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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia

Filmography
1986 - Stand By zme
1987 - The Princess Bride
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Misery
1992 - A Few Good Men

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I had this on my fridge for a bit; still love it even though nerdery does not need to gatekeep food

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 18/12/2024

Bristol Short Story Prize now open for stories of up to 4000 words, judged by prize-winning novelists and a literary agent. Also winning stories published. Link below Please share. bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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Bristol Short Story Prize

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Solidarity to everyone feeling overwhelmed by the Gisèle news today, especially those who couldn’t talk about their own experiences, those who didn’t have “evidence”, those who weren’t believed. Your experience is real, it is valid, it is not your fault.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Surely Gisèle Pelicot, rather than Trump, should be Time's Person of the Year. *Everyone's* person of the year.

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So it goes. @sogoesit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

In elementary school, my teacher told my mother I was “unteachable.” I was behind in every subject, including reading. Then I found this one book in the school library and connected with it, reading it hundreds of times. I made a career in reading, writing, and editing.That’s what a book can do.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Almost certain I have done this at some time or another. I appreciate that's not actually a *good* thing.

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God @thegodshow.com · 15/12/2024

God wept.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I don't even have a cat any more and I still really enjoyed this, dammit:

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Glorious holiday reading c/o @orionbooks.bsky.social - thank you, @francescamain.bsky.social ! Have heard brilliant things about both & can't wait to get started.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reasonably willing to bet that I'm the only person who got pork scratchings in their work Secret Santa. (Was properly thrilled by them, too). Please to tell me your best/worst Secret Santa gifts...

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Saxophone inventor: each button plays a different note Trombone inventor: trombone goes WOOooooOOmp

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🎅🏻 🏴‍☠️ 🎤

A sort of Venn diagram showing Pirates, Santa and Gangster Rappers with YO HO HO, HO HO HO and YO HO respectively.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

They should do YouTube wrapped so everyone can see the embarrassing stuff we all couldn’t do without a video tutorial this year

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Buy your loved-ones lotsa banned books for the holidays.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

See? We *can* save the good things from the bin fire. Hooray!

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Reminds me of a sign I once saw in a window: Time Travel Club: Meet here last Thursday

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you need to buy a Christmas gift for a book lover but you assume they'll already have anything you'd choose for them, might I suggest this list I made of wonderful books they probably haven't read yet?

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The Best Books You've Never Read

A selection of books that I think are wonderful but no one, or hardly anyone, I know has read them too. If you have then maybe we should be friends?

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As ever, Stella Duffy says it right. Her words. @stellduffy.bsky.social

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This sign has recently gone up in a local lane and it makes me *walk" more slowly, never mind driving.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ignoring the fact that I am waaaay past the age where relatives buy you toys, one of my lovely aunties gave me this, apropos of nothing, & it's truly excellent:

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Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am not sure if job seekers have joined us over here yet, but if you're looking for an entry level position at a literary agency, Watson Little are looking for an Agency Assistant with no experienced required but bags of enthusiasm: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

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Watson, Little: Agency Assistant

BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

fair play, that’s a decent signing.

A photo of Beyoncé with th3 headline BEYONCÉ IS COMING TO SUNDERLAND.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 29/11/2024

My favourite quote from Ian Dunt’s excellent thread reporting on the bill debate

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Gerry McDied 10 years ago, on a night just like this @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Saw Macbeth last night with David Tennant & Cush Jumbo (they were in it, we did not go on a little theatre trip together). Properly astonishing production. All sound comes through headphones so you are party to every tiny whisper, every heartbeat, the witches murmuring in your head. Amazing.

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you loved Lucy Mangan's #Bookworm, you'll adore the follow-on, #Bookish, out in March from @vintagebooks.bsky.social. Made me want to shout with recognition on every page. Thank you, @blakefriedmann.bsky.social xx

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is ace. I would add: 1. 13th December, the word is definitely 'Die Hard' 2. 21st December It's a Wonderful Life is a miserable, cynical film 3. 24th December is definitely, 100% DuvetKnowItsChristmas (please, @rhodri.biz )

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cher’s author bio is NOT messing about.

Dust jacket bio for Cher’s autobiography: ‘Cher is a global icon.’

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

All hail the (re)arrival here of fabulous @alisonhennessey.bsky.social , who publishes amazing books at @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social, but far more importantly is an excellent, excellent person

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Emailing a student, and autocorrect changed their name to 'Mother.' There might not be a doctor in the house, but there's definitely a Freud in the machine.

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a man with a green earring is smiling and says " yes mother "

ALT: a man with a green earring is smiling and says " yes mother "

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Spice up Christmas cards this year by scrawling I WILL KILL AGAIN inside instead of signing your name.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/11/2024

East London calling. There are 50 free places for care leavers aged 18-25 yrs for Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day in Hackney. It is totally free. To make a referal please write to Kausar at this address Hackneyxmasdinnerguests@gmail.com Via Lemn Sissay

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Hackney Christmas Dinner 2017

YouTube video by Kerry

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hetha and I re-mortgaged our house to start an independent publishing company. We're competing with Billion dollar corporates from our front room. So to see one of our books on national TV is just brilliant. Thank you! #Betweenthecovers @pollyanneconway.bsky.social @bbctwo.bsky.social

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Emily | A Quintillion Words @aquintillionwords.com · 26/11/2024

I reckon it's about time we showed some love to all the book publishers and publishing people who fill our TBRs and introduce us to new authors 💙📚 Suggestions for this pack welcome! 🫶 #BookSky go.bsky.app/BAJ3bag

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/11/2024

A rap battle is two men writing poems about each other

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Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Dance class last night. I am cheerfully terrible, and they should 100% remove mirrors from the studio. In my head I am Darcy Bussell*. In the mirror, I am a Shetland pony in a tutu** *I am not learning ballet ** nor do I own a tutu. Or a Shetland pony, for that matter. But you get the idea.

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a group of horses are standing on a beach near the ocean

ALT: a group of horses are standing on a beach near the ocean

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

200,000 books are released in the UK each year through traditional publishers alone - most without anywhere near the level of care and attention they deserve. The last thing we need is yet another means of exacerbating that problem. We need to be publishing fewer books, not more.

Screenshot of an article from The Bookseller magazine, announcing a start up which plans to use AI to publish 8000 books annually, each at a cost of £5k to the writer. They’ve received an obscene amount of funding in order to do this.

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