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JGriff

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Books, heavy metal, rugby (Scarlets, RGC.) Librarian. Cymraeg. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Caru llyfrgelloedd / love libraries 📚📕📗📘📙📔

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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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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘Be very angry about how the world is being fucked.’ King Guillermo, I adore you. 👑♥️ [Not my video! Saw on Reddit!]
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026
An investigation by The Telegraph has revealed that world-renowned explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been ‘deprived of his liberty’, with his wife having placed him in a Welsh care facility under a false name
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Telegraph investigation claims English explorer has been 'kept in Welsh care home illegally'
Nation Cymru staff An investigation by The Telegraph has revealed that world-renowned explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been ‘deprived of his liberty’, with his wife having placed him in a Welsh care f...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks #womensart
Photo of seven three dimensional paper cut red flowers on green stems
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/09/2026
If the police can arrest an elderly female vicar for protesting against the genocide in Gaza, then they can arrest the people responsible for the ‘thuggish and intimidating behaviour’ happening in Portsmouth, can't they? ✍️Alun Smith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sCD
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
'My wife doesn't work' poster (c.1976) by See Red Women's Workshop, London. One of thd many artists Interviewed in the newest womensart book.... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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CNN @cnn.com · 07/08/2026
After losing federal funding for a decades-long study on marmots, a group of UCLA scientists turned to OnlyFans to raise money for their research.
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Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · 04/08/2026
'Mae’n gywilyddus' Dywedodd beirniaid cystadleuaeth Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn yr Eisteddfod eu bod nhw’n amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o’r nofelau a gafodd eu cyflwyno i'r gystadleuaeth eleni
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‘Cywilyddus’: Beirniaid yn amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o nofelau cystadleuaeth Daniel Owen
Mae beirniaid cystadleuaeth Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn yr Eisteddfod yn dweud eu bod nhw’n amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o’r nofelau a gafodd eu cyflwyno i'r gystadleuaeth eleni
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Iwan Williams @iwanwills.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Araith trydanol / Phenomenal speech 🔥👏 Speaking truth to power,highlighting an inconvenient truth. Love the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymraeg references & comparison. Maori language beaten out of us? Sounds familiar. Am ysbrydoliaeth / What an inspiration. Tamatha Paul 👏⚫️🇳🇿 #Aotearoa
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026
Nope. No, you haven’t.
r/WritingWithAl
u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
94-year-old Clacton voter's beautiful takedown of Reform canvasser is must-watch
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94-year-old Clacton voter's beautiful takedown of Reform canvasser is must-watch
A clip has gone viral online of a 94-year-old Clacton voter beautifully dismantling all the arguments of a Reform councillor.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'm not sure I understand religion. My Christian family insists we all say what we're thankful for before dinner. They say things like "I'm thankful for the strength to be a good person," but get really angry when I say I'm thankful for things like Anusol and Sellotape.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/06/2026
Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’
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Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’
Go Cornish Celebration engages younger generation as council finalises strategy to boost everyday use of Kernewek Seven-year-old Albie, a pupil at Trewirgie infants’ school in Redruth, did not hesitate when asked why he liked learning Kernewek, the Cornish language. “We used to talk this way in the old days,” he said. “And I like speaking now. I enjoy the songs we sing, the Cornish books we read, all the words. It’s fun.” Continue reading...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 25/06/2026
An enthralling, supernatural tale of friendship, zombies, and language. ‘Anfarwol’ is a marvelously written page-turner which follows a group of 11 year olds on a trip to a language immersion course to learn Welsh for the start of secondary school which suddenly goes awry ✍️Onwy Gower
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Book review: Anfarwol by Rebecca Roberts
We continue our reviews of books shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award for 2026. This time we consider one of the titles in the Welsh language Children and Young People’s category. You can ...
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Gormodoblant @gormodoblant.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Tom Morello can do no wrong.
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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📚 It's #IndependentBookshopWeek and we're celebrating with TWO giveaways! 🎁 GIVEAWAY #1 Like, share and comment "adult" for your chance to win…
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Today, i saw an advert for child adoption on the back of a bus I was following, I understand that a decision to go to mcdonalds or join the RAC may be inspired by these adverts, and that's fine. But with regard to the life-changing decision to adopt a child, I imaging a bit more forethought is needed than idly reacting to an ad on the back of the 34A to Hanley. John Mason, email
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
OLLIE'S BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of HUGELY popular kids books You can have any FOUR for £10 (free P+P). Deals can be negotiated. Please share (and buy). UK only.
A shelf of kids books, including Dog Man and Wimpy KidA shelf of kids books, including Tom Gates and stuff from The Phoenix. A shelf of of kids books, including Captain Underpants and Jamie Smart. A close up of some of the thinner books on offer, so people can see the titles on offer.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/06/2026
Yesterday, a judge ruled that four Palestine Action activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite being tried by their jury for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented. Anandita Abraham was outside court where John McDonnell MP and one of the jurors made speeches
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 12/06/2026
Space ships, yeah? We’re all going to Mars are we? 2.2 Billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Are you bringing them to Mars too? You bunch of gullible, greedy cunts.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I did a version of this years ago based around the actual illustration from a real army recruitment ad
Illustration of four soldiers standing in a wall in front of a football goal. Text says If You Like Football You'll Love Dying in a War. ARMY - Be the Meat.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/06/2026
Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation
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Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation
The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in English
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
SIGNED BOOK NEWS! We'll be getting SIGNED copies of "Post-It Notes from the Underground" by Simon Crump Published by the magnificent @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Simon is one of my VERY FAVOURITE authors ever. Order HERE biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
front cover of Simon's new book.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 03/06/2026
“AI makes no demands, requires no moral consideration, and does not attempt to germinate a culture, a cuisine, or a language in your sacred soil”: @doctorow.pluralistic.net on how billionaires are using AI to dispense with inconvenient humans www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them. By Cory Doctorow, against a black background
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/05/2026
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak on stage on her lawyer’s advice amid tech firm’s sanction Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta. Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu. Continue reading...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/05/2026
A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...
‘We are shocked. ‘ Female screenwriters send letter to BBC over plan for male writers to create Sarah ever drama.  Caption over picture of the Sarah Everard vigil in 2021.
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Bolycs Cymraeg @bolycscymraeg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Disgyblion Ysgol Glantaf a Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen yn cyrraedd maes Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn 1978 i gystadlu côr bechgyn dan 12.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on @Nigel_Farage's claims of Russian hacking.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fake OpenAI ad that says "Yes we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves. But it might also help them with their homework." CHATGPT
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Feeling bad about the Guardian's best 100 novels piece? Don't worry. I've made this just for you… mrmenbooks.lovable.app
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Lovable App
If you're feeling bad about how few of the Guardian's best novel you have read… maybe this will help?
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
As requested I have now added a link through to (where available) stories about how the Reform councillors lost their position: refukked.lovable.app
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Lovable App
Interactive online bingo card keeping track of the local election Reform UK exits
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JGriff @gogrygbi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is an excellent article on what we as libraries do. We are now more than ever often social workers as well as the multitude of other things we do. Staff shortages are now the norm and have been for years, unfortunately.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Linden Kemkaran of Reform there... head of a council that spent £600k of taxpayers money on eight free parking spaces for her and her colleagues
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Panel 1
Geoffrey Chaucer, in his traditional late middle ages clothes, addresses the audience on a video-sharing site called 'ThouTube'
"Prithee draw near sires! I am Geoffrey Chaucer and thys is my first unboxyng vydeo!"

