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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it seems to me that you must be a little damaged in the head
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
and the cat's in the cradle and the
3 books on the library returns trolley. Their titles are Silver Spoon, Little Boy Blue, and A Man on the Moon
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Becky’s Books @beckysbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As if I didnt already love @tkingfisher.com White Rat world enough, she goes a gives us ‘Daggerbound’ featuring one of my favourite side characters, a devilishly handsome sword, giant pillbug and a new favourite Gnole (who am I kidding, they’re all my favourite) crooksbooks.blog/2026/08/24/d...
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Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher – ARC Review!
Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages… But when Edmund is set…
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Emily Wilson Writing reviews of a film that she's sad to have seen Yells at the screen Picks up her laptop Nolan's pastiche of the epic she worked to translate How does it rate? All the shallow film tropes Where do they all come from? All of Homer's richness Where did it all go wrong?
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
im going to be honest I think anne rice was a complicated person and her books are completely bananas but I have increasing respect for her capacity as an artist to indulge in completely monstrous characters and bash them together like eldritch ken dolls with no remorse whatsoever
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amberkitty 🐈‍⬛ @amberkitty.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
All of this
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Mal Frazier (they/them) @malf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
this book is SO GOOD and all of you are going to lose your ENTIRE minds (and souls!) at the altar of Magda Redding
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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Now, if you're hearing about screwworms in Texas and don't understand why a bunch of people are freaking out, WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher will explain it to you! Available at fine libraries and independent bookstores everywhere. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Wolf Worm
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerSomething darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpi...
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Time to put my long-postponed Dire Straits tribute band together. www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/d...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 05/06/2026
If you're gathered around a fire this weekend, remember: 1. No tabletop fire pits that require consumers to pour isopropyl alcohol or other liquid fuel into an open container or bowl and then ignite the pooled liquid in the same location it was poured. 2. No pouring fuel over an open flame.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 05/06/2026
"I would move out of the way. I'm built different." You are built like sentient strawberry preservatives and move at the speed of a software update. The fireball would consume you in seconds. Never pour fuel over an open flame.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Once again, I am not the Cat Czar of bluesky. I do not control how many cats you see. I’m afraid you’re just going to have to learn how to use this incredibly simple platform instead of whining at me.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/05/2026
Smart Bitches liked How To Fake It In Society! "This is KJ Charles *at her best*." 🥰
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How to Fake it in Society by KJ Charles - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/05/2026
USA Today bestseller list!!! That's a first. :D
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
364 years agp, on the 9th of May 1662, the first recorded performance of Punch and Judy took place. Punch was based on the Neapolitan Pulcinella, Judy was originally named 'Joan'. #otd #history 🗃️
Plaque at St Paul's in Covent Garden, London commemorating the first recorded performance of Punch and Judy in 1662
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
After reviewing recent developments in the Strait of Hormuz and considering all available information, I see this as the most likely scenario playing out in the next month
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/04/2026
I mean, it’s not wrong.
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 15/04/2026
In order to protect our men, we’ve constructed a labyrinth and trapped Jolene inside it
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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grenouille78 @grenouille78.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Happy Easter!
An LED sign below a McDonald's sign reads,  "Congratulations! Jesus employee of the month" with sparkles and a smiling Grimace, Hamburglar, and that flying chicken who never really caught on. It does seem like Jesus was destined to win
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How terrible is the academic job market? Well friends, I gave up on academia for the stability and comfort of... [checks notes] ...being a freelance artist and mapmaker.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Mentally where I’m at
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Cat holding skills not quite there yet. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a light skinned blonde child standing in front of a wall of foliage. They are holding a grey tabby cat very awkwardly slung over their arm.
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Philhammer Fantasy Roleplay @thedicemechanic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
'Godwinson' obviously being a redaction of "Good Wings, Son!" which is what the local ceorls used to cry out as he soared overhead
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'll be giving a press conference just after midday.
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NASA won’t show you this level of detail
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Yessssssss 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Jewish belief in right to abortion for the WINNNNN
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 27/03/2026
A painting of a bird next to the words "someone is about to get kicked in the fuckin groin"
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I've made it to another Friday and I now deserve a really big pizza
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A further problem with the suggestion that King Harold sailed his army to Hastings: www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/king...
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King Harold's Fleet - Another Major Problem
A quick update about Harold Godwineson allegedly sailing his army to the Battle of Hastings. To recap: Professor Tom Licence of the Univer...
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
At the risk of mansplaining, she's gripping that all wrong.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com
A publisher's office. A writer and editor meet. 

"I wasn't entirely convinced by the portrayal of thugs, hoodlums and henchmen in your novel, Quentin." Says the editor holding the manuscript, "So I've brought in an insensitivity reader."

The writer looks nervously at an enormous, muscular, tattoed, stubbly, shaven-headed, man who holds the manuscript, a tiny pen, and grins with (perhaps unintentional) menace.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How can this go on for another 3 years?
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Everyone's dragging this dude. But given the utility of the Waffle House Index in natural disaster settings, having a FEMA dude who can teleport directly to Waffle Houses is a great piece of disaster preparedness.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
these articles all make a ton more sense the moment you realise when they say "the economy" they actually mean "the owner and his friends"
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
874 years ago, on the 21st of March 1152, the marriage between King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was annulled. On the 18th of May of the same year, Eleanor married duke Henry of Normandy who would later become Henry II of England. #otd #history 🗃️
Recumbant statue of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the church of Fontevraud Abbey
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yes your mom told you that when you grew up you could be anything you wanted but turns out this is called identity theft and she needs to come bail your ass out now bond is set at $10000
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that."  

Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 10/03/2026
Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/03/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm really not sure why i read this shit every day"
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TheAfterwords @theafterwords.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because COPPER SCRIPT @kjcharleswriter.com is on #sale on #Kindle US for today only! amzn.to/4ln7WtG #CopperScript #ad #amazoncom
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Copper Script
Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler of the Metropolitan Police doesn’t count himself a gullible man.
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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/03/2026
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Holey Roman Empire
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
"Why do you want to have a 1970s music pavilion at the Shakespeare festival?" "It features wine made by the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party!" "But how does that make it anything to do with Shakespeare?" "Mao is the vintner of our disco tent!" [Exit, pursued by a bear]
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