Inigo Purcell
@inigopurcell.bsky.social
Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
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Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
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Inigo Purcell
@inigopurcell.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Transitional Summer | The Manifest Station
There are a lot of appointments that summer: ultrasounds every few days, blood tests, and other routine ones which are finally coming around.
www.themanifeststation.net
My short story about the heatwave of 2017, egg freezing, Sir Kenneth Clark's Civilization: A Personal View and allowing oneself to imagine a future
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Properly moving xkcd
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Fifteen Years
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November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Properly moving xkcd
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
One of the things that startled me a bit re. this was that one of the people quoted on having realised how important access was is the manager of a large branch of Boots. Quite a lot of Boots' business is stuff that is likely to be bought by disabled people.
The Purple Pound--the figure that captures the total spending power of disabled people in the UK--has been updated to a whopping £446 billion per year, and businesses that fail on access are losing out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shops losing millions through lack of access for disabled people
Purple Tuesday is urging retailers to consider new ways to improve inclusion for disabled customers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
One of the things that startled me a bit re. this was that one of the people quoted on having realised how important access was is the manager of a large branch of Boots. Quite a lot of Boots' business is stuff that is likely to be bought by disabled people.
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4 years since Spruce stole a full quarter pounder meal from a guy at the train station. I caught her trying to bring the whole bag in through the cat flap. When I went outside half an hour later she’d nibbled through the burger and a bunch of fries.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
4 years since Spruce stole a full quarter pounder meal from a guy at the train station. I caught her trying to bring the whole bag in through the cat flap. When I went outside half an hour later she’d nibbled through the burger and a bunch of fries.
Thinking a bit about the "boyfriends are cringe" meme and also about the weird manosphere stuff about how no one should be aiming for a single committed girlfriend but instead a stable of available women who are somehow not available to anyone else and finding it all quite depressing.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thinking a bit about the "boyfriends are cringe" meme and also about the weird manosphere stuff about how no one should be aiming for a single committed girlfriend but instead a stable of available women who are somehow not available to anyone else and finding it all quite depressing.
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also a poet in here, grouped with Silvia, called W. E. R. Bell. no information beyond the poems and google is giving me nothing. anyone have any ideas who they are/if they emerged anywhere else?
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
also a poet in here, grouped with Silvia, called W. E. R. Bell. no information beyond the poems and google is giving me nothing. anyone have any ideas who they are/if they emerged anywhere else?
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Important short thread.
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Important short thread.
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My language app: we're introducing AI conversations!
Me: then I'm cancelling my subscription.
Any language apps that don't use AI? The one I've just cancelled is Busuu. I liked the feature where you got exercise corrections from native speakers, if any other app is offering that. Learning French.
Me: then I'm cancelling my subscription.
Any language apps that don't use AI? The one I've just cancelled is Busuu. I liked the feature where you got exercise corrections from native speakers, if any other app is offering that. Learning French.
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My language app: we're introducing AI conversations!
Me: then I'm cancelling my subscription.
Any language apps that don't use AI? The one I've just cancelled is Busuu. I liked the feature where you got exercise corrections from native speakers, if any other app is offering that. Learning French.
Me: then I'm cancelling my subscription.
Any language apps that don't use AI? The one I've just cancelled is Busuu. I liked the feature where you got exercise corrections from native speakers, if any other app is offering that. Learning French.
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Here's another AMAZING #buyastrangerabook day offer.
@spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead.
Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy!
UK only.
@spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead.
Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy!
UK only.
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Here's another AMAZING #buyastrangerabook day offer.
@spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead.
Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy!
UK only.
@spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead.
Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy!
UK only.
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I'm supporting @scarleteen.com's $40,000 fundraiser for health benefits for staff and volunteers! Sex ed notoriously doesn't pay well, and this fund will make a huge difference in people's lives. The first $1,000 I personally raise will be matched. Today would be a great day to hit that goal!
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm supporting @scarleteen.com's $40,000 fundraiser for health benefits for staff and volunteers! Sex ed notoriously doesn't pay well, and this fund will make a huge difference in people's lives. The first $1,000 I personally raise will be matched. Today would be a great day to hit that goal!
