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Brian M. Milton

@munchkinstein.bsky.social

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Staking my space, just in case, but not expecting to be here much yet.
If I am, it will be occasional writing and a lot of bollocks.
A LOT of stupid bollocks.
munchkinstein.co.uk/

Brian M. Milton's avatar Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social
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All episodes of Fags, Mags and Bags are the humour but this week's musical version made me laugh like a drain.
Worthy of a Ritter Sport.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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I'm not sure I'd count as a monster, more just slightly unpleasant.

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Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want!
You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Across the internet all you can hear are 'sensible' chatterati column writers ripping up their prepared gleeful "How could France have sunk so low?" articles.

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AHHHHHHHHHH My author copies of The Last Shield have arrived here in Glasgow from Angry Robot Books What lovely, shiny title text and gilded name! And also author copies of my jaw-dropping special edition from The Broken Binding

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Those good old days were often that way due to needing to film twenty five minutes of telly on a Friday when you had no script on the Saturday before and deciding that anything you could write that could be made out of stuff already in the props cupboard would do. There was no time for drugs.

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Map of the planet Mongo.

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Jaunty Art's avatar Jaunty Art @jauntyart.bsky.social
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Hex/ther Valentine's avatar Hex/ther Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social
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The Girl Who Cried is about kelpies, except it's really about going back to visit your old teen summer camp, except it's really about memory and nostalgia and old wounds that cannot heal, and I can't wait for people to read it when Gallus launches!

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Cheryl Morgan's avatar Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social
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Best piece of political commentary I have seen today

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Jamie McKelvie's avatar Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social
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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.

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Liz Truss’ record breaking: - Shortest reigning PM - First PM in 100 years to lose their seat - Tory MP with largest ever swing to Labour

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Here in Scotland we get PR for the Scottish devolved elections but FPTP for the UK election. It's infuriating to know that it can be done fairer but the "big boys" who run the UK don't want it as they'd have to play nicely with others.

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Brian M. Milton's avatar Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social
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Just checked and I have no work meetings today as I "work from home". Might be able to catch up on my broken sleep at some point.

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Exactly. The only place they did get an increase in votes was up here and still FPTP makes it look so much more dramatic than it was.

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They've got two years until the next Scottish elections, should know by then if they are actually left of centre or are really sticking with Tory lite as they appear to be.

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Yes. And it makes it look like a huge Labour win, when it was really a modest improvement while the Tories imploded, going from 43 to twenty something percent. Glad the Tories are gone, but I can still hate the system.

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From the Guardian. Really helps to show how FPTP is a hideous system where going from 32 to 33 percent is going from historic loss to historic win.
#ukpol #ge2024

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New-Cleckit Dominie's avatar New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social
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Why the mathematician in your life, happy as they are that the most odious UK government in living memory is gone, is wincing a lot when they encounter Discourse today. [xkcd.com/904/]

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Truss has gone!
And Dross didn't get elected.
I'll take that.
Very glad the Tories are out, will hold my concerns about Labour until they do something, even if I have no real idea what that'll be.
#ukpol #ge2024

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Morning.
Looks to be great joy at the Tories getting a thrashing although I'll admit disappointment at the SNP.
Also disgust at Reform getting in but some pleasure to see Labour being hit by independants and Greens.
A complex set of feelings for this time in the morning.
#UKPolitcs #ge2024

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Very much joining the too old to stay up brigade and will see how the election results are going when I need a wee in the night. Good luck if you're trying to catch the whole thing.

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Brian M. Milton's avatar Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social
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I have been talking to people about insulation, maybe they've heard.

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They appear to be trying to stick an entire tree's worth of leaves to my windows.

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Well they did arrange it so the postal ballot system struggled as all those on holiday suddenly had to apply for one. AND they've run the country for 14 years. So it must be someone else's fault it isn't working properly and is surely biased and woke.

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Oh, and final scores on the doors, flyer wise, for this election, a 2 voter household: Labour: 4 SNP: 2 ISP: 1 Scottish Family Party: 1 Tories: 5 Hopefully the only win the Tories will get today.

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It shines upon you for you have done a Good Thing.

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New-Cleckit Dominie's avatar New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social
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"I don't think we should do anything about the face-eating leopards" says leader of the Kick Out The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party Party.

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Scott Edelman's avatar Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social
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It was three years ago today that I first shared one of my all-time favorite context-free comic book panels of the day. For all you writers out there ... here it is again.

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If you're a fan of Ken MacLeod's novels you might recognise a couple of characters who put in an appearance in Weak Gods Of Mars, the lead story of Nova Scotia vol2...

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I used to go first thing to avoid people outside. Postal is easier now but it does lack that feeling of doing a thing of import.

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Good morning. As the UK descends into a soggy (certainly in Glasgow where it's pishing down) frenzy of voting just remember one thing. Only arseholes vote Tory (or Reform).

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I voted by post ages ago, and have a cat. This is not stopping me from looking forward to tomorrow for all the dogs at polling stations photos. If you care about democracy or dogs, get out there and do that thing tomorrow troops.

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Hal Duncan's avatar Hal Duncan @halduncan.bsky.social
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Oh, yeah, I shoulda maybe said that my story in this is one of the tales from my Big Book of the Matter of Damnonia, so if you want a wee sample of my collie dug burrowings into Welsh and Irish lore, of the Not So Sekrit Hauf Troofs unearthed to be retold by a mad radge basturt bard... get in there.

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Super excited to have a wee piece in this anthology filled with stories by so many talented writers, and all wrapped in this beautiful cover created by @jennicoutts.bsky.social! ✨

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A re-posting for the morning crowd. Doesn't it look brilliant?

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Something interesting 's avatar Something interesting @realbigal.bsky.social
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So I'm actually in this. First short story ever in print. Don't let that put you off from getting a copy though. It's also full of fantastic stories from genuinely excellent writers.

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This! A thing of beauty and crammed full of great stories. Launching at #Worldcon and available generally from then

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If you don't promise nothing, you can't fail to deliver it. As the Tory alternative is promise everything, deliver nothing, at least it's an alternative but not exactly an exciting one.

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Thought I was being ignored for flyers this week but just got a Labour one through the door. Of course, all it says is "Change" so clearly they have no policies worth shouting about. On the theory that, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing, I think I prefer the others who didn't bother.

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That elusive editor is out there, they just be very well camouflaged.

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