Stephen Lockyer
@mrlockyer.bsky.social
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who3words:creative, inventive, original
Sponsor link: bit.ly/step-endure-bacchus
Writing: http://bit.ly/404ZGoD
I run www.enigmailed.com
who3words:creative, inventive, original
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Stephen Lockyer
@mrlockyer.bsky.social
· Feb 23
Let me make your Sunday. Got a library card? Great.
Download the Libby app. Free.
Up to 10 audiobooks. FREE (cancel Audible).
Up to 10 e books. FREE.
(Cancel Kindle Prime).
UNLIMITED high street magazines (I chose Empire, RW, Wired, Simple Things to start).
NEWSPAPERS!
This app is AMAZING.
Download the Libby app. Free.
Up to 10 audiobooks. FREE (cancel Audible).
Up to 10 e books. FREE.
(Cancel Kindle Prime).
UNLIMITED high street magazines (I chose Empire, RW, Wired, Simple Things to start).
NEWSPAPERS!
This app is AMAZING.
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There’s going to be a motion of censure at the UN and Starmer is going to have a decision to make.
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
There’s going to be a motion of censure at the UN and Starmer is going to have a decision to make.
Small wins: I’m the least grey of my brothers
January 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Small wins: I’m the least grey of my brothers
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Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.*
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.*
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
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Reuters, a news organisation, just quoted a speak n spell like it was human.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Reuters, a news organisation, just quoted a speak n spell like it was human.
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Today's fun history lesson: Hairpin laws, where women were infact stabbing men so often for acting improperly or dangerously towards them that cities began passing ordinances limiting how long hair and hatpins could be and if they needed a "safety cap." Women adopted larger hats to use longer pins.🤣
The number of husbands who weren't shot or poisoned between, say, 1850 and literally this second, astounds me.
Like, how were women not just going on stabbing sprees in the 1950s?
Like, how were women not just going on stabbing sprees in the 1950s?
January 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Today's fun history lesson: Hairpin laws, where women were infact stabbing men so often for acting improperly or dangerously towards them that cities began passing ordinances limiting how long hair and hatpins could be and if they needed a "safety cap." Women adopted larger hats to use longer pins.🤣
See also: ‘but if we tax billionaires, they’ll all leave!’
Remember when the right-wing press and the private schools lobby said VAT would mean an exodus to state schools causing a crisis? Not so much.
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
See also: ‘but if we tax billionaires, they’ll all leave!’
This is version two, with all the dough heavy lifting (aka mixing, stretching and proving) done by the bread maker.
January 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This is version two, with all the dough heavy lifting (aka mixing, stretching and proving) done by the bread maker.
Yeah so I’m making another focaccia. When is too much too much I ask?
January 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Yeah so I’m making another focaccia. When is too much too much I ask?
I’ve run every day so far this year. Pretty pleased with myself.
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I’ve run every day so far this year. Pretty pleased with myself.
This is why we try and engage with the Reform voters we know, because the ones we don’t are uglier and less reasonable.
January 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
This is why we try and engage with the Reform voters we know, because the ones we don’t are uglier and less reasonable.
Time for some anti-Amazon merch to be added to the stores perhaps?
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Time for some anti-Amazon merch to be added to the stores perhaps?
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Club Tropicana the first drink is free if you download our app and sign up to our newsletter with your email address
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Club Tropicana the first drink is free if you download our app and sign up to our newsletter with your email address
Pleased with how my one-day focaccia turned out.
Think my water was too warm, as it wasn’t as bubbly as I’d hoped. Bread machine version next.
Think my water was too warm, as it wasn’t as bubbly as I’d hoped. Bread machine version next.
December 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Pleased with how my one-day focaccia turned out.
Think my water was too warm, as it wasn’t as bubbly as I’d hoped. Bread machine version next.
Think my water was too warm, as it wasn’t as bubbly as I’d hoped. Bread machine version next.
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This from @markgoodrich.bsky.social, is one of the only reasons I've found where I wish I were still on twitter - so I could share it to encourage others to leave
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
A New Year's Resolution for Teachers: Quit X
The best time to do so was when Musk started poisoning it; the second-best time is now
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This from @markgoodrich.bsky.social, is one of the only reasons I've found where I wish I were still on twitter - so I could share it to encourage others to leave
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gin and Tonic Origin Story
December 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Gin and Tonic Origin Story
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
December 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Delighted to announce I was awarded a Peace Prize in the New Year's Honours List.
Got a medal and everything!
Got a medal and everything!
December 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Delighted to announce I was awarded a Peace Prize in the New Year's Honours List.
Got a medal and everything!
Got a medal and everything!
A great collection of books to fall into are the Mick Herron ‘Slow Horses’ series. Deftly written, with brilliant plots and amazing turns of phrase.
I am not sure I’ll get the same traction here as I did on the dark place but please answer and REPOST and let’s try to build a lovely bookish thread.
The best book you read this year was…
Mine undoubtedly The Elements by John Boyne (please check trigger warnings first).
The best book you read this year was…
Mine undoubtedly The Elements by John Boyne (please check trigger warnings first).
December 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A great collection of books to fall into are the Mick Herron ‘Slow Horses’ series. Deftly written, with brilliant plots and amazing turns of phrase.
What’s the most you’d personally spend without speaking to your partner?
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
What’s the most you’d personally spend without speaking to your partner?
Write for you, first
Writing was wild this year.
Wrote three screenplays my reps hated. One then got 9s on blacklist and is the 6th highest rated script on the site. Parted ways with reps.
Sent out book and got stack of rejections. Book then won best unpublished novel award.
Edging but for a career.
Wrote three screenplays my reps hated. One then got 9s on blacklist and is the 6th highest rated script on the site. Parted ways with reps.
Sent out book and got stack of rejections. Book then won best unpublished novel award.
Edging but for a career.
December 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Write for you, first
Came up with an idea for those people who have a wildly untamed email in-boxes.
Who’d be interested‽
Who’d be interested‽
December 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Came up with an idea for those people who have a wildly untamed email in-boxes.
Who’d be interested‽
Who’d be interested‽