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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, Jeffrey Archer has died. I'm sure he'll be remembered fondly and we won't get a flurry of stories about him that were held back by the risk of libel action until now.

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 9h

“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 12h

Well, there was a reason we chose a fixed rate mortgage to finish after Trump left office. I'd thought he wasn't going to bother starting wars I admit, but figured there'd be some stupid idea to make lives worse.

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Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · 14h

Once again, for the non weekend crowd.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 17h

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 19h

Jaws - I think kids were left to watch TV at someone's house while the adults had dinner and I was WAY too young. Traumatised. Also, when I was a older, so 11 ish, Chimera and Ghostwatch. First time I'd see anything remotely like either and they terrified me.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 19h

Dust jacket wouldn't work with the set though, we'd taken it from a grandparents house because they look nice all together & hadn't read many of hers.

A row of red leather Agatha Christies, almost all of which aren't racist. I think. I've not read them yet. Oh gods...

Terry pratchett occupies the row below. I didn't need to mention that, but I like that he's made it to the living room at last

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you. I think it went OK yes, but whether the book should remain don't know. Not like I'm likely to read it.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He asked in a very sensible way, carefully avoiding saying it, so we got to talk about how it wasn't called that these days and all the whys involved. I'd honestly not noticed it was included despite them being on a high shelf for years.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So we put up a new bookcase in our living room and put the big set of omnibus Agatha Christie books on it. I hadn't actually thought about how old the set was until 5 mins later when the chosen one asks me about one particular title. Which I guess has turned out to be a positive thing.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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TheStainlessSteelRat @llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reading has been slow going recently. I really enjoyed Old Man's Ghosts by @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social. Have switched gears to a short story anthology Light and Shadow by @lindanagata.bsky.social. Short stories are the answer to a reading slump.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

48-0 - bloody pathetic. Even the Gloucester commentators seemed surprised at how feeble Quins were. It's going to be a long season...

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aggressive shouting and threats ringing out from next door. I wonder if I need to call the cops. I hear the angriest person yell "never fucking hit your son again" and I think he may have more of a point that I first thought.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

same, then I remember the page on my website with the contact form is broken... Most of mine get scraped off Linkedin and sent to my office address

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad to say I think my daughter would love it.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well not only did I send an incorrect invoice then a follow-up saying a correct one would follow, I also sent both to the wrong client (who has the same first name) so one client has no idea I'm a moron, the other is only now fully appreciating the vast depths of my stupidity.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apart from everything else, if you were going to just reel off a list of the most prominent ideological enemies that American soldiers have fought against, there, uhhh, seems to be a notable omission here. 😑 bsky.app/profile/chad...

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 30/09/2026

SHARON, I'VE SOLVED MUSIC

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Breath & Bone is another of @kvjohansen.bsky.social 's elegant, complicated fantasies featuring characters living with the consequences of their own actions. (Link to us but available at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/breath-...

Book cover: in a blue-toned forest, a dark-haired woman is just drawing a sword while at her side a shorter woman carrying a harp looks intently out of the image. Breath and Bone, K.V. Johansen. A long-retired swordswoman, savior of godlings and killer of emperors, takes to the road again with her shapeshifting companion and the ghost of her brother. A desperate girl needs their help to rescue her own lost brother — and the witch who holds him in thrall is their old enemy. “A wonderful tale of rescue and redemption.” — Tom Lloyd. “This fairytale-like stry has both teeth and heart.” — KD Edwards

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

our actual doc will be getting a long diatribe as they're made to rebook things properly though, and I'll be demanding complaints procedures if this is actually deliberate. Really shouldn't underestimate the pettiness of a contracts nerd with a book to finish!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that is my slight fear, but they've got to know they'll not get away with that.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I assumed it meant pm, but all options to change it are also 3am to 5am, and the letter doesn't give any details on how to attend. I think maybe it's a ghost appointment they need to say they've done before we get an in-person appt...?

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got an NHS video appointment for my daughter - website confirms the appointment is for 3.22am which.... I guess we will be at home then but, um.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

recently I wondered whether the reason I'm more interested in talking to the mums at my kids school than many of the dads isn't just cos I'm not actually that blokey, but cos a large chunk of men don't read much/fiction at all. I don't need to talk about books but we don't think the same way now

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While I've not seen research, I'd hazard that a mix of visual reading and audiobooks does most good to your brain, but life and habits dictate what works for you and the benefits of reading remain. The benefits are to society more widely as well which is one reason why Dolly Parton was a saint

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Should reading be encouraged as part of a healthy lifestyle choice, much like exercising or eating well? Or as a hobby, an activity done for pleasure?" Why does everything demand a binary response? Surely the answer's "both" as you show people the existing evidence for them.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.

BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Booked mine today. I've had people emailing saying they've been off with covid and others saying it's no big deal these days, which has served as a reminder to get my booster!

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, that's an interesting choice. I almost went straight from Myst to Shivers and Zork Nemesis to scratch that itch, but you don't see to get mystery games of that sort any more

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh I loved it, was absolutely the game I had been wanting. Weirdly I never got anywhere with Riven however - had a good number of hours playing and kept hitting dead ends

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pour yourself a cup of ambition. It’s Dolly Parton Day! Across the world, communities are dedicating Friday to honoring the beloved country singer. The day is falling on Sept. 25, a wink at Parton’s hit song “9 to 5.” abcnews.com/Lifestyle/wi...

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It's officially Dolly Parton Day, with parades, pink lights and book drives

Communities worldwide are dedicating Friday to honoring Dolly Parton

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, that's the world view they've adopted as easiest so they're not going to be swayed

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Gauche Vibes @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Does Australia have Office 365?' 'Nah mate, we all use..."

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