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Jay Spencer Green
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“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/
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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
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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
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Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.

Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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
A new addition to the Readers' Gallery: Liam in Barcelona!

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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
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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
A new addition to the Readers' Gallery: Einstein (and Jason) in Basingstoke!!

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October 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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!
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Compare and contrast.
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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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
The Readers' Gallery is back! First up, Steve in Solihull!

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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
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
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“Manuel … is deliciously despicable.”

A fab review of Descanso from Mary Papastavrou. Thanks, Mary!

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September 12, 2025 at 9:04 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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September 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A fab review of Descanso from the equally fab Jason!
September 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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
‘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
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
YouTube video by BFI
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August 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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