Dan
@danstow.bsky.social
Messy brained medicated ASD he/him, older outside than in. Trying to be a good person amid a world of chaos, occasionally succeeding, normally surviving.
Avatar is line drawing, formal shirt and neck with scribbles in place of a head
Avatar is line drawing, formal shirt and neck with scribbles in place of a head
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The joy of the prospect
Of a coffee with a friend.
Looking forward to talking
And
Looking forward to the silences Between the words.
#poetry #MentalHealthAwareness #friendship
Of a coffee with a friend.
Looking forward to talking
And
Looking forward to the silences Between the words.
#poetry #MentalHealthAwareness #friendship
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The joy of the prospect
Of a coffee with a friend.
Looking forward to talking
And
Looking forward to the silences Between the words.
#poetry #MentalHealthAwareness #friendship
Of a coffee with a friend.
Looking forward to talking
And
Looking forward to the silences Between the words.
#poetry #MentalHealthAwareness #friendship
Need to put words down so they are out of my head. Using poetry to try and distill both sadness and anger.
Basically screaming into the void tbh.
Basically screaming into the void tbh.
September 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Need to put words down so they are out of my head. Using poetry to try and distill both sadness and anger.
Basically screaming into the void tbh.
Basically screaming into the void tbh.
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We’re being completely normal about the Long Earth landscape in part 1 of the Long War! (Covering chapters 1-35)
You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We’re being completely normal about the Long Earth landscape in part 1 of the Long War! (Covering chapters 1-35)
You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
And I feel seen 😑
Jay Chester, 45, has spent their entire life trying to do the right thing, but has discovered the hard way that this is basically impossible because capitalism.
Make an ethical choice & fund a ragtag band of autistic writers by supporting our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/136381...
Make an ethical choice & fund a ragtag band of autistic writers by supporting our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/136381...
August 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
And I feel seen 😑
Very well written, with context, history and facts. Well done @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...
Britain has never stood alone
From Empire to the NHS, this country has always relied on outsiders. The real crisis isn’t migration – it’s dishonesty
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Very well written, with context, history and facts. Well done @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...
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What is happening in Gaza is a state-sponsored atrocity – and one of the states sponsoring it is the UK.
Help us support people speaking out 👇
https://bit.ly/3HJqkNO
Help us support people speaking out 👇
https://bit.ly/3HJqkNO
Stand up for people speaking out on Gaza
What is happening in Gaza is a state-sponsored atrocity – and one of the states sponsoring it is the UK. Support people speaking up!
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August 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What is happening in Gaza is a state-sponsored atrocity – and one of the states sponsoring it is the UK.
Help us support people speaking out 👇
https://bit.ly/3HJqkNO
Help us support people speaking out 👇
https://bit.ly/3HJqkNO
If you've read The Long Earth, this is a great way to re-live it and dive deeper. Entertaining and also caught things I did not across a few re-reads. If you've not read it or the series, go and read it! Brilliant and also poignant in todays world.
Our first episode on The Long Earth (covering chapters 1-25) comes out tomorrow!
July 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you've read The Long Earth, this is a great way to re-live it and dive deeper. Entertaining and also caught things I did not across a few re-reads. If you've not read it or the series, go and read it! Brilliant and also poignant in todays world.
@robinince.bsky.social
Really enjoying your poetry, both here and live. Usually I use poetry as writing therapy for me, but wanted to pen something for you since Felixstowe, and now managed to find the words.
allpoetry.com/poem/1851333...
Really enjoying your poetry, both here and live. Usually I use poetry as writing therapy for me, but wanted to pen something for you since Felixstowe, and now managed to find the words.
allpoetry.com/poem/1851333...
July 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@robinince.bsky.social
Really enjoying your poetry, both here and live. Usually I use poetry as writing therapy for me, but wanted to pen something for you since Felixstowe, and now managed to find the words.
allpoetry.com/poem/1851333...
