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Kim Whysall-Hammond

@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
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Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-…

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
"So, I think we need a totem" - Yay, right on, Boss! "It must be a big gold disk, the Sun" - Awesome! "And it should be pulled by a pony" - Wow! Radical! "And the whole thing put on wheels" - Yes!! "Ok, so you go make this thing, I'll go wash my hair" - Yeah!!......um why're we doing this again?
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote this brief guide to the six women on the Bazzy Tap - three of whom have their bits out
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Ælfgif-who’s who? Bayeux Tapestry edition
Six women appear on the Bayeaux Tapestry - who are they?
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RADON ON THA HUGO LONGLIST FOR THE FIRST TIME HELL YEAH
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
By this schedule it looks like the vote for a Speculative Poetry Hugo will be held at the meeting on July 26, 2026 which begins at 9am PDT
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Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
From the oven of Tempelhof, Berlin… #heatwave #poetry #poem #poetsofbluesky
The sun, boiling white-hot over a molten lava sea. Heatwave 

When brass monkeys look smug
When you sweat like a murderer in confession 
And all you’ve done is stand up
When there aren’t enough ice lollies in the world 
When saunas are cold comfort
When the breeze uphill is like 
Someone’s trained a hairdryer on you
When even butterflies pant
When beige is the new green
When reservoirs recede
To reveal old spires
When you’re wide-eyed, sleepless 
Waiting for the bedroom to go ‘Ping!’
When you turn the pillow to the cool side
And there is no cool side
When the heat waves
And you daren’t wave back

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He's not wrong.
Ever realised how fucking surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours on end, hallucinating vividly.
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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The insects are massive this year, aren't they!
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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯%, This Here... 👇👇
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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Absolutely true!
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s time for the British people to accept that all their attempts at self-government in the past 1600 years have failed, and resubmit to Roman rule
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...
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Greta Thunberg warns 40°C heatwave about to hit UK 'is only the beginning'
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Early stroll. The sky wears an apron of cloud. Socks walk along a washing line. An abandoned bedhead sleeps. A doll’s head peeps from a carrier bag. There was one horse in the field; now there are two.
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Congratulations to Ben Baldwin who is a finalist for Best Artist in this year's British Fantasy Awards. Here is his cover for the latest Green Man book.
Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.
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🍯honey bee🐝 @po3try.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
corvids fly 3% faster at night #scienx
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I read a lot of books on craft, mainly because I enjoy reading and writing and discussions about the mechanics of writing. Many craft books make assertions, some true, others less so. Usually, it's an extrapolation of their subjective experience. Sometimes, I find these frustrating.
"Flow is something the reader experiences,  not the writer."

No, this is not correct (in red pen)
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Closest I’m going to get to my name being up in lights I think!
An image advertising a book talk for the Borders Walking Festival in Jedburgh on 10 September at 7.00. It has a QR code that can be scanned for tickets.
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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Yay, the World Cup starts today. I mean the women’s T20 World Cup, obviously.
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Clare Proctor @almostasif.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#SaturdaySolicitation Release the #EpsteinFiles Yes? No? Raise your hand! @bibliophile99.bsky.social @mickeyd123.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social @im-just-sayin.bsky.social @katarinakriz.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @theothermike.bsky.social @amsickofpollies.bsky.social
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Emmet Gowin / El Khazneh from the Siq, Petra, Jordan, 1985
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The traffic lights at Leeds Station are delaying its completion because the contractors used a green man that is a Neopagan nature figure, This means bees offer it honey, birds their eggs and travellers crossing the road here inexplicably break into Morris dances.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are deeply saddened by the news of 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧’s @liekemarsman.bsky.social passing at the age of 35, one of the most authentic poetic voices in the Netherlands. This and other original poems w/ English translation can be found @ www.poetryinternational.com/en/ #poetry #writingcommunity 🇳🇱
In some lifestyle magazine they’ll ask me
as they ask all women of a certain age
are you worried about getting old?
And I would say, are you crazy
decay means progress to me
Not as in ripening, which implies a period
of prolonged waiting until you can
do what you were always meant to do, but rather as an indication 
that you’ve been doing that very thing all along – living
that is, and given the correlation
between time and expertise
you’ve been getting ever better at it 
Now, for example, you simply know
which people are the ones
worth spending an entire evening with
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The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Terry Pratchett’s 2027 Discworld calendar has been announced and will be available in a few short weeks! Discworld illustrator Paul Kidby returns to give your eyeballs a visual feast! terrypratchett.com/discworld/20...
The cover of the 2027 Discworld calendar showing a colourful M.C. Escher parody with Discworld characters
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Mark Young @markyoungrg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very sad to see Anthony Head has died. Saw him as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the West End many years ago. RIP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 05/06/2026
Seeing a ton of folks wondering where to get audiobooks these days 👀 We are an audiobook company that share profits with 4,000+ indie bookshops across the globe. Every time you buy an audiobook with us—there are over 600,000 to choose from—your indie benefits. (Which we think is pretty cool.)
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discWorld order @discworldorder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Transworld donated 10,000 copies of Unseen Academicals. Which feels like a very deliberate choice as the book, at its heart, is about characters growing and becoming more successful by embracing new things or by reading.
An excerpt from a Facebook page for The Bookseller amagazine.
The geadline reads "Transworld donates 10k Terry Pratchett books to National Literery Trust".