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Hey everyone who’s shared this - thank you! Really appreciated, it’s an extremely rough time for small businesses 👍👍
Hey Bluesky, my better half @gailmyerscough.co.uk has had a heck of a lot to deal with this year. She’s also a bit down because she hasn’t sold much recently. Please visit her site www.gailmyerscough.co.uk and have a look at her amazing designs. Thank you for reading, much appreciated xx
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hey everyone who’s shared this - thank you! Really appreciated, it’s an extremely rough time for small businesses 👍👍
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Chiming in, along with everyone else, to remind you to please talk about survivors as survivors, as people who experienced something horrible when they were very young and are still around to hear you talk about it, rather than as punchlines or points scored.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Chiming in, along with everyone else, to remind you to please talk about survivors as survivors, as people who experienced something horrible when they were very young and are still around to hear you talk about it, rather than as punchlines or points scored.
I don't know if I get changed by books (it might be something to do with how I conceptualise the self a bit awkwardly) but A Canticle For Leibowitz really did something when I was 17. Like, it is so deep in my personal canon and how I conceptualise the world.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I don't know if I get changed by books (it might be something to do with how I conceptualise the self a bit awkwardly) but A Canticle For Leibowitz really did something when I was 17. Like, it is so deep in my personal canon and how I conceptualise the world.
www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...
London people who are interested in such things: this event is on this Sunday at The Common Press.
London people who are interested in such things: this event is on this Sunday at The Common Press.
Disability and the Publishing Industry | The Common Press
www.commonpress.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...
London people who are interested in such things: this event is on this Sunday at The Common Press.
London people who are interested in such things: this event is on this Sunday at The Common Press.
This seems both such a shame and part of a really dangerous and damaging turn at the moment.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2560267...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2560267...
University slammed for withdrawing support for range of disabled students
A university has been criticised for withdrawing support for disabled international students just weeks before the start of term
www.theargus.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This seems both such a shame and part of a really dangerous and damaging turn at the moment.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2560267...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2560267...
Brief thought - possibly inspired by Arthurian related reading, possibly inspired by the v. slow re-read of ADTMOT which is now picking up pace.
People who write a lot of observations down are probably basically never the default people in any era, but there always have been some of them.
People who write a lot of observations down are probably basically never the default people in any era, but there always have been some of them.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Brief thought - possibly inspired by Arthurian related reading, possibly inspired by the v. slow re-read of ADTMOT which is now picking up pace.
People who write a lot of observations down are probably basically never the default people in any era, but there always have been some of them.
People who write a lot of observations down are probably basically never the default people in any era, but there always have been some of them.
Have been resisting acknowledging that I have been in the early stages of a pain flare for the last few days but should probably stop doing that.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Have been resisting acknowledging that I have been in the early stages of a pain flare for the last few days but should probably stop doing that.
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does anyone have any leads on Australian literary agents who are 1) young 2) hip 3) alternative 4) (most important) have a sense of humour/like funny prose?
or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?
or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
does anyone have any leads on Australian literary agents who are 1) young 2) hip 3) alternative 4) (most important) have a sense of humour/like funny prose?
or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?
or American agents that'd take an Australian writer in?
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I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
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Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone,
Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
gofund.me
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.
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Tomorrow night I will be sitting on a stage in Cork after a screening of John Boorman's nutty, wonderful, silly, amazing movie Zardoz, talking about it with some really interesting and lovely people.
If you're in the area, come along (and see Boorman & The Devil beforehand too, it is GREAT).
If you're in the area, come along (and see Boorman & The Devil beforehand too, it is GREAT).
I will be at the Cork Film Festival next month talking about my love of John Boorman's extraordinary ZARDOZ with festival director Aurélie Godet & Excalibur star Cherie Lunghi as part of their Boorman celebration, can not wait!
corkfilmfest.org/events/zardo...
corkfilmfest.org/events/zardo...
Zardoz - Cork International Film Festival
corkfilmfest.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Tomorrow night I will be sitting on a stage in Cork after a screening of John Boorman's nutty, wonderful, silly, amazing movie Zardoz, talking about it with some really interesting and lovely people.
If you're in the area, come along (and see Boorman & The Devil beforehand too, it is GREAT).
If you're in the area, come along (and see Boorman & The Devil beforehand too, it is GREAT).
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This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
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Wrote this a while back inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
My annual battle with Seasonal affective disorder
Thursday 21 December is the shortest day of the year. From then on the days will begin to lengthen. The […]
inews.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wrote this a while back inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...