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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 23h

Random long shot but: anyone know anyone who needs a good part-time worker in Edinburgh? My 18yo just started uni there except there's a 5 week teaching strike, and he's bored and lonely as his accommodation is miles away and really anti social. He wants a job.

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Excellent reminder of my plan to write “Studying Early Printed Books: An Impractical Guide” to accompany my Practical Guide

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m reading True Grit at the moment. It’s fantastic. Strong recommend.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Happy to confirm that I and my books remain technically untainted.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I fixed a leaky radiator with Charlton Heston.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just donated. Up with this sort of thing.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nice to see my recent When Books Go Bad, The Book Lover's Joke Book, and The Book Lover's Almanac published by @blpublishing.bsky.social enjoying shelf time at Frankfurt Book Fair this week.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can see a couple of other great books just peeking out from the far right of the photo.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Definitely #TeamHarold as my ancestors lived in Stamford Bridge for ages.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Digger is surely going to be a lot more fun.

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're all used to seeing (and mocking) the endless queues waiting to summit Yr Wyddfa but reading George Borrows' Wild Wales and he records that the mountain's tourism was well enough established in the mid-18thC that there was a permanently inhabited cabin dispensing refreshments located at the top

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I went low-tech with my Lyle's golden syrup tins and turned it into a cave for my toy plastic penguin which I horrifically precociously called Polonius.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you just cross that bit out and say happy with everything else?

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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1990-1 I worked for a small charity in Cambridge. We were approached by a solicitor looking for a worthy cause to receive a free TV from their anonymous client. It transpired to be Archer, then in the middle of some scandal, looking to launder his reputation with a photo op of his ‘generosity’.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A good second place to the whole of Mouse in Manhattan.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so back again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way.

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St Albans Bach Choir @stalbansbachchoir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

St Albans Bach Choir will be performing Dove’s There Was a Child and Fauré’s Requiem in the splendour of St Albans Cathedral on 14 November, with acclaimed soloists, the Girl Choristers and Sinfonia Verdi. A moving evening of grace and reflection. Tickets: www.stalbanscathedral.org/event/st-alb...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists Llangollen Valley Artist: SR Badmin

A view over a green, lightly- wooded valley at Sunset or dawn

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s a Ladybird book for every occasion. “In 1850 there were quite a number of Football Clubs. Each club drew up its own rules at a special meeting. The rules were not the same for every club” From ‘The Story of Football’ Artist: Jack Matthew (Man City)

By the light of yellow gas lamps, a group of men with impressive sideburns sit down at a mahogany table, ready to write notes with quill pens

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BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Elizabeth Drury has combed through Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to compile a new dictionary of forgotten, curious, hilarious and – occasionally – quite useful words. Hotcockles and Twittletwattle is available now online and in-store. #samueljohnson #blpublishing

Book cover of Hotcockles and Twittletwattle

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An enormous sendoff this morning for Simon Trewin. He was a giant of the publishing industry but the tributes were all about his empathy, curiosity and deep interest in other people, and the way he'd brought so many people in the (packed) church together. It's how anyone would want to be remembered.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It fell to thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and I in all the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and wet half an hour, enough to have killed a man.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To carry several heavy things with my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, and Will to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat, so I had a fire made.

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to see 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' in such great company within @finebooks.bsky.social September roundup of new books

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That England-Spain game was marvellous.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As always, I'm keen to hear from potential contributors. You just need i) to love short stories ii) to be able to narrow that love down to 12 (TWELVE!) stories and iii) be able to write about what they mean to you. DMs open. Don't be shy!

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my best friends used to live at Spurn. I'll forward this to him.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To my office, whither by and by came my brother John, who is to go to Cambridge tomorrow, and I did give him a most severe reprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A reminder for book designers. The job of a spine is to be noticable, interesting and legible in a bookshop. The job of a cover is to be identifiable when someone cool is reading the book further down the carriage from you the tube.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By and by comes my wife by coach well home, and having got a good fowl ready for supper against her coming, we eat heartily, and so with great content and ease to our own bed, there nothing appearing so to our content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

After a word or two to my father and mother, my wife and I mounted, and we rode to Bigglesworth by the help of a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long and dangerous waters, because of the ditches on each side, though it begun to be very dark.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you didn't like the first, you'll certainly not like the 2nd. Bonkers plots that make no sense, including a travesty of a snooker-themed episode.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watched the ludicrous final episode of the second series of Ludwig last night. First series was great, but this second one is absolute pants.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today programme about to platform someone advocating for ‘AI rights’. Off it goes. If AIs have rights then they should also be subject to the rule of law. If so, they are by their creators’ own admissions guilty of massive levels of theft, and so can go straight to jail and enjoy their rights there.

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