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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Want to do school visits as an author? Or are you a school who wants authors to come and talk to your kids? The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has a free resource, just for you! The School Visits Toolkit, brimming with good advice, can be downloaded right here: societyofauthors.org/resource/sch...

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School visits toolkit - The Society of Authors

Developed by the SoA's Children's Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG) to support and empower authors and schools to deliver impactful in-person school visits.

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 01/09/2026

One Breath Left is part of the bundle! Come explore some derelict wrecks while you struggle to ration your air and avoid being eaten by something monstrous or get sucked into a black hole or get decimated by a rogue AI or or or

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 29/08/2026

finally started working on the big dumb critter monk zine/art book/whatever project i've been threatening for over a year. pages still in progress but probably like 90% the way there

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Google's core useful features (like quick exchange rates, definitions, maps, etc) are breaking more and more as they try to shove AI in. It's wild that such a universally useful and convenient tool is being torn apart in the pursuit of another global recession.

Screenshot of google search "usd to gbp exchange rate". There are no search results being returned by google; the whole page is broken.

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Small Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 25/08/2026

Have you signed up to the Scottish Comics Roundtable yet? 💪

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Eryk @peregrinecoast.press · 20/08/2026

Really had my eyes opened on Business Rates this year- you pay BR on the value of the property you’re renting out (like council tax). If your rateable value is <£12,500, you get a full small business exemption. Above £15k, you pay 0.432x of the RV a year. This is a nuts jump in monthly outgoings

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 19/08/2026

art direction is just redoing the "I'm assembling a team" montage in every heist film but with artists and slightly more paperwork

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Peregrine Coast Press @shop.peregrinecoast.press · 17/08/2026

Hail! We have re-enabled shipping to the EU and timed it with a review of how we handle shipping. We handle *a lot* of fulfilment for TTRPG crowdfunding projects so, in the interest of transparency, here is an abridged email we sent to creators we work with. peregrinecoast.press/blogs/news/t...

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The State of Shipping in 2026

2026 has been an absolute ride for us - both as a business and as a fulfilment and shipping provider for multiple independent producers. We sent an email out to the folks we work with to inform them o...

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Small Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 19/08/2026

📢 Do you want to fix Scottish comics? Let's come up with some solutions! Join us on 9th September at 7pm for an online roundtable to discuss the future of Scotland's indie comic scene, in collaboration with CCIC and @chipcollective.bsky.social. More info in 🧵👇 RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-c...

The Scottish Comics Roundtable. 9th Sept, 7pm. An online call to arms for everyone working in and with comics in Scotland. RSVP on Eventbrite! Presented by Small Press Scotland CIC, The Comics Cultural Impact Collective CIC, and CHIP Collective.

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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1/18 IPR #Booth449 at #GenCon2026 Thursday before open, with 156 games of the 600+ we carry, from 96 of our 220 member-publishers. Photos courtesy of Nicholas. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...

Three IPR booth 449 staff at Gen Con 2026 stand behind a table stacked with small press roleplaying and storytelling games.

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 02/08/2026

GEN CON LAST DAY-ERS Get your Pict-curious Persons over to the IPR booth and get your mitts on delicious, delightful, insightful and reverently human Scottish history! The wingspan of this book rivals that of most feral sea gulls, and is also has more praise than the average feral sea gull, too!

Screenshot 1. Pictish style copper inlay against a rich blue background, showing scenes of fishing, trading, farming and warfare.

Screenshot 2. An illustrated map of Scotland, labelled with 7th century kingdom names like Pictland, Alt Clut, and Dal Riata.

Screenshot 3. Scenes in panels, showing a painted standing stone, someone spinning thread with a dorp spindle, and a shepherd with his flock and sheepdog.

Screenshot 4. Travellers resting and bathing near a river, with their equipment spread all around.

