Morag Joss
@moragjoss.bsky.social
Writer, novels mainly, sometimes libretti. Apprentice grandmother
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a few further offerings against the prevailing terror
flower basket bling (day 2)
flower basket bling (day 2)
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
a few further offerings against the prevailing terror
flower basket bling (day 2)
flower basket bling (day 2)
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Already happened www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
El Instituto Nobel explica a María Corina Machado que no se puede transferir el premio tras decir que quiere "compartirlo" con Trump
El Instituto Nobel noruego confirmó este martes que un Premio Nobel no se puede transferir a terceros, después de que la ganadora del Nobel de la Paz de 2025, la líder opositora venezolana María Corin...
www.eldiario.es
January 9, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Already happened www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Glad this has been pointed out.
found an article in English. Good lord, i didn't even know aabout any of this til now
Also, what was she thinking??? Don't *offer things* to that man! (That goes for you too, Mr. Carney)
Also, what was she thinking??? Don't *offer things* to that man! (That goes for you too, Mr. Carney)
Nobel Committee Says Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred After Machado Says She Wants to 'Share It' With Trump
The Norwegian Nobel Institute said that a Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred or shared with another person following comments by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado about her intent...
www.latintimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Glad this has been pointed out.
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before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told
It’s meant to justify the murder
nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life
killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems
It’s meant to justify the murder
nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life
killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems
January 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM
before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told
It’s meant to justify the murder
nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life
killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems
It’s meant to justify the murder
nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life
killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems
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Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.
January 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.
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Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn.
This Sept. piece is instructive
This Sept. piece is instructive
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn.
This Sept. piece is instructive
This Sept. piece is instructive
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This is like when someone hears you’re from Long Island and asks if you know Bill from Ronkonkoma.
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
This is like when someone hears you’re from Long Island and asks if you know Bill from Ronkonkoma.
Ring out, Wild Bells - A New Year's song
YouTube video by Alana Levandoski
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Mine too. What is that?
Please stop printing out and posting my nightmares, it's intrusive.
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mine too. What is that?
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My older brother, this Christmas season, set himself the task of organizing my mother‘s holiday recipes and testing out, for the first time in many years, all of her cookies.
He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…
He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My older brother, this Christmas season, set himself the task of organizing my mother‘s holiday recipes and testing out, for the first time in many years, all of her cookies.
He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…
He started simply, with the sugar cookies, cut using her cutters into all the familiar shapes, iced with her trademark…
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
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“This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.”
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
“This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.”
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
😢🚨✊
“This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.”
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
“This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.”
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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The volunteers got their steps in yesterday 🙂 - so proud of the finished result of our hard work. ❤️
After a hard day's work putting up the Christmas lights - the reward! Turning them on.
We will never forget our lost loved ones. ❤️
We will never forget our lost loved ones. ❤️
December 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The volunteers got their steps in yesterday 🙂 - so proud of the finished result of our hard work. ❤️
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What is writing style? It's what's left over once you've outgrown clichés and you no longer ape the work of those who've served as inspiration. Using ai short-circuits that process entirely. Go ahead and do it, I guess, but don't tell us you've done any real work.
The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What is writing style? It's what's left over once you've outgrown clichés and you no longer ape the work of those who've served as inspiration. Using ai short-circuits that process entirely. Go ahead and do it, I guess, but don't tell us you've done any real work.
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"We are going to reverse every renaming, pull down the gold leaf, and rebuild the East Wing" should not be the Democrats' main 2028 plank, but there are worse things to run on. It's one of those visuals you can actually start executing in Week One. Do it, put it on TV, rub it in, hurt some feelings.
Trump on getting his name added to the Kennedy Center: "Well, I was honored by this. The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country. And I was surprised by it. I was honored by it."
That board includes Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo.
That board includes Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo.
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"We are going to reverse every renaming, pull down the gold leaf, and rebuild the East Wing" should not be the Democrats' main 2028 plank, but there are worse things to run on. It's one of those visuals you can actually start executing in Week One. Do it, put it on TV, rub it in, hurt some feelings.
Amazing, but don’t let it divert us from the other teeny orange toadlet currently occupying the White House
Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Amazing, but don’t let it divert us from the other teeny orange toadlet currently occupying the White House
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Perhaps if you can’t imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT, you should not be procreating.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Perhaps if you can’t imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT, you should not be procreating.
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A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Morvern Callar
Tyll
Morvern Callar
Tyll
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Morvern Callar
Tyll
Morvern Callar
Tyll
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Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
#poem #poetry
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
#poem #poetry
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
#poem #poetry
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
#poem #poetry
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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“I met people who gave me books, who handed me a thousand lives so that I might learn to live my own”
—Andrew O’Hagan, on why he supports the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social Christmas appeal
💙📚
www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...
—Andrew O’Hagan, on why he supports the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social Christmas appeal
💙📚
www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...
Books for every child: Join Scottish Book Trust’s life-changing Christmas appeal
Esteemed novelist Andrew O'Hagan - author of Mayflies and three-time Booker Prize nominee - on the importance of Scottish Book Trust's life-changing…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“I met people who gave me books, who handed me a thousand lives so that I might learn to live my own”
—Andrew O’Hagan, on why he supports the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social Christmas appeal
💙📚
www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...
—Andrew O’Hagan, on why he supports the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social Christmas appeal
💙📚
www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Astonishing letter.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Astonishing letter.
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So proud of all my fellow volunteers and trustees, and so grateful to the support given by @clairekholland.bsky.social, leader of Lambeth Council, in this piece. ❤️
Last week, following the Government's recent announcement that the Wall is to be preserved, BBC London met up with @franfd.bsky.social and @loreleiking.bsky.social, two of our volunteers and trustees. The piece was then picked up by national news.
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So proud of all my fellow volunteers and trustees, and so grateful to the support given by @clairekholland.bsky.social, leader of Lambeth Council, in this piece. ❤️
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All those on the left criticising the BBC as an organ of propaganda, do please inform us which broadcaster you think is better? My only requirement of “better” is that it mean “less of an organ of propaganda“. Give examples, and show your working.
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
All those on the left criticising the BBC as an organ of propaganda, do please inform us which broadcaster you think is better? My only requirement of “better” is that it mean “less of an organ of propaganda“. Give examples, and show your working.