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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve seen good things about this book and author. He was caught up in the Unbound publishing fiasco. Please consider reading his latest book, Everything Will Swallow You.

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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Does #MutualAid exist anymore? Crowdfunding stalled. Too sick to stay visible? People too broke? If you’re reading please share pinned post! Help if able. Room or granny flat? Board neg. Land for trailer/ cabin? LMK. Dying, Dr backed! #DisabilityMA 💕💸 #MADBoost 💸❤️ bsky.app/profile/halc...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My beloved novelette Phantom View is a Locus finalist! Wonderful news, especially since it's sharing a ballot with @acwise.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @marthawells.com @nassos.bsky.social @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social & @aimeeogdenwrites.com! Yay all!

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

TW: medical gaslighting, bloody images As someone who has experienced gaslighting from medical professionals (among others), I found this video cathartic. And the creativity and talent of the artist, Ren, is off the charts. #MECFS #disability #LongCovid #Chronic #pots #Lyme #mentalhealth

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Ren - Sick Boi (Official Music Video)

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 05/04/2026

Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread! Indie Authors, Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc) 🌈📚🪐💙🏳️‍⚧️🧠

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Miiriya @miiriya.com · 08/03/2026

We post people are who are struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions/groceries in the Black Community. It’s cleared the goals of 240+ people so far. We’re trying to get faster to help more people per day, so please follow & repost.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Please consider helping Anna, who is going through some pretty horrific stuff. She's provided details of how to help in her post, below. Reposting because I forgot the hashtags. #ME #MECFS #LongCovid #disability #abuse www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sorry to everyone who was following me for the art I was posting each day. I've been away from social media for personal reasons for several weeks now & pop back rarely. Not yet ready to get back to posting art daily because it draws me in & I get too stressed. But maybe you'll like my chilled cat?

A ginger tabby cat lying on his side on the cat tree. His front half is coming out of one side of the box at the bottom, and his back half out of another side.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I LOVED your book, The Tea Master and the Detective, @aliettedebodard.com & A Sorceress Comes to Call, @tkingfisher.com & The List of Suspicious Things, @jenniegauthor.bsky.social & Someone You Can Build a Nest in, @wiswell.bsky.social & Uprooted, @naominovik.bsky.social Thank you all!

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our 7-month-old kitten saw a bug above the doorframe and just HAD to get it.

A ginger tabby kitten navigating his way along the top of an open bedroom door.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Having several very bad days, so posting 'Today's art' has been hit and miss, and likely to be for some time. Sorry, everyone.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s art: the song ‘My Silver Lining’ by the Swedish indie folk duo First Aid Kit. ‘I hear a voice calling Calling out for me These shackles I’ve made in an attempt to be free Be it be reason, be it for love I won’t take the easy road’

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s art: 2 very long, exhausting days (but learned a huge amount!), so a re-post.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today’s art: this photo taken by my partner, with a gorgeous, luscious, vibrant moss green. I love his artistic creativity!

Close-up photo of street paving. There’s a mixture of asphalt and small stones in a brick-like pattern. Between the ‘bricks’, vibrant, bright green moss is growing.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Today's art: The Jelling stones in Denmark. The larger has a stylised image of Christ using a ribbon-like design motif. Raised by Harald Blátönn (Bluetooth) in memory of his parents, King Gorm & Thyra, it celebrates Harald converting the Danes to Christianity. The smaller is carved with runestones.

Image of the Jelling stones in the town of Jelling in Denmark. These large stones date to the 10th century and have runes and artwork carved on them. In the image, the larger of the two, on the right, has a stylised image of Christ, carved in the Viking style of art that uses ribbon-like motifs. The smaller, on the left, has a series of runes than run up the stone from bottom to top.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Today's art: final day of a month of Black, LGBTQ+, early career, etc., authors - 'The Dragonfly Sea', by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Described as a lyrical story of love & loss, with a travel & adventure story that is much more, this book seems to be a work of introspective character development.

Cover of the novel 'THe Dragonfly Sea', with the title written prominently in white lettering across the middle of the book. The author's name is in a small white box in blue text in the bottom left corner. The cover is the colours of the sea, from deep green at the bottom (presumably sea plants), to dark blue to lighter blue to an aqua / light blue-green colour at the top. In Jackson Pollack style, it looks as if some has splashed a bit of brightly coloured paint in different colours across the cover.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Today's art: The trans memoir 'She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders', by Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Cover of the memoir 'She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders', the title written in red and the subtitle slightly smaller in black, across the middle of the cover.The image shows the bottom half of a slim person, wearing jeans and heavy black boots. Their waist is bare, with just a very small part of a black crop top seen above it. This edition has a new foreword by the author, and across the top it says that the book is a national bestseller.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

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Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday

() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today's art: The graphic novel 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me', by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, about an on-again, off-again teen lesbian relationship.

