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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 2h

FT #ITFC 2 (Ouattara, O’Shea) - 1 Fulham Uppa Towen!

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 3h

B3579? It’s a little rogue but it’s a classic.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 5h

Today’s #ITFC starting XI at home against Fulham

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 9h

😊 I made a game about British birdsong and time travel. The newest level is set in #Ely, starting about 7000 years ago... 🐦‍⬛ Listen to birds, guess who's singing, and collect the dawn chorus. 🦻It's built for accessibility and free to play bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #GameDev #Birdsong

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Rob Eastaway @robeastaway.bsky.social · 23h

New this week, my Much Ado About Numbers website which celebrates the links between maths, Shakespeare and Elizabethan history. Do have a go at the quiz - can you score more than 3 out of 10? Here's the website. Enjoy! www.muchadoaboutnumbers.co.uk cc @mathsjem.bsky.social

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 10h

Bird of the day from Shakespeare’s poems and plays: “Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, good uncle.” #Bardspotting #Geese ABRAHAM SLENDER The Merry Wives Of Windsor Act III, Scene 4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Merry Wives Of Windsor. Text reads “Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, good uncle.”

Two geese running away from the pen (not shown) through a grassy field.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 10h

#Wordle 1,939 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bird of the day from Shakespeare’s poems and plays: “Fairy king, attend and mark: I do hear the morning lark.” #Bardspotting #Lark ROBIN GOODFELLOW A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Midsummer Nights Dream. Text reads “Fairy king, attend and mark:
I do hear the morning lark.”

The morning lark perched upon a thin branch.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Wordle 1,938 3/6* 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still got a new(ish) book out if you're that way inclined. Five stars in Mojo etc. A singular band and a singular songwriter - plus cameos from Warren Beatty, Jimmy Webb, Spike Lee, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, yes, Bob Monkhouse.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Voted for you @louiestowell.bsky.social and a cheeky side vote for Stuart Turton!

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Via Nobel Prize: "New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland."

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, that’s a tough line up, too. Good luck. Of course, if it comes down to penalties you’ll know what to do…

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry to hear the result. Perhaps next year, Rónán.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bird(s) of the day from Shakespeare’s poems and plays: “So With dove of Paphos might the crow Vie feathers white.” #Bardspotting #Dove #Crow GOWER Pericles Act IV, Chorus

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Pericles. Text reads “So
With dove of Paphos might the crow
Vie feathers white.”

Two white doves on a wall. In Paphos, one assumes.

A crow in a garden squawking about not having dove white feathers.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8 - 12 October For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 49 “MAPLE REACHES PEAK OF GLORY” #Booksky

Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons)

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The attractive appearance of the blackbird was not overlooked by Shakespeare, who has mentioned him in one of his songs: "The ouzel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill." *Midsummer Night's Dream*, III.i. *The Ornithology of Shakespeare* (1871). 139.

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Eurasian Blackbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A singing male Eurasian Blackbird is a study in elegance: a glossy black bird with a vibrant yellow bill and eyering delivering a leisurely, beautiful song from a high perch. The female, which also…

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wordle in 1 Bonus October 7, 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 3:11

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey. @libro.fm are an ace audio book provider that supports independent bookshops. You can choose your fave indie (me obvs) and buy books from them. Each time you do, you get a book, and you also help out your chosen indie bookshop libro.fm/howitworks

libro.fm

How it works

Support your local bookstore while listening to great audiobooks.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Wordle 1,937 2/6* 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bird(s) of the day from Shakespeare’s poems and plays: PETRUCHIO: A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen. KATHERINA: No cock of mine: you crow too like a craven. #Bardspotting #Cock #Crow The Taming Of The Shrew Act II, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Taming Of The Shrew. Text reads PETRUCHIO:
A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.

KATHERINA:
No cock of mine: you crow too like a craven.

A cock with no hair hence a combless cock.

A crow in a garden crowing about his feathers.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Wordle 1,936 4/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026

H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I shared this print in my newsletter & sold quite a few there but forgot to share it here. anyway there are three left now, limited edition linoprint, v good value IMO 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/blue...

a large linoprint of a heavily-pattered stylised raven perched on a mountain range. Blue gradient background.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Faradiddle, Sir!

The poet Thomas Thorne in Ghosts. (He is known for dramatic recitations of his epic narrative poems)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

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How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "'ello!" The first of forty visits to the cellar of the monster's castle that features The Trap Door, by association the glory of a Willie Rushton voiceover, and the stop-motion skill of future Wallace & Gromit co-director Steve Box.

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The Trapdoor - Breakfast Time

Watch more Cartoons here :https://bit.ly/37L30II Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk u

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

God is taking scandal hit awful men in their 80s today. Fingers crossed.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bird of the day from Shakespeare’s poems and plays: “‘Twas pretty, though a plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart’s table —“ #Bardspotting #Hawk HELENA All’s Well That Ends Well Act I, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play All’s Well That Ends Well. Text reads “‘Twas pretty, though a plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart’s table —“

A hawk perched on a leather gloved hand.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Wordle 1,935 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mistakes were made 🤷‍♂️

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Snowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need so much more of this.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Sound – Shining – Penguins – Traitors – Matchboxes – Eyeball

levparikian.substack.com

Six Things, Volume 168

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/10/2026

Plague, plague!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hooklanders talk of dusk as 'hurry home'. It's an attempt to express that creeping sense of peril that comes upon you in certain places as the sun goes down. Twilight terror. Another cup of tea declined. The Highway Code ignored. The true rush hour of the county. – #MattAdams

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did James Acaster have to plead his case before being recruited to Pulp?

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's one of those topics - death - that I don't think gets discussed enough, especially the small admin stuff that we will all need to do (or, if you've not prepared, leave it all for our grieving friends and family to do). Really looking forward to Broken Biscuits, too. Whilst I'm still here.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can never be *too* prepared!

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Booksky #Bookpost #TBR Two great parcels to receive today! Broken Biscuits by @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and Get Ahead Of Being Dead by @christinamartin.bsky.social on super fast delivery from @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Off to the To Be Read Pile guys.

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