Tyn Shenton
@tynshenton.bsky.social
A doe-eyed fool, madly in love with words. A love, so far, unrequited.
There is a giant in the ocean. He swings his arms in an ancient dance, guiding the tides. His back aches. He is tired. But somewhere up above, a child sits on the edge of a jetty and dips her toes into the water. She giggles as the ripples break her #reflection. So the giant pushes some more
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November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
There is a giant in the ocean. He swings his arms in an ancient dance, guiding the tides. His back aches. He is tired. But somewhere up above, a child sits on the edge of a jetty and dips her toes into the water. She giggles as the ripples break her #reflection. So the giant pushes some more
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I #timed the gap between your letters. At first they landed on the mat like a metronome, tapping out a rhythm that showed you still cared. 1 day. 1 day. 1 day. It felt like a heartbeat. Now I count the gap in seconds. Fifty four million since the last. It helps me see you're not coming back.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When did you stop being young? For me, it was 40. I became one step disconnected from how 'now' works and that's fine. The youth watching videos at 1.5x speed. Using cringe as a noun. Being judge, jury and executioner of #relevant with a swipe after three seconds. It all makes my knees hurt.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I wanted to touch the sky, but they told me it wasn't #achievable. I put chairs on tables and ladders on bricks and when it started to wobble, I glued it at the seams. The cold bit my nose the higher I went. I didn't quite manage to get to the blue. That's okay. The stars look great up here.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I wanted to touch the sky, but they told me it wasn't #achievable. I put chairs on tables and ladders on bricks and when it started to wobble, I glued it at the seams. The cold bit my nose the higher I went. I didn't quite manage to get to the blue. That's okay. The stars look great up here.
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They found it. It took half the world's scientific endeavour, but they found it. The last #measurable fragment of human rationality on the planet. It was in a child in the Andes, who stopped crying after receiving their milk. And then it was gone. Welcome to the rest of your life little one.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
They found it. It took half the world's scientific endeavour, but they found it. The last #measurable fragment of human rationality on the planet. It was in a child in the Andes, who stopped crying after receiving their milk. And then it was gone. Welcome to the rest of your life little one.
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I want to eat ice cream, but I cannot find the right spoon. The one with just the right curve to get the right amount of ice cream. They say I've got a weirdly #specific set of requirements. I'm not sure why. Everything I've said is right. It is the right spoon. And I'm upset it's not here.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Dad used to say #action speaks louder than words. It was a bold line of attack for a man who had the imprint of his arse permanently pressed into the cushions of his chair. I learned more from that than from any of the words screamed into my face. Maybe he was right about something afterall?
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November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
He made a machine with buttons for all available #options. It was an array of tiny flip switches and flashing lights, all the way to the moon. He read the manual. He checked it twice. He flipped the red one on the row just left of Arizona and waited. Then read the manual again, just in case.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I went for a ride on their #reality. Who knew it could be so different to my own? There were scary beasts and a world crumbling away at the edges. No music or grass smiles to be seen. When I popped back to myself, I tried to give them a hug, but they called me a monster and ran off in fright
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November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Back in school, Pete scored a #goal in footie. He stripped to his pants, rolled in the mud and did laps round the cabin were Y7 were learning a² + b² = c². He got detention for a month. Sometimes, when I'm clicking my mouse at work, I think of Pete. I hope he's still out there, scoring goals
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November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We made things so safe. On the first day of school, we #issue each student a handgun. By last bell, all the bad ones are dead. And if one of the bad ones misuses theirs, we all have good guns to shoot good bullets right in their face. It's the perfect system. Only a bad person would disagree
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November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The giants are as old as the hills they awoke from. When they stretched their backs the sound cracked across the sky. We cried at how beautiful they were, at least for a while.
Then we grew bored so, we used them for #transport. Now they ache under our weight as we ride them by the thousand
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Then we grew bored so, we used them for #transport. Now they ache under our weight as we ride them by the thousand
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November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The giants are as old as the hills they awoke from. When they stretched their backs the sound cracked across the sky. We cried at how beautiful they were, at least for a while.
