Polis Loizou 🦊
@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
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There are few things better than Scene 3 of "The Crucible".
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There are few things better than Scene 3 of "The Crucible".
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
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The Thelmas are hiring an Executive Director to lead on governance, finance, income generation, and organisational development as we take our work to the next level.
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Thelmas are hiring an Executive Director to lead on governance, finance, income generation, and organisational development as we take our work to the next level.
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
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Book news! Delighted to share the cover of my next book. Out 10/02/26 @renardpress.com
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Book news! Delighted to share the cover of my next book. Out 10/02/26 @renardpress.com
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
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A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
Very proud of my handsome husband (pictured here in a waistcoat he made himself!), who interviewed both Rachel Parris about her "Pride & Prejudice" spinoff, and our lovely pal Eleanor Field about being an Austen superfan, to celebrate the author's 250th.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Very proud of my handsome husband (pictured here in a waistcoat he made himself!), who interviewed both Rachel Parris about her "Pride & Prejudice" spinoff, and our lovely pal Eleanor Field about being an Austen superfan, to celebrate the author's 250th.
"The Woke Brigade going and calling everyone fascists when we're only wearing black shirts and violently protesting about minorities."
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"The Woke Brigade going and calling everyone fascists when we're only wearing black shirts and violently protesting about minorities."
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A London-based theatre company and former Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation has announced its closure three years after its regular funding was removed, with its chair saying: “Not every theatre company can live forever”.
Theatre company closes after being cut from Arts Council England portfolio - Arts Professional
A London-based theatre company and former Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation has announced its closure three years after its regular
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A London-based theatre company and former Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation has announced its closure three years after its regular funding was removed, with its chair saying: “Not every theatre company can live forever”.
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In which I talk about attending a writing event, selling 5 books, making £37 and having a nice time.
open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On the Leicester Local Writers Book Fair
Today I attended the Leicester Writers Book Fair at the Central Library.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In which I talk about attending a writing event, selling 5 books, making £37 and having a nice time.
open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
I don't think I can talk any more than I do about how I make almost no money from any of my creative projects, yet I still have people who know me IRL assume I'm living off writing.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I don't think I can talk any more than I do about how I make almost no money from any of my creative projects, yet I still have people who know me IRL assume I'm living off writing.
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Check us out performing the theme from "New York, New York" LIVE!
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Theme from New York, New York performed LIVE by The Down for the Count Swing Orchestra
YouTube video by Down for the Count
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Check us out performing the theme from "New York, New York" LIVE!
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Sometimes I recall the enthusiastic buff book-lover on Twitter who'd post things like "I find thrillers really exciting! Do you find them exciting too?" while pictured holding a Dan Brown in his oak-sized arms and a stream of blue-tick authors would giggle, "I do find thrillers exciting, yes!"
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sometimes I recall the enthusiastic buff book-lover on Twitter who'd post things like "I find thrillers really exciting! Do you find them exciting too?" while pictured holding a Dan Brown in his oak-sized arms and a stream of blue-tick authors would giggle, "I do find thrillers exciting, yes!"
The phone spies heard me say I regret not continuing my Grade 8 piano and now every single ad is for digital pianos.
The Internet has become my mother.
The Internet has become my mother.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The phone spies heard me say I regret not continuing my Grade 8 piano and now every single ad is for digital pianos.
The Internet has become my mother.
The Internet has become my mother.
Applied for a creative opportunity where the organisers used a randomiser to pick a longlist from the applicants.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Applied for a creative opportunity where the organisers used a randomiser to pick a longlist from the applicants.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
Wong Kar Wai's 30-episode TV series, excuse me?!
Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI 🌹✨ Premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel tomorrow at 8pm ET! From the director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS comes a dazzling new 30-episode series set against the rise of 1990s Shanghai.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Wong Kar Wai's 30-episode TV series, excuse me?!
Here, we can see a man who very clearly remembers racially abusing fellow pupils.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Here, we can see a man who very clearly remembers racially abusing fellow pupils.
British trains these days 👎
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
British trains these days 👎
Off to Folkestone for another show with the swing orchestra. Last time I was there was for the Eurotunnel, so will do my best not to accidentally get on it now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Off to Folkestone for another show with the swing orchestra. Last time I was there was for the Eurotunnel, so will do my best not to accidentally get on it now.
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I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
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I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
I truly hope if you're downloading books that you download one of the ones that are uploaded with the fake endings, the random "and then he shit in her mouth and turned her into a zombie" that i know someone is adding that to her romance books & has her sister upload dozens of versions of that.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
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I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)