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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolute Units returns! This time, we discuss a bunch of things we've been up to lately, our news, and a bunch of important tangents. Including: - Rural life at Versailles - The ratio of an absolute unit - Brother, may i have some öats? And more. Listen nöw: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

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Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who has two thumbs and is getting a chromium alloy knee on 26 October? AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/09/2026

Also no I do not have any news about the WICKHILLS audiobook but go listen to FOUR HOURS OF A REVOLUTION over at @pseudopod.org because my frond @alasdairstuart.com 's dad narrates it and that's EXACTLY the buttery man-vocals I dream of for the audiobook!! pseudopod.org/2017/08/11/p...

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PseudoPod 555: Four Hours of a Revolution | PseudoPod

Rebels, like vampires, prowl by night, sleep by day; they are short on everything in the besieged city – bullets, socks, soap, bread – but mainly they are short of sleep, for they fight under…

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At the hospital with Dad (nothing too serious we hope, but better safe than sorry etc.) and I'd better not catch anything from all these unmasked plagueridden gits. Dad and I are literally the only people I've seen wearing masks since we got here 4 hours ago.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A long time bucket list! I have a story on Pseudopod! 😭I hope you all like it! I’d love to hear what you thought

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some Body Like Me is dystopian yet oddly hopeful, and I loved it.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 15/09/2026

Something spooky this way comes! Yes the ghosts are baaaaaaaack! From 19th September to 1st November ghostly wire sculptures will appear in green spaces across the city, including the Hall's garden. Spooooktacular!

We are looking at an opaque wire sculpture in the shape of a medieval female merchant.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just finished The Chosen One Con this evening, and I'm *desperate* for more. Some deliciously flawed yet likeable characters, and the plot careered off at dizzying rate in a direction I wasn't expecting but in hindsight was right there the whole time.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey @alasdairstuart.com? Greg just sent me this picture of an album cover and asked me if I think he'd like it.

An album cover depicting two very lithe and buff women perched on the prow of a boat, somehow both wielding the same pole-arm to fight off indistinct orc-like figures that are trying to board from an adjacent boat. The women have yellowish skin and long black flowy hair, and are wearing something that's not quite a chainmail bikini, but close as damn it. Did I mention how buff they are? There are muscles all over the place. One of them has a green cloak so long they're both in danger of tripping over it and tumbling into the sea, but she also has a round shield so that's all right then. Oh yeah, and the sky is full of clouds or smoke or something, and there's a hazy red sun in partial eclipse, because of course there fucking is. The band name, SMOULDER, and the title, VIOLENT CREED OF VENGEANCE, are written in a red gothic-style script on a black background. The whole thing is metal as fuck.

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This needs more signatures - Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These are all very good! I'm forever recommending Lapinski's books for teens and young adults (and older adults tbh), and (writing as Lapinska) their gorgeous, melancholy yet hopeful SOME BODY LIKE ME for adults.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blood journey time! I love that NHS Blood and Transplant tell me where my donation went. To whoever needs my getting-on-for-a-pint of O+ at University Hospital Coventry: I wish you a speedy recovery and a great life.

A detail of a screenshot from Google Maps. It shows the journey my latest blood donation took, from York to Coventry via Manchester (though you'll have to take my word for it as none of these three places is actually labelled).

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hooray - the 99p September Kindle sale on Wooing the Witch Queen has now been price-matched by all the other ebook stores in the UK! Snap it up now from any of them: Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Wooing-Witch... Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wooi... #romancelandia

In the centre of this image is the beautiful British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis. The illustration shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sangu Mandanna reads: ‘Warm and lovely’
Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: Only 99p this September!

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

David Niven misses an appointment, loses his welly, and gets into a spot of legal bother.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Come on, what have you got to lose?* *Just however much time it takes you to read 5 books. And then to read the other 7. And then to join the Discord** and yell about them. **Not a cult.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have finished DAGGERHEART by the incomparable @tkingfisher.com. I, like Learned Edmund, would also jump in front of a horse for Zale (and for The Dervish, Dog Violet, Large Francis Building, and Edmund himself). Do yourselves a favour, friends and neighbours, and pick this one up.

