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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 19h

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

make it weirder

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At #Questival in port sunlight today! I’ve been a few different panel venues over the years, but none quite like this….

The inside of chist church port sunlight a crowd of fans sit in the pews with seats in front of the altar with stained glass behind it

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And there it is. 🔥

Comment on Reddit: AI is here so the wealthy can feel talented, while making it impossible for the talented to become wealthy.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GREAT NEWS !! Thanks to SCIENCE — specifically, Dr. Fauci — a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV will not reopen in 2027… because there aren’t any HIV infected kids to attend anymore! More of the story in the Alt-Text:

Thanks to rock-bottom rates of HIV infection among babies in the state, One Heartland, one of the nation's largest summer campgrounds for HIV-positive kids, is no longer needed.

Perinatal transmission of HIV, when children contract the virus while in the womb or breastfeeding, has fallen to below 1% in HIV-positive mothers in the United States thanks to antiretroviral medications.
Globally, new HIV infections among children up to age 14 have declined by 38% since 2015.

And this is all thanks to Dr. Fauci!

Appointed NIAID director in 1984, Fauci oversaw large-scale clinical trials networks that helped transform HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counterpoint: At least Vampires are generally attractive...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'You know, I never watched Game of Thrones past the point where it overtook the books.' I said to myself. 'Maybe I should fix that. It can't be as bad as everyone says.' ...and I'm only on season five.

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Stitch: Frustrated and Annoyed

Alt: Stitch: Frustrated and Annoyed

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 29/09/2026

My second book, Echoes of Chaos, has been out for 5 days! Huzzah! This is book 1 of a new series, so you don't need to have read my standalone, Reborn in Ash. ❤️ Follow Eryn and Arlan as they're brought together by prophecy and an ancient conflict that isn't quite done with the world. #BookSky 💙📚🪐

A graphic with a faded marble background, text, and the cover of Echoes of Chaos by Gabrielle Steele on a tablet and a paperback. Header text: "Guided by light. Hunted by shadow." Subheading below the book image: "A new epic fantasy from Gabrielle Steele". Body text: "Desperate to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, an outcast makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal, but when she gets caught up in an ancient conflict, she must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to end her beloved’s suffering." Cover description: The background is dark blue with a cracked texture. The title is silver with a metallic almost 3D effect. Behind the title is a circular emblem of abstract dragons circling each other, one dark the other light. Beneath the title is a flame-coloured eagle in a watercolour style. Layered over the bottom of that is a marble-effect silhouette of a woman riding a horse with a cat beside it, surrounded by vine-like roots. The horse is rearing and the cat is up on its back legs reaching a forepaw towards the nearest root.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seeing as we live in Britain, anything mooted as a "radical" is either born a lie, or sacrificed at the altar of "hard choices" at a later date. This will not change.

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 28/09/2026

Dialog. It's easy for me to write two people talking. To the point that sometimes I'll just have long stretches of it without a lot of stage business, or that's how I'll get to know a pair of characters, by having them talk to each other about something #WritingPrompt

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This feels like the setup for a sapphic murder mystery.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BBC news has posted a blurry photo of five men under arrest, with their faces pixellated. Altered versions are now circulating where they have significantly darker skin and their supposed faces can be clearly seen. Think very carefully indeed before sharing anything about the RAF Fairford incident.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One useful function of the fleeting Starmer era was hammering home that when a politician says "We hear you" or "I get it," they actually mean "Shut up" and "shut the fuck up."

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been watching anime for a long time, and yet, it still keeps finding new ways to piss me off...

From Gundam Wing, Treize Khushrenada says 'Her feelings toward me have given her split personalities.

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A Nightmare on Nat Street 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Skeleton Crew is one of the most visually stunning, tonally consistent, heartfelt, and entertaining projects to come of the franchise in recent memory. But too many of y'all only saw his Spider-Man movies (Which are insanely overhated) so you think he can't direct. Watch his other shit.

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Jod Skeleton Crew Jod Jedi

ALT: Jod Skeleton Crew Jod Jedi

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was an error with the printer, obviously this list was supposed to be Middleman one hundred times.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The importance of ignoring the comments section

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JasPhoenixWrites @jasphoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Verifying a word I’ve used 500 times because I looked at it for too long and now it doesn't look real. 🫤😂

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes you go for days, even weeks without making progress, clawing desperately like looking for words in library where all the pages are blank. Then for no reason, and with no warning, it all flows out of you like ink. The pages were waiting for you to fill them all along. #writesky #Booksky

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Promo bookmarks v2 have arrived! Hoping to put some of them around #Fantasycon, #novacon and #questival if I'm allowed! I've got a busy couple of months when it comes to conventions... I've really got space these out better next year 🥲 #booksky #Fantasy

A promo bookmark for Lost Talent by MS Palmer, the cover is at the top. It has a light purple background with a golden sunburst behind two characters. Mina, a tall south Asian woman stand lifting a thick wooden stave with golden glyphs along it's length. Beside her is Heidi, a woman with pale white skin and large curly hair, freckles and big round glasses. She stands as tall as Mina's shoulder she holds her hand ready, with golden light around her hands. On one finger she has a golden ring set with a big red stone.
Underneath it has the following quote:
Behind every jar of newt's eyes, there's some poor sod with a pair of tweezers and a bucket full of amphibians.
– Beryl

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well this sounds fantastic. I'm picking up shades of Robin Jarvis, one of my favorite childhood authors, which definately gave me a taste for dark fiction. I can't wait!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org · 24/09/2026

Being reminded that Control was using such a fresh premise with its inspiration from SCP Foundation and similar horror. Something that is very effective for me. But the game just ended up using that as visual for a very familiar shooter. Kinda like how I thought Inception wasted the idea of dreams

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 24/09/2026

Proofreading services too expensive? Try proof skimming! For only $10, I'll flip through your book and say "yeah, whatever, it's probably fine."

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is pretty valid. The UK doesn't have formal naming regulations like a lot of other countries, and while that is great, it can cause issues for people where that informality meets bureaucracy. So here are two things that I wish people were more aware of:

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 24/09/2026

Echoes of Chaos is out today in ebook!! It’s set 200 years after Reborn in Ash but is a separate story. - epic fantasy - empathic bonds - animal companion - prophecies - elemental magic - romance subplot Ignore that the website says pre-order. I’ll update it when I’m properly awake 😅 #BookSky 💙📚🪐

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Echoes of Chaos - Gabrielle Steele

Echoes of Chaos, an epic fantasy book by Gabrielle Steele. After years of failing to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, Eryn makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal, ...

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Slow pan slow pan slow pan

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Steven Sloss 🛸 @stevensloss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a special rung in Hell reserved for every single person involved in this atrocity

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can bisexual people use the split attraction model? I think the answer is yes—and that the question reveals something interesting about how we think about attraction.

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

Every now and again there is bug in a video game that creates high art.

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

The TBR pile only ever grows! ‘The Chosen One Con’ by @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com Which feels like the kind of fantasy novel I have been waiting forever for. I can’t wait to dig in.

The cover of ‘the chosen one con’ by Trudie Skies, showing a man in a long leather coat tucking a flowing potion bottle out of sight. the background shows a skyline dominated by factories belching smoke into a smog filled sky.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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

Kind of amusing that Iron fist is returning to the MCU just in time for Daredevil Born Again to be cancelled. I mean, once is an accident...

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like this is a symptom of a bigger problem with all of publishing, books, tv, movies, music, cartoons, whatever: unless you're one of the five guys who make it REAL big, you're never going to be good enough

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are these the ones from False Berlin? Cause it certainly looks like it...

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