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George Sandison
@georgesandison.bsky.social
Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Björk (3 times)
LCD Soundsystem (twice)
Janelle Monáe
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (twice)
The Broken Family Band (many times, but specifically the last ever night at The Boatrace in Cambridge, with John Peel in the audience)
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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"Low-and middle-income countries could see their GDP grow by around 10% within 25 years if they transition to renewables quickly enough to double energy-sector productivity" @semafor.com 
Renewables could increase developing countries’ GDP by 10%, report finds
Between 2017 and 2022, renewable investments in the 100 largest developing countries (excluding China) contributed a combined $1.2 trillion to GDP growth.
www.semafor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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My first cover design for Titan! Such a fun brief to work on 🧷💚
We are thrilled to reveal the cover for THE CRACKS by @tomhuddleston.bsky.social, a punk rock love letter to Gothic horror, about class, grief and the ghosts of the past. 🖤

Coming September 2026! 🩸
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Net zero is cheaper than fossil fuel dependence.

That was my #1 takeaway from @iea.org's latest World Energy Outlook.

Don't let anyone tell you drill baby drill is about affordability.

✍️https://www.iisd.org/articles/explainer/five-lessons-iea-2025-world-energy-outlook
Five Lessons From the IEA’s 2025 World Energy Outlook for the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
New analysis examines the 2025 World Energy Outlook and what the reports scenario's could mean for the transition away from fossil fuels.
www.iisd.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.

Here's $10 off annual.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Just finished this last night after having been on the library waitlist for ages. Wonderful book. Very fresh take on magic, and insightful on academia.

Definitely recommend if you’ve got complicated family feelings with the upcoming holidays.
I'm so grateful for recent responses to Lessons in Magic and Disaster!!!

First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.

🧵
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
It hits different reading this whole thread.
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I finished Alien: Earth last night and I now DEMAND a WALL-E style followup where the eyeball discovers Earth one creature at a time. Mud-skippers lolloping around! Giraffes not quite able to keep the head up! Hummingbirds failing to hover! Mob violence as the gulls fight back! Confused camels!
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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if someone can show me where the automatic settlement and citizenship exists, can we have our fourteen grand in fees back please
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Even if this is over briefing, any government that doesn’t immediately and very loudly condemn such a line is condoning taking family heirlooms from traumatised survivors of war and atrocities have in the world. This is basic humanity, it shouldn’t be that hard to understand.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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I am not sure these are the biggest reforms for decades/for a generation.

Core proposal is incredibly similar in analysis, spirit and content to 2022 Nationality and Borders Act of Priti Patel (offer temporary protection of 30 months)

The 2023 Illegal Migration Act more sweeping

Both failed
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
As well as it being immoral, ill-conceived, cruel, economically flawed & quadrupling down on demonstrably ineffectual politics (the way to stop Reform is *opposing* them duh), any new asylum system that depends on the Home Office doing more admin is risible, for a department so famously awful at it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hive mind, can you help? I'm looking for the source of a Jung quote: "Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all." Having trouble unpicking it from libquotes and their ilk.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!

www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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For anyone in Bristol at a loose end this evening, I'll be doing a TedX talk! On human creativity in the age of AI (spoiler: GenAI gets trashed) tickets here 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/tedxb...
Buy Now – TEDxBristol 2025 - Session 3 – We The Curious
TEDxBristol 2025 - Session 3 – We The Curious, Sat 8 Nov 2025 - Join us at the world famous science museum We The Curious for the opening session of incredible talks at TEDx2025!
www.tickettailor.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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These people are going fuckin nuts partying over a guy who campaigned on affordable housing, and subsidized childcare and busses. Like c’mon man. There is a very obvious path forward to fight the horrors. Praying the right people realize that
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I will never understand why Labour didn't do this at their first budget - starting with that majority, a clear narrative of fixing the previous 14 years of decision making, and 5 years for benefits of the decisions to become clear before an election. Now they have to own it.
That's the right policy. A big ticket rise is far, far better, for all sorts of political and economic reasons, than lots of little sneaky rises. But Labour has left it so long before accepting reality that the risk is now very severe indeed.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Night of the Zoopocalypse is exactly what you’d expect from a Clive Barker idea/exec producer. Gloopy cosmic horror for kids! Horror beats and structure all the way. Mainly about the visuals really, but I’ve also never heard a child (not mine) scream like that. youtu.be/BAAjmeieBs0
Night of the Zoopocalypse (2025) Gum-Beast Reticulated Giraffe Screen-Time
YouTube video by Leanne Fontaine
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Great book. Chapter 1 is one of my all time favourite shaggy dog stories, and it goes in the most deliciously unexpected directions after that.
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Feeling more than a dash of sadness that I'm not heading to Brighton for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social today. Much love to all you gorgeous people, and I hope you have an excellent time. If you need me, I'll be dancing my feet off with my daughter at a wedding!
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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UK politics as The Monkey’s Paw: in this essay I will etc
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM