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Big cry this morning. I used to listen to In Our Time every week with my dad and what are they covering this week? Casablanca. His favourite film. Grief hits you sideways sometimes.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#grief David Blyth 1954 - 2026 Night Dad. I miss you so much already

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Orlando (1992) Directed by Sally Potter. Based on the (incredible) Virginia Woolf book of the same name. Starring Tilda Swinton

screenshot from the 1992 film Orlando. Androgynous looking actor in male Elizabethan court clothes next to a elder version of Queen Elizabeth I also opulently dressed in a lavish setting

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bought The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig, so am re-listening to The Knight and the Moth to refresh my memory of it before starting the sequel. I loved this book so much when I first read it. Such a unique premise and brilliant protagonist in Sybil. Lush and gothic. #booksky

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SHAKESPEARE DIDN'T SPEAK OLD ENGLISH

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I rang my CMHT to say that I was going to be requesting a CPN when I see my doctor on the 29th, after doing a risk assessment they've referred me to 3 services, emailed my doctor and the manager about my risk level 🙁

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've just watched an interview video of John Oliver and at the end he plugged his new series of Last Week Tonight, then asked 'Can I plug other people's things?' when he was told yes he told everyone to go read Patrick Radden Keefe's 'Say Nothing'. THAT WAS MY FAVOURITE BOOK OF LAST YEAR!

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky

A montage portrait of science fiction author N.K. Jemisin. On the left, she appears in a close-up photo with long, dark braided hair, wearing earrings, a delicate necklace with a pendant, a deep maroon sweater, and a shimmering green scarf draped around her neck. She has a calm, confident expression and gazes directly at the camera against a softly blurred dark background. To the right are three stacked book covers of her works. Top: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth trilogy), with a dark, textured design and metallic title. Middle: The Obelisk Gate, featuring an intricate, glowing red-and-purple circular mandala-like emblem. Bottom: The Stone Sky, showing a dramatic stormy sky with a massive floating obelisk.

The overall composition highlights the author alongside prominent covers from her award-winning Broken Earth series.

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FREE THEM ALL!! 🇵🇸 @djmuel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW VIDEO IS OUT in 15 Minutes!! Head over to the link below and join me for the premiere! youtu.be/h6jeWFf-jr0

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Will AI Wipe Out Humanity?

YouTube video by djmuel

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18/09/2026

this is that pearl from the steinbeck book that ruined all those people’s lives and they’re hoping the pope can cure it of its evil ways

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Years ago when I was working on the dementia ward I made a real connection with a patient and her husband who happened to be a poet. He told me he was writing a book of poetry about his wife and Alzheimer's and that he'd included a poem about me in it. Yesterday I found the book and the poem.

Photograph of a poem from a poetry book. Text reads:
''I don't recognise her anymore
I want to remember her
the way she was
Best not to meet anymore'
say friends and relations
about you
my love

But a nurse -
A young perky woman with boyish hair
tells me again and again
what you are like
what you were like
before you became ill
long before she was even born
when you were a young perky woman with boyish hair
yourself

She recognises you
and you her'

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Either 'Mists of Avalon' by Marrion Zimmer Bradley (yes. I know. She's terrible. I didn't know in my teens.) or 'The Amber Spyglass' by Philip Pullman. The latter had me crying my eyes out in GCSE English classes when I was meant to be reading Persuasion by Austen

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Gloria Brown, 69, who has lived in Piddington for 23 years, said she would stop litter-picking in the village if plans went ahead, something she takes "lots of pride" in doing.' I've never heard a more Little Englander statement in my life 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?

Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09... This is one of the most poisonous articles I've read in a long time. Women saying “something is wrong with my body” have a long history of being told that the symptoms are psychological, exaggerated, attention-seeking or simply an expression of femininity

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FREE THEM ALL!! 🇵🇸 @djmuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

everyone's surprised by the Trump Irish reunification stuff, but not me, a student of history

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh man, Johnny Flynn is playing Lucius Malfoy in the new Harry Potter. And I liked him so much. :(

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everyone! Stop what you're doing! The last in this series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics is on Radio 4 and she's covering Euripides' Medea! Like, my favourite play ever! Go listen to it! @nataliehaynes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 12 - Medea - BBC Sounds

Natalie tells the tragic story of Euripides' Medea to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reading Classics and drinking gin.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just finished re-reading the glorious @nataliehaynes.bsky.social's Pandora's Jar - and am about to start a re-read of Divine Might - about Greek Goddess My question is - If the Furies can be interpreted as Goddesses then why can't the Moirai? Or was that just going to make the book too long?

