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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trust me, this book is very, very good. You’ll meet Carl, who is one of the most original and intriguing characters I’ve ever encountered.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So today I saw tomato ketchup put on a carbonara. That was a thing.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My Spotify suggestions indicate that the algorithm really doesn’t know me very well anymore #MusicSky #CurrentlyListening

Spotify suggesting such horrid audio experiences as “Good Energy”, “Millennium Party” and, most chillingly of all “Happy Pop Hits”.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A good internet joke that predates widespread internet use is the Jack Handey Deep Thought where he says “to me, clowns aren’t funny, in fact they’re kind of scary, I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad”

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lake Windermere was looking rather dramatic earlier today #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #England

A jetty on Lake Windermere. A couple of small white boats are tied up, the lake is calm, mountains are visible in the distance, some shrouded in cloud. The sky is an iron grey sea of clouds. You’d imagine Thor to come riding out of them on his chariot any second.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been on a cinema date tonight for Raiders of the Lost Ark, 45th anniversary, if you can believe it. Absolutely fantastic on the big screen.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very excited that there’s a new Joe Abercrombie out next year, just discovered him and am ploughing through The Devils, it’s basically Terry Pratchett via the Dirty Dozen and it’s so much fun. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/09/2026

okay so what you’re gonna do for this one is, you’re gonna scroll down a bit, click on ‘Google street view’ and then go thru the house that way www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

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Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom detached house for sale in Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Queenwood Property, Surrey

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A rather lovely lunch out at Base Ulverston today, do really recommend it if you’re ever in the area.

The menu at Base Ulverston “Proudly championing the finest Cumbrian produce”

A giant plate of mussels with fresh bread and chips

Apple crumble traybake and a double espresso.

Hoad monument, Ulverston, seen through foliage

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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 03/09/2026

Indeed. Imagine what the world would be like right now if the fruits of the last 50 years had been funneled to abundance instead of the bank accounts of the already very rich.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love living where I do. Every evening before bed I have got into the habit of opening the bedroom window wide, get the breeze on my face, rustle of trees and sound of birds and assorted wildlife. Church bells sometimes too.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Did an hour in the garden earlier and have effortlessly managed to knacker my back. Still there’s an actual border round the lawn now and got a hanging basket up so it, well, wasn’t worth it cos fuck me it hurts, but certainly looks better.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."

A hamster sits in a tiny blue knit basket being held by a person dressed in brown.

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DeeEm @deeemceeem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#ASongOrMovieForAnythingPublic 🎶 Little libraries, tell me sweet little libraries

Disused phone box with books to swap inside

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Wait That's Interesting @waitinteresting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Turkey, an elderly man who shines shoes for a living is visited each morning by a cat that comes for its daily brushing

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thread (pls read it all) FUCK IT. I'm giving away another 5 signed copies of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTD...

5 copies of my latest novel Everything Will Swallow You

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dropping my wife off at work this morning I felt something on my ear, stray hair or something I thought until I reached up to brush it off and it crawled. Big spider. Size of a small cat. At least. Sat on the side of my head. I freaked the fuck out.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Saw The End of Oak Street last night, what a fun summer movie. Just the kind of film I’ve been hoping they would start making again. #MovieSky #CurrentlyWatching

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m reading Wizard and Glass at the moment, God it’s a slog. I enjoyed the first three Dark Tower books but this just feels turgid & derivative. But I have book 5 already so need to press on! #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Listened to the new Muse album today, bloody hell it’s good. But do they classify as dad-rock these days? #MusicSky #Music #CurrentlyListening

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We’ve been on holiday 14 nights. Guess how many books my wife has read during this time.

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You haven’t holidayed until you drink all-inclusive pinot grigiot while listening to a solo saxophonist doing Europe’s “The Final Countdown” excruciatingly slowly.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just taken down 5 courses of all you can eat Mexican food. I’m a very happy man, albeit a very happy man in need of trousers with an elasticated waistband.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026

all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Had to go Spotify Premium just to stop their awful, incessant adverts. Fine, fine you evil corporation of evilness, you win this round.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I tried reading this years ago and it confounded and confused the heck out of me. Time to take a second plunge two decades or more later, let’s see if I’m an equal to Mr. Calvino this time round #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

this is you in meta’s pervert glasses

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