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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

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Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just because an author hasn't released a book in years doesn't mean that they're lazy or not working hard on their next one. There's so many reasons for a big gap between novels. Granted, in my case, it's because I'm lazy and not working particularly hard but I mean for others.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We said goodbye to Mr Nala today. 17 years, 5 houses, 2 dogs, a lifetime of memories. He really was the best cat in the world. 🖤

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

England might be a sea of blue, but Scotland has said no to fascists. Onwards to independence! 🥳

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

England, you stupid fucking bastards. Will you never learn?

The 2026 election results in England showing a huge Reform gain

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I may be 6 days post-op but the bigots will always vote, so I just popped down to the polling station to try keep Reform out. I couldn't handle taking the dogs, so here's the last time Vixen & Ivy came along with us. #DogsAtPollingStations

Two golden retrievers sitting outside a polling station

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Another month, another load of cracking reads 📚

@vpatis's April 2026 Reads
SHIFT
YESTERYEAR
BEST OFFER WINS
HOME SICK
DEATH VALLEY
THE EMPLOYEES
HE'S THE DEVIL
RING SHOUT

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026

It’s silly to complain about writers promoting their work online. Hello! We’re writers. I don’t have a marketing plan & publicity strategy to talk about my books & my publishers don’t boss me around to talk about them. I talk about them because they matter to me more than anything & make some money.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My author copies have arrived! Isn't she stunning?

A paperback of GIRL, LOST by Vikki Patis on a shelf

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

March 📚 Loads of bangers, loved them all tbh

@vpatis's March 2026 reads:
Some Body Like Me
There Is No Antiemetics Division
The Wives of Herrick Hall
We Had To Remove This Post
Several People Are Typing
The Diverging Lives of Bethany Raven
Helpmeet
Trad Wife
The Husbands
Japanese Gothic

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

one of the best feelings I get is when I walk into a bookstore and see multiple books by friends on the shelves and get to feel in a very deep way that I'm living an adult life that my teenage self dreamed about

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/03/2026

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Every day, there are more reasons to loathe transphobes. Don’t fall for their bullshit.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Girl, Lost is back and better than ever! A bestseller in 2020, this is a brand new edition coming on 30th March. Perfect for fans of Ask For Andrea and The Night She Disappeared. Some secrets don't stay buried... amzn.to/4d3BHNY

The book cover for GIRL, LOST by Vikki Patis

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

February was a month for mood reading. Some bangers, though Monstrilio wasn't quite what I was expecting, and there were too many Harry Potter jumpscares in Hidden Pictures for my liking.

Vpatis's February 2026 reads:
WOOL
MONSTRILO
THE STARVING SAINTS
FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC
THE ECHOES
HIDDEN PICTURES
THE FIRST GIRL

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Out now! In paperback, hardback, ebook and audio!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

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Source: Britain Elects
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Green GAIN from Labour
40.7
28.7
25.4
1.9
1.8
Grn
427.5
Ref
414.6
Lab
725.4
Con
76.0
Lib
72.0
1.4
Oth
78.9

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

V excited to be interviewing @ldlapinski.bsky.social about their excellent new book in just a couple of weeks! My hardback copy arrived today and she is STUNNING. I'll be first in line at the signing table! Be there or be square 😘

Waterstones event poster: Lucy Lapinska in conversation with Vikki Patis at Waterstones Aberdeen. Saturday 14th March at 5:30pm

Hardback of Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska on a bookshelf

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can he please be charged for the noncing too

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

what is a writer? a miserable little pile of unpublished secrets.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Watched Predator Badlands today. What in the male loneliness epidemic was going on there?? Disneyfied nonsense.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Far-right thug Tommy
Robinson flees UK after police
warning over terror threat
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social
media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority
target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after
receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 14/02/2026

This is blackout poetry to me

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ivy is 6 🎈 Happy birthday to our sweet, gentle, mischievous girl 🤍

A cream golden retriever lying on a bed, close up of her face

A cream golden retriever sitting in a garden with an orange and blue ball in her mouth

Vikki, a white plus size woman, leaning down to kiss Ivy, a cream golden retriever

A cream golden retriever puppy lying in a garden, snuggling a cat toy

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Just watched The Blair Witch Project for the first time since I was a kid, and wow, some of the reviews are just DRIPPING in misogyny. These men see a 'hysterical' 'demanding bitch'; I see a young woman trying to keep it together (and taking the blame) for the other two dickheads.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Look, I'm a hater of generative AI. But harassing authors for unconfirmed use of AI in their books, particularly marginalised authors, has got to stop. Meanwhile you're all still using products by the companies that scraped our books for profit. Behave.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I don’t know why Rowling is being treated as a hero for paying tax just like everyone else. Everyone who works pays a proportionate amount of tax. Same when these celebrities give to charities when it’s peanuts to them. People are too easily impressed by rich people doing the bare minimum.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I bet he’s sweating now.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

My January 2026 reads, starting the year off strong! #booksky

@vpatis's January 2026 reads
The Reformatory
A Wrinkle In Time
The Haar
Model Home
The Fog
Ask for Andrea
Sugar
Out There Screaming

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 30/01/2026

Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Aberdeen! @vikkipatis.bsky.social and I are heading to your way @waterstones.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Reposting because I got the time wrong. Arghhh Please join us two hours earlier than previously advertised...

Same event graphic as quoted post - for MK Hardy and myself (The Needfire, and The Salt Oracle and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest) at Waterstones Aberdeen on Sat 31st Jan, but at 5:30pm, not, as previously said, 7:30.

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The creativity of the Stranger Things fandom has far surpassed that of the Duffer Brothers because what do you MEAN the inconsistencies meant nothing??

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Good morning from Antarcti— I mean Aberdeenshire ❄️

A river running through a snowy landscape

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A brave explorer (Ivy) traverses a bleak landscape (her back garden) in search of treasure (a ball) hidden in the snow.

A cream golden retriever standing in snow up to her belly

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