Polis Loizou 🦊
@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
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A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns, 2022, available from all book retailers)
Cheating by posting 2 sentences. ✨
Cheating by posting 2 sentences. ✨
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns, 2022, available from all book retailers)
Cheating by posting 2 sentences. ✨
Cheating by posting 2 sentences. ✨
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Help me keep my family warm before Gaza's cold winter.🌧🌧
My family desperately needs warm blankets, clothes, and shoes suitable for winter.
We are trying to cope despite life's hardships and difficulties. Your support gives us strength.
Please read my family's story via GFM.
gofund.me/a0a540b8
My family desperately needs warm blankets, clothes, and shoes suitable for winter.
We are trying to cope despite life's hardships and difficulties. Your support gives us strength.
Please read my family's story via GFM.
gofund.me/a0a540b8
Donate to Bring hope back to Saed and his family after the war, organized by Marina Reilly
Dear Comrade,
From beneath the rubble… I write my story!
I … Marina Reilly needs your support for Bring hope back to Saed and his family after the war
gofund.me
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Help me keep my family warm before Gaza's cold winter.🌧🌧
My family desperately needs warm blankets, clothes, and shoes suitable for winter.
We are trying to cope despite life's hardships and difficulties. Your support gives us strength.
Please read my family's story via GFM.
gofund.me/a0a540b8
My family desperately needs warm blankets, clothes, and shoes suitable for winter.
We are trying to cope despite life's hardships and difficulties. Your support gives us strength.
Please read my family's story via GFM.
gofund.me/a0a540b8
If you're an agent / publisher who likes the sound of a book about a young Cypriot guy who gets drawn into a world of sex work and wealth, but the story reveals itself to actually be about how free will and freedom are an illusion when you're from a formerly colonized, war-torn country, hit me up.
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you're an agent / publisher who likes the sound of a book about a young Cypriot guy who gets drawn into a world of sex work and wealth, but the story reveals itself to actually be about how free will and freedom are an illusion when you're from a formerly colonized, war-torn country, hit me up.
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
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it’s also funny bc the whole point of blinkist is that it gives you an AI summary of some stupid fucking productivity book and then you pretend you read the book. which you didn’t
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
it’s also funny bc the whole point of blinkist is that it gives you an AI summary of some stupid fucking productivity book and then you pretend you read the book. which you didn’t
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Wyrdlings! With the birthday of certain royal personages upcoming, we give you:
“Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book”
for our #WyrdWednesday topic! Indulge the court of the wyrd & wynderful with your tales of monstrous apes, overlarge beds & legendary leaders! 👑
“Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book”
for our #WyrdWednesday topic! Indulge the court of the wyrd & wynderful with your tales of monstrous apes, overlarge beds & legendary leaders! 👑
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wyrdlings! With the birthday of certain royal personages upcoming, we give you:
“Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book”
for our #WyrdWednesday topic! Indulge the court of the wyrd & wynderful with your tales of monstrous apes, overlarge beds & legendary leaders! 👑
“Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book”
for our #WyrdWednesday topic! Indulge the court of the wyrd & wynderful with your tales of monstrous apes, overlarge beds & legendary leaders! 👑
JUST LIKE A SOCIALIST TO WANT ME TO SHARE SOMETHING
Please quote tweet this like you’re super mad about it
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
JUST LIKE A SOCIALIST TO WANT ME TO SHARE SOMETHING
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I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...
Hope you've had a pleasant start to your working week, before women come and ruin it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hope you've had a pleasant start to your working week, before women come and ruin it.
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See also: the Labour Party.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
See also: the Labour Party.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Some of you didn't grow up in a country with lax attitudes to starting times so you'd have to sit through 18 minutes of "The Bold and the Beautiful" while waiting for "The Golden Girls" and it shows.
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some of you didn't grow up in a country with lax attitudes to starting times so you'd have to sit through 18 minutes of "The Bold and the Beautiful" while waiting for "The Golden Girls" and it shows.
Do I use ChatGPT?
DO *I* USE CHATGPT?
[Rocks back and forth, quaking, over the book he's been re-writing since the start of this century.]
DO *I* USE CHATGPT?
[Rocks back and forth, quaking, over the book he's been re-writing since the start of this century.]
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Do I use ChatGPT?
DO *I* USE CHATGPT?
[Rocks back and forth, quaking, over the book he's been re-writing since the start of this century.]
DO *I* USE CHATGPT?
[Rocks back and forth, quaking, over the book he's been re-writing since the start of this century.]
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Join us for our folklore of Games and Pastimes themed #FolkloreThursday this Thursday!
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Join us for our folklore of Games and Pastimes themed #FolkloreThursday this Thursday!
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
Our hosts will share your posts to the hashtag at the following times GMT:
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
(🎨The Card Players, Theodoor Rombouts)
Yes, far better to offer tough and complex solutions such as "blame foreigners" and "beware the trans".
EXCL: The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of next election, PM's chief secretary Darren Jones tells me 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Yes, far better to offer tough and complex solutions such as "blame foreigners" and "beware the trans".
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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
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Someone once said: everyone says they want to write a book, but what most people mean is that they want to HAVE WRITTEN a book.
In other words, most people don't want to do the work.
'AI' is tempting for those people.
Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).
In other words, most people don't want to do the work.
'AI' is tempting for those people.
Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Someone once said: everyone says they want to write a book, but what most people mean is that they want to HAVE WRITTEN a book.
In other words, most people don't want to do the work.
'AI' is tempting for those people.
Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).
In other words, most people don't want to do the work.
'AI' is tempting for those people.
Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).
Take me to la iglesia, Rosalia!
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Take me to la iglesia, Rosalia!
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My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Del Rey snaps up Chiara Bullen's 'uplifting and heart-warming' fantasy adventure
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November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
Back in Nottingham, where I've had an almond and apricot scone at a cute tearoom and walked among autumn leaves along the canal.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Back in Nottingham, where I've had an almond and apricot scone at a cute tearoom and walked among autumn leaves along the canal.
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All set up Derby Book Festival with our own books and a carefully curated selection from across the indie presses and some writers I absolutely love!!
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
All set up Derby Book Festival with our own books and a carefully curated selection from across the indie presses and some writers I absolutely love!!
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
Spoke with my mum about this event afterwards, and was sad to hear her say she wishes she'd anglicised our names when we moved here in 2001.
Ngl, I considered it numerous times "for the good of my career", but part of me always writhed in pain. I'm glad I kept my "difficult" name.
Ngl, I considered it numerous times "for the good of my career", but part of me always writhed in pain. I'm glad I kept my "difficult" name.
Just got out of "Who Do We Think We Are?", a series of talks at Theatro Technis (+ excuse to gather with food) about being a Cypriot working in the arts in Britain.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Spoke with my mum about this event afterwards, and was sad to hear her say she wishes she'd anglicised our names when we moved here in 2001.
Ngl, I considered it numerous times "for the good of my career", but part of me always writhed in pain. I'm glad I kept my "difficult" name.
Ngl, I considered it numerous times "for the good of my career", but part of me always writhed in pain. I'm glad I kept my "difficult" name.
Just got out of "Who Do We Think We Are?", a series of talks at Theatro Technis (+ excuse to gather with food) about being a Cypriot working in the arts in Britain.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just got out of "Who Do We Think We Are?", a series of talks at Theatro Technis (+ excuse to gather with food) about being a Cypriot working in the arts in Britain.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.
Cypriotness is complex, and with every passing year I realise how much of me is tied to it. An enriching, invigorating event.