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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 10h

Stressed because I put an e on the end of memoir in my payment app and I can't work out how to edit it. The woes of living with ADHD and autism. 🤣

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever I place at the front of the stall sells best. Which goes to explain why supermarkets always put the feature offers on the end of the aisle. Barnstaple pannier market Devon history genealogy

Barnstaple pannier market display of my books including several "guest authors"
Today is mainly local history.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 16h

What a complete and utter moron. The USA would be better off led by a drunk, demented gibbon. If the POTUS were simply 300lbs of American processed "cheese" it would be doing a better job. And we ALL suffer because of it. Fuck America. Not the people, just the country.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which also explains why they go unreported And you just know this is not just Cornell, right?

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Caption "Just because you can, Doesn't mean you should!"

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Steve Lucas @steve-lucas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

INKTOBER 2026 Day 2 - Relic #Inktober #Inktober2026 #Sketch #ink #Art #Day2 #Relic

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Rosemarie the moth @pastelgothmoth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2 Relic, i think i went a little insane tbh #inktober #inktober2026 #relic

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agreed. No! Nothing should be written by Gen AI. Not books, regardless of genre, not back cover copy, not marketing or emails or promotional material. Nothing at all! Also no artwork and definitely not audiobooks. Boycott anyone who does use it, too. 😡

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Oliver J. Tooley (Olli Tooley) @otooleyauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do you realise, if we dredge up every historic rape that went unpunished, sacked the perpetrators and those who let them off, we'd lose most senior politicians, several world leaders, about half the police, lawyers, and judiciary, and a vast swathe of academia, right? I can't think of a downside.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading "4 Days in September" a book about the battle of Teutoborg Forest in which various tribes of what is now Germany annihilated three entire Roman legions. It is very poorly edited, constantly repeating facts and phrases, it feels like wading through treacle. It could be at least 30% shorter.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I #AmWriting and researching sacrifice. death ritual, and #IronAge bog people, here's a listen on The Ancients podcast. Love the warning: "Contains detail that may be incompatible with Sunday lunch." 😅

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No problem. I don't want to work for anyone with that attitude.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/09/2026

News reporting on a sex offender being wrongly allowed out of prison and just casually mentioning he had been using ai to create indecent images of kids. I suggest all ai image creation apps be renamed Paedoshop henceforth.

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Calf and wind blown hawthorn tree above Hexworthy on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. It was wonderful to be so high, you could see the sky through the gaps in the stone walls. ☺️ #photography

A red Devon calf walks towards a hawthorn tree on a moorland hilltop.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Imposed waiting times on people with ADHD is like checking for a broken leg by asking the patient to stand on the suspect leg.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Writers : Developmental Edit : Structural Edit : Copy/Line edit : Proofreading Car owners : Car Design : Engine/Body Mods : Regular Service : Valeting Gardeners : Buying the land : Landscaping/Layout : Pruning/Weeding : In-Laws are coming round

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thitdevonbloke.bsky.social @thitdevonbloke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can someone tell me the answer, cos my food bills just keeps going up. I bet tesco profits are consistently rising..

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Janey Llou (Jane to my friends) @janeyllou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Searching for anything on Google with that ai shit is a nightmare. Looks like it’s going to be 🦆🦆go for me now

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Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'As a refresher course in historical reality, I recommend Ian Goldin’s Shortest History of Migration... Goldin’s whirlwind chronicle of migration through the ages is not, however, simply a chronicle of disasters avoided but of opportunities embraced' FERDINAND MOUNT in @lrb.co.uk

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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Rosemarie the moth @pastelgothmoth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been working on a some art for a friend and it’s finally done Here is a link to the project this is all for, it’s a magical girl horror ttrpg sapphic-flesh.itch.io/oneiroi (I was gonna do alt text but then lost half what I wrote i give up)

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yep. A Roman citizen 2000 years ago genuinely believed they were better than a barbarian king simply because they were Roman. Every empire does this and they are always wrong.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the weirder things about the UK is that it still has a monarch with actual powers* & how when ‘adults’ think about a replacement president they think that that person wld be worst!** So Lady Di’s brother said Chuck said, Di wld be forgotten. Now further evidence is coming out! Ouch!

