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It's been ten years since I went freelance #audiomo

It's been ten years since I went freelance. Do you have any questions you'd like to ask me?
tontowilliams.com/2025/06/02/a...

AudioMo 2025 Day 2 – AMA

It’s ten years since I went freelance, do you have any question you’d like to ask me about that?

tontowilliams.com

June 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

AudioMo 2025 Day 1, wondering whether I have the emotional bandwidth for #audiomo this year

AudioMo 2025 Day 1

I'm not sure whether I am going to be able to participate in AudioMo this year, but if I do subscribers to this blog will likely get at least one post with audio, a day for the month of June. If I don't posts will return to their usual hiatus.

tontowilliams.com

June 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live

‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

www.theguardian.com

April 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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Claude Monet

@monet.bsky.social

Water Lilies, 1899 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10752

April 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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John Connolly

@jconnollybooks.bsky.social

I was sorry to learn of Ken’s death. I didn’t know him very well, but he was a serious scholar of the genre, and more appreciated in the US than at home. May he rest in peace.

Galway crime writer Ken Bruen dies aged 74 www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Galway crime writer Ken Bruen dies aged 74

The death has been announced of Galway crime writer, Ken Bruen.

www.rte.ie

March 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

March 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Julian Hoffman

@julianhoffman.bsky.social

Some years ago, a friend and I ran a camera trap here in the mountains of northern Greece. One day, just above our Prespa village, we captured this footage of a European brown bear. And this, I've decided, is the same energy I wish to carry into the new year with me.

December 30, 2024 at 5:15 PM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

Review of my year in 2024

The Year That Was – 2024 Edition

It would be easy to look back on the last year and remember some of the things that haven't gone quite according to plan, not that there particularly was a plan. I'll try not to do that but... The year started, the way the previous year ended, with lots of water. Groundwater flooding is a thing here and floodwater started in December last year and carried on until May.

tontowilliams.com

December 27, 2024 at 9:18 AM

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Marianne North

@mnorth.bsky.social

Royal Palm Avenue https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/royal-palm-avenue-1872

December 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM

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Arkhip Kuindzhi

@akuindzhi.bsky.social

Ukrainian Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/ukrainian-night-1876

December 24, 2024 at 6:35 PM

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Helen Macdonald

@hjm.bsky.social

The new parrot is loudly demanding I play Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas over and over again so he can sing along with it. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.

November 30, 2024 at 12:01 PM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

Alan Jacobs on the potential for the enshitiffication of Substack blog.ayjay.org/substack-vs-...

Substack vs. Indie – The Homebound Symphony

blog.ayjay.org

November 30, 2024 at 5:22 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

Bye Bye Twitter tontowilliams.com/2024/11/28/b...

Bye Bye Twitter

After days, weeks, months and probably even years I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account. I’ve been @tontowilliams there since 2007 when twitter used SMS to broadcast messages. In many…

tontowilliams.com

November 28, 2024 at 8:53 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

It’s nearly the end of November and it’s warm enough that bats are still out hunting just before dawn. Crazy weather.

November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

Downloaded my Twitter archive this morning and deleted my account there. I’ve been there since 2007 but enough is enough

November 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

AudioMo 2024 Day 1
tontowilliams.com/2024/06/01/a...

#AudioMo

AudioMo 2024 Day 1

A quick heads up to subscribers to this blog. After several months of it being on a hiatus it's going to be busy again here for the next month. I am once again going to be taking part in AudioMo and p...

tontowilliams.com

June 1, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

A Mid January Update from me

Mid January Update

Welcome. If you're a subscriber to my newsletter (Fifty From Fifty / Life After Fifty) and you missed the last post there I've moved you across to my blog as I will be discontinuing my writing there. ...

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January 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM

Alan

@tontowilliams.bsky.social

It's been a while, but here's my end of the year 2023 post: tontowilliams.com/2023/12/26/e...

End of the Year 2023

I couldn't decide whether I was going to sit and write one of these this year or not. I've done something like this most years but the latter part of this year I've not been really feeling the desir...

tontowilliams.com

December 26, 2023 at 2:35 PM

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Jeff VanderMeer

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

Finally, my TIME analysis broke news in looking at how DeSantis' predatory/ contradictory policy, lack of policy, cronyism and made things worse, fueled by eye-opening info from state-wide experts. https://time.com/6288683/florida-desantis-environment-climate-change/