Dipika Mummery
@dipikam.bsky.social
Writing a novel. MA Creative Writing grad. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
It's that time of year... I'm on 10/20 and wondering how I can be such a bookworm, and yet still be reduced to tears by this ruddy game 😭
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's that time of year... I'm on 10/20 and wondering how I can be such a bookworm, and yet still be reduced to tears by this ruddy game 😭
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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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 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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BIG NEWS
On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years.
A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations.
🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns
🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator
🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6%
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On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years.
A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations.
🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns
🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator
🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6%
1/2
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
BIG NEWS
On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years.
A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations.
🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns
🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator
🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6%
1/2
On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years.
A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations.
🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns
🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator
🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6%
1/2
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The stories of Levenshulme take centre stage this November, as A Sense of Place transforms the Old Library into a night of words, sound and memory.
Among the readings is Parakeet by Dipika Mummery, set in Highfield Country Park, one of our neighbourhood's wonderful green spaces.
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Among the readings is Parakeet by Dipika Mummery, set in Highfield Country Park, one of our neighbourhood's wonderful green spaces.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The stories of Levenshulme take centre stage this November, as A Sense of Place transforms the Old Library into a night of words, sound and memory.
Among the readings is Parakeet by Dipika Mummery, set in Highfield Country Park, one of our neighbourhood's wonderful green spaces.
buff.ly/FPa13ub
Among the readings is Parakeet by Dipika Mummery, set in Highfield Country Park, one of our neighbourhood's wonderful green spaces.
buff.ly/FPa13ub
Calling all Manchester folks! I'll be at this event in Levenshulme next month in my capacity as a writer on the You Are Here podcast project - come and join us on November 7th at Levy Old Library 🦜
What does it mean to belong to a place - to walk its streets each day, to pass through its parks and live in its stories?
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Calling all Manchester folks! I'll be at this event in Levenshulme next month in my capacity as a writer on the You Are Here podcast project - come and join us on November 7th at Levy Old Library 🦜
I grew up in a working class immigrant family in Bolton. My English degree led directly to a career in copywriting.
I now work in a brilliant university team building websites to support health and medical research, and to recruit students who go on to work in the NHS and associated fields. (1/2)
I now work in a brilliant university team building websites to support health and medical research, and to recruit students who go on to work in the NHS and associated fields. (1/2)
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I grew up in a working class immigrant family in Bolton. My English degree led directly to a career in copywriting.
I now work in a brilliant university team building websites to support health and medical research, and to recruit students who go on to work in the NHS and associated fields. (1/2)
I now work in a brilliant university team building websites to support health and medical research, and to recruit students who go on to work in the NHS and associated fields. (1/2)
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what I think it’s going to be like watching bake-off every year:
🍰 lovely ☺️ cosy baking 🍂 with nice people 🐿️ and enjoying 🥨 how great it all looks 🧁 hooray 🥧
what it’s actually like:
oh CHRIST that caramel is fucked oh GOD the cake is splitting oh SHITE what are you going you EEJIT oh FUUUCK
🍰 lovely ☺️ cosy baking 🍂 with nice people 🐿️ and enjoying 🥨 how great it all looks 🧁 hooray 🥧
what it’s actually like:
oh CHRIST that caramel is fucked oh GOD the cake is splitting oh SHITE what are you going you EEJIT oh FUUUCK
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
what I think it’s going to be like watching bake-off every year:
🍰 lovely ☺️ cosy baking 🍂 with nice people 🐿️ and enjoying 🥨 how great it all looks 🧁 hooray 🥧
what it’s actually like:
oh CHRIST that caramel is fucked oh GOD the cake is splitting oh SHITE what are you going you EEJIT oh FUUUCK
🍰 lovely ☺️ cosy baking 🍂 with nice people 🐿️ and enjoying 🥨 how great it all looks 🧁 hooray 🥧
what it’s actually like:
oh CHRIST that caramel is fucked oh GOD the cake is splitting oh SHITE what are you going you EEJIT oh FUUUCK
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Wrote a Substack, which is only very briefly about Scrooge McDuck.
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Acknowledging your value
As a writer, you’re conditioned to expect that you won’t make much money.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Wrote a Substack, which is only very briefly about Scrooge McDuck.
adamfarrer.substack.com/p/acknowledg...
adamfarrer.substack.com/p/acknowledg...
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I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
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My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is a brilliant writer. He’s written for Dangermouse, Private Eye, @almurray.bsky.social and many more…
He’s struggling to find work at the moment. AI isn’t helping.
If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you
He’s struggling to find work at the moment. AI isn’t helping.
