Jay Stringer
@jaystringer.bsky.social
Novelist. Romanichal. Dyslexic. Classicist. Lover of niche things. Straight edge, the long way round.
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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
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ICYMI, the end of an era in T-minus..
Some more news.
The Friday September 26th will be the end of an era.
Get ‘em before they’re gone.
#BookSky
www.bishopriderbooks.com
The Friday September 26th will be the end of an era.
Get ‘em before they’re gone.
#BookSky
www.bishopriderbooks.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
ICYMI, the end of an era in T-minus..
Rewatching TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and this movie gets better every time. Real masterpiece stuff.
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Rewatching TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and this movie gets better every time. Real masterpiece stuff.
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Submerged remains of two altars from the only Nabataean temple discovered outside of Nabataea, at the port of Puteoli, Italy.
This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Submerged remains of two altars from the only Nabataean temple discovered outside of Nabataea, at the port of Puteoli, Italy.
This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
“If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” youtu.be/sHd2O_KuCxA?...
September 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” youtu.be/sHd2O_KuCxA?...
You know someone who is a massively underrated actor? Dan Aykroyd. A pop culture icon in many ways, sure. But he built a career on playing so many different types of role.
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You know someone who is a massively underrated actor? Dan Aykroyd. A pop culture icon in many ways, sure. But he built a career on playing so many different types of role.
Watching HIGH NOON and DIE HARD back to back is an interesting experience.
September 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Watching HIGH NOON and DIE HARD back to back is an interesting experience.
in the realm of "assholes in film" a special place is reserved for the reception guy in Die Hard who makes John McClane look up Holly's name before announcing "they're the only ones left in the building."
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
in the realm of "assholes in film" a special place is reserved for the reception guy in Die Hard who makes John McClane look up Holly's name before announcing "they're the only ones left in the building."
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
*taps mic* I’ll have some book news to share soon.
September 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
*taps mic* I’ll have some book news to share soon.
Read it as a teen, terrified by the sound of the window opening in Matt’s house. Read it as an adult, terrified by the scene of people knowing whats going on outside but refusing to look out their windows.
SALEM'S LOT is probably my favorite @stephenking.bsky.social novel - great look at the book from @joe-hill.bsky.social's unique and important perspective: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
So You Think Stephen King Has Scared You? Try Being His Son.
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Read it as a teen, terrified by the sound of the window opening in Matt’s house. Read it as an adult, terrified by the scene of people knowing whats going on outside but refusing to look out their windows.
Why does ‘violence is not the answer’ and ‘this has gone too far’ apply instantly when a white christian dude (who was on record saying empathy was bad) gets killed, but not when the remains of brown babies are being scooped into shopping bags?
September 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Why does ‘violence is not the answer’ and ‘this has gone too far’ apply instantly when a white christian dude (who was on record saying empathy was bad) gets killed, but not when the remains of brown babies are being scooped into shopping bags?
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🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!
⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard!
THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!
📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs
THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!
📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs
September 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!
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I've missed making the 'Hobbs Lane' signs (Quatermass And The Pit, 1958) so have made 25 available to pre-order, to ship in Nov. I've slightly improved on the original version with rounded corners, and thinner board to make it more in keeping with the original prop sign.
hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I've missed making the 'Hobbs Lane' signs (Quatermass And The Pit, 1958) so have made 25 available to pre-order, to ship in Nov. I've slightly improved on the original version with rounded corners, and thinner board to make it more in keeping with the original prop sign.
hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
FINALLY writing Marah Chase 3
September 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
FINALLY writing Marah Chase 3
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With the release of the latest Conjuring film, it's time to once again post the link to one of many documentaries about the late Ed and Lorraine Warren, demonologists.
@karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social
www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...
@karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social
www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...
Flashback: The Warren Omission - MonsterTalk
We will be playing some episodes from our archives for a few weeks this Summer – let’s kick it off with this classic from October 2013! THE WARREN OMISSION. WAS THE STORY OF The Conjuring the true sto...
www.monstertalk.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
With the release of the latest Conjuring film, it's time to once again post the link to one of many documentaries about the late Ed and Lorraine Warren, demonologists.
@karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social
www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...
@karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social
www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...
Yasssss.
JK Rowling is threatening to sue our founder Jo Maugham unless we back down. We look forward to seeing them in court.
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yasssss.
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THE COUNTY LINE is #12 in Heist Crime.
Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime.
“It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski
www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine
Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime.
“It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski
www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine
The County Line: a novel
Amazon.com: The County Line: a novel eBook : Weddle, Steve: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
THE COUNTY LINE is #12 in Heist Crime.
Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime.
“It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski
www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine
Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime.
“It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski
www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine
There are only 5 good Bond movies. And Skyfall isn’t one of them.
What is your most controversial James Bond opinion?
(These may be discussed in a future podcast)
(These may be discussed in a future podcast)
September 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There are only 5 good Bond movies. And Skyfall isn’t one of them.
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Two billion for country-wide access to ChatGPT.
Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Two billion for country-wide access to ChatGPT.
Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound.
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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August 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound.
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here:
www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
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Sorry the Replacements hinted at something on Instagram so I can’t care about anything else for a little while
August 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sorry the Replacements hinted at something on Instagram so I can’t care about anything else for a little while