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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 30/09/2026

🎉We are delighted to announce the £5,000 Bath Novel Award 2026 goes to Tracy Rickett for CHILD OF NECESSITY her impressive and complex dark thriller. Full prize announcement at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

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The Bath Novel Award 2026 Winner & Listees

We are delighted to announce the winner of the Bath Novel Award 2026. Now in it's 13th year, the award is a £5,000 international prize for emerging novelists.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Children should not have to campaign to be allowed to feel safe in their uniform c.org/4fsGQrJLGr

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lifeboat crew responds to a call and finds a dingy in distress full of migrant men, women and children. Do they leave or rescue them? No-one with a shred of humanity would turn round and head back.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eldest hits yr6 and suddenly I'M the one learning fractions. I wiped that for a reason damn it!!

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Wirral Green Party @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Part 1/6 :Last night, Wirral Council’s Policy and Resources Committee took a cross-party decision not to grant Peak Cluster a licence to conduct surveys on specific areas of council-owned land.

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Wirral councillors unanimously reject land access for controversial carbon capture project

Wirral councillors unanimously reject Peak Cluster’s request for council land access, opposing its £5bn carbon capture pipeline planned across…

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mmm... sweet, sweet schadenfreude! I'd laugh if it weren't for the countless young lives these two have fkd up while they strut around cos playing.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sat in a quiet room, listening to the storm outside, sewing my purple and green roman blinds, while burning incense and sipping chamomile tea. I think teenage me would be pretty happy with the life choices that brought me here.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A decade ago I did a talk about the fact that people see what they want to see in data, and it's only gotten moreso. One of the examples was this piece by Olly Moss. vimeo.com/188285898

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My Dad helped me type up a school report while I dictated. It was about the class fish tank. 'The teacher pointed to the fish stuck to the bottom'. Dad changed it to the fish 'stuck to HER bottom'. I was seven. I laughed til I was nearly sick. I miss him!

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As a teenager, I struggled with anxiety. As I got older, I learnt the signs and got quite good at heading it off at the pass. But this bout blindsided me, and I'd forgotten just how grim it could be. Solidarity to all who suffer. This, too, shall pass. 🤞

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is the thinking that's got us into this trouble. Politics is not about party. Politics is society & society is politics. Dolly understood that & was leaving no one behind. The best way we can honour her is to link arms w our neighbours & stand against those who abuse power. That is not neutral.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

neutral. lol. some of yall wouldn't recognize a moral stance if it danced in front of you wearing nothing but rhinestones

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain

Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Exciting things coming up in final third of the year, some to be announced shortly. For the sake of new followers, we are an independent publisher of historical fiction from the North of England, and we'll be opening up to Scotland as well when we open submissions in December 📚

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Personally, I'm grateful to Elon Musk. Really. Because you know when you worry that people just find you odd or weird? Elon makes me know I'm okay! And that's what I have to keep focused on to keep myself from crying/vomiting/giving up. The thin, thin silver linings.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Middle age: try to fix one body part, damage another.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Saw the Odyssey tonight. Cinematographically, it was great. But I did think the idea of Odysseus twanging his bow to give his prey the heads up, 'because that's the honourable thing to do' was a choice!

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William Clapp @williamclapp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our new PM made my heart leap a little: "My message to young people is this - whether you choose construction, coding or classics…, you'll get the skills you need and be given the respect you deserve”. So glad my subject begins with <c> so it can feature in his alliterative list 🙂❤️ #AncientBluesky

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Take me to Cheddar Gorge just before the dawn breaks, when the air is cold and still, and the chough cries echo down the cliffs. Where you can feel the world's magic in the ancient landscape. And if you wanted, you could leave me there.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Gorgeous! In your last moments, if you could go anywhere, where would you go? BBC News - Paramedics to grant dying wishes with special final ambulance trips www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We aim to grant dying wishes with special final ambulance trips

Three Aberdeen paramedics start Wish Ambulance Scotland, aimed at taking patients on meaningful journeys.

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My Greek gladiators are far too jazzy for Nolan, but I can hear Broadway beckoning...