Cover of 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me', the title being written on the back of the pink shirt worn by the titular character. Above this is the author's name Mariko Tamaki on a banner design on the shirt, and below on a similar banner is the illustrator's name Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. Laura has her back to the viewer. She has a light brown, wavy pixie cut and is white. We can see a little of her girlfriend over Laura's right shoulder. The girlfriend is mixed race Asian and white, with long, slightly wavy, black hair, and we can see one of her dark eyes. She has her hands on the back of Laura's neck and shoulder. There is a power line and some palm trees in the background behind the girlfriend.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today's art: The memoir 'Black Boy', published in 1945 and about racism, by Richard Wright. The book describes Wright's life growing up in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee because he moved to Chicago.

The 75th anniversary edition of 'Black Boy'. The title and author's name are in bold, white Times New Roman capitals across the top of the cover, title above author's name. The image is a close up photo of one side of a Black boy's face. His hair is short and the eye shown is black. The image has a yellow tint down one side, blue in the middle and red on the other side.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Today's art: The award winning sci-fi novella 'The Tea Master and the Detective', by Aliette de Bodard, described to me as a Sherlockian, Asian space opera. Got this for my birthday, and I can't wait to finish the current books I'm reading to begin this one!

Cover of the novella 'The Tea Master and the Detective'. The title is in black, bold letters at the top of the cover, slightly off-centre, with the author's name below in much smaller lettering. There's a thin Asian woman with her dark hair up and an elaborate hairdo. She's wearing pale pink, blue and white clothing that looks like a robe or kimono with a white collared shirt with a light grey cross pattern under it. She's leaning against a large, round window through which the viewer can see a small mechanical spider at woman's elbow and a large, distant submarine that looks like it's floating in a sea of peach, pink, pale yellow and black with white stars at the top. There are also a couple of small adult bodies floating as well.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Today's art: The 2019 graphic memoir 'Gender Queer: A Memoir', exploring gender identity and sexuality, by Maia Kobabe.

The cover of the graphic memoir 'Gender Queer'. The top half shows a drawing of a young white man with short, brown hair and hairy legs standing up to his calves in water and against a mustard yellow background with a few clouds. He's holding his rolled up trousers up above his knees. He's looking down into the water. The bottom half shows an upside down drawing of a shirtless person with long, brown hair and clean-shaven legs - presumably the same person - also standing in water. The pool or lake they're in is in a forested mountain area and they sky is blue. Here, the person is wearing mustard yellow swim trunks or shorts and nothing else. Their arms are stretched out partway to their sides, they're smiling and they look freer.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today's art: The dystopian novel 'The Marrow Thieves', by Cherie Dimaline. A novel with Indigenous Canadian protagonists, about global warming, dreaming and madness.

Cover of the book 'The Marrow Thieves'. The title is at the bottom of the image, in yellow capital letters, with the author's name above it in white capitals. Against a navy blue background with white flecks in it, there's a picture on the left side of the cover of half the face of a indigenous person - perhaps male because he seems to have slight upper-lip facial hair - with long, straight, black hair, dark eyes, and a white streak of paint down the cheek.

Down the right side of the cover are 5 circles in white or gold, all of which indicate nomination for or winner of an award.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today's art: The coming-of-age novel 'Man o'War', about an Arab American trans swimmer growing up in a small town in Ohio, by Cory McCarthy.

Cover of the novel 'Man o'War. The image is of a young man mostly underwater in what looks like a pool, with only his mouth and head above the water and wearing a white t-shirt. The left side is blue and purple, the right peachy-pink and skin coloured and white. There's a label on the cover stating this is a Stonewall Honor Book.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Today's art: The award-winning novel 'Darius the great Is Not OK', by Adib Khorram, about an Iranian-American teenage boy who travels to Iran when his maternal grandfather gets very ill.

Cover of 'Darius the Great Is Not OK', written in bold, plain capital letters in the middle. The first three words are white, the last three light blue. The words are set against a washed-out red background at the top, while about two-thirds of the way down, this changes to a brown and black view of the town with a few blue roofs where Darius stays in Iran. We can see Darius and another man in grey and black from behind as they look out at the town from a rooftop, one wearing a dark denim jacket, the other in a lighter-coloured hoodie.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Today's art: The Memoir 'Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen', by Jazz Jennings. She wrote the book when she was 15, and it's seems to be a good resource for other trans children and teens, reminding them they're not alone.

Cover of the book 'Being Jazz', the title of which is written in large, white bold, simple letters across the middle, and the subtitle in small, white, letters that look handwritten below. These are superimposed on a photo of Jazz wearing a pair of cutoff denim shorts and a pinkish-red, thin top that seems to have two layers: the bottom is a strappy, fitted tank top and the top is long-sleeved, lacy, floral-patterned and see-through.