The 10,000 books are copies of Unseen Academicals.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
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Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The BBC News is asking if the stock market is in an AI bubble. What I think …
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Tiptoe Through The Tulips with Hot Air Balloon
Alt: A field with furrow lines full of blossoming red tulips against a red sky with a hot air balloon. Tiny orange GIF butterflies have been added to the image. Caption: Tiptoe Through The Tulips
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"If you reach the final two grumpy cows before the sea, you have gone too far," they said. And that was how I realised I had finally gone too far.
Two magnificently belligerent cows I met on the South West coast path the summer before last.
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Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yeah. Let's all live on porridge. Then no-one will complain when we moan about the price of it (except maybe to say we should have made it with water and salt not milk and sugar).
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 04/06/2026
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens on Friday (5th June) on the site of an 18th-century waterworks as part of a £12.5m renovation project, offering the world’s largest space dedicated to illustration. 👇
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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens in 18th-century waterworks following £12.5m transformation
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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
For a print magazine that has a lot of art, comics, and photos does it make any difference to you whether it's color or black and white? And if so, would you pay a little extra for color?
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The end of Roman Britain. #RescriptOfHonorius
Brown heritage Road sign showing Roman helmet and word “End”.
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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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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn’t produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement.
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pixel Scroll 5/26/26 The Three Filers And The Secret Of The Purple Pixel Scroll file770.com/pixel-scroll...
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Mark Stewart @markstewart2001.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
35 years ago today Helen Sharman returned from space, writing her name into the history books in the process. My short blog celebrates that remarkable achievement and the conclusion of her pioneering spaceflight: markdestewart.wixsite.com/the-metaphor...
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Going Home
I tried to imagine what it would feel like. Getting inside the cramped capsule, the heavy hatch closing, strapping yourself in, going through the endless checklists. Waiting for the moment of separati...
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Cheese rolling results are in
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Cheese Rolling 2026: Tom Kopke among winners in Gloucestershire
Thousands of people brave high temperatures to watch the annual event on Cooper's Hill.
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wee reminder to my trans & NB siblings: You live rent free in the heads of some seemingly very angry and unhappy folk … Don’t let them live rent free in yours. Get on and live your life and feel the joy …
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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sign in translation: Toilet - One Place One Dream
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Tomas Lenander @mrodomino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Having now finished all the Discworld novels I can say it has become one of my all time favorite things. The novels are a beautiful journey, they’re clever, funny, insightful and most importantly, deeply and rightfully angry.
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really frightening.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide.
I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud.
Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service - and kick Palantír out.
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Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Put BBC News on at 12:30 to catch the headlines. One piece of news was so important they switched to it live: the 600 year old, Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire cheese rolling competition! It's a totally unofficial event, people just turn up. A cheese appears. No insurance. @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This redefines love through the lens of everyday responsibility It's not just romance & passion but also the ongoing, often unglamorous & invisible, work of keeping things going A form of stewardship, quietly bearing the weight for others Every relationship needs an Atlas #poetry #poemoftheday
Poem - 'Atlas' by UA Fanthorpe
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