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Ceramic artist/Uni admin person, when not with nose in a book/wandering the landscape/knitting.

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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 6h
Well, I'm in! (I hope the brooding is as up to scratch as the brooding of his Mr Thornton in North & South, which I just re-watched again).
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Errr...yes, yes I could. What is wrong with these people?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 26/09/2026
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The roofs won’t be enough
“Just put them on roofs instead” is the most comfortable argument in British politics. It is also the one that quietly hands the bill to our children.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Something very strange and disturbing is happening in this country, of which Braverman is just the most pitiful example. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return...
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The return of race politics
Ethnic minority politicians on the right are engaged in depraved acts of self-hatred, in order to capture a movement which will never accept them
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't think of a more telling small indictment of the modern world than the fact that most autocorrect systems insistently, repetitively want to change the word "cat" to "car".
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/09/2026
“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform. Stylised image of men in black clothing and balaclavas, with a Union Jack in the background and a rubber dinghy
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
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Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know how the phrase "tree hugger" can ever be seen as an insult. Hugging trees is a great. Even better is waking up in a tree's arms and telling it your dreams.
A stone pine, at dusk, in Devon, wishing it was in Japan.
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have now started the audiobook of EWSY by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Justin Avoth has a voice like a dark,oak panelled country pub warmed by a real fire on a cold clear winter afternoon. If pubs could speak, and I bet they do in private. Absolutely gorgeous and so, so right for this.
Cover of Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox. A linocut of a beach overlooked by cliffs and a small white cottage. A person (or maybe not a person?) walks on the beach.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AWARDS BAIT! Catch up if you haven’t yet. #BrokenVeil
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wooohoooo!!!
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're urging everyone to stand up for human creativity and we need your help: please add your voice by signing the petition below.
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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work,…
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I sometimes feel hesitant about promoting this book, being a follow-up to a novel that people tell me made them cry & became a lasting part of their interior world. It's short and silly, nothing like EWSY. But I think there's room in the world for comedy sketch shows as well as epic two hour films.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Do crypto billionaires donate to BBC as well, or does BBC write this garbage for free? BBC article humanises fascist bully boys 🗞️ teaching us all about Tommo's religious conversion🙄 . But not 1 interview with the people of colour he targets & intimidates, a chef's kiss of dehumanising the victims .
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've put together a little guide to them here: www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-guid...
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A Brief Guide To My Books
Villager is where I'd advise you to start if you wanted to read one of my novels. It's also the one people most frequently tell me they reread. It's set on a fictional moor which just happens to be in...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child Electricity Pylons The cellar in my grandparents house Death via grain silo Terrifying dog at the top of our street Moths Cybermats The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Mantraps like I saw in a World About Us episode
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have more meetings in Halifax today. 🤞 I’m doing all I can to save this place for the Arts and the good people of West Yorkshire… and even further afield. In saving such places, we ALL win! 🙏🏻 Please RT. Thank you. #SaveSquareChapelArts #Halifax
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
REALLY hope this becomes a massive fundraiser for the brilliant RNLI.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have bought this book 4 times: 1. Money was stolen from pledgers and author alike by Unbound 2. Bought from new publisher hooray! 2. Gift for friend who I know likes a strange book as much as me 5. Audiobook, because I heard an excerpt the reader's voice - Justin Avoth - was *perfect* for it.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: The Peter Thiel Backed Race Science Network There is a connection between the two Cambridge Professors. Orr was part of the ‘race realist’ group which targeted Arday as a ‘DEI hire’ Support our investigations
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I watched the video of these elderly Reform supporters violently assaulting a young woman and it’s incredibly disturbing. I wish I hadn’t, though now I have the measure of how out of control and dangerous these people are. Arrests should follow. Meanwhile this thread makes very good points.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Somehow this seems all the sweeter for it coming to me via a lovely little post office in Dorset. Hopefully has been brought in from the rain by our cat sitter!
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I expected to be disappointed and I am 🙄
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In my lower 6th form year (1984-5), we were OBSESSED with the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Looking back it seems a weird film for a bunch of small town Yorkshire teenagers to latch on to, but I'm so glad we did.
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Tim Curry Frank Furter
Alt: Tim Curry as Frank n Furter
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Don't come round here offering tree surgery, even wearing your Stihl branded T shirt, when you can't tell the difference between a hawthorn and a pyrocanthus 👀.
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Man in Cowboy Hat Looks at Watch
Alt: Silly cowboy gif
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Bluesky user has written to me to ask me to stop mentioning my books on here. I wonder... Should I continue trying my best to make a living in a tough world via the writing I've spent decades putting my heart & soul into? Or should I obey them? Nah. I'm going to continue mentioning my books.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stephen King: submitted for the approval of Elon Musk [rising from bushes]: eyyyy stephano king King: oh for pete's sake King: we only interacted like three times on twitter! King: how long is this going to go on?!
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My unscientific research suggests THAT scared the shit out of everyone except my friend who was in the loo at Doncaster Station and had put her phone away.
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Woody on his invisible guitar, deep into a soulful noodling session.
Woody our black and white cat dreaming of being a guitar hero.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It’s a bit mean to decide to declare medically sound ADHD and autism diagnoses are bullshit, just cos you reckon so and have a platform, (looking at you Channel 4 and The Telegraph and The Mail) given that neurodivergent people get disproportionally upset by unfairness, injustice and bullying.
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Fi @ficooper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I may need to make a few kyathos-es mainly because of the bonkersly huge handle!
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“As the prime minister tours every region of the UK, it will be hard to miss the impacts of this extraordinary summer: wildfires, drought, parched farmland & people struggling to work in extreme heat" - Emma Howard Boyd Now Burnham must act on the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record
Key tourist route closed and residents rallying round as battle against wildfire expected to go on for several days
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please read this and please do NOT watch the goddamn documentary.
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