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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The objective of every dictator is to make the truth unknowable and position themselves in that vacuum as having the only answer to all questions.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

HYDRATION BREAK

Phil Mitchell flushing Ian Beale’s head down the toilet.

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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

To whom it may concern.

Ein junger Typ in so nem casual getragenen Business Hemd mit Brille hält ein Schild, auf dem steht:
You seem to be scrolling a lot for someone who has a book to write.

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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Russell Brand searches for a Bible passage - with the addition of the Countdown clock music.

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Join award-winning author @juliecohen.bsky.social on our nine-week Zoom course: Writing Romance – Advanced Learn to write... 💘 A heart-warming novel with emotional depth 💘 Characters to fall in love with 💘 A page-turning plot 💌 Apply now:

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Writing Romance – Advanced | Online Course | Curtis Brown Creative

Learn how to take readers on an emotional journey and write an uplifting novel with characters your readers will invest in. This nine-week online course comprises interactive Zoom teaching, workshops…

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

How do you write a play? I don't know, but why let that stop me? Anyone have any tips on how to get started? #BookSky #Playwriting cavershamwriters.substack.com/p/dont-know-...

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Don't know how to write a play? Write one anyway...

WriteFest 20 is open for submissions

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

READING TODAY 2pm

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 19/02/2026

How to recognise fascism when you see it, by the the Italian humanist and author Umberto Eco. This 14-point guide is taken from Eco's 1995 essay 'Ur-Fascism' – informed by his own experiences of Nazism in the 20th century. Umberto Eco died #OnThisDay 2016.

The cult of tradition

The rejection of modernism

The cult of action for action’s sake

Disagreement is reason

Fear of difference

Appeal to social frustration

The obsession with a plot

The enemy is both strong and weak

Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy

Contempt for the weak

Everybody is educated to become a hero

Machismo and weaponry

Selective populism

Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This took my breath away. Outstanding.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Tell me again how nobody cares about theatre, how the arts are elitist, how Shakespeare belongs in the past…

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Please share. 💔

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading. See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix. open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #BookSky

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Fourbears Fest 26

The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Fourbears Fest 26

The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

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Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org

A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH FREEDOM IS SLAVERY WAR IS PEACE BOARD OF PEACE

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I've had enough.

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo. I will be taking no further questions at this point.

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Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste? @breakthroughbook.bsky.social #booksky

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/01/2026

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/01/2026

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

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Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping? Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further… #booksky #giftsforbookworms @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

Picture shows the covers of The Fire In Their Eyes and Bone Lines by Stephanie Bretherton

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Happy #AdaLovelaceday ! And here’s to all the brilliant women who broke the mould and made it important and vital (if often overlooked ) contributions to the worlds of STEM ! If not from a scientist then from a punter who is in awe and has women scientist driving her novels… #booksky

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Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Happy #bookshopday! Some of my happiest moments have been during launches or events in bookshops. And there’s still such a thrill from seeing your books rubbing shoulders with other wonderful authors on the shelves… or even better, in a window, table or till display! #booksky

A window display full of Bone Lines by Stephanie Bretherton at the former Broadhursts of Southport

Bone Lines rubbing shoulders with Books by Lindsay Clarke and Robert Woodhaw for an event at Waterstones Exeter

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My local bookshop did a magnificent thing on Christmas Day in 2023 and they're doing it again this year. @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social are such an important part of our community, as are all indie shops to theirs, which is why we have #BookshopDay today to support them. Support yours! #BookSky

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Ride over to Henley with me on your 1970s Raleigh Chopper and hear all about memoir writing, Alan Davies’s White Male Stand-Up and Mick Herron on what plot is just an excuse for. #BookSky #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

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My Week at Henley Literary Festival

Plus how to support your local bookshop on Bookshop Day.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Curtis Chin 🐵✍️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🎥 @curtischin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#London, it's #ESEA Heritage Month. Join us for a reading from my memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" @guanghwabookshop on Thursday (tomorrow) at 6:00 with my friend @hsienc

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Adrian Raffill @aidyraff.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

No heating, no hot water… but I’m writing on gas 🔥 Read my new short story, plus reflections on Orwell, Didion, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of words. Also: the four-letter word we need to reclaim… open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky

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Plumbing the Depths of Language

A short story on the 'F' word, George Orwell on the decline of the English language, and our members enjoy our latest prompted writing session.

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