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@lifeisamazing.bsky.social
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I deal in rare books, write & publish books, give talks, present shows. I make my living from words. If you're rude or aggressive I'll block - I am curating, that's all. I block habitual shitposters because I hate lies. I do not engage with the far right.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Kinks - a fab band!
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Idiot Tory on BBC Radio 4 Today: "We've had 45 years of Tory tax cuts and deregulation that have got us here. We want to change all that with more tax cuts and deregulation."
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thread. Excellent.
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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 03/10/2026
A compilation of bird Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... #art #bird #owl #duck #chicken #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #inkart
Compilation of 16 sketchbook pages of drawings of birds: Flamingoes, Ostriches, Adelie Penguins, Swans, Blue Footed Boobies, Secretary Birds, Pelicans, California Quail, Kakapos, Albatross, Canadian Geese, Chickens, Shoebill Storks, Bitterns, Kiwi Birds, Seagulls, Ducks, Burrowing Owls, Owls, and Cassowaries.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My experience of shows that use a real literary figures engaged in fictitious adventures is that the idea for the show isn't good enough to stand without borrowed characters. Viz Houdini and Doyle... wondering if there are any that actually worked?
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember that election in which we voted for Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg to steal the collective works of humankind with no recompense so they can put everyone out of work? Me neither.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon's been watching those reruns of Linda Carter-era Wonder Woman again.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember, the more the machine can film and analyse your behaviour the more it can predict it when it comes to wiring you out.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, it's rather pleasant to fuck someone off on here when you're not in the mood to suffer fools.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Have read quite a few Victorian novels this year, and I have to say, they feel really relevant to the modern age, more modern than modernist books, somehow.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Basically, the folk horror movie Enys Men is an adult retelling Children of the Stones with infinite time loops, weird ghostly goings on, etc, but only one stone.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is rather brilliant.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do you realise how stupid you must be to need to ask a machine to think for you?
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cripes. The paparazzi killed his mother and he stepped back from Royal duties and became a private citizen. Why can't the press leave them alone? They have nothing to do with anything.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
3 episodes into S1 Stranger Things and I have thoughts. Put aside the ugly aesthetic & casting, the show feeds on cliché. The Evil Dead, Hellraiser, every horror movie in a wood, ET, X-Men, Close Encounters - each strand could be a franchise. Maybe the Emmy was given for compression into one show?
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If reform were in power, a brown man turning up at the scene of an unproven bomb plot unannounced would prove it really was a bomb plot.
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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The activities in Fairford appear to be an overconfident, poorly planned, operation to steal large quantities of fuel oil. But enough about the US Military
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Ben Elton's Politics Bit
Alt: Early 1989s Ben Elton,with long hair, making a joke about a little bit of politics
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was the foreign actor the USA? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The dishonesty of the right wing media is so awful. "Oh no, look at the disaster creates by *exactly what we demanded*. Its all the government's fault!
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There will come a time when Ukraine delivers android soldiers by drone. That day is coming closer, I think.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey! @tadethompson.bsky.social , remember when I said I was hopeless at drawing? This is my first attempt at a human figure using a kind of frame approach. I think this is all right, as a first go. 😀
Fountain pen sketch of a woman with hips at angle, in shorts, arms at one side.
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Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Passport control. Bastard Brexit.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many people talk about Tucker Carlsin as if his turning on Trump is not consistent with his former support for him. Tucker saw Trump as a chaos agent for the US, which aligned with his own pro-Russian agenda to destabilise the US. He's also a neo-Nazi, so Trump siding with Israel is a step too far.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great opera singers like the one at the end of this video bring me to tears of joy and admiration.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Who uses the name", instead of "goes by". Good lord, a rare instance of English used without sloppiness or laziness. I thoroughly approve.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"America mustn't be a multicultural society because it is based on a society which is a blend of three completely different countries, one of which, England, was a multicultural society of Anglo Saxons, Danes and Normans. Oh, and fuck Wales", says Elon.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thinking how the games I graduated on were: ZX Spectrum Ant Attack, audio cassette driven version of The Hobbit. Prince of Persia for DOS 3.0, then Myst and Riven for W95/98. And then I decided that video games were for kids and havent played one for around 28 years. And I am totally cool with that.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stella Braverman is a useful idiot for racists to point to for cover.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is distressing is Associated Press feeling the need to explain to journalists what "anthropomorphising" means.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Beast In Me: Nile is wonderfully written: arrogant, funny, charming, repulsive. Agatha: earnest & pained. Their relationship interesting. But my goodness Aggy's book extracts are laboured hackwork dressed as psychological insight. In all the writing, her book within the script is the weakest.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"You can't make this up," apparently. I guess that's the problem with Republicans: an inability to think.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is some truth in this. Us old guys like to be flattered that we're somehow still relevant to young people.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seeing a lot of misinformation about Danny Tommo slashing an RNLI boat. He actually slashed the boat used by the migrants with an RNLI volunteer aboard. This should be bad enough for our outrage. We don't need to sink to their level of lies. The truth about that arsehole is bad enough.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Am currently reading Country People by Dan Mason, after a fabulous review on Radio 4. The big book of the summer and hilarious was the general consensus. I'm only a short way in, but the limp text is not doing it for me. What am I missing?
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just watched Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey again. I love it - chaotic, silly, Margot Robbie just fabulous and the fairground fight scene at the finale feeling very much like the 1960s Batman tv series and the comics from the era. A caper in the way the comics aren't, these days.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But hasn't Trump heard of crypto?
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Prediction: just as Trump's Iran war is pushing countries to solar & EV use, threats to Europe push countries to buy non-US weapons, tariffs unite countries against the US, sanctionsing international institutions will prompt alternative financial tools. With every step Trump diminishes US power.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Europe and the UK need to ban crypto and stop US billionaires wrecking western culture. We at war with the US.
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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This sums up how business succeeds by providing increasingly shitty service to a captive market that can't get their services elsewhere; by nickel-and-diming their customers because they basically see the supplier's role as "frack the last remnants of money out of every customer".
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
everyone I care about and love is struggling emotionally, underemployed, worked to the fucking bone, forsaken by basically everyone outside of their communities. I’m inclined to be a lot more forgiving toward my trans siblings right now than I otherwise might in a perfect world, and so should you
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The council leader at Piddington, Tim McNally has offered to rename the village to Trumpington if Donald Trump agrees to adopt it as part of the US. These people claim to be protecting the British way of life, and yet are literal traitors. Make it make sense. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
As villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The EU and UK should sue Trump for starting a war that's costing them. It's the only thing he understands, and it would be worth it for the shits and giggles.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just watched Bait the indy film (2019). As a representation of how the rich piss on the poor, it is quite something.
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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent the last 15 years promoting Portsmouth. Today I am so ashamed I want to leave they city forever.
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