Panel 2
He carries a locked chest to a table
"A most hevy box! Lete us get it open and biholde the treasures withyn."

Panel 3
He opens it
"Huzzah! A doz’n comely copys of my new booke “the Canterbury Tales”! I am ful of pryde!"

Panel 4
He looks into the camera again and holds up a copy of the book
"Availabl now inne all goode bookshoppes. And nay forget ye to liketh and subscrybe for more content!"
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026
I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.
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JGriff @gogrygbi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Cynhadledd gwych a diddorol iawn. Great conference, and an interesting one. Diolch! #CILIPCW26
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Iwan Williams @iwanwills.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Reform group meeting when they find out that immigration isn’t anything to do with the Senedd 🥴👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Mr. Mackey: What Else Can We Do?
ALT: Mr. Mackey: What Else Can We Do?
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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FLIES, bluebottles,
REMOV
OF G
AFTER
bees and wasps all
500mle
seem to have the uncanny
ability to find their way
into my house through
the tiniest of spaces
when a window or door
is slightly ajar. However,
once inside they lose all sense
of direction and co-ordination,
continually smashing their heads
against every flat surface in a futile,
random, trial-and-error bid to
escape, even when the doors and
windows are pulled wide open.
Perhaps Sir David Attenborough
would care to explain that.
T O'Neill, Glasgow
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CILIP Cymru Wales @cilipcymru.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Digwyddiad ar-lein nawr - gyda rhaglen o siaradwyr sy'n ysgogi'r meddwl ac yn ysbrydoledig - archebwch nawr! / Now an online event - with a programme of thought provoking and inspiring speakers - book now! #CILIPCW26 www.cilip.org.uk/event/Cynhad...
Bilingual text reads Cynhadledd CILIP Cymru 2026 / CILIP Wales Conference 2026. Mai / May 9 2026. Ar-lein yn Unig Nawr / Now Online Only. Rhyddid deallusol mewn oes o anhwylder gwybodaeth / Intellectual freedom in an age of information disorder. The CILIP Wales logo is at the bottom of the graphic with the tagline Ar gyfer gweithwyr llyrgell a gwybodaeth / For library and information professionals. The information is illustrated by a person sitting at the foot of a giant laptop.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA) given to multi-millionaire former UK PMs in 2024-25. John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined. All supported means-testing for benefits.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I'm doing another raffle to raise some dosh for 2 schools. Tickets are just £2 each You can win ALL these SIGNED books + £50 to spend on books of your choice. The money raised is going on books for two amazing schools Details HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex... PLEASE REPOST.
Ten  books, all signed by the authors. This is the prize for winning the raffle. 

Authors include Val McDermid, George Saunders, Bradley Wiggins, Kate Mosse, Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem), Mary Beard, Colm Toibin, Rev Richard Coles, Niall Harbison, and me!
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wales has 7.2k children/young people in care. Profit-making companies provide 80% of children’s residential home places, and a 1/3 of fostering. From 2030, profit-making will be banned in the sector. But there are serious issues with the plan . willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
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The most vulnerable people in Wales
Why simply making laws isn't enough...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 11/04/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Isn’t this fantastic news. Beastings by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Which we published in 2014 Has been optioned by Mark Herbert at Warp Film (This is England) and Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters at Matriarch Productions (Adolescence & A Thousand Blows) Magic. @thetimes.com
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