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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SACRILEGE! That's quite bizarre, banned for verbal depictions of nudity. I would have guessed No Friend To This House for the infanticide 🤷‍♀️

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's fantastic news - subversive Natalie! Do you know which book and why?

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Current spooky read 'From the Depths - and Other Strange Tales From the Sea' edited by Mike Ashley. Some of these proper shit me up #Booksky

A close-up photograph of the paperback From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley, resting on someone’s lap. The dark grey cover features a striking blue illustration of a large anchor sinking beneath swirling, turbulent water, with a curling wave above. White text gives the title and editor, while the bottom reads “British Library Tales of the Weird.”

A photograph of the back cover of From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea. The dark grey cover contains white and blue text describing the anthology: eerie maritime stories involving supernatural encounters, a nightmare from the depths, a German U-boat commander receiving an impossible Morse Code transmission, and a ship trapped in the Sargasso Sea. It also includes a short biography of editor Mike Ashley, the £10.99 price, British Library publishing details, and a barcode at the bottom.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well I absolutely inhaled Nikita Gill's Hekate in about 18 hours. Enjoyed it immensely, what a thoroughly wonderful book. Next up: The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers! #Booksky

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've owned Nikita Gill's Hekate for about a year and have only just got round to reading it and I'm SO GLAD I corrected this error. It's phenomenal. (Does anyone know why she deleted her Bluesky account? I really enjoyed following her 😔) #Booksky

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you worked a little harder then you'd have a lot more. So the blame and the shame's on you for being so damn poor

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just posted this same thing on The Other Place and someone's replied saying 'Yes, and the antifascists were interned during the war as they were a threat to Britain.' Dude...are you really stanning for the Blackshirts??

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street today. Let's go punch a Nazi in remembrance.

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'So keep environments that breed crime Build more jails at the same time Market badness to the kids in the rhymes As long as rich kids ain't dying it's fine!' Akala has Kemi's number #BBCLauraK

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The woman just said she thinks prison in the UK works. What a fucking joke #BBCLauraK

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

KEMI YOU ARE NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL HOW FUCKING DARE YOU SAY WHAT IS GOING TO IMPROVE SOMEONE'S MENTAL HEALTH. YOU CAME HERE WITHOUT EVEN THE STATS TO BACK UP YOUR POINT #BBCLauraK

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh Jesus Poppy Coburn is on #BBCLauraK this morning. Is it still to early to start drinking?

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back at my own place for a few days. Grief takes many different forms and apparently mine is Shiraz and podcasts about the rise of Stalin. Who knew?

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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

Thank you so much. Doing as well as I'm able

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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

Oooh looking at that it really ticks a lot of my boxes - I shall have to hunt it down!

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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

Wholeheartedly support this decision

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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

Wow, your father was committed to atheism! You only really missed some kickass hymns.

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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

God what a tragic end of her life.

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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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Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is lovely! I'm moving out of Bham in a few years and at the moment it's a toss up between Glasgow and Belfast. And I think Glasgow is winning :)

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

Oh I picked up a second hand copy of Sabriel the other day too as my old copy had fallen to pieces! What a phenomenal book

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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

I think 20 year old me would be proud I was still here, so that's pretty cool. But yeah, I mirror your feelings totally.

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

I've pre-ordered from my local independent bookshop - The Heath Bookshop in Kings Heath! Roll on March!

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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

'In the letter, the group of 133 women said they faced a "crisis" and argued their "safety, security and freedoms will be under threat". "Life as we know it will be destroyed," they said. "We will not feel safe walking our streets. We are already living in fear."' Fucking ridiculous bigots.

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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...

bbc.co.uk

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

You just couldn't leave Thursday mornings on Radio 4 alone could you! Can't wait to hear it!

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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/...

bbc.co.uk

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

Is there an overlap with some of the female "monsters" you covered in Divine Might & Pandora's Jar? I don't even necessarily mean Medusa but I'd put The Furies into the monster category maybe. Very looking forward to seeing list of who/what you've covered and how you've subjectively classified them

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

Oh wow, that looks fantastic! I've just finished re-reading Pandora's Jar, roll on March!

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