Steve O'Gorman

Former bookseller turned proofreader and copy editor (UK). I've done big SFF and historical fiction, crime and thrillers, and odds and ends. Not always busy ...

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

@FullMarksEditor The guy from @StagecoachWales thinks its hilarious. The teenage girls waiting to go home don't find it so amusing.

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

@RCTCouncil @swpolice I've provided probably 200 recordings via the Noise App since the current occupiers moved in. No discernible action at your end. The last lot were bad enough. You at least sent *them* a letter.

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

Next-door neighbour shouting and shrieking into the phone. At it since before 2300. Same every fucking week. Some people still have to get up in the morning. Merely logging it here. Not expecting @RCTCouncil and @swpolice to do anything because they never fucking do.

[Angus Donald @angus_donald]

I'm doing a talk at Tonbridge Library on Thursday June 11th at 6.15pm. Come along if you are local. I'll be talking about the strange but true story of the Englishman who fought for Genghis Khan, which is the basis of my novel Templar Traitor. The talk is free but you need to email or phone the library to book ([email protected] or phone [phone] and ask for Tonbridge Library)

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

Traveline Cymru (operated by TfW) doesn't have the non-AI data to link the two services. I'm going to sign up for the beta test anyway. If anyone can take this system and test it to destruction, I'm the right person for the role. (Next week: how *not* to buy a PlusBus ticket.)

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

The latest adventure with @tfwrail saw me not even leaving the pub. They're piloting a new scheme where customers can link their railcards to PAYG. And I'm not eligible to take part because I hold a concessionary bus pass ... issued by Transport for Wales. WTF, as I call them.

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

Once I'd completed the feedback form, there was no link to 'click here to return to the website'. So I decided to check out the timetables for Sunday buses from Aberdare to Brecon on @TravelineCymru ... Not a sausage. But there's a bus to Merthyr, and one from Merthyr to Brecon.

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

In the last 5 years...

- Energy bills have shot up by 54%
- Food prices are up by 39%

But wages? Just 36%.
And Universal Credit has risen by only 31%.

Costs are rising so much faster than incomes. THIS is why people are struggling to survive right now. 💔

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

@swpolice @RCTCouncil I've been going from pillar to post for over 18 months in relation to this. Neither of you wants to get involved. That's the long and the short of it. It's easier to blame someone than to step up when people need help.

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

@LeeJarvis10 I'm in the National Tap in Aberdare. £5 a pint for keg beers (Tiny Rebel etc) and £3 for most of their own cask products. Just saying ... 🍻

[Steve O'Gorman @SteveEditor]

In Llantwit Major last weekend I paid £8.00 for a pint of Camden Pale and a packet of bacon fries. Next time I'll take sandwiches, and chill some cans in the sea.

[𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬 @LeeJarvis10]

Cardiff
£6.35 😢
Really !

[csz @cszabla]

UK unis so cooked they’re coming for the department where the krebs cycle was discovered

[Withnail Jones @withnailjones]

I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.

Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.

Back to the crisps story.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Doing nothing vs Small consistent effort ✍️

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

The UK is about to have its 6th prime minister in 7 years because after 47 years of Thatcherism, nothing works any more. We're going to be stuck in an endless cycle of prime ministerial resignations until the failed neoliberal model is overturned.

[Ben🕊️ @2BJDJ]

Very Important Message!!

Do NOT, and I repeat do not buy plants treated with Neonicotinoids. Bees take the pollen back to the hive and feed it to the brood.

This is a number one cause of the colony collapse. It's important to NOT buy these plants!

Make sure to share this post!

[Rangzen @revoltinghippie]

Starmer's Briton

[Dr Rachel Claire Morris, Shadow Secretary of Snark @5By5Creativity]

“Because we repeat the phrases ‘working people’, ‘hard working people’ or ‘working families’ but god help you if you’re disabled or ill and can’t work, because we won’t. We bear no resemblance to Labour of old, and my techbroligarch AI chums are taking all your jobs, oopsy.”

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

This is disgraceful, @Reuters. He is charged with the attempted murder of THREE men, two Jews and one Muslim. It is wholly unacceptable for a newswire to mislead the public by reporting incorrect information.

[Dr Rachel Claire Morris, Shadow Secretary of Snark @5By5Creativity]

Scam stole my creative work to train his product then it took my jobs, pushing me into penury and the stigmatised, humiliating benefits system after 45 years of employment. I’m by no means the only one. This famously compulsive liar should be in prison for theft and manslaughter.