Aiden Walsh
@aidenw.bsky.social
My novel, Catch 2020: The Covid Deliria of Brian Jackson https://amzn.eu/d/5Np49ZH available at Amz on kindle or paper version. Next novel wip is on use of immersive VR in palliative care. Bio: Wilms survivor / LFC / tech / v slow old jogger
Odd how quickly LFC went from a team with +/- world class in every position at peak Klopp, to a scratch looking side assembled at great cost but to limited effect, w huge holes and poor physicality for PL. Szob probably the only top player at their peak. Interested to see what magic Iraola can work
Meanwhile I have just started the Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. The initial section seems to be the musings of a 17yo poetry student in Mexico City. Grateful at this point for my undergrad education in Lat Am fiction...
Sarah Clements@sarahclements.bsky.social · 2d agoJust begun Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, as recommended by @authoredrobins.bsky.social and @aidenw.bsky.social I liked Titanium Noir and Sleeper Beach by the same author, but this is something else altogether.
Hendo is a LFC captain who lifted every trophy possible for the club, and left at a point when he thought he could no longer command a first team starter position. I suspect history will be kind to him
Liverpool FC News | LFC@fcliverpoolnews.bsky.social · last wk.🔥 Fresh from the football desk: 'Anfield legacy gone': Liverpool fans brand Jordan Henderson traitor over Chelsea transfer What is your take? #LFC #LiverpoolFC #Anfield #TransferNews
Anyone else slightly concerned that by this time next year LFC may be just a branch of DisneyWorld, or some such?
This Is Anfield@thisisanfield.com · last wk.NEW: Liverpool investors want full takeover & Barcola bid up to £110m – Latest LFC News #lfc
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yes the weather is hotter but privatised water companies continue to treat life-critical public infrastructure as a piggy bank
Five key takeaways from the landmark water sector review
The wide-ranging review was launched amid growing public concern about sewage spills and rising bills.
bbc.co.uk
It's only natural@clothesfree.bsky.social · last wk.BBC News - More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What a story that is. Dense, complex, dark.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference@crsfliverpool.bsky.social · last mo.As #CRSF2026 draws ever closer we are announcing some of our super exciting events! The "In the Garden of Forking Paths" roundtable was proposed by award-winning author Joanna Kavenna, and features her alongside the incredible talents of Sumit Paul-Choudhury and @alexcarabine.bsky.social!🌿
Recently read, may be in your lane: - couple of Head of Awkward Questions novels by Marianne Pickles; - The women could fly by Megan Giddings - The future by Naomi Alderman And if you like wacky, the Thursday Next literary detective novels by Jasper Fforde are a blast
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 2mo agowho has good book recs for speculative fiction? big fan of Murderbot, the Expanse, recently enjoyed Service Model, Sublimation, Automatic Noodle, There Is No Anti-Mimetics Division, the Subtle Art of Folding Space; last year a lot of Ray Nayler and Octavia Butler bonus points for audio books
Delighted to hear it! When you’re done w/ the series, you may enjoy (if you haven’t read them) Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, Jon Evans’s Exadelic, Susan Palwick’s The Necessary Beggar, Jo Walton’s Thessaly, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, John M Ford’s The Dragon Waiting, Walter John Williams’s Spin
Ive just watched 10 mins of Eng Ghana and Eng are even more awful than i had expected. That’s enough I think!
I see LFC must have been in talks with Schlotterbeck, then…
I have nothing to do with Scotland but the rendition of flower of scotland I have just seen videos of is a monster! Chapeau 🏴⚽
I've only watched last night's highlights, but who'd have NI Patrick Kelly as a backup to #LFC Conor B? Shows you how good all the tiers of football are when the lad's playing for Barnsley and can perform like that
Sport and writing help many people escape from many types of hole www.theguardian.com/football/202... #booksky #sarahrhind #ynwa
‘Football saved me’: Street Soccer coordinator Sarah Rhind on life after heroin addiction
Sarah Rhind tells Suzanne Wrack how football was her focus as she recovered and how it helped her create ‘beautiful friendships’
theguardian.com
A year ago I’m not sure i could have predicted that by WC start the england RB would be Jarrell not Trent.
Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
nytimes.com
Having now read the disciplined Karla's Choice, the slick Titaniums, the loony Gnomon and now well into the epic Angelmaker, the range of styles @nickharkaway.com brings to bear is quite the thing. Bon weekend to all on #booksky
I'm currently chest deep in a @nickharkaway.com universe #Angelmaker in which language and scenes of this type are three a farthing, incl a bishop overseas who meets a painful, coppery demise. I just hit chapter 11 (55% in) where the wonderful Polly does us all a favour & recaps the whole caper 🎩
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 2mo agoThis is a nonsense poem I wrote years ago for my kids. I found myself reciting it this morning. Maybe it’ll brighten your Friday :)
Liverpool reportedly eyeing a Bundesliga forward as Mo Salah's successor. Because why build around your best player when you can plan for his exit? #Liverpool #PremierLeague #Bundesliga #Transfers #LFC
Liverpool Push to Sign Bundesliga Forward in Succession Planning for Mohamed Salah
David Ornstein reports Liverpool are accelerating plans to sign a Bundesliga forward as part of succession planning for Mohamed Salah's eventual departure. Exclusive analysis.
lapremierleague.com
I’m prob more interested in why some law degrees are a useless qualification: “…is from rural Lincolnshire and studied law at a university in Manchester… went in with the intention of becoming a lawyer, but early on was led to believe that would be impossible” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion
Critics say high drop-out rate among under-18 army recruits make it a poor means of tackling youth unemployment
theguardian.com
I have just come across a neuroscience term which is CSD "Constrained Spherical Deconvolution". Clearly ⚽ comes before 📚 in my brain because I immediately thought CSD sounds like one of many types of pre-season activity #LFC will need this summer
#LFC would not normally fire a manager 2y into a 3y contract if Y1 = PL win and Y2 = CL qualification. FSG totally don't care about fan opinion. So I assume this is bc Slot lost the dressing room. Whoever comes in has to restore running stats + rebuild the defence, starting with the front 3 press
Feels a bit Luis Diaz, doesn't it. Ultimately a mismatch in £££ expectations. Looks like #LFC have faith in the crocked teenagers who have been bought, to supplement the crocked Joe G and ageing VVD.
OKCommuter@okcommuter.bsky.social · 2mo agoKonate leaving too. I’m sure we’ll be fine, lots of back up in that position. 😒 #LFC
Liverpool conceded 78 goals in 57 games in all competitions this season: 1.37 per 90 minutes. It breaks down almost perfectly into two halves. 2,589 mins with Alisson, Konaté and Van Dijk: 29 goals conceded, 1.01 per 90. 2,541 mins with any other combo of GK and CBs: 49 goals, 1.74 per 90.
