TheStainlessSteelRat

@llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Dog butt scritcher. Former menswear stylist. Rat for short. Fiction reader: write a good character I may steal their name. Sometimes wish I could be Murderbot. Worry I am too much like Murderbot. Arma 3 & DayZ fan & other games.

I enjoyed my early teens moving away from the kids section to the general fiction of the library. Harry Harrison, Alan Dean Foster, Frank Herbert were some of my first to read. Later I found Andrew Vachss and Eric Van Lustbader. Good times at the library.

Pay What It Costs Publishing@paywhatitcosts.bsky.social · 5d ago

Libraries belong to all of us. They are places where people can encounter books they might never have found on their own, follow their curiosity, and make up their own minds. Supporting them is one small but meaningful way to protect that freedom.

Hello lovely people. I'm running a workshop on indie publishing with everything you need to get your book successfully out there. Pay-what-you-can. Oct 7th. 9am NZT Video available for 2 weeks for all ticket holders who can't make the live time. www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/a-crash-co...

A Crash Course In Independent Publishing

A 3 hour self-publishing talk delivered by multi-best selling author and publishing company director, George Penney.

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I am mobile on foot but my nearest surgery is a 45 minute walk away, there is no easy public transport options. I arrive at in person appointments out of breath and sweating at the exertion and the added anxiety, guess what my blood pressure is like? In rural areas like below it will be devastating.

NationCymru@nation.cymru · 2w ago

A petition to save a town’s surgery from closure has attracted nearly 600 signatures in just a few days

Never heard anything more from this company. Even rang and left a message. I note they are now looking for a sales position in same store so imagine they promoted from within and am all for that. Just tell other candidates you interviewed thanks but no. We'll understand.

TheStainlessSteelRat@llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social · last mo.

A mote of hope in my small corner. Applied for a job this morning was messaged via Indeed and wrote a reply. Received phone call within 20 minutes calling me for interview this afternoon.

I have been bingeing Coupling by Steven Moffat. As hilarious as I recalled. I think the ensemble sitcom holds up really well. As a weird Welsh man Jeff still looms large, mainly due to too many similarities to me, (he definitely got more luck than me).

Coupling promo shot showing the cast of six.
left to right top to bottom
Jeff Murdock - Richard Coyle
Sally Harper - Kate Isitt
Patrick Maitland - Ben Miles
Jane Christie - Gina Bellman
Steve Taylor - Jack Davenport
Susan Walker - Sarah Alexander