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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dear DEATH, Please stop taking the fabulous people. Signed, Everyone

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

this is where they keep the Pratchett books, I assume

Waterstones department sign that says OOKERY

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hey @oz-penguin.bsky.social, thanks for the care package. I'd've DMed you, but I refused to give BlueSky my ID details 😜

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Elegance personified (Alvin, 2023) He's in the cattery while I recover from major surgery)

A large white cat sitting propped in a corner of the couch, his belly and boy bits on display while he cleans himself.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Open heart surgery: do not recommend, 0/5⭐

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My dead tree version of A conventional boy by @cstross.bsky.social is finally shipping. Now I can see what everyone's been raving about. (I ordered it before Xmas, so forgot it was due this month)

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At #AusDwCon, the Australian Discworld Convention Nullus Anxietas X

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm curious what these will taste like, since Twisties are usually cheese -flavoured extruded corn. Or chicken-flavoured.

A pink bag of Twisties Churros, marked "NEW" in top corner and a health star rating of 2 out of 5. "Sweet, fun and crunchy"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Panel One.
Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog

Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books"

Dog-walker "Really?"

Panel Two.
Front, becoming agitated
"It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!"

Panel Three.
Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?"

Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Yesterday I got an actual Nigerian Prince email scam via *Snailmail* German postage label, Chinese name and a UK mobile phone no. It's the 90s again💵💵💵

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I wonder what this is that's just arrived in suburban Adelaide, South Australia? Could it be...? @colleendoran.bsky.social @terrypratchett.bsky.social @goodomenshq.bsky.social

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I've just ordered 2 *more* books to add to my unfeasibly long to-read pile: A conventional boy by @cstross.bsky.social and Physics for cats by @tomgauld.bsky.social. Considering I've only got to the 2018 purchases in the pile, it'll be a while before I get to them. If only work didn't get in the way

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Alvin destroyed his James Bond bowtie, so now he has a Walter Mitty one #catsofbluesky

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I would read the hell out of a book series with a title like “All things wise and wonderful”, where a newly-qualified vet takes up a position in a country village only to discover that every single case he has to deal with is a magical creature and his partner in the vet practice is a dragon.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

White t-shirt with illustration of cat lying flat and legs splayed, captioned Not Today.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

In today's episode of the history of late antiquity the Goth Guide. Oh. There would be a picture of an Invisigoth, too, only unfortunately...

Goth Guide

Goth--barbarian with spear and shield
Visigoth--barbarian in white
Hi-Visigoth--barbarian in yellow jacket
Ostrogoth--barbarian in winged helmet with axe
Osteogoth--guy massaging barbarian's back
Ostrichgoth--big barbarian bird with head in sand
What's love Goth to do with it--barbarian channeling Tina Turner
Gothpel--musical barbarian
Gotht--ectoplasmic barbarian
Three toed Goth--barbarian upside down in a tree

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Tufted puffins at the centre in Seward today

A picture of a pair of seabirds on the water. They have stubby orange beaks, and feather tufts growing back from their eyes

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In 2007 we had a Rudd-slide. I guess they'll be calling this one the Albolance? No? At least the Trump effect works as well here as it does in Canada #auspol

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Democracy sausage acquired (2 actually because I hadn't had breakfast) @democracysausage.org Salisbury Downs PS.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Standing in line to vote and get my democracy sausage. Biggest lineup I've ever seen

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@scalzi.com may not have made it to Adelaide, but his new book has

Cover of John Scalzi's When the Moon hits your eye, featuring an astronaut standing on a landscape of Swiss cheese

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A very zoomed-in photo of a rainbow lorikeet in my back yard.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Guys, yesterday, I needed a cord I’ve been holding onto for 10 years. IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.

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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Massive away win for the little fella.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Call it Joseph or Dolly?

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The proofis left tothe student.

Text is "You've heard ofElf on the shelf, now get ready for"

Picture below is Sméagol on a beagle

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Me and a mountain troll at Nullus Anxietas 9, the Australian Discworld Convention #ausdwcon

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Just had to say goodbye to Theo, desk monitor and hair stylist. 10 years old, diabetic and finally heart failure. Maybe now he will finally get outside.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

I've been ill, so hadn't been to the comic shop in 4 months. When I did get there I found the 1st 4 issues of a new title from AWA by @straczynski.bsky.social called U & I. I don't recall seeing any promotion for it, though it's pretty good and set in the Resistance universe.

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

I love that the British Library catalogue record for The nightmare stacks by @cstross.bsky.social has these subject headings. I fancy a novel set in Leeds, here's one... Also, should I read Escape from Yokai Land before The delirium brief, or after?

BL online catalogue record for The Nightmare stacks only has subject headings: Fiction/Thrillers/Espionage
and
Leeds (England) -- Fiction

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Back home recuperating from surgery. I don't think trying to finish @cstross.bsky.social's Nightmare stacks was a good idea with hindsight; the last 4-5 ch. were a slog, with disaster after disaster ending with a massacre of cosplayers. 😜1/2

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Hi @straczynski.bsky.social, only took a week for my B5 Bluray box set to make the long journey from the UK down under to Adelaide. Now to see if it runs on my player ...

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Chris @ibid68.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

I'm testing the waters out here. Less toxic than Elmo's playground, but some people missing. I don't want to manage a plethora of social media apps, but my follows have split over various sites.

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