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The Creative Splurge @thecreativesplurge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize is open until 8 November for stories up to 6,000 words. All the details are here → www.galleybeggar.co.uk/short-story-… #WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS @galleybeggars.bsky.social

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X. SHORT STORY PRIZE (Full info) — Galley Beggar Press

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CFP: Walking-with the past: Embodiment, environment, and narrative for articles that explore walking as a mnemonic, narrative and pedagogical practice that produces, discloses and reconfigures cultural and (auto)biographical memories in particular places platform.openjournals.nl/LOCUS/call-f...

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Call For Papers | Locus–Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.

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Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A #SlowArt starter pack… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS A meeting place for all interested in artists of any discipline - photography, fine art, sound, writing, illustration, more - who make work with a long-running, repetitive, ongoing, cumulative or time-defined nature. Glad of shares & suggestions

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What is The Telegraph going to write about now?

A vast list of Telegraph articles hounding Jason Arday

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sure the country’s on fire, most of it is in drought, people are dying, drowning, off work with heat stroke, the railways have buckled and trains have derailed, we’re in the grip of a fifth heatwave, and it’s cost the economy £4bn, BUT…is net zero really worth the cost?!

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lissa Evans is one of the funniest writers around. Her last book 'Small Bomb at Dimperley' was delightful, can't wait to read her latest:

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Maybe your government misread this and thought they were trans people, not trains people.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lots of wonderful books here, I'm particularly rooting for M. John Harrison's 'The End of Everything'

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ironic that Jodrell Bank is just outside the city that is flavour du jour - Manchester. More importantly it's an iconic scientific and cultural facility, a telescope that pioneered radio astronomy. It will only cost UKRI £2.8m to keep it going -peanuts, really

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Am hugely honoured to have my short story collection 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' on this list! Many many thanks to @goldsmithspress.bsky.social !

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Have you read Narnia, and were you dismayed by what happened to Susan? You're not alone. Fanfic has your back - and in my upcoming book, "Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia: Rewriting Susan Pevensie in Fanfiction", I look at how fanfic writers re-imagine her story and give her a different ending.

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You knew this was coming.

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think we just passed oops.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Animal life on Earth has been reduced by 70% in the last 50 years, and the fact that this is not talked about enough is sickening.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Let love and colour into your life. Hold hands.

Joni Mitchell and David Hockney holding hands. Both in later life, full of style and colour.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So sad about David Hockney. A long time ago I went to an exhibit of his opera sets; these worlds he had created were just so beautiful I wanted to live inside them.

David Hockney's design for the opera L'Enfant et les Sortileges, showing red trees against a deep blue-purple background

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How is it possible that on the entire @deutschebahn.com website there is not a single working email for customer service? And no, I don't want to phone them and have to wait hours for them to answer. Unglaublich!

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🧵Please share! @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social is hiring! - Co-Director (31 May) - Digital & Social Media Assistant (24 May) Both freelance, Scotland-based, remote with some travel. Highly encourage Black & PoC applicants + Co-Director Q&A: 26 May 👉🏽 scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/were-hiring-...

A geometric, 90s-style banner with text reading: SBWN is hiring! Dark-skinned finger-pointing emojis point at the job titles 'Co-Director' and 'Digital & Social Media Assistant'. Text at the bottom of the image reads: Could you be our next team member?

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/05/2026

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's Pub Day for my debut novel, THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. It's an Arabfuturist story of a revolution set on a generation ship with lots of linguistic shenanigans. Chapeau to tu!

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Next week at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social (Thurs 23rd) - a celebration of Christopher Priest, with Nina Allan and Camilla Grudova, discussing The Illuminated Man and The Recollections. Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

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A Celebration of Christopher Priest | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Christopher Priest today.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Eric Satie Eric Stoodie

A photograph of Eric Satie, sitting down.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ovarian cancer is - sadly - mostly found late stage because it depends on spotting a range of somewhat vague symptoms and persuading your doctor you need a CA125 blood test and a scan.

SYMPTOMS OF OVARIAN CANCER
PERSISTENT BLOATING (NOT BLOATING
THAT COMES AND GOES )
FEELING FULL QUICKLY AND/OR LOSS OF
APPETITE
PELVIC OR
ABDOMINAL PAIN (FROM
YOUR TUMMY
TO THE TOP OF YOUR THIGHS)
NEEDING TO WEE MORE OFTEN

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Note from my notebook (2017).

Truths About Writing
Most people will ignore what you write
Someone dead did it better than you
You will be misunderstood
That's all ok

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Marietta Blau was a pioneer of subatomic and cosmic ray physics in the early-mid 20th century, and has been almost totally forgotten. My fictionalised account of her life is the book at bedtime on Radio 4 next week: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Woman Who Saw Atoms by Pippa Goldschmidt

On the eve of the Anschluss, a Jewish scientist captures a proton in a photograph.

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The current Briardene collection, which is also a Tom Joyes design collection! The Recollections is out on 2 April; pre-order, or buy any of the others, including current BSFA Award finalist Colourfields, here: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

3D render of The Recollections by Christopher Priest: dark red text on a strong yellow background.

3D render of All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall Harrison. Black text on an abstract background of luminous green and grey.

3D render of Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid. White text on a rainbow-grid background.

3D render of Track Changes: Selected Reviews by Abigail Nussbaum. White text on a bright red/grey (actually metallic) interference pattern background.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski

Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm giving a talk about/reading from my book 'Deutschstunden' on Wednesday 25th March with my wonderful translator/publisher @zoebeck75.bsky.social at the wonderful Braun and Hassenpflug bookshop in Krumme Lanke, Berlin: braunundhassenpflug.de/veranstaltun...

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Pippa Goldschmidt wuchs in London auf und lebt heute als Autorin in Berlin. Für ihre literarischen Texte gewann die promovierte Astronomin den angesehenen Scottish Book Trust/Creative Scotland New Writers Award.

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Happy World Book Day! Celebrating Alasdair Gray—novelist, artist and champion of Scottish and Glaswegian identity. Here is his self-portrait aged 16 (1951) writing at his desk, from his illustrated autobiography A Life in Pictures (2010).

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying…
I've stopped the cock

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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