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@idledragon27.bsky.social
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A wanderer of words, and I like to ramble

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"St Trinian’s meets the legend of Faust" in @genevievecogman.bsky.social's brand new, and very entertaining, A Scholar's Guide to Demonology & Other Dark Arts, in which a slightly unprepared Phil takes on the role of Latin mistress at an unusual, windswept school on the Yorkshire moors... 💙📚🪐 #SFF
A hand holds a copy of the book in a bookshop.
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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BTW if anyone wishes to commission me you are welcome, you will have to pass 3 trials of my choosing though heh ;)
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hollie McNish is guest number one on Liberation Conversations - you can hear it here www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... or Spotify or Apple (trying to build up the number of places you can access episodes from) #poetry #creativity #sexuality
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Liberation Conversations #1 Hollie McNish | Robin Ince
finally, here is episode one of Liberation Conversations with the fabulous poet Hollie McNish - we talk of creativity , misogyny , breastfee
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idledragon27.bsky.social @idledragon27.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am doing #Drawtober this year but it may be patchy. I've decided to use an Oracle deck for inspiration rather than a list from anyone. Decided this on day 2 after using a scrawlrbox for Crow. To day it's wisdom, and where you get your wisdom from...
A pen drawing of a pile of books and scrolls with an ink pot and feather pen in foreground right. Have used coloured pencils in green, red and pastel blue to shade.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An interesting side-product of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social sending US folks to Blackwells online for his books is that I've also discovered Blackwells online will ship overseas to me for even better prices than amazon in many cases (and they have lovely UK editions of things I can't otherwise get!)
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm probably going to try and do #Peachtober again this year - if you like that kind of thing and wanted to join in the prompts are here:
The 2026 Peachtober prompts:
1. Oak
2. Chimney
3. Moose
4. Spell
5. Cinnamon
6. Plum
7. Bubble
8. Sticker
9. Flowerbed
10. Compass
11. Sail
12. Bramble
13. Windmill
14. Crayon
15. Sun
16. Moon
17. Braid
18. Sprinkle
19. Basket
20. Seal
21. Nightlight
22. Green
23. Stardust
24. Hug
25. School
26. Blanket
27. String
28. Knight
29. Squash
30. Triangle
31. Moth
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a picture of the biggest benefits claimant in the UK. They claim an eye watering £17,500,000,000 a year. The same as 4.4m people on benefits. How? Because they claim ALL their costs, every wage, every oil rig, every tanker. Completely nationalised, but the profits are Privatised.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Free Palestine. Fuck Ed Sheeran.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my plan this year is just-do-the-thing-i-kept-saying-i-would-do-but-never-did-tober
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why is our economy still suffering post-Brexit? Because the Powers That Be failed to attend a VITAL event seven years ago today, so they were unable to hear directly from... er, the ghost of Margaret Thatcher how to manage the process properly. OBVIOUSLY
A flier that looks homemade, decorated with a photo of Margaret Thatcher, bearing the words: No-Deal Brexit? Margaret Thatcher's Message from Spirit World!! Friday 13th September, Thursday 19th September, 7.00pm-8.30pm. Was she an Angel or Devil? Where is her spirit now? Her current messages to People in UK. What does she think about the current Brexit issue? Scan the QR code to watch the spiritual Message. To watch the full version, please come and join the session at Happy Science. (3 Margaret Street London W1W 8RE) Reservation is Recommended (Suggested Donation £5)
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More interesting history you probably didn't know.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Mushrooms, mycelium and the vanishing woodland commons Let’s think about the future of the forest before we strip it of its precious resources @sussexbylines.co.uk
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Mushrooms, mycelium and the vanishing woodland commons
Let’s think about the future of the forest before we strip it of its precious resources
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I min 45 secs of a bank vole visiting the bird café.👇🏼Research shows watching film of cute animals lowers stress levels (if you’re not keen on mousey boys scroll by). Small mammalian visitors so far: ✔️Fingerbob the wood mouse-had a stand off with Dave the robin ✔️v tiny fast shrew ✔️bank vole (Bernard)
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/09/2026
Academics have been studying how cities should be designed to protect their inhabitants from extreme heat
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What green options are best for urban cooling?
Academics have been studying how cities should be designed to protect their inhabitants from extreme heat
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/09/2026
Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/09/2026
As extreme heat makes cities dangerously hot, urban planners are racing to find ways to cool down our concrete jungles. #UrbanHeat #ClimateAction
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What green options are best for urban cooling?
Academics have been studying how cities should be designed to protect their inhabitants from extreme heat
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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New #blog post: How and why #RayBradbury, a real, human author, chooses to use the em-dash, and why it's important to reclaim the punctuation mark from the machines. #rayday #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #noai
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Bradbury vs the Bots: Why Human Authors Choose to Use the Em-Dash
Last Saturday, the literary world celebrated Ray Bradbury’s birthday, as fans around the world memorized their favorite passages by the acclaimed science fiction writer and recited them on their channels, along with the hashtag #rayday. The tribute was inspired by Bradbury’s most famous book, Fahrenheit 451, in which (spoiler alert) a group of rebels memorize important works of literature so that they will live on even as the authorities burn all the physical copies.
