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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Come to our book launch tomorrow, where we'll discuss our (romantic?) take on Edinburgh's pavements and New York's sidewalks. 4pm EST, 9pm in the UK

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Beckatron @ridiculousrebecca.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Some brilliant Victorian Christmas cards.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today’s Puffin Post perfection

Cover of a 1970 puffin post magazine featuring a bouquet of colourful cartoon puffins as flowers tied in a pink pace wrapping with a red and yellow striped bow bearing a luggage tag that reads 1st prize best in show against a purply blue background with the magazine name in white cursive in the top left corner with daisies as majuscules

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Melinda & I stroked the stingray.

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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This makes me feel exceedingly nostalgic for Puffin Post

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

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Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Storyteller Joseph O'Connor raises literary ghosts - from Jennifer Johnston to Boland to Stoker to Synge - in this enthralling interview with MadeleineKeane.bluesky.social for IrishWritersCentre.bluesky.social DublinCitylibs.bluesky.social unioflimerick.bluesky.social www.writing.ie/interviews/d...

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Dublin, One City, Many Stories

The Irish Writers Centre has proudly launched the first episode of its new six-part video series Dublin, One City, Many Stories.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Are you writing an historical novel? Want some guidance and support this September? Still places left on my online Historical Fiction course starting Tues 2nd Sep for 4 weeks! ✒️📚 2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie - Moniack Mhor share.google/zvBYzjnZnOJw...

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2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie - Moniack Mhor

Join historical novelist Victoria Mackenzie for a lively 4-week online course exploring the art of writing compelling and vivid historical fiction. Aimed at anyone interested in writing a historical n...

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Very possibly the most British road sign in Britain:

A road sign. The left turn at the roundabout leads to Monkey World and the Tank Museum.

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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Cress had such a moment in the 70s

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hey have you heard that new song by

An art book titled Turner and the Elements

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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Blueprint is our brand new programme for emerging theatre-makers in Scotland (& we’re really, REALLY excited about it) 🧱🎭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 You may have just graduated, be considering a career change or enjoy being part of theatre projects & want to take your work to the next step 🪜 ⏰ Deadline: Fri 25 July @ 10am

Blue squared background featuring rehearsal image of a ‘Louder’ director, with text “you should apply to Blueprint if you have…”.

Blue squared background featuring image of Framework’s Admin Producer smiling, with text: “recently graduated”, “been working in a different industry but looking for support to start a career in professional theatre-making” and “participated in some theatre projects & want to learn more about making your own work”

Blue squared background featuring production image of a ‘Louder’ actor showing peace signs, with text “if you’re an emerging artist (from any discipline) in Scotland who could benefit from the Blueprint Programme…we’d love to hear from you!”

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Samuel understands.

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WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Please share: Do you hate AI? Are you an editor, proofreader, designer, illustrator, typesetter, marketer, book blogger, audio narrator, reviewer, ARC/beta reader? WoodPig Press is creating a pool of freelancers for future paid work. woodpigpress.com/call-for-pub... #booksky #books #publishing

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I've been in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years. Everybody's so enamored at the idea that AI will make movies cost less. The greed and bloat will come. Someday, a filmmaker will struggle with the cost and realize it'd be cheaper to just go out and film the scene. Trust me, it'll happen.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ironic sloganeering in the Highlands.

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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Bizarrely we appear to have welded a pair of scissors onto one of our oven racks

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/06/2025

Here we have a senior golden living their best life and a young golden just trying to make it to the end of their shift. Both 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Good evening! This week's theme is London Transport. ----- 'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Various forms of Réglisse (Licorice) for your admiration.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I am at Tiverton Parkway. 'Parkway' is an English word that means 'not very close to'.

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Hang on if the government has decided everything I do is completely worthless and anyone can help themselves to it, do I still have to pay tax????

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

• Re your article (Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform, 3 May), the insistence of this Labour government on responding to the perceived threat of Reform by aping it on the issues where it is strong is utterly mind-boggling.
I don't think any electable party will be more anti-immigration than Reform. The portion of the electorate for whom immigration is the one issue they care about won't be persuaded to vote Labour by it pledging to reduce asylum applications from international students. It's a ludicrous idea and, at best, only serves to reduce the distinction between the two parties.
In reality, Reform is weak on almost every conceivable area: the economy, the NHS, Donald Trump, Brexit... the list of vulnerabilities is almost without limit. Yet the government chooses to engage on the only ground on which Reform is sure-footed. It's utterly bizarre.
How is a party with five MPs, fewer than 800 local councillors and no actual policies allowed to dictate the agenda in this way?
Richard Repper
Frome, Somerset

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Joanna now has a London T-shirt & Graham has a planisphere. He's still got a runny nose.

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Dr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

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Lindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet today.

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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Re-posting on behalf of a writer deserving of a launch. I'd go if I was in Glasgow

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

White Heron in the Rain (Uchu sagi), by Kawanabe Kyosai, around 1870s. A woodblock print of the Ultimate Peak of Life on Earth. #HeronModesty

White Heron in the Rain.
By Kawanabe Kyosai in the 1870s.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The number of people on Swanage beach on Sunday actually exceeded infinity.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Sometimes a book is enough technology. You can have your mathematical wizardry, cyber Swarfega, plastics & glass. But sometimes, a physical book is just enough. Please do support Independent publishers because once they're gone, they're gone. @thebookseller.com @waterstones.bsky.social

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Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Theft is theft, Mark Zuckerberg. Do not steal our work without permission or payment, respect the law and do not destroy British creative industries. Be honourable, be honest, be fair. It’s easy.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you’re not a member of the SoA, now is the time to join! We are fighting to protect the rights of all authors, now and in the future. We’re stronger together. Join now

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Join the SoA – The Society of Authors

Email the Membership Department or phone us on 020 3880 2230.

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

'Girl Writing', St John's Wood (1931) by Harold Knight (Grundy Art Gallery)

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I feel Britain and France can't tell their awful husband they're leaving him to his face because he might blow up, and they haven't anywhere sorted to stay yet, but they're squirreling money away and putting things in a bag.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Job interview on a building site with an English graduate: “Do you even know the difference between a joist and a girder?” “Yes, one wrote Ulysses and the other wrote Faust.”

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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A reminder that, by adding googly eyes to the tap of a wine box, you can make your very own Shaun the Sheep.

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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Getting flashbacks to that annoying paperclip every time the 'enable Copilot' sign turns up in my Word docs

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Jenny Knight @jennyknight.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Particularly like ‘perceptive’ and ‘epic’… 💙📚 #BookSky #writingcommunity

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George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is perhaps a bit like trying to uninvent the bloody crossbow, but if you're concerned by the government's march towards ceding all our creative endeavours to the maw of training generative AI, have a look at this and write to your MP. www.creativerightsinai.co.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Creative Rights In AI Coalition

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