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Candide Kirk

@candide.novellic.com
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Busy building Novellic, the app for readers. Off-peak hours: tech, politics and fantasy 📚. Granddaughter of Nakba refugees.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🏔️ The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is seeking UK-based librarians + library staff to join its 2026 review panel! Read some of the best contemporary adventure fiction + take part in discussions that shape the long + shortlist for the £10,000 Prize. ow.ly/xETG50Y0wYJ
Invitation for UK librarians to volunteer reviewing books for the Adventure Writing Prize, with full training provided and application details.
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Al Jazeera World @aljazeeraworld.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“The word ‘doctor’ had a price. We’re now paying this price.” Gaza doctor and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, has been in an Israeli prison for a year after being detained without charge or trial. Watch the film: aje.news/DrAbuSafia
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Banksy drops another one, this time criticising the Government cracking down on Peaceful Protestors holding signs.
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 11/07/2025
The cognitive dissonance is off the charts at the beeb
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
51 killed in Khan Younis as they queued for food distribution outside the "humanitarian" compound Every. Day
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Novellic @novellic.com · 12/06/2025
Wishing @scriblit.bsky.social and Farrago a very happy #BookBirthday on the paperback #publicationday of the brilliant #CursedUnderLondon! When two men are thrown together by the curse of immortality they are drawn into a dark plot they must overcome while trying not to fall in love!
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 04/06/2025
Absolutely shameless. Vote these vile people out.
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 22/05/2025
Is it now socially acceptable to talk about the genocide on this app?
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
People still wondering about intent. Israeli minister: “I say to the prime minister, ‘Dear prime minister, we must not give them humanitarian aid. We must not give them fuel…’ Our enemies deserve only a bullet to the head!” aje.io/d9wxs3
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Israel kills 81 in Gaza as ‘different messages’ emerge on ceasefire talks
World Health Organization tells of ‘horror on horror’ in Gaza’s hospitals as medicines run out to treat dying, injured.
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 24/05/2025
The unimaginable horror. Losing 9 children in one heartbeat. And the world moves on. Like they weren't her entire universe, like she's not worthy of your empathy.
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 22/05/2025
Is it now socially acceptable to talk about the genocide on this app?
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 15/05/2025
I see the racist dog whistle posts are gaining more traction in this place as well now... Ten times more dangerous because BSky *pretends* to be the civilised space
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I know that things change over time and you can't say some things at the start of a 5-yr term and never change the plan, but surely more people would have voted for the Tories if they wanted these policies? on.ft.com/458XxeO
Britain's development minister will tell MPs that
"the days of viewing the UK government as a global charity are over", as she considers suspending aid to overseas projects supporting education and feminist organisations.
Baroness Jenny Chapman will set out her vision for aid as the government budget is radically reduced over the next two years, when she appears in front of parliament's international development committee on Tuesday.
The UK's Foreign Office must pivot from paternalism to partnership and focus more heavily on helping share British expertise abroad rather than directly spending cash, she will say.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A Palestinian man: "These are the body parts of young children, shredded to pieces. Six young children are missing and these are some of their body parts. Who would accept that?" Hani Mahmoud reports on yesterdays airstrikes by Israel.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Why is anyone still listening to Tony Blair?
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.” Thinking about the types of people who participated in this atrocity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Extraordinary piece on Pope Francis's climate legacy by Argentine Ricky Lanusse, whose grandfather knew him from the barrio. Remembering "the last global leader who understood that rising seas and rising inequality are the same story told in different languages." medium.com/the-new-clim...
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Pope Francis: The Most Radical Climate Leader On Earth Is Gone
A man who wasn’t just friends with my grandfather — he was friends with the sun
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 11/04/2025
Where "AI" is short for "farmed out to low wage workers in the global South"
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is how ICE is treating Dr. Badar Khan Suri in custody. A scholar of religion and peace processes who has 3 children under 10 and who moved to the US to raise those children "in a society that values religious tolerance." ICE is torturing America's best www.acluva.org/en/press-rel...
