Jay Spencer Green
@jayspencergreen.bsky.social
“Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.”
Writer, Dadaist, Layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
Writer, Dadaist, Layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
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Descanso, or the Last True Fascist: EBook now available for Nook, Kobo, Kindle, and all other disreputable online outlets. $2.99 or £1.77. Bargain!!
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Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
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Oh have a #painting. "Ballyshannon II" is, you may have guessed, the second time I painted the south Donegal town. Ballyshannon is a place I can never think of without smiling, and that's why I painted it. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Oh have a #painting. "Ballyshannon II" is, you may have guessed, the second time I painted the south Donegal town. Ballyshannon is a place I can never think of without smiling, and that's why I painted it. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
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Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
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A #painting for you. "West Pier, Dún Laoghaire" came out of multiple cycles and walks to the end of the lesser walked of Dún Laoghaire harbour's two main - and magnificent - piers. I like stonework. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A #painting for you. "West Pier, Dún Laoghaire" came out of multiple cycles and walks to the end of the lesser walked of Dún Laoghaire harbour's two main - and magnificent - piers. I like stonework. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 555:
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 555:
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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'From that point, Price abandoned the manufactured bonhomie with which he had placed calculated rightwing talking points as if they were gentle chit-chat, and the mask slipped. He ranted about young people who have no responsibilities...and folded like a wet anti-Ulez pamphlet'. 1/2
October 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
'From that point, Price abandoned the manufactured bonhomie with which he had placed calculated rightwing talking points as if they were gentle chit-chat, and the mask slipped. He ranted about young people who have no responsibilities...and folded like a wet anti-Ulez pamphlet'. 1/2
A new addition to the Readers' Gallery: Einstein (and Jason) in Basingstoke!!
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October 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A new addition to the Readers' Gallery: Einstein (and Jason) in Basingstoke!!
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Book shopping from @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Chaos Theory by @sylvialeatham.bsky.social An exciting Irish debut novel that I've heard lots about.
Congratulations Sylvia!
Chaos Theory by @sylvialeatham.bsky.social An exciting Irish debut novel that I've heard lots about.
Congratulations Sylvia!
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Book shopping from @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Chaos Theory by @sylvialeatham.bsky.social An exciting Irish debut novel that I've heard lots about.
Congratulations Sylvia!
Chaos Theory by @sylvialeatham.bsky.social An exciting Irish debut novel that I've heard lots about.
Congratulations Sylvia!
Compare and contrast.
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Compare and contrast.
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It's First Sunday, this Sunday, so time for a wander with The LRM and you're invited. Meet 2pm under the tiled map in Mcr Victoria for a slow mooch to The Eagle Inn, Salford to celebrate #TheFeministArtofWalking. Pub open but event full, returns only INFO: thelrm.org/entries/gene... #psychogeography
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It's First Sunday, this Sunday, so time for a wander with The LRM and you're invited. Meet 2pm under the tiled map in Mcr Victoria for a slow mooch to The Eagle Inn, Salford to celebrate #TheFeministArtofWalking. Pub open but event full, returns only INFO: thelrm.org/entries/gene... #psychogeography
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
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September 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
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RTÉ’s coverage of the Ireland women’s rugby match against France just began with the following:
“If we learn anything from history it is that we learn nothing from history.” Georg Hagel.
I had to Google in case Georg Hagel was a former rugby coach.
RTÉ: Never knowingly erudite
“If we learn anything from history it is that we learn nothing from history.” Georg Hagel.
I had to Google in case Georg Hagel was a former rugby coach.
RTÉ: Never knowingly erudite
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
RTÉ’s coverage of the Ireland women’s rugby match against France just began with the following:
“If we learn anything from history it is that we learn nothing from history.” Georg Hagel.
I had to Google in case Georg Hagel was a former rugby coach.
RTÉ: Never knowingly erudite
“If we learn anything from history it is that we learn nothing from history.” Georg Hagel.
I had to Google in case Georg Hagel was a former rugby coach.
RTÉ: Never knowingly erudite
“Manuel … is deliciously despicable.”
A fab review of Descanso from Mary Papastavrou. Thanks, Mary!
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A fab review of Descanso from Mary Papastavrou. Thanks, Mary!
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September 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Manuel … is deliciously despicable.”
A fab review of Descanso from Mary Papastavrou. Thanks, Mary!
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A fab review of Descanso from Mary Papastavrou. Thanks, Mary!
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“A 350-page tour de force.”
A fab review of Descanso, or the Last True Fascist, from writer Mary Papastavrou
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A fab review of Descanso, or the Last True Fascist, from writer Mary Papastavrou
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September 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“A 350-page tour de force.”
A fab review of Descanso, or the Last True Fascist, from writer Mary Papastavrou
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A fab review of Descanso, or the Last True Fascist, from writer Mary Papastavrou
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A fab review of Descanso from the equally fab Jason!
My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books
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What Da Cover Says: Drug-dealer, brothelkeeper, devoted sibling, spy, Manuel Estímulo expected his retirement on a remote desert island in the Atlantic to be one long, well-deserved rest, a descans…
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September 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A fab review of Descanso from the equally fab Jason!
Seeing a man about a camel. Available from Redbubble in all shapes and sizes.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seeing a man about a camel. Available from Redbubble in all shapes and sizes.
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#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with @jayspencergreen.bsky.social #author of Descanso portobellobookblog.com/2025/08/28/t...
#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Jay Spencer Green #author of Descanso
I’m pleased to be joined by author Jay Spencer Green who is here to answer my #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions about his recent novel Descanso. It certainly sounds like a quirky and unique re…
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August 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with @jayspencergreen.bsky.social #author of Descanso portobellobookblog.com/2025/08/28/t...
‘As a writer, each book leaves indelible marks on your memory, particular phrases or ideas that you hope will lodge in the minds of your readers on a permanent basis, such as “voluptuous simpleton Liz Truss” and “We take the wings off first. We’re not mad.”
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#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Jay Spencer Green #author of Descanso |
I’m pleased to be joined by author Jay Spencer Green who is here to answer my #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions about his recent novel Descanso. It certainly sounds like a quirky and unique re…
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August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘As a writer, each book leaves indelible marks on your memory, particular phrases or ideas that you hope will lodge in the minds of your readers on a permanent basis, such as “voluptuous simpleton Liz Truss” and “We take the wings off first. We’re not mad.”
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This is the Fuerteventura story I SHOULD have written if I’d wanted a movie deal: washed-up ex-tennis pro offers to take holidaymakers on a tour of the island … and NO zombies!
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Islands UK & Ireland Trailer | In cinemas 12 September on BFI Player 27 October
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August 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the Fuerteventura story I SHOULD have written if I’d wanted a movie deal: washed-up ex-tennis pro offers to take holidaymakers on a tour of the island … and NO zombies!
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Ignoring the power and problems of privilege is precisely what got us into this mess.
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Ignoring the power and problems of privilege is precisely what got us into this mess.