If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you
Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services.
Get in touch!
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is a brilliant writer. He’s written for Dangermouse, Private Eye, @almurray.bsky.social and many more…
He’s struggling to find work at the moment. AI isn’t helping.
If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you
He’s struggling to find work at the moment. AI isn’t helping.
If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Thank you
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Can’t believe we are still doing the “defeat fascism in the marketplace of ideas by platforming fascists and confronting them” in 2025 whilst *gestures wildly at the US concentration camps, ICE-gestapo, UK’s Reform anti-immigrant party and race riots*
August 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Can’t believe we are still doing the “defeat fascism in the marketplace of ideas by platforming fascists and confronting them” in 2025 whilst *gestures wildly at the US concentration camps, ICE-gestapo, UK’s Reform anti-immigrant party and race riots*
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Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
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August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
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Flashback to the day The Beatles passed their A-Levels.
August 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Flashback to the day The Beatles passed their A-Levels.
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"Writing is the adult equivalent of a kindergartner playing inside a cardboard box, believing it’s a rocket ship that will take her to the moon. Adorable, but ultimately sad." (via @mcsweeneys.net)
If You Love to Write Just Wait Until You Try Not Writing
Do you love to write? Is writing what makes you feel alive? Are you sure? Let me ask you something: When’s the last time you wrote and thought, Tha...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Writing is the adult equivalent of a kindergartner playing inside a cardboard box, believing it’s a rocket ship that will take her to the moon. Adorable, but ultimately sad." (via @mcsweeneys.net)
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I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.
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The first issue of Lost Levenshulme sold out fast. We printed some more, and they sold out too. So we printed a whole load more - they sold out too!
So for for those who missed out, the full issue is now free to read online.
levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/lost-levensh...
So for for those who missed out, the full issue is now free to read online.
levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/lost-levensh...
July 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The first issue of Lost Levenshulme sold out fast. We printed some more, and they sold out too. So we printed a whole load more - they sold out too!
So for for those who missed out, the full issue is now free to read online.
levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/lost-levensh...
So for for those who missed out, the full issue is now free to read online.
levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/lost-levensh...
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Today is Paperback Book Day, commemorating the date that the first Penguin paperbacks were published, back in 1935. A lighter, less expensive form of book, the paperback helped to make pleasure reading (and book collecting!) accessible to a wider swathe of the public. #💙📚 #Booksky
July 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What they think I want AI to do:
👉 Research my plot
👉 Give me ideas
👉 Write my story
What I actually want AI to do:
✅ Sort my accounts
✅ Make my inbox go away
✅ Clean my house
👉 Research my plot
👉 Give me ideas
👉 Write my story
What I actually want AI to do:
✅ Sort my accounts
✅ Make my inbox go away
✅ Clean my house
July 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What they think I want AI to do:
👉 Research my plot
👉 Give me ideas
👉 Write my story
What I actually want AI to do:
✅ Sort my accounts
✅ Make my inbox go away
✅ Clean my house
👉 Research my plot
👉 Give me ideas
👉 Write my story
What I actually want AI to do:
✅ Sort my accounts
✅ Make my inbox go away
✅ Clean my house
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📺 NEW 📺
TalkTV keeps broadcasting anti-trans views with nobody in the studio to push back.
It’s up to us to stop them. Write to Ofcom here: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
TalkTV keeps broadcasting anti-trans views with nobody in the studio to push back.
It’s up to us to stop them. Write to Ofcom here: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
Ofcom: stop TalkTV broadcasting hate
TalkTV is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News for the UK – a constant source of toxic hate and far-right lies. Over the last 11 weeks, TalkTV has been spouting transphobic hate again and again – totally ignorin...
goodlaw.social
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📺 NEW 📺
TalkTV keeps broadcasting anti-trans views with nobody in the studio to push back.
It’s up to us to stop them. Write to Ofcom here: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
TalkTV keeps broadcasting anti-trans views with nobody in the studio to push back.
It’s up to us to stop them. Write to Ofcom here: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
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Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10
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“Forget the MPs who rebel over cutting disabled people’s benefits - remember those who don’t. Just as Iraq was for Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer and his government for years to come, whether they succeed or not.”
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This ruthless pursuit of disabled people has damaged Labour – no matter what happens next | Frances Ryan
The number of rebel Labour MPs vowing to oppose the disability cuts is growing. But the moral stain could take years to shift, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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June 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“Forget the MPs who rebel over cutting disabled people’s benefits - remember those who don’t. Just as Iraq was for Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer and his government for years to come, whether they succeed or not.”
My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home