Really enjoying your poetry, both here and live. Usually I use poetry as writing therapy for me, but wanted to pen something for you since Felixstowe, and now managed to find the words.
allpoetry.com/poem/1851333...
An amazing time at the Felixstowe Book Festival, aseeing @robinince.bsky.social talk about Normally Weird Weirdly Normal, speaking briefly about fairness and justice sensitivity before hand, and getting my book signed. Feeling a bit full of emotion hearing and thinking on neurodivergence but happy
June 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
An amazing time at the Felixstowe Book Festival, aseeing @robinince.bsky.social talk about Normally Weird Weirdly Normal, speaking briefly about fairness and justice sensitivity before hand, and getting my book signed. Feeling a bit full of emotion hearing and thinking on neurodivergence but happy
Stupidly only just learned that Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Annoying. However, now found a federated alternative to try, though obviously far less reviews. Though I am happier not telling the place running independant bookshops out of business what books to focus on next.
bookwyrm.social
bookwyrm.social
BookWyrm
Social Reading and Reviewing
bookwyrm.social
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Stupidly only just learned that Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Annoying. However, now found a federated alternative to try, though obviously far less reviews. Though I am happier not telling the place running independant bookshops out of business what books to focus on next.
bookwyrm.social
bookwyrm.social
Excited for June 29th, and seeing @robinince.bsky.social at the Felixstowe book festival with his Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity book. Seen so many good comments and posts about events so far. Only 7 weeks to go
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Excited for June 29th, and seeing @robinince.bsky.social at the Felixstowe book festival with his Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity book. Seen so many good comments and posts about events so far. Only 7 weeks to go
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Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
@2hatsjo.bsky.social @francibambi.bsky.social saw this post, checked the map, and had to share. I am pretty sure I live on 'the chalk', as mayhaps do you, which fits @makeyefretpod.bsky.social perfectly
🚨Third one:
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England @theul.bsky.social @whipplemuseum.bsky.social @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social & CambridgeHPS
📅:16 May 2025
Apply here:👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England @theul.bsky.social @whipplemuseum.bsky.social @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social & CambridgeHPS
📅:16 May 2025
Apply here:👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@2hatsjo.bsky.social @francibambi.bsky.social saw this post, checked the map, and had to share. I am pretty sure I live on 'the chalk', as mayhaps do you, which fits @makeyefretpod.bsky.social perfectly
Came across this article on Autism and identity and found it very interesting. Definitely worth a read. neuroclastic.com/the-identity...
The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is Experienced Differently
Terra Vance posits that Autistic people experience empathy and emotions differently because the way autistic identity is structured differs from non-autistic people’s identity constructs.
neuroclastic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Came across this article on Autism and identity and found it very interesting. Definitely worth a read. neuroclastic.com/the-identity...
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And so I'll finish by dropping the link to the store, where you can buy the zine in paperback or *for less than half the price* in ebook format. If you'd like to support our writers and artists, why not pick up a copy today?
tinyurl.com/Microwrites
tinyurl.com/Microwrites
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March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
And so I'll finish by dropping the link to the store, where you can buy the zine in paperback or *for less than half the price* in ebook format. If you'd like to support our writers and artists, why not pick up a copy today?
tinyurl.com/Microwrites
tinyurl.com/Microwrites
@suffolklibraries.bsky.social please please please bring @robinince.bsky.social to Suffolk. Nothing East of Ely yet, and he does poetry too!!!
Updated tour dates for Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal - more to come
More bookshop and library dates for @robinince.bsky.social's have been added to to the tour section of Robin's site just now - robinince.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@suffolklibraries.bsky.social please please please bring @robinince.bsky.social to Suffolk. Nothing East of Ely yet, and he does poetry too!!!
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Back to the sea! And here's @danstow.bsky.social's second piece (his first I will come to). Remember I said the ocean section has a playfulness to it? I wasn't kidding. This is a jaunty poem with a strong flavour of Wind in the Willows to it.
March 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Back to the sea! And here's @danstow.bsky.social's second piece (his first I will come to). Remember I said the ocean section has a playfulness to it? I wasn't kidding. This is a jaunty poem with a strong flavour of Wind in the Willows to it.
