Eddie Robson
@eddierobson.bsky.social
Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
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Eddie Robson
@eddierobson.bsky.social
· Feb 6
ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025.
One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.
One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.
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came back to bsky to share some advice from a medieval French courtesy manual:
"If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".
"If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".
January 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
came back to bsky to share some advice from a medieval French courtesy manual:
"If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".
"If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".
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Them: I never see you at the club.
Me: well, I never see you at the Ilkeston NatWest hole in the wall x
Me: well, I never see you at the Ilkeston NatWest hole in the wall x
January 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Them: I never see you at the club.
Me: well, I never see you at the Ilkeston NatWest hole in the wall x
Me: well, I never see you at the Ilkeston NatWest hole in the wall x
My week in music:
January 16, 2026 at 9:53 AM
My week in music:
I remember talking to a defender of tuition fees back on Twitter and it genuinely hadn't occurred to him that it was effectively a tax you could buy your way out of if your parents were rich enough.
It's not designed to be repaid, it's designed to extract 9% of salary above the threshold for your entire working life, and considerably more than that if you did anything remotely more spicy than the standard 3 years (*waves in vet med*). A tax the wealthy can buy their way out of is quite a thing.
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I remember talking to a defender of tuition fees back on Twitter and it genuinely hadn't occurred to him that it was effectively a tax you could buy your way out of if your parents were rich enough.
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Learn about the origins of a sci-fi classic with The Quatermass Experiment, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's immersive history of the landmark lost TV serial, illustrated with rediscovered studio photos. Work is already underway on the next volume in the series. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Learn about the origins of a sci-fi classic with The Quatermass Experiment, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's immersive history of the landmark lost TV serial, illustrated with rediscovered studio photos. Work is already underway on the next volume in the series. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
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Real life is The Onion
Ellison names his megayacht "Izanami" -- then reads the name backwards
futurism.com/future-socie...
Ellison names his megayacht "Izanami" -- then reads the name backwards
futurism.com/future-socie...
Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards
Oracle founder Larry Ellison named his 191-foot superyacht "Izanami," only to change his mind after finding out what it spelled backwards.
futurism.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Real life is The Onion
Ellison names his megayacht "Izanami" -- then reads the name backwards
futurism.com/future-socie...
Ellison names his megayacht "Izanami" -- then reads the name backwards
futurism.com/future-socie...
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it just doesn't seem to me like you can make a lot of hay out of vulgarity when the "exculpatory" video you released of your guy murdering someone has him on tape calling her a "fucking bitch" right afterwards
Leavitt complains that protesters are pointing their middle fingers at ICE vehicles
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 AM
it just doesn't seem to me like you can make a lot of hay out of vulgarity when the "exculpatory" video you released of your guy murdering someone has him on tape calling her a "fucking bitch" right afterwards
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Cancel your Spotify subscription.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
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The worst part of buying physical copies of movies is having to do research for movies with multiple releases.
It shouldn't be too hard but they often like to make later releases worse than what came before.
It shouldn't be too hard but they often like to make later releases worse than what came before.
January 15, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The worst part of buying physical copies of movies is having to do research for movies with multiple releases.
It shouldn't be too hard but they often like to make later releases worse than what came before.
It shouldn't be too hard but they often like to make later releases worse than what came before.
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Sam Raimi’s AMA was great overall. Personally, this was my favourite response.
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Sam Raimi’s AMA was great overall. Personally, this was my favourite response.
The BBC's montage of Masters winners from the 90s and 00s is very striking for how young many of the winners were, and it's conspicuous there's no-one like that coming through now except the lads from China. The UK needs to make some grassroots investment. www.tntsports.co.uk/snooker/halo...
www.tntsports.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The BBC's montage of Masters winners from the 90s and 00s is very striking for how young many of the winners were, and it's conspicuous there's no-one like that coming through now except the lads from China. The UK needs to make some grassroots investment. www.tntsports.co.uk/snooker/halo...
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It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
Our Friends in the North
30 years on from the first episode of this groundbreaking drama, we take a closer look into the programme’s archive to reveal a time capsule of a turbulent era.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
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There was a lot of "aah but normal people won't see that and if they take away anything they'll just see Reform being more professional." I think if it were a decade ago...maybe? But even if it doesn't "matter to normal people" its obviously something you should point out, it's blatant hypocrisy!
The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
There was a lot of "aah but normal people won't see that and if they take away anything they'll just see Reform being more professional." I think if it were a decade ago...maybe? But even if it doesn't "matter to normal people" its obviously something you should point out, it's blatant hypocrisy!
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A month ago someone in Jenrick's team got in touch to complain that I'd called him "the most shameless man in parliament." I mean.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
A month ago someone in Jenrick's team got in touch to complain that I'd called him "the most shameless man in parliament." I mean.
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That thing about how Jenrick hadn't decided whether or not to defect is a total lie isn't it. It's just to make it seem like Badenoch has made a tactical error and forced him out.
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
That thing about how Jenrick hadn't decided whether or not to defect is a total lie isn't it. It's just to make it seem like Badenoch has made a tactical error and forced him out.
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"And what would YOU bring to Reform, Mr Jenrick?"
"Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."
"Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"And what would YOU bring to Reform, Mr Jenrick?"
"Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."
"Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
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3-3 in the snooker. It’s a miracle! #TheSnooker
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
3-3 in the snooker. It’s a miracle! #TheSnooker
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Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.