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, they can walk five hundred miles, and they can walk five hundred more, just so long as it's away from here.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My Dad called this on the day of 9/11. He's an engineer and said, while we were watching the news 'the sad thing is in 25 years time half of these people will be dead or suffering from cancer from breathing in all that building rubble' He was totally right

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

After falling in love with travelling and doing cultural stuff on my own, I'm thinking of booking tickets to Glastonbury (with a coach) just for myself when they go on sale on the 1st October.

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Michael Harris @davidmichaelharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 04/09/2026

🚨 UPDATE: West Midlands Police have denied Nigel Farage's claim that they refused to let him on stage due to a security threat

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH THIS IS GENUINELY THE BEST THING IVE HEARD ALL WEEK!

Screenshot of a Facebook post by Consequence reporting that far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, formerly Kanye West’s chief of staff, is in ICE custody in Louisiana, according to TMZ. The post includes a close-up photo of a blond-haired man wearing large dark sunglasses and a black jacket. Beneath it, a commenter jokes, “I thought maybe this was an obituary.”

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

OMG GUYS! I popped into my local indie bookshop in Kings Heath and bought a copy of @nataliehaynes.bsky.social’s Pandora’s Jar as I wanted a physical copy. Waiting at the bus stop, flicking through it and discovered - it’s a bloody signed copy! What an unexpected joy!

A turquoise paperback copy of Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes, resting on a dark surface. The cover features a simple black line drawing of a classical-style woman’s face surrounded by cloud-like shapes and scattered gold stars. A quote from Mark Haddon reads, “The most enjoyable book about Greek myths you will ever read.”

The title page of Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes. The cream-coloured page shows the book’s title and author in black print, with a large handwritten signature in black ink across the centre beneath Haynes’s printed name. “Picador” appears at the bottom of the page.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Listening to yesterday’s episode of @nataliehaynes.bsky.social Stands Up For The Classics on the Argonautica and it’s just… so good. Natalie Haynes has been doing this shit for 12 series now and honestly, we don’t deserve her. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 12 - The Argonautica - BBC Sounds

Natalie narrates Jason and the Argonauts' epic quest to find the Golden Fleece.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My friend Holly works as a 999 call handler for the police and often tells me about her work: ‘Actual conversation I had last week ‘Someone outside is rolling a joint’ ‘How can you tell it’s a joint and not a cigarette’ ‘You can tell’ ‘But how?’ ‘He’s got a tracksuit on.’’ 🫠

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finished Witherward and have taken up Alec Grossman’s The Magicians as for some reason I only read half of it when I started it a year ago. Which was criminal of me as it, and he, are brilliant! #booksky

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I deliberately brought back all my flyers given to me from The Fringe as in thinking of making a wall collage out of them

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching the roast of Kevin Hart and god dam Tony Hinchcliffe is a racist piece of shit

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fucking awful news about Dolly Parton. Remember when she donated shot tones of money to fund Covid vaccine research? 😪

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Someone just came into the Discord server I was in and said ‘Laura you’re not welcome in my server. What you said to me before was appalling.’ Then left. I didn’t even see who it was and have no clue who they are and it’s lowkey made an awful day worse.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m trying to read through all of @tkingfisher.com’s bibliography because everything I’ve read by them is fucking fire! Currently 90% of the way through this and I don’t want it to end! #booksky

Book cover for A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. Against a black, star-speckled background, two stylised golden trees curve inwards around the title, with delicate circular celestial designs and small starbursts scattered between their branches. The title appears in large white lettering at the centre, with “USA Today bestselling author of Nettle & Bone” above the author’s name at the bottom.

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Frizident Evil @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chrissy Derbyshire: Innards Whistlebinkies, 11.15am A lovely monologue which flows naturally and has some excellent sentences with beautifully chosen words. A natural performer and engaging. Very much a big recommendation from me. #edfringe

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On the 12:51 train. One of the best Strokes songs. Goodbye Edinburgh - it's been a blast! 💚

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Train home has been cancelled so I'm in Weatherspoon's on a 2 hour wait listening to bagpipes and a guy singing Gerry Cinnamon. There's a kid in this beer garden asking 'what is a Weatherspoon's and why are the seats so disgusting?!' Welcome to life mate.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm so, so sad to be leaving Edinburgh this morning. I cannot describe how much I've fallen in love with this beautiful, charismatic, friendly city and country. Here's to saving up for Fringe 2027!

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How can you have an identical twin HALF sister wiki? Riddle me that.

Screenshot of text from Wikipedia saying 'Clytemnestra, Helen's twin half-sister, Agamemnon, who murders him upon his return to Troy'

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/08/2026

[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just seen a woman in Sainsbury's shoplift 4 cans of wine. About 5 of us in the queue saw it and one guy was like 'should we say something?' And I just said 'No'

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