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 15/07/2026

2nd-hand Book Sale! I'm moving house in the next few months, and I'm slimming down my collection of TTRPGs, Zines, and Comics. Have a browse, and help me pay for a plasterer and new wallpaint :) Check the sheet below and gimme an email with whatcha want! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Book Sale!

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Book Sale!

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Anine Bösenberg @anineillustration.com · 14/07/2026

Hello #Portfolioday! I'm Anine, an illustrator based in Scotland, and I'm looking for work - email me if you think I'd be a good fit for your project ✨ 💻 www.anineillustration.com 💌 anine@anineillustration.com (I also do private commissions, email me for that too)

A drawing of a hot air balloon above overgrown ruins. A group of sailors is looking at birds through telescopes.

A drawing of some items: A diamond ring with a snake design - a flint knife wrapped with string - a gold chain with small gold bees - two clay toy dog figurines - a cup shaped like the head of a horse or donkey - a horse shaped candle holder - two crab apples - a votive loaf of bread (shaped like a hand) on a plate, with a bowl of salt and a lit candle.

Three small drawings: One of a shrine under a pine tree with a stone inside, one of a salamander on the forest floor, one of a coastal path with stone steps, two tall trees, stone columns and two hikers in the distance. The overall feel is very late summer to early autumn.

A drawing of some things you might find in a kitchen: a tea towel, a bundle of herbs (parsley, thyme, sage, bay), two wooden spoons, some butcher's twine, a cutting board, a big knife, a candle stub on a little plate, a ceramic jar, some cardamom pods, a garlic bulb (bisected).

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For all of you guys running Stonetop campaigns, this is a GORGEOUS, illustrated history book that works wonderfully as a sourcebook for life and culture at the time

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 12/11/2025

Carved in Stone is officially out! In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.

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Jamorobo @jamorobo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Would be hard pressed to have a more wonderful set of post through the letterbox (ok maybe @wyrdscience.bsky.social would be the cherry on top)! @jdhoare.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk #secretpassages

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ArchaeoPlays @archaeoplays.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

...and we'll be at Govan Old next Saturday (18 July) for @govanstones.bsky.social's Viking Games and Archaeological Open Day! For those who like a challenge, one version of our scavenger hunt will be ENTIRELY in ogham - do you think you could solve it? (4/4) thegovanstones.org.uk/lecture-on-t...

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Viking Games and Archaeological Open Day on Saturday 18th of July: an Alternative Celebration of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. – The Govan Stones

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's the International Day of Ogham today. The (former) OG(H)AM project are happy to announce the recipients of this year's Certificate of Achievement for Ogham Excellence, the team behind the creation of "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to Pictland". More: carvedinstone.scot #IntDayofOgham

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 06/07/2026

For every lovely repost or review, there are five more filled with personal grudges, death threats or motivated by bigoted hate. It's intimidating to create anything because the internet can feel like such a vitriolic cesspit. It's even harder to wade through it when without a team behind you.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

More than this, even. Facts don't come out of nowhere; they are made, and the work of making robust facts is very hard. Historians don't just get primary sources and write down what they say; they have to interpret them. This is where historical facts come from.

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 03/07/2026

Last day! Grab some actually genuinely bonkers deals while you can! (I gotta stop getting older because 31% is actually quite large, as it turns out).

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Alex Boer @gmalex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I bought this even faster than I bought Stonetop. Can’t wait to put it to use!

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Now also with a 31% discount till July 3rd! £50 down to £34.50! Use code BIRTHDAY2026 at the checkout. Alternatively, in the spirit of Pictish economics I will consider barter offers or equivalent weight in hacksilver

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 26/06/2026

In the annual tradition, I'm putting on a sale for my birthday! Get 31% off of EVERYTHING in my store with the code "BIRTHDAY2026", running from today through to July 3rd :) www.stoutstoat.co.uk/discount/BIR...