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 22/09/2026

I'm working on the Indie Bookshop site again but the links are all to pot and I'll be getting these back up and running properly over the next week or so but here is an oldie #BrowseABookshop interview from Cogito Books in Hexham #bookshop #indiebookshop www.indiebookshops.co.uk/2026/09/22/c...

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Cogito Books, Hexham, England

Cogito Books is at the heart of Hexham’s vibrant and independent community. We use our enthusiasm and expertise to make book buying in Cogito personal, pleasurable and interesting. Since opening in…

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone just sent me a link to an AI thing for converting PDFs Umm, NO! You don't ever trust AI. Not only will it be WRONG in a variety of stupid and obvious ways but it will STEAL everything you have done. I blocked the user who had one follower and was following no-one. Ugh!

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So for #selfPromoSaturday I thought I'd shout out the various creators for #levelupA5e (which includes me under the Homebrew and Hacking) imprint. Some quite cool stuff here. a5e.tools/rules/third-... For examples of my work (for free). 1/

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Third Party Products | Level Up

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weasel have to do something about that won't we.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there any way to tell @Bsky that the "suspect AI" banner on someone's profile is nothing of the sort? Or is it a third party thing I signed up for that is just absolutely rubbish?

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look! Businesses, STOP asking me to review you. Did you review my books? No. I need reviews far more than you do. No book review? No business review!

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Oliver J. Tooley (Olli Tooley) @otooleyauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got a lovely birthday card from my sister. There is something of an "in joke" here that sort of shouldn't need explaining and wouldn't really help much if I did. Suffice to say this is the best birthday card I have ever had that didn't have money in it. 😊😊😊

A Christmas card featuring a Christmas tree with the gold star and red baubles stuck on making it 3D
The background is red with pictures of wrapped presents, bows, and stars.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth taking this thread on board and learning from it. But the people who need it most will not accept it.

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Chrissie Parker @chrissieparker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A Night of Thunder is a year old this week! Have you read it yet? If not, it's available here: www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Thunde...

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not good that a hacker got control. But I constantly think about ditching meta entirely. Here's hoping meta completely collapses soon.

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Dave Merritt @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who opposes assisted dying needs to read this thread. It is traumatic. Having read it, please share with the rest of us your reasoned objections to assisting people in such dire circumstances, with no prospect of recovery or effective alleviation of their symptoms, to die.

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Every single POS MP who voted against this bill, and everyone else who argued against it, should be forced to read this thread and think carefully about what they have done. It's only because I am not evil that I don't wish them to endure the experience. 😡

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Btw for anyone new to torcs who wants to know what they actually did look like, you can compare and contrast to real, guaranteed not AI, photos and facts on my website www.bigbookoftorcs.com

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The Big Book of Torcs

by Tess Machling

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OI! DEVON! I AM COMING TO STEAL YOUR CHIPS! Or at least Loki is, at Budleigh Salterton literary festival On Sept 26th 10am. Tickets here! Come! And do share! Being an author who does events = constant worry that no one will come to your birthday party budlitfest.org.uk/event/louie-... #KidlitUK

A four panel comic in my wobbly black-line style. The first panel shows Loki from my books transforming into a seagull. The second panel shows a couple at the seaside with chips. In the sky is an outline of a bird, labelled, "Me. In the third panel, Seagull!Loki is stealing a chip. In the fourth panel, seagull!Loki is saying delicious. The chip steal-ee is saying, "fucking seagulls" except it's made up of doodled symbols like skulls and stars cos this is a kids book.

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Tim Maidment @timmaidment.com · 12/09/2026

Today in Libraryland: Printing and IT access for all, free wifi and comfy seats, children's activities, lego and duplo play clubs, chess, creative writing, councillor drop-in surgeries, new staff starters, and a coffee to start it all off #librarylife

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Nick White @doggypicks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Police are investigating Reform UK over allegations that it broke foreign funding laws. It's clearly time to kick big money out of our politics. Please sign the letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/200435/...

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Reform UK under Police investigation

The Police are investigating Reform UK over allegations that it broke foreign funding laws. It's clearly time to kick big money out of our politics. Please sign the letter.

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𝒩𝒾𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒶𝓈 𝒸 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝓎 @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m no longer active on x. Previously I had a very long thread on #originsofcovid19 , but I deleted all my data. I will, slowly, over time, attempt to recreate this thread 🧵 here, mainly just focusing on videos, not scientific papers ect .

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