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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 26/09/2026

📖 Today sees me a start another of my “Picked for me…” collection. This is “Water Moon” by Samantha Sotto Yambao, which @thebookbella.bsky.social selected for me during a #BookTube sprint. No clue what it’s about, but first chapter is v.intriguing 🤗 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #HammockTime 😎

A hand holding up a paperback edition of Samantha Sotto Yambao’s “Water Moon” against a clear blue sky. A yellow bookmark pokes out of the top of the book.

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𝐋. 𝐏. 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐮𝐞 @lpmccuebooks.bsky.social · 6h

You spend part of every week proving to a machine that you're human. It has never once had to explain itself to you. Chapter one of FRICTION is free: lpmccue.com/chapter-one #BookSky #Thriller #SciFi ⚡️📚 🪐📚

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 13h

A well-constructed mystery that proves the genre CAN operate from a place of real emotion. Very much enjoyed this book! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 10h

Refreshing to see some actual prolonged cool weather, marked at times in a forecast model. Been shockingly absent following the first 10 days of January it’s practically been nonstop mild, often excessive apart from one cool week in mid May. (1/2)

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 16h

Another novel that I had no idea had been filmed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_o... The novel is not a crime novel though it contains crimes.

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Child of God (film) - Wikipedia

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 16h

Some writers use 'Herstory' to remind people that women have often (usually) been written out of 'his-story'... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory omg! Mansplaining! sorry...

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Herstory - Wikipedia

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 16h

Wow - what a great novel! Definitely the best fiction I have read in the last year. Perfect length too - under 200 pages. #booksky

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Angie @angieshepherdgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

History; A place where you keep Hiss😁

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👇 A must watch 😍 10/10 No notes 🔭

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to get nearly £200 from people having borrowed my books from libraries this year. THANK YOU @alcs.co.uk

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I almost wrote about this for CW myself. It's so neat. Tens of grams of *elemental* sulfur inside each of us!

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 28/09/2026

🌊 One storm surge feeds the next Dutch researchers found North Sea storm surges cluster: one hitting 1 to 3 days after an earlier storm runs 17.5%, about 7cm, higher than a surge with no recent predecessor. 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2026gl125098 #Climate #Flooding #Oceans #Science 🧪

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North Sea Storm Surges Amplified by Oscillations Triggered by Preceding Storms

North Sea storm surges not only cluster in time, but preceding events can also physically amplify subsequent surges An amplification timescale near 2 days is established from basin-scale post-sur...

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One Squashed Chihuahua. 🤣😂🤣

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Sapere Books @saperebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are delighted to announce that The Princes of Wales by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is published today! Get it here: geni.us/PrincesofWales Renowned broadcaster and journalist Wynford Vaughan-Thomas brings to life the men who held the title across six turbulent centuries. #NonFiction #SapereBooks

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Adam Lomax @adamlomax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my friends were posting the books they owned on discord before so i thought i'd share my mess of a bookshelf in the hopes of seeing what books other people have :D p.s. forgive the mess... #books #nonfiction #swedish #japanese #gamedev #art #3d

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading this morning, Cormac McCarthy Child of God (1973) - There is one sentence I had to read twice! "Late in the afternoon a small thin mattress of stained ticking forded the brake toward the cabin." Really loving it though. Never read one of his #booksky 🖊️📚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_o...

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Child of God - Wikipedia

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today in #LaborHistory September 27, 1962: Rachel Carson's book #SilentSpring was published, ushering in the modern environmental movement & creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. #environment #ecology #activism #books #writer #author #nonfiction

Cover of the first edition, with yellow title against a green background. By http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10564416107, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48694009

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Sapere Books @saperebooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pre-order now: getbook.at/OtherBattleB... An astonishing account of the forgotten final German offensive on the Western Front. #NonFiction #BattleoftheBulge #SapereBooks

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QuickReadeBook @quickreadebook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Risk Management and Financial Institutions (6th Edition) – PDF quickreadebook.com/product/risk-man… #EBooks #Education #NonFiction #Others #Textbooks