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Check your bank transaction history, and keep your notifications on! In the space of ten minutes I had a flurry of random transactions come through, first for O2, then increasingly for more expensive charges to Fefizzessen (google says a Euro-Russian bank). Locked my Monzo card down immediately.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Celebrating my wife’s birthday with a lovely evening of storytelling around a few rounds of Border Riding, from @stoutstoat.co.uk

Coffee table, with pens, three 6-sided dice, map and scratch paper with notes, reflect first round of a game of Border Riding (game itself in the foreground)

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 10/06/2026

"AI is a force multiplier for the worst aspects of our industry, and that's where my worry is." Fantastic quotes in this article. Too long to easily quote in a bluesky post, but all sensitively presented.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 06/06/2026

I'm at @cymerafestival.co.uk in Edinburgh at the Pleasance till 5pm! Come say hi!

Photo of a convention display, with bright artwork pinned onto display boards.

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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My recent trip to Polish/Czech mountains reminded me of working on this series of illustrations for the Carved in Stone book 🖤

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat.

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."

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Selkie Comic Awards @selkieawards.org · 01/06/2026

🦭 New volunteering opportunity: Deputy Organiser 🦭 As we approach our third year, the Selkie Awards are looking to recruit one or more volunteer Deputy Organisers to contribute to our long-term success. If you're interested, please check out our website for more info: selkieawards.org/volunteer

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 14/05/2026

I've joined over 300 artists, arts organisations, academics, think tanks and campaigners who have signed this open letter. Add your name. Tell Scotland's political parties and cultural institutions to deliver a basic income for artists:

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An open letter to Scotland’s political parties and cultural institutions

A new Scottish Parliament has been elected. Now is the moment. We must make sure a basic income for artists pilot is delivered in this Parliament. The SNP have been re-elected. They said if this hap...

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 08/05/2026

The Quindrie Comic Fund is open for submissions until 31st July 5pm! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details on eligibilty and how to apply here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉

A blue dragon-like creature in a yellow jumper holds up a comic page, smiling. Text reads: "The Quindrie comic Fund is now open! Are you a UK-based comic creator? Apply for up to £1000 for your comic project!"

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TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 08/05/2026

Only one week left to apply to TAGS Fest 2026! This year TAGS Fest is on 17th October at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, just off Leith Walk. You have until May 15th to apply! 🏷️ tagsfest.co.uk#applications

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 08/05/2026

Quinns really knows how to sell a 1,200 page megalith of a project. A wonderful listen!

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Peow2 NYCC C20 @peow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

‼️💿 We are looking for gamedevs to be part of our R&D 💿 division to make experimental nonphysical books with controller support. DIAMOND DISK UNIT You can read more about it here peow.studio/blog/join-di...

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 23/04/2026

Having to go through my Google Workspace admin and turn of Gemini AGAIN, for what feels like the third time in 12-month period. No, I do not want to "share Gems" or allow this monstrosity to cross-reference files within my drive. I just want to write docs and share files. Is that so goddamned hard?

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 23/04/2026

I heard this one's quite good

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you’re looking for a copy of One Breath Left, the ENNIE-winning solo sci-fi/horror survival RPG from myself and Stout Stoat, I’ve got a handful of copies on my website for US sales only! leafydragongames.wpcomstaging.com/product/one-...

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One Breath Left

Move with caution. Reclaim useful tools. Track your oxygen levels. Investigate rooms for clues. Reveal the ship’s schematics. SURVIVE. One Breath Left is a solo-journaling sci-fi horror game, playe…

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Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Spring Clearance Mini-Stock Sale! I'm clearing out my stock cupboards and using up spare bits, so there's a limited number of One Breath Left and Border Riding available at stoutstoat.co.uk 📚

One Breath Left. Cardboard box with card slip cover.

Border Riding. Game printed on a large folded sheet, like a hiker's map.

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Dag @dagart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Just want to say how much more accessible reading random scottish history books has become to me after reading this. What's a byre? No longer is my mind going to check wiki for a five word summary i won't retain, now the gorgeous illustration from this book comes to mind. Same for other words. ❤️

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