Working through the brilliant Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter via audiobook. Amazing just how relevant and eerily poignant in the present day they are, capturing divisiveness, persecution of 'different', protectionism, and dangers vs benefits of technology.
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Working through the brilliant Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter via audiobook. Amazing just how relevant and eerily poignant in the present day they are, capturing divisiveness, persecution of 'different', protectionism, and dangers vs benefits of technology.
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Gather around the stove tonight on a bitter night of sleety squalls, as we celebrate the joy of a warm hearth and acknowledge three stars that light our paths through the night.
🌍 #ukcanals #naturewriting #cosyradio #wellbeing #night #podcast
www.noswpod.com/Orion-still-...
🌍 #ukcanals #naturewriting #cosyradio #wellbeing #night #podcast
www.noswpod.com/Orion-still-...
Orion Still Looks Down (On the land my shadow knows)
Send us a text It’s a bitingly cold, sleety night. There’s a warning of snow in the forecast for later. It’s a perfect night to sit together around a warm stove snu…
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February 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gather around the stove tonight on a bitter night of sleety squalls, as we celebrate the joy of a warm hearth and acknowledge three stars that light our paths through the night.
🌍 #ukcanals #naturewriting #cosyradio #wellbeing #night #podcast
www.noswpod.com/Orion-still-...
🌍 #ukcanals #naturewriting #cosyradio #wellbeing #night #podcast
www.noswpod.com/Orion-still-...
Very handy and poignant advice here!
The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling. From @thedailytism.bsky.social:
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
thedailytism.com/the-autistic... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling
We’ve all done it. Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be ...
thedailytism.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Very handy and poignant advice here!
To quote the seminal title track from the Beastie Boys 2004 masterpiece ..... "Check it out". Great zine by great people, from @microwrites.bsky.social and not funding any of the crazy space chasers.
www.lulu.com/search?page=...
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January 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
To quote the seminal title track from the Beastie Boys 2004 masterpiece ..... "Check it out". Great zine by great people, from @microwrites.bsky.social and not funding any of the crazy space chasers.
www.lulu.com/search?page=...
www.lulu.com/search?page=...
Just finished listening to this in 45 min chunks. Amazing learning how the Mongols were to an era what the Sea peoples were to the end of Bronze age civilisations. Also fascinating to see the exchange of science and technology shift West to kickstart the renaissance in Europe. Highly recommended!!
🐎🐎 EPISODE 19 IS OUT NOW 🐎🐎
With readings in Mongolian, Arabic & Chinese, and with the sounds of Mongolian folk music, find out how the world's largest land empire rose and fell, and left the world we know behind.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OJE...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqS...
With readings in Mongolian, Arabic & Chinese, and with the sounds of Mongolian folk music, find out how the world's largest land empire rose and fell, and left the world we know behind.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OJE...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqS...
December 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Just finished listening to this in 45 min chunks. Amazing learning how the Mongols were to an era what the Sea peoples were to the end of Bronze age civilisations. Also fascinating to see the exchange of science and technology shift West to kickstart the renaissance in Europe. Highly recommended!!
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I forgot! You can buy the zine here, 10% discount with HOLIDAYCHEER10, run don't walk etc
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December 23, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I forgot! You can buy the zine here, 10% discount with HOLIDAYCHEER10, run don't walk etc
www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...
www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...
Ingest words into your head people, Its good for you, and also good for authors too!
Good morning! Issue Two - coast. beach. ocean. - launched last night. Pick up a copy today (use BOOKSHELF10 today to get 10% off), or maybe more than one?? Sounds cool! Everyone would love this as a gift! And it's easy to wrap. www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...
microwrites issue two
microwrites is a short (very short!) fiction zine, leaning to the weird but not averse to any genre. Starting in an exclusively web-based format, this is the second paper issue. Inside you will find a...
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December 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Ingest words into your head people, Its good for you, and also good for authors too!