Tiny Owl Workshop
@tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Award winning micro publisher and sculptor. Maker of curious things.
Did someone say performative reading?
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Did someone say performative reading?
Point. We haven’t suddenly or even slowly entered a post-truth world. We have new challenges for sure -esp with AI. Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation is as old as empire though. The fight to out truth is perpetual.
My guess is the BBC also still doesn’t know what tribal means.
My guess is the BBC also still doesn’t know what tribal means.
‘Whatever funding proposals are made, the BBC will still need to confront the post-truth world, either embracing it by going tribal or trying to make due impartiality look relevant.’
Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Owen Bennett-Jones · Can’t Afford to Tell the Truth: Trouble at the BBC
BBC managers have become a national joke. The problem is structural. Many start out as capable and engaged producers but...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Point. We haven’t suddenly or even slowly entered a post-truth world. We have new challenges for sure -esp with AI. Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation is as old as empire though. The fight to out truth is perpetual.
My guess is the BBC also still doesn’t know what tribal means.
My guess is the BBC also still doesn’t know what tribal means.
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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Just three weeks left to get ALL your 2025 entries in for the Aurealis Awards - INCLUDING those scheduled for December publication!
Check out the updated Entries list and enter on our website:
aurealisawards.org/entries/
#AurealisAwards
Check out the updated Entries list and enter on our website:
aurealisawards.org/entries/
#AurealisAwards
a cartoon of a bird sitting at a desk with a laptop and the words deadline vibes
ALT: a cartoon of a bird sitting at a desk with a laptop and the words deadline vibes
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just three weeks left to get ALL your 2025 entries in for the Aurealis Awards - INCLUDING those scheduled for December publication!
Check out the updated Entries list and enter on our website:
aurealisawards.org/entries/
#AurealisAwards
Check out the updated Entries list and enter on our website:
aurealisawards.org/entries/
#AurealisAwards
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I got one of my two royalty payments for 2025 recently & was thrilled to buy one of these. It's such a fabulous idea and fun to open and rummage through. I LOVE that people don't have to, but choose to create things that are beautiful & interesting. Real people, with real ideas and skills.
An elaborately constructed book in a box filled with stories and ephemera? In this economy? Fear not. @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social has discounted the boxed edition of Ephemeral City to A$45 (pp) for a limited time. If you’ve been on the fence, now's your chance. www.simongroth.com/shop/ephemer...
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I got one of my two royalty payments for 2025 recently & was thrilled to buy one of these. It's such a fabulous idea and fun to open and rummage through. I LOVE that people don't have to, but choose to create things that are beautiful & interesting. Real people, with real ideas and skills.
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It is never about what you wear, your age, your behaviour or anything else, it is always ALWAYS about power, domination, control and entitlement.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It is never about what you wear, your age, your behaviour or anything else, it is always ALWAYS about power, domination, control and entitlement.
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
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#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...
Editing tip:
Remove the thats in your story/blog/article. It’s not a rule, but it helps with tweaking and reimagining sentences and paragraphs. It’s also a way to ease yourself into edits—endless, endless edits.
#booksky
Remove the thats in your story/blog/article. It’s not a rule, but it helps with tweaking and reimagining sentences and paragraphs. It’s also a way to ease yourself into edits—endless, endless edits.
#booksky
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Editing tip:
Remove the thats in your story/blog/article. It’s not a rule, but it helps with tweaking and reimagining sentences and paragraphs. It’s also a way to ease yourself into edits—endless, endless edits.
#booksky
Remove the thats in your story/blog/article. It’s not a rule, but it helps with tweaking and reimagining sentences and paragraphs. It’s also a way to ease yourself into edits—endless, endless edits.
#booksky
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Arghhhhhhh
Wordpress!!!!!!!
Wordpress!!!!!!!
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Arghhhhhhh
Wordpress!!!!!!!
Wordpress!!!!!!!
Testing alternatives to Adobe InDesign this week.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Testing alternatives to Adobe InDesign this week.
My partner’s nephew died a few years ago as he thought bicarb would cure mouth cancer. He believed the disinformation, the grift, the lies, and disbelieved medical advice till palliative care was his only option.
This shitfilled propaganda kills @australia.theguardian.com It’s not an encyclopaedia.
This shitfilled propaganda kills @australia.theguardian.com It’s not an encyclopaedia.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My partner’s nephew died a few years ago as he thought bicarb would cure mouth cancer. He believed the disinformation, the grift, the lies, and disbelieved medical advice till palliative care was his only option.
This shitfilled propaganda kills @australia.theguardian.com It’s not an encyclopaedia.
This shitfilled propaganda kills @australia.theguardian.com It’s not an encyclopaedia.
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
Queensland’s controversial puberty blocker ban overturned by supreme court
Parent of transgender child successfully challenged decision by Crisafulli government to halt treatment for under 18s
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Queensland’s controversial ban on puberty blockers for transgender patients has been overturned by the supreme court.
In the workshop this Tuesday.
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In the workshop this Tuesday.
‘The most common writerly punishment was to be burned at the stake.’
P. H. Ditchfield's Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895) shows that writers have been punished for their works with more variety, more frequency, and more severity than you might expect: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/books-fatal-to-their-authors
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
‘The most common writerly punishment was to be burned at the stake.’
Me checking the spelling of enmity.
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Me checking the spelling of enmity.
The Antifa frying pan.
Nae king, nae quin, nae laird, nae master. Yay potatoes.
Nae king, nae quin, nae laird, nae master. Yay potatoes.
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Antifa frying pan.
Nae king, nae quin, nae laird, nae master. Yay potatoes.
Nae king, nae quin, nae laird, nae master. Yay potatoes.
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The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky
The Booker Prize Foundation launches Children’s Booker Prize
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October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky
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Antoinette sits down with Chris Hedges to reflect on his career, *that* jaw dropping interview on Late Night Live and how western media has failed journalists on Gaza. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Antoinette sits down with Chris Hedges to reflect on his career, *that* jaw dropping interview on Late Night Live and how western media has failed journalists on Gaza. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
There’s a view that quotation marks in text denotes irony/sarcasm. In editing there’s no agreed punctuation to identify either. Air quotes don’t translate well to text. There’s 🙄 or /s or ~, but not all translate fully. So, quotation marks just denote a quote… unless every reader gets the context.
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There’s a view that quotation marks in text denotes irony/sarcasm. In editing there’s no agreed punctuation to identify either. Air quotes don’t translate well to text. There’s 🙄 or /s or ~, but not all translate fully. So, quotation marks just denote a quote… unless every reader gets the context.
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Internal documents reviewed by the New York Times reveal Amazon's goal to replace 600,000 jobs with robots.
When we support our local businesses, we create a more stable economy—one not at the whim of billionaires. Support your indie bookshop today and every day 💓
When we support our local businesses, we create a more stable economy—one not at the whim of billionaires. Support your indie bookshop today and every day 💓
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Internal documents reviewed by the New York Times reveal Amazon's goal to replace 600,000 jobs with robots.
When we support our local businesses, we create a more stable economy—one not at the whim of billionaires. Support your indie bookshop today and every day 💓
When we support our local businesses, we create a more stable economy—one not at the whim of billionaires. Support your indie bookshop today and every day 💓