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Tim Sharrock

@timsharrock.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 23/09/2026
Spies and the City: @katepreach.bsky.social reviews Premee Mohamed's WICKHILLS (@torbooks.bsky.social)
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Spies and the City: Review of Premee Mohamed’s Wickhills
Kate Towner Under Review:Wickhills. Premee Mohamed. Tor Books, September 2026. In Premee Mohamed’s new book, Wickhills, the setting is gaslamp Dickensian fantasy. The plot is Cold War spy versus sp…
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/08/2026
It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
If you thought your family was weird, wait until you see these guys! Meet your relatives at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social ‘s family event tomorrow, February 18th. Such a privilege to have been able to provide the illustrations for this exhibition.
An illustration of a Rhinopteraspis - an ancient jawless fish, being used to promote Lapworth Museum’s family event on February 18th 2026.
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Windborne @windbornesingers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Wassail! Join us for one of our final shows of the year and sing along! 20 Dec - Manchester - Hallé St Peter’s 21 Dec - London - King’s Place 22 Dec - Cambridge - Junction Windbornesingers.com/concerts 🎶Somerset Wassail, arr. Windborne
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21/08/2025
Hello, UK fans! HEMLOCK & SILVER is out today! Waterstones even has a special edition!
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Things are awful right now (saw some news), so here are 5 (uncached) US Kindle copies of @tkingfisher.com's A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking, which is a very fine book about how to deal with an attempted treason by an asshole trying to keep a hold of power. #KindleBookGiveaway
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Cllr Mike Sammon @mikesammon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Hesketh Park Sensory Garden 2021 and now. Today was judging day for Britain In Bloom and Southport has entered in for the best coastal town. Differences happening like this all over Southport and it’s all down to our amazing volunteer groups. I think they deserve it.
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Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
In case this is of interest to people on here or people they know - we're looking for a software developer. A chance to do software stuff to help fight climate change - and less excitingly to work with me! Remote/hybrid working very possible. Please share!: retrofit.coop/blog/are-you...
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Are you our next software developer? — Blog — People Powered Retrofit
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🎉📚 Exciting news! My new book — Clearing the Air — will be published in the UK in September. 50 of the most common questions I get about how we tackle climate change. 50 short, data-driven answers. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462676...
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/06/2025
I would appear to have won the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame award for Best Author I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image (Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)
A picture of the author Aliette de Bodard alongside text that says "Hall of Fame, Best Author"
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thank you to the many people who kindly voted in this! Tomorrow, I’m off on not one, but two adventures from this list. One topped the poll…the other didn’t. But I’m doing it anyway due to a limited commitment to democracy. So - join Mrs Turtle and I tomorrow afternoon for #ContinentHop24!
A crocheted turtle, sun cream, a passport, an e-ticket, a rail atlas, two books with notes, and a laptop with a map on screen.
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In January, the BBC wrote an article fear mongering about pylons "springing up" across the country It contained some wildly misleading figures which spread to other newspapers. I'm glad to say they've FINALLY been corrected. Here's what happened...🧵 bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
BALTIC STATES EXPRESS! I’ve been asked to say a few words at the @RailBaltica Conference in Tallinn on Thursday. Say no more! Setting off on a 1,930 mile train journey from London to Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga & Tallinn (you didn’t think I’d fly, did you? 😉) #BalticStatesExpress
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?" A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
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The government is stuck in campaign mode
Even with a large majority, policies are decided on popularity not principle.
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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 19/04/2025
Today I had lunch with the wonderful team for this year’s Novacon and realised I had an amazing amount of UK SFF experience in front of me. So I asked the vital question: Is Diana Wynne Jones’ extremely funny 1997 novel Deep Secret set at a specific SFF convention? And if so… which?
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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/03/2025
Oh hey, my novel SORCERESS COMES TO CALL is now my Nebula-nominated novel SORCERESS COMES TO CALL! How cool is that?! nebulas.sfwa.org/8528-2/
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SFWA Announces the 60th Annual Nebula Awards® Finalists! - The Nebula Awards®
March 12, 2025 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards®! Our congratulations go out to each and every finali...
