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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 30/09/2026

Wrong on multiple counts, too.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 30/09/2026

Use the free programme Calibre to convert epub to mobi easily.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 29/09/2026

Yay—grossly under-rated Trollope.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 29/09/2026

When does a book become a classic? D.K. Broster's 1925 best-bromance-ever "The Flight of the Heron"? Or #TristramShandy if you want a proper classic—the novel that out-novel'd all other novels, w Toby Shandy & Corporal Trim stealing every scene.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 24/09/2026

"The bullshit machine makes up sources" or worse—has scraped e.g. Jonathon Green's Slang.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 22/09/2026

The one volume OED. It's maybe lagging a bit on recent neologisms, but the definitions are generally sound and the examples straightforward. Dirt cheap on ABE Books or World of Books.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 21/09/2026

Or, indeed, "dangly bits".

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats •

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that in the year the First World War began, J.M. Barrie wrote a comedy cowboy film called How Men Love, which was filmed in Essex with G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw as two of the cowboys. www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1274695

L-R: Lord Howard de Walden, William Archer, J.M. Barrie, G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. All bar Barrie dressed as cowboys. Photograph by Harley Granville-Barker. National Trust Collection: https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1274695.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lovely story in the NY Times today about a 92-year-old mathematician and a high-school kid working together to produce a major result in topology. This kind of working together is the best part of science, and frankly of being human.

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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 28/08/2026

Just had a request for details of "all your pervious employments" and its hard to know whether #accountancy qualifies.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 26/08/2026

Oh joy, oh rapture unconfined.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/08/2026

90% of countries in the world run their water in public ownership It is time England joined Scotland in taking water into public ownership Send your MP our briefing on how Thames Water can be taken into public ownership now: vist.ly/5funf

A graphic that shows the different models of water ownership in Britain, with private ownership in England, Not-for-profit in Wales and public ownership in Scotland

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 23/08/2026

I'm sitting on my tongue as a one-drink-too-many fellow guest explains Art Gecko to me.

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meabell @meabell58.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

With alt text

The Postal Service is telling Americans to give every ballot 14 days round trip. That means if you want to vote by mail, and you want to feel good about your vote being counted, Election Day is not November 3.
Election Day is Tuesday October 20th.
SPREAD THE WORD

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 22/08/2026

A vacuum cleaner doesn't have to understand how dust is created, or how crumbs are brushed to the floor. There's just stuff there waiting to be hoovered up by a dumb machine.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 21/08/2026

During George III's reign >400 baronetcies were created. Were they all rewarding services rendered—if so, of what type? Were any bought outright? #WalterScott refers to his title as an honour "neither begged nor bought as is the usual fashion"—any sources welcomed. #C18th #C19th #Titles #Baronet

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Voyager 2 launched exactly 49 years ago today 🛰️ It's the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, and it still communicates from 13 billion miles away

A technician in a white cleanroom suit holds a small American flag next to two gold-colored discs on a table. In the background, the Voyager 2 spacecraft is mounted on a white support structure.

A white rocket with two side boosters ascends into a clear blue sky, leaving a bright white trail of exhaust and smoke behind it. The scene is framed by dark silhouettes of tree branches on the left and right.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ok. I’ve now laughed

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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🎁Gift Article The Wrong Kind of American The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. By Julia Curlee August 17, 2026, 6 AM ET www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 14/08/2026

Propitiatory Ratafia Riant Rota Rowlock Tael Taipan Tannoy Tappet Tarn Tarty Tench Thegn Thew Tian Tiffin Tigon Tike Toff Tombola Torc Tractarian Tuppence Unclouded Urticant Urticaria Vail Vair Vatic Vino Wain Widdle I have feelings about this.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 14/08/2026

Iatric Inanition Introit Invigilating Kame Keek Kine Knap Koto Lambing Lavatorial Leman Leyline Lido Lief Lignin Lilo Limen Ling Lino Lolly Lory Lour Luff Luminol Lupin Manana Mantilla Marl Mell Moly Monition Motte Mumu Muon Naff Necklet Neem Nobble Obol Oology Orach Parang Parr Pattipan Pluke

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 14/08/2026

Accidie Acyl Alate Anent Anna Anoa Anonym Apiarian Aright Atomy Auroch Ayah Blackcock Blub Bract Bulbul Cachucha Cadi Callalily Campion Caracara Catamite Centile Chicane Chine Choli Clary Compot Criant Dace Dene Dhal Dunnage Exeat Faff Fain Fitment Footman Gammon Gibbet Gite Gnomic Hight Hoopoe

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 12/08/2026

An "aaaah" of a book. Sad, worried & bewildered Rafi stumbles into happiness and caring ever-after. R. Cooper is the poet of lonely love, and I have spent today having my heart-strings wrung in the best way possible. Thoroughly recommended. #Romancelandia

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 12/08/2026

@cazreadingrm.bsky.social — you'd be the expert I'd go to. I think audiogals.allaboutromance.com may be dormant, but there's still a good selection of audio reviews for a wide range of genres.

audiogals.allaboutromance.com

AudioGals

Romance Audiobook Reviews

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 11/08/2026

All Nature matters to me. Except for flies. Death and destruction are too good for Calliphora vomitoria.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 04/08/2026

Listening on repeat to #SaintSaëns sublime "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" in the five versions of it I've amassed. #JessyeNorman nails the tentative initial confession of love which swells into a rapturous declaration, before drifting languorously down to a musical chaise-longue.

Samson asleep in Delilah's lap; she holds a pair of scissors and is looking at a Philistine in the background.

Jan Lievens, 1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com

The problem is not that higher education has failed as an engine of social mobility. It is that, for too long, it has been treated as the only engine. The curriculum is not the problem which is driving our NEET malaise; the weakness of local economies is. Any Labour administration should therefore tread very carefully before dismantling any part of the comprehensive educational settlement created by the Labour governments of the 1960s. Burnham's proposals also misunderstand the multi-layered nature of the modern university, which in many cases is as likely to offer vocational courses as strictly academic ones.
In any case, let's stop the obsession with STEM subjects and
"practical" training. There is already too much snobbery in the assumption that working-class students are somehow less interested in the arts and humanities. And we've never needed those graduates more. In an age in which we are already outsourcing so much of our critical thinking to machines, and in which none of us can be entirely sure of the truth of what we see, where the world's complexity is ever deepening, subjects like philosophy, history, political science, linguistics, classics and literature have rarely been more important.
I'm sure our English graduate prime minister might agree.

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R. Cooper @rcooper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When you're the star pupil at a swordfighting academy, and your celebrity crush has to help you through your heat. And there is sparring as flirting, distant kings, and magic. Also three sexes, sort of soulmates, and a botany nerd. The Scent of the Ideal, out August 15th! books2read.com/u/bWnnKG

New queer fantasy romance from R. Cooper. image shows an ebook and a paperback image of The Scent of the Ideal. Covers shows crossed rapiers underneath the title, surrounded by filigree. beneath it reads, August 15th!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 29/07/2026

OK, the BBC article is 10 years old!

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 29/07/2026

She died in 1941, so 85 years?

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Related to my weekend of driving: This is Just to Say I have used up the patience that was in the glovebox and which you were probably saving for the children on roadtrips Forgive me I was in traffic And other drivers were so stupid and so wrong

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Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com · 28/07/2026

I liked: "Why are we allowing an institution that can put together this kind of reading material that is not beneficial for your growth and education, but we can’t do children's classics … like Frankenstein?" Frankenstein.

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