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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A little reminder that my writing course kicks off next month and there are places available! Any genre and experience level welcome but with a focus on creative non-fiction and observational work Grounding Your Words with Thom Eagle www.eventbrite.com/e/grounding-...

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Grounding Your Words with Thom Eagle

A creative writing course with award-winning author Thom Eagle on building the craft of observation into your fiction or non-fiction.

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Howlingatthe Moon @oog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"In theaters this fall... HE [cut to the stripes of a tiger] IS [cut to a tiger claw] OUT [cut to a tiger's face, roaring]"

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bookings are now open for Grounding Your Words - an 8-week online course designed to develop your writing practice through ways of seeing and thinking about the world around us. Tickets and more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1984878117...

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Grounding Your Words with Thom Eagle

A creative writing course with award-winning author Thom Eagle on building the craft of observation into your fiction or non-fiction.

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Me and @thomeagle.bsky.social are doing the Pilgrims Way Challenge in June, in support of the hospice that briefly looked after our dad three years ago now www.justgiving.com/page/khrisea...

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My Pilgrims Way Challenge

Help Chris Eagle raise money to support Pilgrims Hospices In East Kent

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/02/2025

‘In a game built on infinities, there follows a dizzying array of subsequent sidelines and complications. For this reason, the French Defence isn’t much taught to beginners.’ Nicholas Pearson on chess tournaments, both local and global: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Nicholas Pearson · Diary: On the Chess Circuit

On the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was due...

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Great fun today hosting a festive kimjang at Windmill Community Gardens in Margate, chatting brassicas and vinegar and explosions and making a sprout and chestnut kimchi

A picture of me in a poly tunnel next to a table with chestnuts, sprouts, ginger, a saucepan, some kitchen knives and a copy of my book

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Edmund Griffiths @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just posted: my talk on the Analytical Engine edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html

A loom for algebra: the Analytical Engine
Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 28 November 2024

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Edmund Griffiths @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Got around to posting this talk on ghost stories, from last month edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...

Anatomy of the classic ghost story
Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 31 October 2024

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This week’s notes: leafnotes.substack.com/p/261124

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26.11.24

in the soil

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Edmund Griffiths @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you're around in Oxford next week, & you're looking for a Marxist talk on C19th calculating engines, you're in luck

Screenshot from "The CCS @CCSoc" account on another social media app. It says:

Public meeting in Oxford

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A loom for algebra: the Analytical Engine

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7:30–9pm Thursday 28 November
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

Lots of geared wheels made of some shiny metal (could be bell-metal? looks yellower than pewter & not as yellow as brass; but what do I know), arranged in vertical columns with steel shafts providing a common axis for each column; plus auxiliary columns with smaller gearwheels. I'm not describing this very well; but the picture only really conveys "very complicated mechanism with lots of moving parts, presumably from a C19th calculating engine"

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This week’s notes: leafnotes.substack.com/p/191124

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19.11.24

in the soil

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This may look like an instrument of torture but it is in fact a set of portable metal weighing scales for checking the weight of a cricket ball. Made in Bombay, it belonged to HD Billimoria, an Indian umpire who stood in 17 first-class matches between 1940 and 1954

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The Rational Colonel @therationalcolonel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Anyone having problems with avatars? Mine is uploaded and saved but it is showing up blank

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