Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 15hGood to see the Pope taking a stand against AI and promoting the arts, but I do wonder how broad this alliance might be, as many artists and cultural institutions touch on subjects that I can imagine would be anathema to the Catholic Church 110
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 16hThe only banned book I read back in the day was Last Exit to Brooklyn. Allen Ginsberg apparently said it would "still be eagerly read in a hundred years", but I can't say I'm too keen to revisit it. 010
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just another attempt to destroy a culture: destroy their books. The Nazis tried it with Jewish culture, and that didn’t work out well. Nor will it for Russia. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comIncinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian booksA Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks 052
Reposted by Abe & EddieMillie Bramley @milliebramley.co.uk · 02/10/2026Out now and available everywhere good books are sold. desou.uk/dh5nxm #DeathAndSourdough #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #SelfPublishing #BookSky 0101
Reposted by Abe & EddieWaylon & Elephant Journal @elephantjournal.com · 01/10/2026"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt 052
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But what of the future? Will they cope with the droughts and soaring temperatures in the summers to come? 100
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks for this. Will add them to my growing must-buy list 010
Reposted by Abe & EddieCaroline @beautyandthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing German Literature Month XVI November 2026 beautyisasleepingcat.com/2026/10/02/a...beautyisasleepingcat.comAnnouncing German Literature Month XVI November 2026November isn’t far away, and you all know what that means – German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 16th time, we’ll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, enjoying a whole… 011
Reposted by Abe & EddieM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15787533400
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A great band, though I confess I don't know this album, more familiar with Carla Bley's earlier stuff with Michael Mantler 110
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seems relatively cheap until you consider how dramatically the climate is changing. Maybe that's why they're selling up 210
Reposted by Abe & EddieThe Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 02/10/2026Remember books? Weight in your hands. Paper beneath your fingers. A cover you keep looking at. Poems you return to. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a proper hardback made to last. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks 1125
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It all chimes with Trump's perceived role as Agent Krasnov, doesn't it? On orders from Putin maybe? Or simply on his recommendation? 020
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Lord, here I am. Send me,” Hegseth said. “Send me to fight the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me.” Someone should put this insane speech to music. 110
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Warte, bis die Kinder älter werden. Unsere 2 ältesten spielten einmal im dunklen Schlafzimmer, der Jüngste bat um eine Taschenlampe, sein Bruder schmeisste sie hinüber und die Taschenlampe traf die Stirn. Blut überall. Wie eine Szene aus Django Unchained. Musste genäht werden – mitten in der Nacht! 110
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes, it was a callous and vicious murder, but committed by an 18-year-old who had suffered repeated sexual and physical abuse for most of her young life, resulting in bipolar disorder and PTSD. She needed counselling, not a death sentence. 290
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"In 1930, Hitler wasn’t a political genius. He was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon." Der Rückfall (The Relapse), published by Penguin, sounds like a fascinating book with some myth-busting ideas about the rise of the Nazis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.com‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrongIn a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt... 010
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026...and the US just keeps adding to the planet's woes www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUS ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to fight climate crisisTrump’s EPA strips itself of regulating ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters 011
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026...while on the other side of the olanet Indonesia’s orangutan population is overwhelmed by wildfires... www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan populationThe global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown 143
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/10/202620% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years... www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsAlpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution 122
Reposted by Abe & EddieNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.” ~ ‘Culture and Value’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) #Painting by Christiaan Tonnis. 071
Reposted by Abe & EddieWrite Query Hook @writequeryhook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026daily words today: "Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village p... #writingcommunity 132
Reposted by Abe & EddieJacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For Sally Carson, #BornOnThisDay in 1902, my thoughts on CROOKED CROSS. A gripping, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency and the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...jacquiwine.wordpress.comCrooked Cross by Sally CarsonFor a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental … 4207
Reposted by Abe & EddieGareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” 411031
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kemi Badenoch: “We believe in free speech. We believe in a free press. And yes, of course, that might be painful for us as politicians, but public scrutiny is part of the gig" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comKemi Badenoch condemns Reform UK’s ‘authoritarian’ press bansTory leader says Nigel Farage’s party would seek to abuse state power, as she also defends her housing benefit plans 000
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m game. The view from my office balcony early this morning promises the last warm & sunny summer’s day on this last day of September. 000
Reposted by Abe & EddieSylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cameron, Osborne and austerity. 072
Reposted by Abe & EddieCitizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man charged with damaging an ICE officer’s bullet by impeding it with his back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comVenezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas charged with assaulting an officerGarcés Pérez, who was shot in his car by agents, is accused of striking officer with side mirror while trying to drive away 0114
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well, there is a long history there, so plenty to learn. I moved to Switzerland 40 years ago and still have so much to learn about my own adopted country - and there's a lot about my original home I still don't know. Learning never stops, does it? 120
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Surely by his asset Agent Krasnov, not Marco Rubio. The world can only hope that the other 19 refuse to attend. 000
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Indeed, the Nazis occupied all the Channel Islands and even established a concentration camp on Alderney 130
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I confess that I've never read Moby Dick nor seen any film adaptations. For some reason, stories with a maritime setting just don't grab me. 100
Reposted by Abe & EddieAmnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OUTRAGEOUS scenes outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday! But it’s nothing new... In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action. 88659
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Brilliant. As someone else pointed out here, it's very reminiscent of Magritte 030
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, I've never even heard of Diggy Diggy Hole, so I guess my bubble is made of especially impermeable material. But my taste in music has evolved over the years, and while I still enjoy the old stuff, what I listen to these days is just too obscure for a lot of people. So I'm happy in my bubble. 120
Reposted by Abe & EddieJennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I got feedback on an essay from a friend, full of helpful constructive notes, and it felt so encouraging to find this at the end. When you're reading a friend's work, don't forget to say Bravo! They worked hard 💙 0131
Reposted by Abe & EddieJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again: 13278123
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We have four (now grown-up) 'boys'. Part of the bedtime ritual was that I would read stories to them every night until they started making their own reading choices, and they soon became enthusiastic readers themselves 020
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An excellent read on the value of direct democracy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comSwitzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de WeckBrexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck 010
Reposted by Abe & EddieExtinct Pterodactyl @expterodactyl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Humans Humanity Earth greatest threat Ever? Nuclear #War Climate Change Global Warming Fossil Fuels Over Consumption etc Inevitable #Extinction Event the Anthropocene Epoch ? #booksky 161
Reposted by Abe & EddieAlden Carrow | British Counties In Verse @aldencarrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Come wander where the dales unfold" — the book's first line, and still the truest map of what it's trying to do. Not to have the last word on a place. Just to leave it open enough to still have more. #MoorToShore #Poetry 011
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I believe Meloni did say something like that, but this video is a total fake 001
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Exactly. It's a tacit admission that Reform is in the business of spreading disinformation 010
Reposted by Abe & EddieYaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win. 13554561164
Reposted by Abe & EddieGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925331730
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think you're right. The southern dialects are far more at risk. Northern ones seem much more resilient. 110
Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Farage's take on this as an attack on Reform sounds very much like a tacit admission that Reform is in the business of spreading disinformation 161