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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/08/2026
Various news articles saying Tim Curry was 'best known for' and then listing a random film role. I think you'll find he was best known for being Tim Curry.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/08/2026
It's true, it says so on the poster
Tim Curry, Legend
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have approximately 20-25 slots left in the August edition of the #InverteFest art book! Download past editions and see the submission form here: invertefest.com/#artbook
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The British History Podcast @thebritishhistorypodcast.com · 26/08/2026
This is some Monkey's Paw nonsense. We're losing all the best 80 year olds while the worst one is walking around looking for monuments to demolish.
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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry now?!?!? WTAF www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tim Curry: The Rocky Horror Picture Show star dies at 80
Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/08/2026
Someone in a big blonde wig with a big heart on their chest handing out books to kids with the words “always be more Dolly”
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kids these days will never know what it was like, hearing Evanescence “Bring Me To Life” on the radio. Evanescence won the 2004 Grammy for best Hard Rock Performance, I’d memory serves.
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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
CHARITY AUCTION 2026 Preview Site is *LIVE* Hi everyone! It is with great pleasure to announce the early opening of the charity preview website! I have separated sections for the wonderful artwork and signed books! Please visit 🙏 skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
A selection of mari lwyd themed postcards and bookmarks2 watercolour mari leyd one postcard one a42 signed book donations sue black an expert witness and doom song
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
JK Rowling: hurry up children, we're all going to pay tribute to dobby'sssss grave! Barker: dobby the elf that you made up? Rowling: blassssphemy! Rowling: dobby is real and he died for your sssinsss!
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/08/2026
What if the loudest birds got all the credit? From robins to barn swallows, female song is real, strategic, and wildly understudied. Science is beginning to put that right. Emma Phipps reports.
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The hidden bias in bird research that impacts conservation
Scientists long focused on colourful male birds, but female birds may hold key clues to conservation and survival
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/08/2026
Pecksniff rummages through the political dustbins: * Operation Fortress meets French sovereignty. * Badenoch discovers Reform is ‘woke’. * The King fails Lowe’s ‘white British’ test. * Britain dreams up another way of almost joining the EU
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Pecksniff: Reform’s plan to invade France
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Words to live by online
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Exciting news breaking this morning! Zitting Cisticola has bred successfully in Britain for a second consecutive year, with at least seven juveniles from three broods recorded at Walberswick NNR, Suffolk, this summer:
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Zitting Cisticola nests in Suffolk for second year running
Zitting Cisticola has bred once again at Walberswick NNR this summer, with two pairs raising three broods.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.
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Ways Unseen @ways-unseen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Gonna have another go at this Kickstarter thing the kids are talking about! #tabletopgaming #rpgs #maps www.kickstarter.com/projects/way...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026
Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
we are just now starting the cover journey for my next traditionally published horror novel, and are working with an artist, and i just have so much gratitude in thinking 'how wonderful. i have my job, my editor has their job, my cover artist has their job, and ALL IN THE CREATIVE ARTS. heckin JOBS'
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Tom Toro @tbtoro.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Please repost this so others can rip me off all day. Amazon were supposed to put this back to full price on Friday. They haven't. Still £1.99 on Kindle. Might end any second. So get a wriggle on. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I couldn't put it down” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A must-read” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Blistering" amzn.eu/d/0aCQ0oAE
Baby's Breath paperback cover
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/05/2026
Mike’s been elected to the local council. NOW he can do something about the boats. That’s what he campaigned on, after all. Oh wait… #satire
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A day in the life of our new local councillor
After all the campaigning, what’s it really like to be a local councillor? In this report from the front line, Mike tells us
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
FUN FACT: I NEVER miss a movie that has "GROGU" in the title. #MustSee 👀
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 24/05/2026
A Million Acts of Hope Dire Straits frontman, Mark Knopfler, unites with communities to say 'thank you' to the people making hope happen in the North East northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...
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A Million Acts of Hope
Dire Straits frontman, Mark Knopfler, unites with communities to say 'thank you' to the people making hope happen in the North East
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 24/05/2026
More than a decade after Leveson, questions about press accountability haven’t gone away. A new report argues the current complaints system may not be giving readers the protection they expect.
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New report questions who holds newspapers to account
A new report and polling suggest many readers lack confidence in press complaints systems
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/05/2026
We are terrible terrible people.
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✨Cloud✨ @princeofcloudcity.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oh this bill sounds amazing. Please spread the word and call your reps to tell them to VOTE YES for HR 4678 💜 this would be a huge anti-censorship win.
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