobody would
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I love this element because it a) makes Vader's murderous rage make even more sense and b) it's very funny
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My fave part of Batman Beyond spinoff The Zeta Project is they were told "you have to be brighter, less violent, more kiddie" and accidentally that makes it darker. Now, instead of trying to blow up a fugitive robot that doesn't want to kill, the govt wants to capture & reprogram him TO KILL AGAIN.
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My fave part of Batman Beyond spinoff The Zeta Project is they were told "you have to be brighter, less violent, more kiddie" and accidentally that makes it darker. Now, instead of trying to blow up a fugitive robot that doesn't want to kill, the govt wants to capture & reprogram him TO KILL AGAIN.
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Day 3 of our Buy Direct sale!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Day 3 of our Buy Direct sale!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!
Support small presses - we need you!
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This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?
And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
name a film you've seen six times
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
name a film you've seen six times
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“this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”
Has Glasman forgotten how Labour became the 2nd major party? It took voters (and some politicians) away from the Liberals in the 1920s!
And progressive middle class types have always been part of Labour (eg: the Fabians)
Has Glasman forgotten how Labour became the 2nd major party? It took voters (and some politicians) away from the Liberals in the 1920s!
And progressive middle class types have always been part of Labour (eg: the Fabians)
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”
Has Glasman forgotten how Labour became the 2nd major party? It took voters (and some politicians) away from the Liberals in the 1920s!
And progressive middle class types have always been part of Labour (eg: the Fabians)
Has Glasman forgotten how Labour became the 2nd major party? It took voters (and some politicians) away from the Liberals in the 1920s!
And progressive middle class types have always been part of Labour (eg: the Fabians)
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Vader came in and he caught us red-handed
Sneakin' off with the Death Star plans
Picture this: we're in Scarif's orbit
Flagged as the Rebel Alliance
Sneakin' off with the Death Star plans
Picture this: we're in Scarif's orbit
Flagged as the Rebel Alliance
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Vader came in and he caught us red-handed
Sneakin' off with the Death Star plans
Picture this: we're in Scarif's orbit
Flagged as the Rebel Alliance
Sneakin' off with the Death Star plans
Picture this: we're in Scarif's orbit
Flagged as the Rebel Alliance
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With the recent appointment of Arturo Serrano ( @carturo222.bsky.social ) as a #SidewiseAward judge (congratulations!) here is another look at Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social 's #interview with him for our #AlternateHistory #magazine #blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
Interviewing the AH Community: Carlos Arturo Serrano
Questions from Gary OswaldCounter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for Altern...
www.sealionpress.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
With the recent appointment of Arturo Serrano ( @carturo222.bsky.social ) as a #SidewiseAward judge (congratulations!) here is another look at Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social 's #interview with him for our #AlternateHistory #magazine #blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
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Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
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SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted in the #SmashWords #sale from December 8th! See below for details, link: smashwords.com/sale
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted in the #SmashWords #sale from December 8th! See below for details, link: smashwords.com/sale
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
if Westworld and Stepford Wives got into a fight, who would win?
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
if Westworld and Stepford Wives got into a fight, who would win?
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Carlos Ezquerra
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Carlos Ezquerra
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Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, in S Africa’s Daily Maverick today. Cynical bugger, is Zapiro…. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2025...
Trump G20 | Daily Maverick
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www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, in S Africa’s Daily Maverick today. Cynical bugger, is Zapiro…. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2025...
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One of the great thing about buying books from publishers: you can often pick up a (DRM-free) bargain or two
Like this week - when grabbing a digital copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES direct from us gets you 50% off haunted house/cosmic horror whodunnit A PRESS OF FEATHERS!
Like this week - when grabbing a digital copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES direct from us gets you 50% off haunted house/cosmic horror whodunnit A PRESS OF FEATHERS!
The Nine O'Clock Horses & Other Stories
Urban legend, body horror and suburban paranoia collide in THE NINE O’CLOCK HORSES - a collection of short stories, novelettes and micro-fictions from the author of TRADWIFE, HUMMINGBIRD and SALTBLOOD...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One of the great thing about buying books from publishers: you can often pick up a (DRM-free) bargain or two
Like this week - when grabbing a digital copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES direct from us gets you 50% off haunted house/cosmic horror whodunnit A PRESS OF FEATHERS!
Like this week - when grabbing a digital copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES direct from us gets you 50% off haunted house/cosmic horror whodunnit A PRESS OF FEATHERS!
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This dude looks SO COOL
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This dude looks SO COOL
My fave part of Batman Beyond spinoff The Zeta Project is they were told "you have to be brighter, less violent, more kiddie" and accidentally that makes it darker. Now, instead of trying to blow up a fugitive robot that doesn't want to kill, the govt wants to capture & reprogram him TO KILL AGAIN.
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My fave part of Batman Beyond spinoff The Zeta Project is they were told "you have to be brighter, less violent, more kiddie" and accidentally that makes it darker. Now, instead of trying to blow up a fugitive robot that doesn't want to kill, the govt wants to capture & reprogram him TO KILL AGAIN.