R.M. Liddell Ross Writes
@rmlr.bsky.social
Aspiring/perspiring author working on an urban fantasy/crime novel in Brisbane 🇦🇺. Writing, reading, learning. This manuscript thing is harder than you’d think. Easily distracted by shorter stories. Everything I write turns murder-y.
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Over the last few days, I've posted some random things that can help get you going here. I've collated them sensibly here as a #Bluesky #QuickStart thread. Feel free to add to it or make corrections. I hope it helps.
Australians review Starbucks
Tea drinkers, here’s a little gift for you.
Enjoy this perfect teapot from Starbucks.
Enjoy this perfect teapot from Starbucks.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Australians review Starbucks
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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Timeline cleanser
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Timeline cleanser
Every other business has to pay for its source materials - why should AI companies be any different?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI
Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists...
www.abc.net.au
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Every other business has to pay for its source materials - why should AI companies be any different?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
I'm going for the last one: Rossini -> the composer of the William Tell overture from 'Fellini's sorry', about (ie an anagram), cutting bits (ie removing some letters)
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
State, say, Ross King’s content to start (7)
Articulated food truck, oddly, a three-wheeler (3,3)
Tell composer Fellini’s sorry about cutting bits (7)
No spoilers, ta!
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
State, say, Ross King’s content to start (7)
Articulated food truck, oddly, a three-wheeler (3,3)
Tell composer Fellini’s sorry about cutting bits (7)
No spoilers, ta!
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm going for the last one: Rossini -> the composer of the William Tell overture from 'Fellini's sorry', about (ie an anagram), cutting bits (ie removing some letters)
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I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
August 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
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This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
May 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
The thoughtful and intelligent discussion on this thread is one of the reasons I enjoy Bluesky.
Portrait of a woman, 1435. Don't know what I love more: the eyes, the subtlety of the purple robe, the incredible headscarf (the layers! the folds!) or the pins. The pins! Robert Campin, you did well.
April 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The thoughtful and intelligent discussion on this thread is one of the reasons I enjoy Bluesky.
So sad to read that Jean Marsh has died.
Jean Marsh, co-creator of 1970s TV hit Upstairs, Downstairs, dies at 90
Jean Marsh, co-creator of 1970s TV hit Upstairs, Downstairs, dies at 90
ITV drama set in aristocratic house in Edwardian London explored class and social change, and won many awards
Jean Marsh, the actor and writer best known for co-creating and starring in 1970s TV show Upstairs, Downstairs, has died aged 90.
Film-maker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was a close friend of Marsh, said she died of complications with dementia in her London home on Sunday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So sad to read that Jean Marsh has died.
I just saw the ABC is 'remembering Kerry Greenwood' and I've since discovered she's left us. Vale. 😥
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, dies aged 70
Partner confirms death of prolific author, criminal lawyer and playwright after illness in her home city of Melbourne
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I just saw the ABC is 'remembering Kerry Greenwood' and I've since discovered she's left us. Vale. 😥
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
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so the kids are too cool to call it tmesis now?
April 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
so the kids are too cool to call it tmesis now?
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By special request. The expression is tenterhooks not tender hooks. You can test this out by purchasing a hook and seeing if it feels tender to you🤣. A tenter was a drying frame - tenterhooks suspended fabric from the frame. Tenterhooks are all about suspense.
Now do tender hooks. 😬
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
By special request. The expression is tenterhooks not tender hooks. You can test this out by purchasing a hook and seeing if it feels tender to you🤣. A tenter was a drying frame - tenterhooks suspended fabric from the frame. Tenterhooks are all about suspense.
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Yes. And it’s SET foot not stepped foot as some journalists apparently believe.
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Yes. And it’s SET foot not stepped foot as some journalists apparently believe.
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Hey folks, public service announcement. The expression is "changing tack". It's a sailing term about changing direction. The expression is not "changing tact". I can't even imagine how one would do that. Signed a tactless person who knows how hard changing tact would be.
March 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hey folks, public service announcement. The expression is "changing tack". It's a sailing term about changing direction. The expression is not "changing tact". I can't even imagine how one would do that. Signed a tactless person who knows how hard changing tact would be.
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Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
March 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
Cyclone Alfred stats
March 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Cyclone Alfred stats
I've moved on from doomscrolling the BOM app to doomlistening ABC 612.
March 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I've moved on from doomscrolling the BOM app to doomlistening ABC 612.
It's kind of weird watching this coming straight for us while all the reports are about NSW. #CycloneNewbie
Tropical Cyclone Alfred will continue its approach towards the south-east Queensland coast today, with the far western edge already impacting the coast from about Coolangatta to Ballina.
When will Tropical Cyclone Alfred hit New South Wales and Queensland?
Tropical Cyclone Alfred will continue its approach towards the south-east Queensland coast today, with the far western edge already impacting the coast from about Coolangatta to Ballina.
www.abc.net.au
March 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It's kind of weird watching this coming straight for us while all the reports are about NSW. #CycloneNewbie
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Speaking of what turns out to be Aussie vernacular, may I present the word "chuck": #GottaHaveaChuck www.macquariedictionary.com.au/chuck-out-th....
Chuck out the Word of the Week - Macquarie
This week's Word of the Week is a versatile piece of Aussie slang that often arrives in chunks. Chuck means, among other things, to vomit, as in he chucked up on my carpet! Lovely. Thankfully chuck al...
www.macquariedictionary.com.au
March 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Speaking of what turns out to be Aussie vernacular, may I present the word "chuck": #GottaHaveaChuck www.macquariedictionary.com.au/chuck-out-th....
March 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Impacts to Council services due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred
www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
March 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM