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Piers Cawley

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org
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Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have!

An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths.

These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming #FolkSongs on Friday nights at https://youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 08, 2026

Just finished (I say finished, but I think "gave up" is a better phrase) carving my first spoon in about eighteen years. It's lumpy and wonky, and the bowl's a little too deep for a comfy eating spoon, but a little too shallow for a scoop.

Some parts are lovely though.

Room for improvement then. But since the first step to mastery is giving yourself permission to suck, I reckon it's a good start.

#sloyd #spooncarving

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Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 07, 2026

Bloody hell! I would have sworn that this year's France team were unstoppable! What a match.

#sixnations #m6n #SCOvFRA

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Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 07, 2026

Bloody hell! Don't play against Scotland in Murrayfield!

#sixnations #SCOvFRA

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Pointless reissue klaxon! #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Why do their keytars have strings? #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Has this banger been certified? Of course it has! #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Which of those fiddles is making the beats? #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

RIFF! #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

God. That was dull. #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Sounds good. In a club! #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

FUCK OFF IBSEN! #totp

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Mar 06, 2026

Drat. Had to drop out of a ballad session in Sheffield, so here I am for the last #totp of the evening.

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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787! Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated f
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Jan 21, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Boeing executives: Do we have any reputation left to piss away? Aviation authorities: Why? BE: Oh… nothing… we were just wondering. That's all.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 18 Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go? See "Equoid" (a novella about unicorns which, I am told, ruined "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Jan 18, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Personally, I thought Equoid was sweet. But then, I spotted what you were riffing off pretty early in the book.
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FUCK OFF MUSE, I AM ON VACATION IN GERMANY DRINKING THE BEER I DO NOT NEED YET ANOTHER COMPLETE REWRITE OF GHOST ENGINEER, THIS TIME AS A CAPER COMEDY MODELLED ON INDIANA JONES VS. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Dec 05, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop You might not, but I'm absolutely here for it.
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The novel I'm working on at the moment WILL use adversarial poetry as a plot point in the middle of a (futuristic) bank heist: vaults may be protected by an anti-sphinx as well as conventional locks (
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Hmm… this has the makings of more AO3 posts for the poetry that doesn't quite make it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 22 Nov: What has been the biggest change to your style since you started out? As I started out (trying to write and submitting work for publications) in my mid-teens and I am now in
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@cstross@wandering.shop not sure about style, but you seem to keep more balls in the air in your more recent books.
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org You *have* to keep a lot of balls in the air in a long-running series! That, or murder most of your characters every few books (which annoys the readers).
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Right, but you managed to do it. If you'd not been able to do that, you would have either got crap or recognised you'd reached the edge of your ability to keep the plates spinning and wound up stuff earlier, or simplified them in one way or another.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 22 Nov: What has been the biggest change to your style since you started out? As I started out (trying to write and submitting work for publications) in my mid-teens and I am now in
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop not sure about style, but you seem to keep more balls in the air in your more recent books.
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Yeah, that'd help. In my experience dictation software is 100% useless for writing fiction. Can't handle quoted dialog, has a vocabulary limited to the average business or casual phone user, utterly p
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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @EveHasWords@toot.cat Back when my RSI was at its worst, I did try voice coding using a mishmash of artificial movement vocabulary for editing and a pile of Emacs Lisp and Python code that had been hacked into Dragon Dictate. It was surprisingly effective, but also fragile as fuck and definitely optimised for editing *code* not prose. You can tell how good it was: now that I don't spend hours of my day programming/typing, I have gone back to my keyboard.
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Question: given that Moomins are obviously related to hippos, do they get pestered by Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi? And if so, do they spin their tails when they shit, or have a better arse leech mi
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@cstross@wandering.shop Now I'm trying to imagine what Tove Jansson would make of your questions.
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org You might be surprised? She was a whole lot less conventional than most people seem to imagine.
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Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 15, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Oh, I know. I was thinking she'd probably laugh and possibly come up with an answer that would surprise and delight you :)
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Question: given that Moomins are obviously related to hippos, do they get pestered by Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi? And if so, do they spin their tails when they shit, or have a better arse leech mi
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pdcawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

Endowed by nature with a magnificent beard and a fine voice, it was almost inevitable that Piers would grow up to be a folk singer, and so they have! An old internet bloke of longstanding, they've served time as a sysadmin, ISP operator and programmer before RSI buggered up all those career paths. These days he's most likely to be found at home working as his wife's carer, or streaming # FolkSongs on Friday nights at https:// youtube.com/pierscawley/live

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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org · Nov 15, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Now I'm trying to imagine what Tove Jansson would make of your questions.
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