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

STRANGE FAMILIARS/HAZELTHORN When sentient plants take over the world & an eminent botanist ends up 💀 a reporter enlists a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, the victims pile up, so they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #NA #F

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Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Haven't seen the film yet; Nolan's Odyssey is probably full of historical inconsistencies - so is Homer's. And anyone who has waded through accepted translations into Victorian notions of bardic language, all 'forsooths' & 'methinkses,' should hit pause on instinctive hostility to this adaptation.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oh please please let them. The banter heuristic of them having to apply for visas to leave their village alone would be worth it.

Village to hold vote on leaving UK over asylum seeker housing plans

Residents call for independence referendum to protest proposal to turn military base into migrant camp

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Miri Teixeira-Connor @miri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Classicists criticising The Odyssey film without having watched it is making me cringe inside out. Sorry but it’s a win. It’s accessible, it’s appealing, it’s pissing off right wingers, and it’s explicitly named after a classical text that working class people will now go and pick up. Take the W.

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A childhood dream realised, in no small part due to the support, encouragement and training I received at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @archanchistleic.bsky.social. I'll never stop being grateful for my life changing time spent with each.

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am but a poor debut author, so cannot afford anything fancy, but if you'd like to come to my (completely online) book launch on the 12th of September, I'd really love it if you could join me in celebrating achieving my lifelong ambition. fb.me/e/kwrgh2Yzs

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#SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · 14/07/2026

Reminder that the pitch submission window closes later today, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Get your pitch(es) in before it's too late! #SmallPitch

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I love the notion that however much technology may have changed, the way that we engage with our stories don't. Reading Homer’s Iliad feels like scrolling through TikTok share.google/oRPTXT413h3L...

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Reading Homer’s Iliad feels like scrolling through TikTok

The Iliad does not unfold as a smooth, continuous narrative. Instead, it advances through a succession of micro-episodes.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Humanity is frying itself alive but refuses to turn the stove off, because the fumes smell quite tasty. This is how I would summarize our collective cognitive blackout. Stupidity has won” My new article

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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

AI generated article, using the likeness of Cate Blanchett, reporting that Cate Blanchett has launched a tool to address unwanted use of likenesses.

News clipping:

Cate Blanchett launches tool to block Al

The Human Consent Registry lets people decide if tech companies can use their voice or likeness. Users can set a traffic-light system to permit, restrict, or ban Al systems from training on their personal data.

Underneath, circled in red, 'Generated with AI, which can make mistakes'

Below, the clipping asks, How would you rate this suggestion?
The answer, scrawled in hot pink: ironic

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ordered a copy of Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey as a thank you for my daughter's very excellent teacher. And, what do you know? Two turned up! Absolutely no idea at all how that could have happened!

Two copies of the Odyssey. White covers with image of three ladies in minoan style dress, in fresco style. Book lettering is gold.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

BBC News - How The Odyssey film is highlighting 'shrinking' access in Warwickshire for pupils to the Classics - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Not just in Warwickshire 😔

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How The Odyssey film is highlighting 'shrinking' access in Warwickshire for pupils to the Classics

Academics warn that for many students, the chance to study Classics in school is slipping away.

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This isn’t only about Palestine Action. The injustice of sentencing protesters as terrorists is part of a dangerous slide towards authoritarianism that should concern all of us.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/06/2026

Yesterday, a judge ruled that four Palestine Action activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite being tried by their jury for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented. Anandita Abraham was outside court where John McDonnell MP and one of the jurors made speeches

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Beyond chilling. While the proscription of Palestine Action has been struck down and the verdict in the Government appeal against this has not yet been given, escalating these sentences today clearly risks a serious injustice. novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/p...

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Palestine Action Activists Will Be Sentenced As Terrorists, Court Confirms

The judge found that the activists wanted to end ‘British complicity in Israeli war crimes’. Simon Childs reports from Woolwich crown court.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A necklace with lotus-shaped pendants, made of faience. Lotus was an important symbol in ancient #Egypt. It was associated with rebirth and rejuvenation.The plant was also valued for its pain-relieving properties. Ca 1,400 BC, from Theben. On display at Neues Museum, Berlin. 📷 me

Necklace made of Egyptian faience, featuring five lotus-shaped pendants suspended from a collar of linked lotus buds. Displayed on a light surface.

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