Then we grew bored so, we used them for #transport. Now they ache under our weight as we ride them by the thousand
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Then we grew bored so, we used them for #transport. Now they ache under our weight as we ride them by the thousand
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We killed the experts for thinking they know better than us. That showed them. We lined them up from BSc to PhD and cut them gut to neck. The world is better now, without those air quote, socalled, fake #science people, controlling us with their propaganda. Now we have billionaires, instead.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As each was born, I gave my children a #number. They would receive a name only if they earned it. One did well with education, but poor with exercise. Two, vice versa. Three astounded me. Confidence. Authority. Strength. I whispered "Thank you, Joe," in his ear as he held tightly to my neck.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The #myth was whispers at first. Too weak to clench its claws, it floated on the wind until it caught in a willing throat. But it never disappeared. It quietly fed on the ones who swallowed it, eating them inside out. Now myth is solid, and its coming for all of us who ever dared doubt it.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When I get to the gate there is a man in a mask, he slices me open from smiler to groin. He pulls out my lungs, my kidneys and heart, then places them on a silver scale to #measure my worth. He takes a step back, tips his head and mutters. Then he packs me with rosemary and says, "I'm sorry"
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
There is an imp in the library at the end of time. He runs a long finger along the spines of the books, cataloguing each one in the right place. He picks one up. It explodes to dust. Oh well, what a shame. All of #literature, right there, but never read. They are far too important for that
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November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There is an imp in the library at the end of time. He runs a long finger along the spines of the books, cataloguing each one in the right place. He picks one up. It explodes to dust. Oh well, what a shame. All of #literature, right there, but never read. They are far too important for that
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The giants have slept for longer than we remember. Their backs are covered with snow and peak through the clouds. When you're older than time, you don't need #law. Instead, they have justice. Soon they will wake up, if we are not careful, and return the earth back to the one they once knew.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Really enjoyed #furiousfiction this month. More pleased with that story than I have been for a while.
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Really enjoyed #furiousfiction this month. More pleased with that story than I have been for a while.
You don't hear it, you feel it. In your toes, or tickling your skin. The #language of the giants carries in the movement of the world around us. It is leaves on trees swaying in a breeze. It is rock scraping rock far underground. Today my teeth rattle against each other. Today they are angry
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November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I built a time machine so I could see all of everything that's been before. The lights flashed. The engine whirred. With a pfft, I was gone to who knows when. When the smoke cleared I was disappointed to be exactly where I had started. I guess it's all just a little bit of #history repeating
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November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We found a planet. Its #geography changed with our mood. When I stepped from the ship, the rocks flattened and channeled the sea into gentle waves.
Then the the others stepped forward and thought greedy thoughts. The rocks turned to fire in the night.
Other people always spoil everything.
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Then the the others stepped forward and thought greedy thoughts. The rocks turned to fire in the night.
Other people always spoil everything.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We found a planet. Its #geography changed with our mood. When I stepped from the ship, the rocks flattened and channeled the sea into gentle waves.
Then the the others stepped forward and thought greedy thoughts. The rocks turned to fire in the night.
Other people always spoil everything.
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Then the the others stepped forward and thought greedy thoughts. The rocks turned to fire in the night.
Other people always spoil everything.
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Dad wanted me to be #famous. He paid for all the lessons. He drove me to the auditions, and gave generous handouts on the side. He helped me with make-up to cover the "encouragement" he gave me, when I received my rejections. Now I really am famous. What I did to him made the news worldwide.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I'm starting to come round to my Dad's way of thinking. Maybe #education wasn't worth it? Maybe school was a waste of time? Not because we didn't learn anything useful, quite the opposite. But because too many people took 'learning something useful,' to mean 'they had nothing left to learn.'
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm starting to come round to my Dad's way of thinking. Maybe #education wasn't worth it? Maybe school was a waste of time? Not because we didn't learn anything useful, quite the opposite. But because too many people took 'learning something useful,' to mean 'they had nothing left to learn.'
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"What the Fe-Fi-Fo-Fu-??"
Jack can't believe his eyes. He's spent three days climbing a beanstalk to steal some gold, and now he's in the giant's cloud castle, looking at this...
He might grind bones for bread, but he has #domestic pride. The giant welcomes Jack with a tray of warm cookies
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Jack can't believe his eyes. He's spent three days climbing a beanstalk to steal some gold, and now he's in the giant's cloud castle, looking at this...
He might grind bones for bread, but he has #domestic pride. The giant welcomes Jack with a tray of warm cookies
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November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM