Lynda Clark
@lyndac.bsky.social
Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
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Lynda Clark
@lyndac.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Beyond Kidding: An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
uk.bookshop.org
Updated links to my books that actually work:
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bookshop.org/p/books/drea...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
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Getting a shoutout from the Internet's best stoner skeleton is possibly the pinnacle of my existence.
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Getting a shoutout from the Internet's best stoner skeleton is possibly the pinnacle of my existence.
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I'd read that Tidal is similar to Spotify in terms of functionality and catalogue but pays artists better, so I've decided to give it a go.
It took less than ten minutes to switch over, and I was able to transfer all of my playlists across for less than £5. Remarkably easy.
It took less than ten minutes to switch over, and I was able to transfer all of my playlists across for less than £5. Remarkably easy.
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 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I'd read that Tidal is similar to Spotify in terms of functionality and catalogue but pays artists better, so I've decided to give it a go.
It took less than ten minutes to switch over, and I was able to transfer all of my playlists across for less than £5. Remarkably easy.
It took less than ten minutes to switch over, and I was able to transfer all of my playlists across for less than £5. Remarkably easy.
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DEV: What if the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the Player Character *doesn't know* they have partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the *Player* doesn't know that the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if one NPC knows *everything*
DEV: That's lunch, great work everybody
DEV: What if the Player Character *doesn't know* they have partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the *Player* doesn't know that the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if one NPC knows *everything*
DEV: That's lunch, great work everybody
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
DEV: What if the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the Player Character *doesn't know* they have partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the *Player* doesn't know that the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if one NPC knows *everything*
DEV: That's lunch, great work everybody
DEV: What if the Player Character *doesn't know* they have partial amnesia?
DEV: What if the *Player* doesn't know that the Player Character has partial amnesia?
DEV: What if one NPC knows *everything*
DEV: That's lunch, great work everybody
Love to look up my usual commute for next week and find out I have to get up at 5am because there are multiple replacement bus services on my route and my journey time is now doubled. 😭😭😭
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Love to look up my usual commute for next week and find out I have to get up at 5am because there are multiple replacement bus services on my route and my journey time is now doubled. 😭😭😭
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Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.
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Undead fans! @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown zombie grief-horror THE DENIZENS claws its way up through the soil a month today - and we'd love you to preorder your copy
All the thanks to @rachelharrison.bsky.social for her wonderful blurb ❤️
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
All the thanks to @rachelharrison.bsky.social for her wonderful blurb ❤️
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
January 17, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Undead fans! @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown zombie grief-horror THE DENIZENS claws its way up through the soil a month today - and we'd love you to preorder your copy
All the thanks to @rachelharrison.bsky.social for her wonderful blurb ❤️
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
All the thanks to @rachelharrison.bsky.social for her wonderful blurb ❤️
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
One again begging everyone to go into settings (via 3 horizontal lines top left of app), and then "accessibility" and then switch on the "remind me to add alt-text" button. And then don't just write "image" or whatever, actually DESCRIBE the image. Please. At least try to keep bsky accessible.
January 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
One again begging everyone to go into settings (via 3 horizontal lines top left of app), and then "accessibility" and then switch on the "remind me to add alt-text" button. And then don't just write "image" or whatever, actually DESCRIBE the image. Please. At least try to keep bsky accessible.
Alt-text for image: A black and white photo of a dusty, scrubby dirt road stretching into the distance, with tall grass on either side.
I sang the text to myself to the tune of the Ting Tings, even though it doesn't scan properly.
I sang the text to myself to the tune of the Ting Tings, even though it doesn't scan properly.
They call them corpse roads, coffin paths. They call them wraith ways, lych lanes. Routes carved into the land by those grief-heavy feet coming from outlying places to distant churches for burial. Death as procession, death as ritual journey. A haunted hodology. – Dr. M. Benn
January 17, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Alt-text for image: A black and white photo of a dusty, scrubby dirt road stretching into the distance, with tall grass on either side.
I sang the text to myself to the tune of the Ting Tings, even though it doesn't scan properly.
I sang the text to myself to the tune of the Ting Tings, even though it doesn't scan properly.
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Barbie Yaga!
This is just SO perfect.
This is just SO perfect.
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Barbie Yaga!
This is just SO perfect.
This is just SO perfect.
