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Justine Crow

@swimble.bsky.social
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South London born, still learning the job after years at the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy

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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
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Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
Winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned “What’s your name?” “Raheem.” Continue reading...
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Kaz Jones @kazjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wodehouse said it best (see alt text)
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Woke beach
Sign on a rock saying Plage Sans Tabac at the glorious tiny resort of Agon Coutainville with a moody ole ciel as a backdrop
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Emptied the mousetraps
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When the app opens the front camera without warning you
A weird snaggle toothed muppet with shaggy white hair and glowing yellow eyes
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Damer @virelia-world.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We often forget that authors are people too. They're driven by a need for readers, the search for some kind of recognition and the desire 'to make it'. Scammers know it though. And they hope they will get an author at a low moment that will sway them towards the scam. Keep that in mind.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“It doesn’t make any difference to the people around here, other than the racism it’s brought out in people,” says Jacqui the landlady of the pub, adding the village has been weaponised by the far-right
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Is Wethersfield asylum centre just a 'holiday camp'?
The leader of Essex County Council makes the comment after touring MDP Wethersfield.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly. Raised the bar for shortarses world wide. Made us all taller.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This thing seems to be out in the open now, so even though publication’s eight months away, let’s drum up some early interest, shall we? Wayfarers is out next April. Here’s the cover.
A book cover. Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration, by Lev Parikian. It’s mostly blue, with swirling patterns representing movement, and stylised images of various migrating animals (butterflies, terns, a whale, bats, wildebeest, dragonflies, penguins, an arctic fox) dotted about the place.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...
View of some of Crystal Palace models from top of the hill.3D print of pterosaur head being held in front of actual models way back in the distance, Iguanodon at left.Darren and Megalosaurus.Local mural on side of building celebrating Crystal Palace prehistoric animals. Art by Nacho Welles.
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bonnie Tyler would have loved this
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rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
lod riddle
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
God. I LOVE Hattie Jacques.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ah bless #Outspan and the wonderful eve we spent watching #Once
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Literally
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I might have to go to bed just to ensure everyone else gets to see a goal
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dickon-edw...
Dickon Edwards On Diaries. A talk with readings, book signing and DJs.  Hosted by Travis Elborough. Featuring Robert Wringham and Victoria Redfern.  Dickon's 'Diary at the Centre of the Earth' on sale. Saturday 22nd August 2.30pm - 6pm. Free (spaces limited). The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3BL.  RSVP at poniesandhorsesbooks.com/events
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We are having homemade Mexican grub tonight and I feel sure that over in Tijuana, they will be eating roast beef and yorkies with a ton of gravy
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Oh look New book
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Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com · 30/06/2026
Nasushiobara's rice paddy art returns for its sixteenth year, with two fields planted in eight varieties of coloured rice. One site portrays comedy duos "Uji Koji" and "Kaminari" with Mount Fuji; the other depicts Chika Ozeki and Rie Utagokoro.
A rice paddy planted to depict four people's portraits in tones of green and brown, with a question mark between them, set against wooded hills and a pylon. Provided by Nasushiobara City Tourism BureauA rice paddy planted to form the image of a mountain, its peak picked out in reddish-brown rice against lighter green, with hills, power lines, and buildings behind. Provided by Nasushiobara City Tourism BureauA rice paddy planted to depict two women's portraits, one with short dark hair and one wearing a hat, with a Japanese character between them, beside a road and green fields. Provided by Nasushiobara City Tourism Bureau
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Do me a favor and sign this. Its not that close to my house anymore, but very close to my heart.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looks like our overgrooming dickhead of a cat, Joanie, was a bit hot this morning. Like being in the breeze with no pants on.
Cat with a bald belly soaking up the breeze from a cheap fan on the desk
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Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk · 24/06/2026
Going to stick my neck out here and suggest that murdering animals is not, in fact, an art.
The front cover of Shooting Times magazine. The main headline is 'The art of foxing'.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Most magnificentest signage. Never change, Penge
“Penge Express Drycliner wee haw move in new locasiton… oppersite Penge post office”
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Look what someone did on the shop typewriter
We just got engaged Ed & Sian has been typed onto a sheet of A4
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Wet dad city in the shop today. They are all a bit damp too.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Anyone in today wearing an Arsenal shirt gets an extra special stamp on their paper bag
Inky stamps on a brown bag of a crow and the mighty EAAAAAGLES!
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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Eaglessss! For my old pal @booksellercrow.bsky.social whom I miss daily.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
UTTERLY APPALLING! How can Thomas Touché leave these players out of his squad: Jerry Maguire Cole Porter Emerson Lake & Palmer Terence Trent Darby (County) Sandie Shaw? Yet he takes The Rolling Stones Tim Rice and Tony Toney? Disgusting! I blame Rachel Reeves.😡 #SortItOutStarmer
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Jo Morrison @jomorrison.medsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why can I think of nothing but this absolutely classic sketch from Hale and Pace ?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6201au1NE
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Yorkshire Airlines
YouTube video by jamesclarke1968
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
HELLO sorry didn’t mean to shout Anyway, this coming Thursday I’m having a chat with Melissa Harrison about her ridiculously good new book, The Given World. It’s at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace and you also get a drink. Do come, and do tell people. www.outsavvy.com/event/34573/...
A poster for said event with a photo of Melissa and the cover of her book. Text: Author Event
Bookseller Crow
Thurs 14th May, 7.30
The Given World
Melissa Harrison in conversation with Lev Parikian
Tickets on sale now via outsavvy or in store
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Who says education is wasted on millennials… Now THIS is what I call wfh
South London back garden with a laptop inside a carved up cardboard box on a tasteful wrought iron table whilst legs are getting tanned
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So happy for them. And I was that worried
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Chuffed to bits to be the guest on Helen Zaltzman’s amazing @allusionistshow.bsky.social talking about suburbia www.theallusionist.org/suburbia
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Allusionist 226. Suburbia — The Allusionist
"The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all expe...
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Yavestruz. @supermanumolina.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
¿Recuerdas a Clippy, la mascota de Microsoft Word? Así está ahora.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Omg the students nextdoor are having a full on ding dong about boxing and one of them is yelling Conor McGregor is the greatest and I’m thinking I may have to ring the bell and swing a punch
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Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
i kinda wanna get this to 1000 quote posts just for fun. so close!!
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Church organist here. Lovely old dear in the congregation looks like Ken Dodd. Every time she comes in to a service I try and secretly play 'Happiness'. Nobody has spotted this yet.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 10/04/2026
Also recommended: buying our #CPFC FA Cup print and #zine, which includes a £5 donation to the wonderful Palace For Life Foundation. Head to colossive.com/product/cpfc...
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I do not believe in God but I do think there was a guy named Jesus who was killed totally on accident by his friends and the hasty cover story they agreed on got out of hand so fast nobody could back down and now here we are.
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Matt Gilbert @richlyevocative.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Pleased to have a poem in here. It’s a good ‘un and for a vital cause
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@garypanton.co.uk made it, just as he said he would. Welcome back to heady heights of the Triangle, Gary. Good to meet you!
The author holding up 2 GREAT kids books in our bookshop
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Voice in my head went Al Murray “Beautiful British book”
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Phone ringing off the hook when I was opening up this am. Finally grabbed it: “Have you got the new Matt Goodwin?”
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Blokes, blokes and more blokes. No change on the menu there then.
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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Well that was bananas
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