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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no.93: Get to know your characters. Find out what they would never admit, where they keep their keys, how they celebrate. You don’t need to tell your readers all this (though it’s sometimes fun if you do), but it helps a lot if you know.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
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• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 16h
“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22h
Looks like Trump's bold strategy of committing war crimes has once again failed to win over the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Tough crowd.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mask by Gladys Paulus, Dutch-Indonesian felt artist #womensart #FridayFeeling
Photo featuring a standing white woman facing forwards wearing a black dress and with a cow mask, against a green rusty metal fence
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Corita Kent, a US Roman Catholic nun, peace activist and Pop art screenprinting artist who helped shape the Pop Art movement and was also friends with Andy Warhol #WomensArt
Four images, including three of colourful screen print artworks and one monochrome photo of a nun in front of artworks on a wall
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💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 22h
Keep your Great British lawn and your garden borders secure with the… WEEPING TOMMO™ From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of the upper half of a woman in a greek style
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Does the UK want to reopen the bitter Brexit debate?" asks Vicki Young. There is a way of reviewing our relationship with Europe that does not reopen "the bitter Brexit debate", which I think is underpriced. We could all be honest and agree that Brexit was a shit idea.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Literally a selling point of the pervert glasses. And now no one can feel safe getting undressed in front of anybody wearing spectacles, in case they’re being secretly filmed. Thanks a lot, Mark Zuckerberg, for making anyone with bad eyesight now inherently an object of suspicion.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
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Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sigourney Weaver is 77. Seen here sharing a joke with Ridley Scott on the set of Alien.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who or what is behind the direction of the government’s AI policy? According to minister for artificial intelligence Kanishka Narayan it’s, er, AI!
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Painting by Nathalie Orselli #art
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Roger Moore: class act. #JamesBondDay
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please make sure each person gets one of these at my funeral. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m doing a book event in Edinburgh next week if anyone is around and fancies it - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nuance...
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The Nuance Drought: An evening with Natasha Devon
The nuance drought is having a devastating impact on every area of our lives. Join us for an evening to discuss how to end it.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Emmmmmma @e-quinn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dear god I love this advert, though I don’t think I’ll buy the brand they’re advertising. youtu.be/_Z7Htwb6g3c?...
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Cadbury's Bournville advert | Talking Retail
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart
Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
We don't often agree with Kemi Badenoch, but she's spot on here 🚨
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I admit to being rather confused when some folks offer that Andrew Tate should face the death penalty for his sex crimes when it's a well-known fact he was brutally murdered by Greta Thunberg back in 2022.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Camille Claudel (1864-1943), French sculptor who was known as 'Rodin's muse', but who many assert was a more accomplished talent, and who was committed to an asylum for 30 years despite her apparent sanity #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman with a lace collar and wavy dark hair tied back
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer of HM Prison Belmarsh and HM Prison Wayland
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trio, 2022 by South African painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi #UnlockingWomensArt
Painting with simple representation of three black athletes in green embracing
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Departed is 20. The Xs were used to foreshadow characters’ deaths.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Eve Marie Saint I showed this scene for decades when I taught screen acting. I muted it & asked my students just to focus on Saint & Brando’s subtle body language & of course, the brilliant use of the glove. Saint’s vulnerability & quiet steeliness make the scene sing. youtu.be/dHtJUWO7yeA?...
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Terry and Edie's scene in On the Waterfront
YouTube video by QueenMeshi
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Book festivals, please, PLEASE don’t use AI to write author bios and book descriptions. Currently, I am being advertised as attending a festival next month for a talk about a book that doesn’t exist…
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Counterpoint: he deserved less.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So far only two men have made Jacob Rees Mogg look like a comparative genius whilst in conversation with him - Tucker Carlson and Ali G.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman, head and shoulders, with wavy shortish dark hair and wearing a blouseBook cover, Penguin Edition of Orwell's '1984' in ornage and cream with a penguin publisher's motif
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is really great! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The challenger in Los Angeles is Nithya Raman, an Indian-born urban planner and two-term City Council member who is trying to unseat Democratic Mayor Karen Bass on Nov. 3. Note: The latest poll I saw showed Nithya Raman ahead.
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New York has a socialist mayor. Los Angeles may be next
Could L.A. join New York's new urban left?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 03/10/2026
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Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
Milt Windler, one of the leaders of Mission Control who directed the effort to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hart Bochner is 70. We laughed at Ellis at the time but little did we realise that the Ellises of the world would end up taking over America.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven: too subtle for his own good.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Peter, Henry and Jane Fonda in 1961
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kimsooja, contemporary South Korean artist famous for works like To Breathe, which covers massive gallery windows in special translucent diffraction films that turn ordinary sunlight into glowing prisms of colour #Womensart
Photo featuring  six gallery visitors in silhouette in front of a huge backdrop of prismic light causing reflections on the floor
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.
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