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JohnDavidBooks @johndavidbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thoughts on @samuelmoyn.bsky.social's superb account of liberalism defensively retreating into itself after more than a century of promising emancipation and liberation (@yalepress.bsky.social, 2023). #Historathon #BookSky #Books #BookTube #Humanities #Nonfiction #Essays 💙📚 youtu.be/KmFh1A9tu3I

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"Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Liberalism and the Making of Our Times" by Samuel Moyn

YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading James Holland The Visionaries Beautifully produced- wish books were stitched still. Irritated a British writer says 'airplanes' & 'motion pictures' & clearly the audience is expected to be liberal American -borne out by this review lachief.substack.com/p/book-revie... #booksky 💡📚

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Book Review: "The Visionaries" by James Holland

Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II Order Publication Date June 2026

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JohnDavidBooks @johndavidbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My review of Dwight Macdonald's famous essay collection "Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against The American Grain" (reprinted by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social). #Historathon #BookSky #Books #BookTube #Humanities #Nonfiction #Essays 💙📚 youtu.be/JJs_7gAUAS4

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"Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain" by Dwight Macdonald

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're apparently going to read a #lablit Tess Gerritsen (1999) Gravity On a space station, "A culture of single-celled Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, begin to rapidly multiply and infect the crew - with deadly and agonising results." #booksky ⚡📚 🪐📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/32...

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Gravity

Emma Watson a research physician has been training for …

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Archaeologists in Paris have uncovered what they think is ancient Lutetia, a Celtic oppidum mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars that had never been found. 🧪🏺

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Missing Celtic fort annihilated by Julius Caesar finally found under Paris hospital

Archaeologists in Paris have discovered the remains of a missing Celtic fort sacked by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A book for your bedtime

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At the inn, a very merry company in 1615. And they're worldly too, map tells us. And musical! By Willem Buytewech, whose day is today.

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ooh - FBI hacked. Presume the ones into bestiality will be quivering in their barns/stables/kennels...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsa...

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🚨Trump’s FBI GETS HACKED…

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A relatively hot end to the working week further southeast I can see 28C in London on Friday quite easily. Mostly sunny but muggy too and light winds…

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Tabby🪶 @findmeinthecreek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wee gray friend 🐸

A bumpy little gray tree frog trying to sleep on the siding of Tabby's house.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This guy learned how to speak with chicken [📹 lukesgoldies] Original post

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seasoned-citizen.bsky.social @seasoned-citizen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hoover Institution Are we living in the new Dark Ages? Journalist James Marriott joins Russ Roberts on EconTalk to explore whether the decline of reading threatens rational thought, democratic culture, and the gains of the Enlightenment—and whether reading can make a comeback. fb.watch/v/3sZmDxwPz/

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@HStiles1 @hstiles1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love that the wonderful local author Alan Garner, a writer whose work is embedded in the landscape, has been so inspired by the telescope www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #radioastronomy #astronomy

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank

His home's Bronze Age legacy and nearby Jodrell Bank inspire author Alan Garner to write.

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'he planned to continue gurning "until the day I can't do it anymore". ' That is the dedication you need.

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #booksky "Black Bag by Luke Kennard An out-of work actor gets a new role - being locked in a black bag during psychology lectures for an entire term as a professor's experiment. "

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'I tossed books across the room': Booker Prize judges reveal 'tussle' over shortlist

Past Booker winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the nominees for this year's award.

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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having moved to my 'new' Nokia phone, I now have the awful prospect of manually entering all the numbers again. Had the old phone had a smaller SIM I suppose I could have put that in the phone first, then downloaded the numbers from that. But it's an old style large SIM.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember being a big fan of it when I first read it. But that was 25 years ago or more, so who knows what I would think now.

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember loving the book and being kind of meh about the movie. The book had one of those perfect ending lines, how so much of life is accident except the workings of the human heart.

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Birdergal 💙💛🌊 @kestrel61.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Check out her book To the Bright Edge of the World. Even better!

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