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
Just been watching Dru Hill on #TOTP and reeling from the discovery that Sisqo's actual name is Mark Andrews, the most Kettering geography teacher name of all time.
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Just been watching Dru Hill on #TOTP and reeling from the discovery that Sisqo's actual name is Mark Andrews, the most Kettering geography teacher name of all time.
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Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention
This article gave me dyspepsia.
This is Frodo at 50 years old, 25 years ago. Feel old yet?
What to Watch and Read This Weekend: Lord of the Rings Returns to Theaters Because It Is… 25 Years Old?! - Reactor
To put it mildly—absurdly mildly, really—this year is off to a rough start. If you want to spend your weekend lying around in soft pants and rewatching old favorites, I understand completely. But if y...
reactormag.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This article gave me dyspepsia.
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Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help
A pivotal moment in my academic career, or at least one I remember clearly, was when a very senior professor in the US sent me his book proposal for an acade...
eve.gd
January 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
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Folks, I am looking around for good introductory materials for students to try exploring clinical impact of human genetic variation (eg take a 1000g VCF, restricted to some chromosome/region and play with ensembl VEP). Good examples would be v welcome
January 16, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Folks, I am looking around for good introductory materials for students to try exploring clinical impact of human genetic variation (eg take a 1000g VCF, restricted to some chromosome/region and play with ensembl VEP). Good examples would be v welcome
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I am (in general) concerned that storytellers in my cluster are taking old, relatively idealistic stories and reframing them as tarnished and nasty under the impression that makes them more meaningful, when impossible dreams have never been more precious in my lifetime.
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I am (in general) concerned that storytellers in my cluster are taking old, relatively idealistic stories and reframing them as tarnished and nasty under the impression that makes them more meaningful, when impossible dreams have never been more precious in my lifetime.
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GNoH NEEDS YOU.
Last year, certainly the first half was a washout for me, but after getting proper psychiatric help, I am back with a reviewing vengeance.
And GNoH needs more reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer your services, please drop me an email (jimmcleod(at)gnofhorror.com)
Last year, certainly the first half was a washout for me, but after getting proper psychiatric help, I am back with a reviewing vengeance.
And GNoH needs more reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer your services, please drop me an email (jimmcleod(at)gnofhorror.com)
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
GNoH NEEDS YOU.
Last year, certainly the first half was a washout for me, but after getting proper psychiatric help, I am back with a reviewing vengeance.
And GNoH needs more reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer your services, please drop me an email (jimmcleod(at)gnofhorror.com)
Last year, certainly the first half was a washout for me, but after getting proper psychiatric help, I am back with a reviewing vengeance.
And GNoH needs more reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer your services, please drop me an email (jimmcleod(at)gnofhorror.com)
Today I learned Kenny G is 5'2".
January 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Today I learned Kenny G is 5'2".
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Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim
Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…
copim.pub
January 15, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
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This is the truest truth of any creative career
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is the truest truth of any creative career
Mentioned to my husband the other day that we're only 15 years off 60 and he asked why I felt the need to do that to us.
January 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Mentioned to my husband the other day that we're only 15 years off 60 and he asked why I felt the need to do that to us.
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The Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition is open for submissions. Full details about the competition and the online entry form can be found at: whiskyglass.com/crime-short-...
Crime Short Story Competition 2026
Enter The Bloody Scotland x Glencairn Crystal Annual Crime Short Story Competition and experience a crime set in Scotland.
whiskyglass.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM
The Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition is open for submissions. Full details about the competition and the online entry form can be found at: whiskyglass.com/crime-short-...
As a kid I read all the Babysitters Club books. If you held a gun to my head now, I couldn't tell you whether they were genuinely babysitting even younger kids, whether the name was an in-joke, or a single thing that happened apart from the fact there was a dog and a girl, both called Shannon.
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
As a kid I read all the Babysitters Club books. If you held a gun to my head now, I couldn't tell you whether they were genuinely babysitting even younger kids, whether the name was an in-joke, or a single thing that happened apart from the fact there was a dog and a girl, both called Shannon.
This is how I discovered Scott Adams is dead and Jim Davis is still alive.
Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
This is how I discovered Scott Adams is dead and Jim Davis is still alive.
Guy wearing short shorts just got off the train. These people are like Nevernudes but weirder. Evershorts.
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Guy wearing short shorts just got off the train. These people are like Nevernudes but weirder. Evershorts.