Jazz herself is photographed against a plain grey background. She has light brown skin and waist-length, ever-so-slightly wavy dark brown hair. She's smiling broadly and her hair is partially covering one side of her face. Her name, as the author, is at the very top in simple capital letters the same colour as her top.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today's art: The graphic novel 'Flamer', by Mike Curato, which deals with toxic masculinity, homophobia, suicide ideation and struggles of identity.

Cover of the novel 'Flamer'. Against a white background, there's a drawing of a boy with dark, curly hair and wearing white t-shirt is holding up his right hand. He has 3 fingers up with his thumb and little finger down, in a Boy Scout salute. He's wearing fabric bracelet on this wrist. The boy is in amongst large red, orange and yellow flames, and the title is in bold, white capitals that simulate flames. The author's name is in smaller black, bold capitals below the title.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today's art: The award-winning sci-fi novel 'The Fifth Season', by N.K. Jemisin. My son has recommended this post-apocalyptic tale, the first novel in the Broken Earth series, about catastrophic climate change and much, much more.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Today's art: The historical YA novel 'Out of Darkness', by Ashley Hope Perez. Set in 1937 Texas, the novels tells the story of a Mexican girl attracted to a Black boy. It deals with racism, classism, segregation, love, family and those living on the margins of society.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Today's art: 'There Are Rivers in the Sky', by Elif Shafak. Got this book for my birthday, and very much looking forward to reading it!

Cover of the book 'There Are Rivers in the Sky', by Elif Shafak. The cover is mainly royal blue and cream. There is a large, blue teardrop shape in the centre of the cover, with the title at the top of this in capital gold letters, and the author's name in larger, white capital letters at the bottom. The teardrop is enclosed in an wide, oval outline in blue with small, white, daisy-like flowers against the blue. There's also what looks like gold rain inside the oval, as well as a quote by Ian McEwan: 'A unique and powerful voice in world literature'. Outside the oval are other designs in blue and white - floral and geometric patterns, tendrils, etc.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

In these busiest shopping weeks of the year, with everyone under horrible pressure over money, job security etc, try to be nice to retail staff (who likely have unreasonable sales targets from HQ to make up for a lousy retail year). Far too many stressed customers will behave appallingly right now.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m reading ‘Maus: A Survivor’s Tale’, by Art Spiegelman. In it, a man interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew during WWII. I’ve just come to the part where the father is taken to Auschwitz & his expensive gold watch is confiscated. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you should read it.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Today's art: The dystopian novel 'Coldwire' by Chloe Gong.

Cover of Chloe Gong's novel 'Coldwire'. The author's name is in large, capital, neon fuchsia letters and the title in large, capital, neon aquamarine letters across most of the cover. The background is of a high-rise cityscape at night with what looks like neon aquamarine water streaks at the bottom. The tagline 'Everybody wants to rule the world' is visible, as is the information that Gong is a NYTimes bestselling author.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Today's art: the graphic novel 'Bingo Love', by Tee Franklin, and Joy San and Jenn St-Onge (illustrators). A story of forbidden love between two girls / young women, spanning generations, with their story as older protagonists told. Good to see these demographics represented.

Cover of the graphic novel 'Bingo Love'. The title is in white capiutal letters at the top, with the 'o' in in bingo as the number 63 bingo ball, and the 'o' in love as a red heart.

The cover shows two females in three difference scenes, as children, as young adults and as older women. One woman is Black, short and stocky. The other woman is tall, slim and perhaps Asian or mixed race. In the first, they're roller skating and chatting; in the second, they're sitting on a park bench kissing; in the third, they're sitting next to each other playing bingo.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Today's art: 'Ocean's Blood', by the lovely Thelma Mantey. Very excited about this novel!

Cover image is of an otherworldy, androgynous person with long, flowing, black hair and white, tendril-like designs all over them. The title is at the top in large, white, plain capital letters, with the author's name above that in the same font, but smaller. At the bottom, it says 'Book 1 of the Drowning'. The background is navy blue, the colour darkening as it goes lower down the cover. From the top left it looks like there are rays of white sunlight spilling downwards at a slight angle.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

People need to be aware of Farage's own words about Kent's council and Reforms failure there AND remember when the election comes.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today's art: 'Parable of the Sower', by Octavia Butler. Still so relevant.

Cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Bulter. The cover is dark teal with bold, writing in gold capital letters. The image in the middle of the cover is of a Black woman wearing a scoop-neck black top. Her arms are bent at the elbow, and she's holding her open hands by the sides of her chest, palms facing forward and two smallest fingers somewhat curled in, almost in a gesture reminiscent of prayer or blessing in medieval iconography. There's a small ball floating in front of her chest just below her collarbone, and the ball looks like a very small Earth. Behind her can be seen a sky with stars and perhaps a moon, with what looks like fire on the horizon.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

As an author who understands who the Luddites were, this book looks promising.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Today's art: the horror novel 'Hazelthorn', by CG Drews. This sounds like such a good read!

Cover of 'Hazelthorn', by CG Drews. The image is of a person, maybe a man from the chest up. His head looking up sharply, lips slightly parted, hair falling back away from his face. There are thorny vines covering his eyes, with blood dripping down his face. The vines wind around his face and head, and one is around his neck, a thorn piercing the side of it. He's wearing an olive green woollen jumper that blends in with the vines around him. There are a few small, pale flowers among the thorns, and the background is the colour of papyrus.

The title Hazelthorn is written in a Gothic-like, white font at the bottom, with the authors name is smaller lettering below.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Today's art: 'Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters and Remembrances', by Kwame Alexander. I have high hopes for this look at navigating relationships through the author's personal experiences.

Cover of 'Why Fathers Cry at Night', by Kwame Alexander. The background is black. The title is in bold, purple capital letters at the top and the name in similar white ones at the bottom. The letters in 'CRY' are thicker than all the others. The sub-title, 'A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances', is in much smaller, yellow capital letters below on the left of the title. The books is by a New York Tomes bestselling author.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

For #Caturday (just), Indy's chilling in the hallway, without a care in the world.

A pale ginger tabby kitten lying on his side on the top carpeted step of three in a hallway. The front half of his body is off the top step and above the one below; it's not lying on its side but upright, so that he's twisted 90 degrees in the middle. His front paws are stretched outward and down, resting on the next step. He's looking directly in the camera with a slightly quizzical expression, as if to say, 'What? Isn't this normal?'.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Today's art: the middle-grade novel 'Ghost Boys', by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Jerome, a young Black boy from Chicago, is shot & killed by a police officer who thinks Jerome's toy gun is real. It includes the character of Emmett Till as a ghost, & deals with themes of racism & socio-economic injustice.

Cover of 'Ghost Boys'. The background is red and shows a young Black boy's face from the bridge of his nose up. He has short hair and is looking upwards. Above his head are silhouettes of streetlights and traffic lights which seem to branch into the space above the street. The title and author's name (Jewell Parker Rhodes) are written in white, the title across the middle of the book in large, mostly capital letters, the name at the top in smaller letters. At the very top, Angie Thomas, the author of 'The Hate You Give', is quoted, saying 'A must read'.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Today's art: The sci-fi comic 'Monarch', by Rodney Barnes and drawn by Alex Lins, about orphaned city children who find a foster family and have to fight to save it.

Cover of 'Monarch', which is written in bold, capital deep sky blue letters down the left side of the cover. The colour from top to bottom goes from the same vivid blue, getting paler as it moves toward the middle, to primary red at the bottom, which is lighter red in the middle.

There are three names above the title, all in small, thin, white, capital letters: Rodney Barnes, Alex Lins (artist) and Luis NCT.

The image shows three Black children, perhaps pre-teen or young teens, in an urban area standing in front of an old, brick building with a large broken window. The ground is littered with paper, broken wooden planks and sticks. There's a chain fence in the foreground. The children are dressed casually - jeans, t-shirt, sweatshirt, trainers, sandals. One has a backpack on, wears glasses and holds a metal pipe or bar, wielding it in self-defence. Another has a large, full, cross shoulder bag. Her long hair is pushed back off her face and held in place by a hairband. The third is a step behind the other two. They are all looking at someone straight ahead with surprise and perhaps fear.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Today's art: 'The Poet X', by Elizabeth Acevedo. I remember hearing about this book some time ago, and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Cover of the book 'The Poet X', which is written in a bold white font that looks handwritten in the middle of the cover on the left side. The title is in the hair of the beautiful Black woman on the cover. Her hair spreads out from her head in a dark mass, and around the edges it looks like splotches of black paint. This makes it look like an afro.

The top of the cover is a a very pale grey colour, and down the right side of the cover, the book is pale pink, light orange, yellow, white and a little bit of dark pink / almost red. The woman's neck has some of these colours on it, and her face has writing across it, which seems to be wafting rightwards across the mixture of colours. There's a bird's head, perhaps a mockingbird, that can be seen in the colours, and 'A NOVEL BY ELIZABETH ACEVEDO' is written in black, bold font. Across the top of the cover towards the left side there's a quote by Laurie Halse Anderson, author of 'Speak' and 'Chains': A story that will slam the power of poetry and love back into your heart.

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