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of the depressing findings in Origin Story research is that in many cases things only get better when somebody terrible and powerful dies. Not to be all Great Man Theory but it happens a lot
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Bill Rehm @cybercodger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Recovering from surgery and saw high praise for how a neurodivergent character was written. Being high enough on the ADHD spectrum to "be someone's thesis subject," I read it even though it's not at all in my usual lane. LOVED IT. Thank you, @tkingfisher.com. Sequel? (Since it was set up for one.)
Holding a new hardback copy of "Swordheart" by T. Kingfisher.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Off on what may prove - for various odd reasons - to be the first of several trips to Moravia this year. It is quite hard dressing efficiently for both balmy London and chilly Mitteleuropa.
Two Eurostars drawn up at St Pancras station under a big curving blue roof.
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Alison Sharrock @alisonsharrock.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I would like to tell the Bluesky community about an article I have just had published, which reads an ancient poem through a 21st-century lens. It's about a time when a young man tried to drive the chariot of the sun, which went horribly badly and burnt the earth. ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Ovid’s Phaethon: Anthropogenic Global Heating, Ancient and Modern | Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The paperback of A History of the World in 47 Borders comes out in just under six weeks! Here are three chapters we cut for space reasons. Firstly: what the suspicious similarities between "central Russia", "central China" and the "midwest" tell us about imperial expansion
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What the “midwest” and manifest destiny teach us about imperialism
Another offcut from the book.
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
All robots should be taught good manners. Today I ordered a robot grocery delivery & @davidho.bsky.social & I biked out to follow it home. I didn't know whether to be more impressed by the Mars rover tech to navigate kerbs, obstacles & gaps, or by it very politely asking for help when stuck.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
What happens when techno-optimism meets energy system realism? My latest for @BloombergNEF is a long read on AI, called The Power and the Glory. So that's Boxing Day sorted! about.bnef.com/blog/liebrei...
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Liebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory | BloombergNEF
This year will go down in history as the year the energy sector woke up to AI. This is also the year AI woke up to energy. Is the data center power frenzy just the latest of a long line of energy sect...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New study shows majority of people who voted to leave EU would now accept return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market & similar support for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme. So when will the government catch up? @europeanmovement.co.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 11/12/2024
scientists just received a signal from Voyager I from 1 light day away: www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024... but we already know what Voyager I has been up to, right @premeemohamed.com ? and you can too! psychopomp.com/not-lost-nev...
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Not Lost (Never Lost) - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
A new story from award-winning author Premee Mohamed about traveling so far from home.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/12/2024
Whew! I was just at a BookTok reception with an open bar and everyone I have met in Mexico has been extraordinarily kind and enthusiastic and many have the kind of indomitable fierce goodness and the things they love they love absolutely and fuck I want to go write a magical realism novel now.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A big read from me: How England’s growing army of mayors are being deployed in the drive for growth (featuring a fair few unanswered questions) on.ft.com/3Vk4tAd
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Can England’s new breed of mayors help fix its left-behind regions?
[FREE TO READ] Westminster sees local figureheads as a new response to old challenges, but they will need resources and real power in key areas
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Truly astonishing video about our recent paper describing Cambrian trilobites preserved in volcanic ash www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites
Knowledge of Cambrian animal anatomy is limited by preservational processes that result in compaction, size bias, and incompleteness. We documented pristine three-dimensional (3D) anatomy of trilobite...
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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS made the Sunday Times bestseller list!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Just a photo of my hand holding up the UK edition of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS
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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I thought I'd repost this video I commissioned from Kong Studios inspired by The Masquerades of Spring - mainly because it seemed like a fun thing to do. youtu.be/4E0Ush3GsFs
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Masquerades Spring DELIVERY
YouTube video by Ben Aaronovitch
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Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 19/11/2024
Heat pump starter pack just dropped. go.bsky.app/KCLxmj9
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Tim Sharrock @timsharrock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Snowflakes in the air in Altrincham #uksnow WA15 1/10 0cm
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I've written a new personal post - probably a bit too personal. It's on how things go wrong in our lives, and why the state should be there to help more reliably when they do. acjsissons.medium.com/the-state-sh...
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The state should be there when things go wrong in our lives
Some years ago, just after I had become a parent for the first time and got a job I probably shouldn’t have got, I was stopped in my tracks…
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