Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway

@nickharkaway.com

Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me. www.linktr.ee/harkaway He/him

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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

bbc.co.uk'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclearAfter defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
Nick Harkaway
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Yikes. This is just offloading the important bits of your life. It's not even the cognitive bit (which I think is probably quite bad) that's the issue in this case. This is just giving up an opportunity to do love. That's... well, gosh, I guess it's dystopian.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

Nick Harkaway
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Ah, geez. So I am not the guy who can write this book, but it's right there: a depiction of the slow disintegration of family life through emotional and conceptual offloading of basic affection. Almost certainly a prize or two in it for somebody. But I would choke SO HARD on writing it.

Nick Harkaway
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In terms of literary writing, this is my Kryptonite. I can see the book. I can pretty much plot it for you. I have zero interest in actually doing it unless I can take it one step further and BAM! now you're writing something that is just a little too weird for the gig. (Or a lot too weird, really.)

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
@byzantienne.bsky.social

Le Carre at the Stadium

more mr. spice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

take me out at the ball game / disappear in the crowd / hide me behind a memorial plaque / walk away calmly and never look back / stay en route route route to your own seat / that you bought with a false name / though you'll want. to. flee or hide out / watch the whole. ball. game

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Nick Harkaway
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For the record: pry fitting from ceiling (but do not pull spider clips through plaster, v bad) and grip. Deploy needle nose pliers as adjustable screw driver (as advised by bsky) putting tips against flanges. Rotate! WIN!

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Networks are MUCH better at crisis than solo prepping - talk to your neighbours!

Gripes of Wraith@gripesofwraith.bsky.social

For some reason, the government emergency advice forgot to include: Help support and nurture your local community because the best place to store food, is in your neighborhoods’ belly

Nick Harkaway
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I remember when I used to bring up the genetically engineered dogs they made in China (IIRC) with increased bone and muscle mass and wonder hopefully whether that was research that could be used to solve the health problems of humans in long-term microgravity.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
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Nick Harkaway
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I honestly don't know how you can look at the universe and go: "You know what we should do? We should make a death dog. That's totally going to help!"

Nick Harkaway
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Do you occasionally have that thing where you want to grab whoever is in charge by the face and shake them until they stop being a total idiot and fix things instead of breaking them more? Because I'm living with that all the time at the moment and it's making me tetchy.

Nick Harkaway
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I remember when I used to bring up the genetically engineered dogs they made in China (IIRC) with increased bone and muscle mass and wonder hopefully whether that was research that could be used to solve the health problems of humans in long-term microgravity.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
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Nick Harkaway
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Ten minutes later and I'm in deep Preppers UK territory and these folks are all modelling themselves on Rorschach eating cold beans in Owlman's kitchen with his mask rolled up to his nose. Also not helpful.

Nick Harkaway
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Also: how the hell do people get enough protein from pulses and so on without actually exploding? I cannot eat that many chickpeas in a day. I would rupture.

Nick Harkaway
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That aside, the guidance the government has supplied is crap, and the BBC's version is all "don't stock canned food with too much salt." My dudes, it's a THREE DAY CUPBOARD we're building here.

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Nick Harkaway
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I can only respect the elegance of this reference

Maria J Pérez Cuervo@mjpcuervo.com

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Nick Harkaway
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My immediate instinct was that this situation was full of hilarious potential, but after about a millisecond of consideration it's not funny *at all*.