Stephen Cox
@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social
Novelist+comms. London, bi, Quaker, parent. Spooky? THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER. "A pleasure from start to finish"
Also Our Child of the Stars/Our Child of Two Worlds.
https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
Also Our Child of the Stars/Our Child of Two Worlds.
https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
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"A book I've been looking for all my life. Queer found family all wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery. Absolute perfection.”
The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - Out worldwide!
#womensleuths #mystery #sapphic #spooky #books #booksky #LGBT+ #Victorian
stephencox.co.uk/books/upcomi...
The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - Out worldwide!
#womensleuths #mystery #sapphic #spooky #books #booksky #LGBT+ #Victorian
stephencox.co.uk/books/upcomi...
Worth knowing the story behind a truly great song
50 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank and 29 lives were lost.
A new excerpt from “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy” looks at the legal battles families faced in the aftermath.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/fift...
A new excerpt from “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy” looks at the legal battles families faced in the aftermath.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/fift...
Fifty years later: The little-known story of the families the Fitz left behind | Great Lakes Now
After the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, grieving families faced another storm: unequal insurance payouts, corporate pressure and a legal system stacked against them.
www.greatlakesnow.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Worth knowing the story behind a truly great song
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Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Hopefully the next director of the BBC will take note of the fact that you can never ever capitulate enough to satisfy these right-wing maniacs, eventually they will demand your head regardless of how many other people you threw under the bus for them. I won't hold my breath though.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hopefully the next director of the BBC will take note of the fact that you can never ever capitulate enough to satisfy these right-wing maniacs, eventually they will demand your head regardless of how many other people you threw under the bus for them. I won't hold my breath though.
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Gibb pushed for Prescott as well
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gibb pushed for Prescott as well
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Always worth reposting
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Always worth reposting
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Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.
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A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
My mate Hiron wrote the nastiest piece of horror, Leech, and also the best written, I have read for like ever, and it is so clever and absorbing that even I, a non horror reader, have to recommend this work and assume Works of Vermin will be at least as nasty
So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My mate Hiron wrote the nastiest piece of horror, Leech, and also the best written, I have read for like ever, and it is so clever and absorbing that even I, a non horror reader, have to recommend this work and assume Works of Vermin will be at least as nasty
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Galton had subsequently observed that women and children appeared to have more vivid imagery than scientists did. "Scientific men as a class", he concluded "have feeble powers of visual representation."
- Larissa Macfarquhar, Phantasia, New Yorker, Nov 3, 2025
#SundaySentence
- Larissa Macfarquhar, Phantasia, New Yorker, Nov 3, 2025
#SundaySentence
November 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Galton had subsequently observed that women and children appeared to have more vivid imagery than scientists did. "Scientific men as a class", he concluded "have feeble powers of visual representation."
- Larissa Macfarquhar, Phantasia, New Yorker, Nov 3, 2025
#SundaySentence
- Larissa Macfarquhar, Phantasia, New Yorker, Nov 3, 2025
#SundaySentence
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this.
successful tools with a clear purpose & utility create their own pull, a market. that this technology is being pushed at everything is the loudest indicator of how little it is needed in day to day life.
it needs us far more than we need it.
successful tools with a clear purpose & utility create their own pull, a market. that this technology is being pushed at everything is the loudest indicator of how little it is needed in day to day life.
it needs us far more than we need it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
this.
successful tools with a clear purpose & utility create their own pull, a market. that this technology is being pushed at everything is the loudest indicator of how little it is needed in day to day life.
it needs us far more than we need it.
successful tools with a clear purpose & utility create their own pull, a market. that this technology is being pushed at everything is the loudest indicator of how little it is needed in day to day life.
it needs us far more than we need it.
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Mamdani is going to implement Shannara law. Everything will be extremely derivative of Tolkien and predictable.
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Shannara law. Everything will be extremely derivative of Tolkien and predictable.
History is rewritten all the time. Because we have new insights and findings.
That Wall in Northumbria was built by Hadrian, not Severus. The Anglo Saxon migration was more immigration + turf wars than a mass displacement of preSaxon people. Black resistance to slavery was important in abolition.
That Wall in Northumbria was built by Hadrian, not Severus. The Anglo Saxon migration was more immigration + turf wars than a mass displacement of preSaxon people. Black resistance to slavery was important in abolition.
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
History is rewritten all the time. Because we have new insights and findings.
That Wall in Northumbria was built by Hadrian, not Severus. The Anglo Saxon migration was more immigration + turf wars than a mass displacement of preSaxon people. Black resistance to slavery was important in abolition.
That Wall in Northumbria was built by Hadrian, not Severus. The Anglo Saxon migration was more immigration + turf wars than a mass displacement of preSaxon people. Black resistance to slavery was important in abolition.
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"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history."
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history."
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
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BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
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The discovery of DNA seems to have been a collaborative effort from a mixed gender group, by any reasonable account. But it has been forced into the Great Man narrative, where it doesn’t fit at all. Like Bletchley Park and so many other stories.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The discovery of DNA seems to have been a collaborative effort from a mixed gender group, by any reasonable account. But it has been forced into the Great Man narrative, where it doesn’t fit at all. Like Bletchley Park and so many other stories.
New Blueksky eemojis drop for
"Of course, that was the exact point I was making"
"Explaining it is difficult to fix is not saying we shouldn't try"
"I reserve the right to be joyful for a few moments despite everything else going on"
"Of course, that was the exact point I was making"
"Explaining it is difficult to fix is not saying we shouldn't try"
"I reserve the right to be joyful for a few moments despite everything else going on"
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New Blueksky eemojis drop for
"Of course, that was the exact point I was making"
"Explaining it is difficult to fix is not saying we shouldn't try"
"I reserve the right to be joyful for a few moments despite everything else going on"
"Of course, that was the exact point I was making"
"Explaining it is difficult to fix is not saying we shouldn't try"
"I reserve the right to be joyful for a few moments despite everything else going on"
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As someone incredibly susceptible to advertising, and who had a genuine twinge of nostalgia around the Coca Cola Christmas ads, I find it fascinating just how much I hate their AI ads and how much it makes me loathe their product.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As someone incredibly susceptible to advertising, and who had a genuine twinge of nostalgia around the Coca Cola Christmas ads, I find it fascinating just how much I hate their AI ads and how much it makes me loathe their product.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
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Nostradamus was genAI
'the future' and 'inevitable'
widely revered
very weak evidence
people making money off it regardless
always 'about to come good'
'the future' and 'inevitable'
widely revered
very weak evidence
people making money off it regardless
always 'about to come good'
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Nostradamus was genAI
'the future' and 'inevitable'
widely revered
very weak evidence
people making money off it regardless
always 'about to come good'
'the future' and 'inevitable'
widely revered
very weak evidence
people making money off it regardless
always 'about to come good'