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Video of arrest, new details in Trump administration’s case targeting Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Dr. Khan Suri for speech on Palestinian rights
“In my work, I’ve seen lots of injustice. I just didn't think it would happen to me here," says Dr. Khan Suri.
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Novellic @novellic.com · 08/04/2025
Calling all #darkacademia fans! Join us this May for an exclusive 10-day event with a special #giveaway of When We Were Killers by C.F. Barrington - and a dark academia prize! Find out more: novellic.com/portfolio/wh... @headofzeus.bsky.social
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Israeli forces kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israeli forces kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
<article data-history-node-id="420853" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-13-palestinians-gaza-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-13-palestinians-gaza-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces have killed at least 13 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting, citing medical sources.</p> <p>Of that figure, at least nine were killed in escalating Israeli bombardment of southern Gaza's Rafah, while another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery shelling targeting&nbsp;the Ezbet Abd Rabbo area in Jabalia, northern Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 01/04/2025
This man will never know a good product idea if it hit him smack in the forehead and shattered those moron glasses he's wearing
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Three dead in Yemen after US air strikes - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Three dead in Yemen after US air strikes
<article data-history-node-id="420663" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-dead-yemen-after-us-air-strikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-dead-yemen-after-us-air-strikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Three dead in Yemen after US air strikes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The spokesperson for the Yemeni health ministry on Tuesday said three people were killed and two others wounded after US air strikes targeted the main water facility in the al-Mansouriyah District in al-Hodeidah Governorate.&nbsp;</p> <p>Most of the victims are employees of the plant, Anees Alasbahi said on X.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 30/03/2025
Monsters.. absolute ghouls
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The right to peaceful assembly in a Quaker meeting house? Arrested in a Quaker meeting house? This is off the charts not ok.
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Tamsin Worrall - Green Politician @tamsin62.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Say his name: Hossam Shabat
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 24/03/2025
This app's biggest problem is self censorship.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 23/03/2025
5/ Journalist Abdallah Al-Attar is at the site. He reports the surgery department inside Nasser Medical Complex was directly targeted, and there are dead and injured
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 21/03/2025
Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 20/03/2025
Speaking to The Bookseller at London Book Fair (LBF) 2025, Palestinian bookseller Mahmoud Muna reflected on the 'shocking' events he has endured since his arrest on 9th February. 👇 #BookSky
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Palestinian bookseller on 'shocking' raids on Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop: 'It's a different world'
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 20/03/2025
Terribly sad news today
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"We found them dead in their beds ... Most of the building's residents were women and children. We are searching for their beds to find them because they were all bombed while they were asleep."
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
To be clear, carpet bombing Gaza got Netanyahu out of his court hearing today.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Through the night surgeon Feroze Sidhwa was operating on young children at Nasser hospital, trying to save their lives. The interviewer asks him if he can see arguments on "both sides". Feroze's answer is spot on.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2025
Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit
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Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit
Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts Cuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already leading to more people starving to death around the world, experts have…
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 13/03/2025
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's sad that, because my country has some semblance of rules about the size and safety of cars, I will never, ever get to experience the joy of seeing a Cybertruck trundle by while I do the wanker gesture.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Posted this on the day of the UK General Election last July and made a few Starmerites VERY angry indeed. Contrary to popular belief this is not meant to be one specific person, it was just based on (practically verbatim) centrist cope I'd seen to that point. How's it going for you now, superstars?
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The latest data shows that nitrous oxide emissions have fallen by 37% in Lambeth since the ULEZ expansion. Strong endorsement of the action that is being taken to clean up the air we breathe and improve health.
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 05/03/2025
I'm incredibly proud of the reading guides the Novellic team has been putting together!
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Candide Kirk @candide.novellic.com · 27/02/2025
There was a similar trend with overzealous tagging of Trigger Warnings in online reviews which disproportionately impacted diverse authors negatively...
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A reminder to us all to address childhood trauma before it turns you into a massive bell…
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