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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf

@jozebwrites.bsky.social
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Writes blasting sci fi and fantasy. Dogsbody at Secret Bookshelf Carrickfergus. Consultant in all things management

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy captain trips day!
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Endings and beginnings
On a sunny day in summer 2011, I’m at home, ostensibly working (I’m a management consultant at this point), but there is a cloud hanging over us, a sense of a slow slipping away of something important...
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Was lovely to see you today!
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ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’re in the mood for some spooky season reading, @jozebwrites.bsky.social at The Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus can sort you out.
A wooden table laden with piles of spooky, horror novels.
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Benn would have been better kept on
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looks the Norn Irish noble art of battening down the hatches will be commencing. Off for wine supplies as soon as….
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The start of the bookshop’s story - as Jo unpicks where our little books space began and how it grew. Enjoy! (You should be able to click the link) substack.com/profile/1398...
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Book Lady Zebedee (@jozebedee132288)
This is about the power of a vision, the support of a community, and a celebration of brave forays into the unknown. In 2020, after more than 40 years of combined bookshop experience, myself and my h...
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I haven’t noticed any management texts about it as yet - which is really what you’re looking for I think - but will keep an eye on listings
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the UK. Fascist terrorists are called "activists" and anti-genocidal activists are called "terrorists".
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wild lot of airline shenanigans at the moment….
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Avoid the ‘integrated’ schools. These are run by ultra-liberals obsessed with LGBTQ and other leftist dogmas. Avoid them like the plague, or the intense brainwashing will turn your children into blue-haired, sexually confused, self-hating, freaks. It appears I’ve succeeded as a parent-freak-raiser
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jeez. Thanks for listening for the team
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a tiny baby sloth to brighten your day . 😍
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...
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Piddington, you're welcome to leave the UK. Don't let the door hit you on the way out
Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good luck if he ever wants to bring Galway girl back to Galway (married to an Englishman I fecking hate that song, like we’re trick ponies) - he’ll be as welcome as Thierry Henri
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sheeran seeing everyone calling him a coward and defending himself by declaring all his solidarity is done in secret without even a whisper of irony
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah dear. Ed Sheeran sitting so hard on the fence he got a skelf up his arse. Like us or not, agree or not (and we make an art form of disagreeing) the Irish hate weasels.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
No election fraud to be seen here.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating watching the confusion in England as to why masked men are allowed to march wherever they want and intimidate whoever they feel like while the police and politicians do nothing. *waves from Northern Ireland*
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Party of Thugs.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just finished this from @scalzi.com - great fun, very nerdy, but some very touching moments too. Five stars! (Bought at @jozebwrites.bsky.social The Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus of course - where discerning readers get their subversive materials)
Book cover: When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi. It's about the day the Moon changed to cheese, and what happened next...
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He’s terrific fun :)
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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It sounded great! Was too busy to get out to watch alas
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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Did I just spend an awful lot of the past 2 days helping our @octocon.bsky.social Programme Head to put together the schedule and people? Are we going to send it to participants tomorrow? Am I feeling a bit spaced out right now and in need of someone to bring me a good meal and some chocolate?
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Big Yes! Excited Reaction
Alt: Big Yes! Excited Reaction
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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you looking forward to the @octocon.bsky.social programme? Well, we've been hard at work assigning people today, and tomorrow we continue with the combined Tetris-Jenga game of scheduling, so that draft schedules can go out to participants very very soon with some very excellent panels included.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
BonesSpurs McDraftDodger had the unmitigated gall to post this image & I just threw up in my mouth a little. At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency? #StolenValor
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#OpDeathEaters "I promise it will grow into its name - it's the biggest story in centuries" - Heather Marsh, in 2014, 12 years ago, while naming nearly all of those names. 👇 vice.com/en/article/b...
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Behind Anonymous’s Operation to Reveal Britain’s Elite Child-Rape Syndicate
Online activists are working hard to stop the media from ignoring a possible child-molestation scandal that could involve high-ranking political figures.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As I predicted when Ukraine began striking Russian refineries, Trump is going to blame Ukraine for gas prices & begin to pressure them to stop doing it. Once again, the US will side with Putin against a country fighting for its survival. We’re morally bankrupt under Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We would love to see Worldcon come back to Dublin, and if you have funds right now, this is the best way you can make it happen AND secure your membership nice and early!
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canadian PM Mark Carney gave a little history lesson to the 80 year-old insufferable brat sitting at the White House. Lake Ontario was, is and always will be Lake Ontario!
Mark Carney • @Mark/Carney • 52m
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari'io, which, appropriately, means "the lake is beautiful, the lake is big".
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario - then, now and always.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth." Greta Thunberg in UN Speech, 2019
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"Nepal flood
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…
A strawberry jelly with curdled cream set into it in the shape of a happy sloth. The curdled mixture has set to look just like shiny meat.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry ending up in Muppet Heaven like a mighty warrior being accepted into Valhalla.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/08/2026
Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️
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Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards
npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oops!
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2026
Whoa! A whole secret bunker was built under the White House during the Obama administration - separate from the old bunker under the East Wing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
oh jesus if you want a violent uprising of white winemoms this would do it
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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So… who would like to see me, @hollyblack.bsky.social & Callie Hart in LA in ONE WEEK? Link for tickets: therippedbodice.com/event/2026-0... #booksky
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Callie Hart, Holly Black, & Sarah Rees Brennan - LA Romantasy panel
Shop The Ripped Bodice, America’s first romance-only bookstore, featuring new releases, signed books, and curated picks across every subgenre.
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 20/08/2026
Simon Baron-Cohen expresses concerns about the suicide risk of Jason Arday, saying it raises "safeguarding issues" and that "it's time to stop"... and Helen Joyce responds with "This is moral blackmail. It is beneath you".
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In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is autistic. He has been accused of plagiarism and he was cleared of any academic misconduct following a rigorous investigation by Liverpool John Moores University. And yet he continues to be systematically discredited over every detail of his life, daily. We should of course always investigate plagiarism to protect academic standards. However, I cannot stand by and watch when an autistic man is on the ground and the kicking continues. This is relentless bullying of a vulnerable autistic man and raises safe-guarding issues. It’s time to stop."

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This is moral blackmail. It is beneath you"
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Telegraph has deleted, without fanfare, the word ‘living’ from the headline of Stephen Daisley's article on Professor Arday. Today, it just reads “Jason Arday is proof that you reap what you sow.”
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