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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 3h

The Doctor and Old Fox had driven over to see the Stoat of Cliff Cottage. Once a fortnight, Old Fox brought him a basket of supplies from the village shop, things he couldn't get from the nearby farm – coffee, cocoa, biscuits, sugar, flour, toffees, paraffin oil, ink, blotting paper.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 24m

Russian ally, Donald Trump.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 23h

Your periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone:

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/10/2026

📚 See incorrect book information online? You can help fix it. ✏️ Open Library is a collaborative catalog. Volunteers can improve records, add information, correct metadata, and create records for unrepresented books. Help make the catalog better. openlibrary.org

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Song Thrush" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p259/s... #birds #WildlifeArt #Embroidery

A square shaped white picture mount with a circle cut out of the middle. In the circle is a pale golden yellow wallpaper with a darker golden yellow floral pattern. On top is a hand embroidered Song Thrush head and shoulders. The bird's head is looking up slightly to the left.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week's winner of best tree in the park. ⭐

a tree with a thin trunk and head of yellow leaves. some have fallen on the grass below making a lovely yellow circle under the tree. other small trees around, bigger ones in the distance - all with green leaves still. on a sunny day in the park.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer! @emmavardy2.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck. Check Emma's attached post to see why. If you'd like to read this book, just get in touch. UK only

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some buildings hold their shadows after sunset. They stretch and pace beyond the failing sun. Stalk corridors, assemble in former ballrooms in hope of a grand waltz. Creep wooden doors and walls overdressed for the dark. Shadows that are so eager to meet you. – #DAKilroy, 1982

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/10/2026

Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow, a liar, a thief, a teller of the future (with dice, of course), a musician, herald and messenger of the gods… —Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury” in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) #poem #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Norman MacCaig
Hermes-Mercury

Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow,
a liar, a thief, a teller of the future
(with dice, of course), a musician,
herald and messenger of the gods.

No wonder mercury was called after Mercury.
No wonder the Romans gave him that name:
the Trader, the Business Man.

How he must have laughed when the Romans
raised a statue to him
– god of commerce, god of profit and loss –
in the Street called Sober Street
where no shops were allowed, no pubs.

No wonder he was the conveyor of dreams.
Garden of Bliss, Vision of Hell – what did he care?
Yet I admire him. He was a survivor.

What a god, to survive among
those other gods and goddesses, those arrogant,
selfish, high-living turncoats and lechers –
too stupid to notice they were only
the blind dupes of Fate.

. . . Fate must have loved him, the black sheep,
the con man, the wide boy of Olympus.

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is horrible when their actions (or lack of) have such a knock on effect. As you say, not your fault at all but mega frustrating.

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least there's a little progress. Fortitude!

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Need a burst of blue sky today? Here's 2-minutes from a meadow in spring. 🎧

youtu.be

Buttercups, Birdsong and Blue Sky in May

YouTube video by Radio Lento

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have a good Wednesday. Don't cross the streams.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Rob Jones ➡️ SCARF October 10th @ Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This Saturday, I'll be at #SCARF - Sheffield Comic Arts Fair at Trafalgar Warehouse from 10am-5pm! Organised by the amazing @chrismole.bsky.social and featuring a plethora of incredible comics peeps (and somehow, me...)! Come out and support #UKIndieComics!

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Rob Jones ➡️ SCARF October 10th @ Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Writers...Artists...Editors... Lend me your eyeballs! I am on the lookout for more lettering work to help keep the lights on! From Horror to Kid-Lit, Sci-Fi to LGBTQ+ Romance & Black Mirror to Discworld! Drop me a line via my contact page for more info! #Comics robjonesletteringblog.wordpress.com

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Goldfinch among the teasels. 😍 What have you spotted in nature recently? Let's fill our feeds with nature.

A Goldfinch perches on a tall teasel seedhead in warm golden light. Its red face and yellow wing flash stand out against the brown seedheads and soft blurred background, creating a calm October scene.

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy with either just as long as I don't have to actually TALK on the phone!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

There's a new edition of THE HOBBIT & it's the one illustrated by Tove Jansson which has never been published in English before. (It was pub'd in Sweden where Astrid Lindgren picked her to do the illustrations!) Read more: tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki... 📖 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Tove Jansson's cover for THE HOBBIT with a very Jansson-esque Bilbo holding a shield and axe with mountains behind, Smaug flying overhead, and the line of riding dwarves as tiny silhouettes behind.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For no better reason than it's Friday, we're going to review wrestlers on how useful they'd be working in the archive. First up: Triple H. He'd probably be great to have in the office, but that water spit thing is just going to raise our humidity levels so it's a no from us.

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The Victorian Archivist @victorianarchivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alright, time to post the receipts of this gown I've been ranting about. This is my Brunswick, 100% handsewn in silk. I love her and I love sewing, and generative AI could NEVER. Make art, friends. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be you, with your hands. Just make it.

A woman stands in a field at sunset with small mountains in the distance. Her back is to the camera. She wears a blue and white silk gingham gown. It is an 18th century gown called a Brunswick. It consists of a petticoat (skirt) that brushes the tops of her feet, and an overgown with skirts that fall to her hip, a loose, pleated back, long sleeves, and a hood. A high white collar is visible above the hood, and a white linen cap with a dark blue ribbon around it covers her hair.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 01/10/2026

The Celestine and the Hare 2027 calendar is available for preorder now! I only print to order so if you want one or seven, preorder this month ready for posting mid November. They make great gifts for friends and family, you can sneak write dates on them before you send. A year of joy on your wall

CELESTENG AND THE HARE
CALENDAR
2027 CALENDARS ARE OPEN FOR PREORDER!

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thatcher was only saved by North Sea Oil & the Falklands NOT by her political policies. Also, she should have put our oil into a sovereign fund, like Norway, instead of spaffing it away in tax breaks for one generation. We’re all now still paying for her profligacy & her privatisation mistakes.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All new houses should be built wth doors and passageways wide enough for wheelchairs. Anyone can end up needing one, whether temporarily or permanently.

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day today, with this year's theme being Wonder. To mark the day, here's a reminder of a poem of my own from many years back, called Questions, Questions... www.omandoriginal.com/2012/10/fife...

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Questions, Questions...

Questions, Questions... - a poem with a child's eye view.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

biggreenbookshop.com

Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m looking for a paid writing gig to supplement my income from fiction. I’ve previously written articles for The Guardian, Irish Times, SFX, and had by lines in Acoustic and The Engineer, and gained extensive editorial experience with Stars and Sabers Publishing. DM me if you need my skills.

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J Steele @jsavagesteele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rough time to be a writer. Thanks to the efficiency of Netflix's AI division the idea I had in the shower this morning was added to voice notes, optioned, picked up, developed, processed, cancelled at 67% rendering, and filed as an insurance write-off before I'd dried off enough to put my boxers on.

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your Daily Dracula – Sesame Street ‘Batty Bat’ (2019) www.youtube.com/watch?v=287O...

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Sesame Street: Batty Bat | Animated Lyric Video

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've just launched a new digital resource! Almost 15,000 entries, covering every Fellow, Honorary Fellow, Member and Licentiate of our College from our foundation to 1926. Check it out 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/phy...

Promotional image. A composite image of nine doctors, text on image reads 'physicians database'

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This wee weasel is weasely recognised but a stoat is stoatally different apparently.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hello we're about to record a new episode of our podcast. and the category is: listener questions. send us something in the next 45 minutes and we'll try our best to answer!

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