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Vaccine, vaccine Vaccine, vacc-iiiine I'm getting you as quickly as I can

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 25/08/2026

Kinda chic to offer FIVE ENTIRE GAY BOOKS for £5! Yes, the entire first season of this award-winning queer urban fantasy series for £1/book! Ebook or audiobook, or bag both for a tenner. Get it quick, I might remember to reset the price by tomorrow 🤣 shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...

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Inheritance Season One

Season One of Inheritance comprises the first five books in the series: Jack of Thorns Knight of Flames Lord of Ravens Reeve of Veils Page of Tricks

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Blood donation time babeyyyyy! 🩸🩸🩸

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 20/08/2026

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I took my Wegovy a day late when I noticed the hunger and food noise creeping back in, and let me tell you I am still SO FUCKING ANGRY about all the decades the medical establishment and many of the people in my life assumed I was fat because I was greedy and lazy rather than deficient in a hormone.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Christ on a bike with Satan in the sidecar, YES THIS. I genuinely didn't sleep well for *months* after the one and only time I saw Threads.

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qntm @qntm.org · 16/08/2026

This event is sold out but I will be signing books for a while afterwards if you pop along promptly

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Seb Downie-Blackwell @downieseb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We need a British Reacher. Big highlands lad called Hamish that shoves flag cunts into canals.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 14/08/2026

Omg hey there, you look like you're into super beautiful editions of award-winning queer books, so let me tell you about this GORGEOUS hardback with HOLOGRAPHIC foil and a REVERSIBLE DUST JACKET! #booksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/rav...

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Coming soon: Jack of Thorns: Deluxe Hardback Edition

A breathtaking deluxe special edition of the critically acclaimed M/M Urban Fantasy adventure.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thread (posted from the end so you get the whole thing) about why What If A Man Was Large* is such a great show. OP speaks for me, every word. *Reacher.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My favourite disaster gays are getting blinged up!

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Electoral reform needs a process that can bring people together. A time-limited National Commission could give voters and experts the space to examine First Past the Post and set out the alternatives. We need to reach 100,000 names - Sign today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral system

I ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led…

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 12/08/2026

You say eclipse, we say it’s the end times and there’s an enormous tentacular being blotting out the sun. Tomato, tomahto.

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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

With the solar eclipse coming up on Wednesday evening it’s good to draw people’s attention to this useful and timeless* explainer of different astronomical phenomena. * since 2014 in its original Twitter form

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

kiss me like we’ve broken containment but it’ll still be at least twenty seconds before they triangulate our positions . . .

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every time you buy a @voidmerchstore.bsky.social shirt an angel loses it’s wings...falls to earth...gets into a steamy will they won’t they with a vampire/daemon raven...stares moodily at their drink as smooth jazz plays in the background... www.voidmerch.net

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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Knitters and crocheters looking at this and nodding in agreement.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You should vote for Escape Pod for best semiprozine! We will not use the trophy to fill the suspiciously rocket-shaped hole someone made in Engineering. Not even if it's the exact right size and shape.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Took a duvet day to play Skyrim on my [counts on fingers] possibly 20th playthrough? At level 64 I'm thinking it might soon be time to investigate the dragon at the Western Watchtower and trigger the plot. (I'd rather like to clear everything else first, but not having shouts is getting annoying.)

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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Instead of saying that all these laws "prohibit trans people from using the bathroom of their choice" we should be more clear. Bathroom bans are intended to prohibit trans people from using the bathroom, or any public accomodations, at all.. Like be for real here.

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yarn pedantry with photos, demonstrating the difference between a skein, a ball, a clew, and a cake - a thread

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

London is bidding to host World Pride in 2032, the 60th anniversary of the first London Pride protest. I am hopeful the unworkable EHRC guidance will have been overturned by then. The UK is not a safe place for trans people until it is. If you can, support the @goodlawproject.org’s legal challenge.

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We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Petition signable by UK citizens or residents, asking "the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail..." 💙📚 🗃 #academicsky 1/ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Andrew Jack @andrewjack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The DWP are asking for people to contribute evidence for a forthcoming review of Carers Allowance and how it operates. Admittedly this is niche, but please spread the word so it reaches the right people. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Carer's Allowance: call for evidence

This call for evidence is being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to gather information and views to build on the Department’s existing evidence. What we hear will help shape ...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 24/07/2026

#TheFullLid - 24th July - Happy Friday! This week,Sam Neill, @mattfnwallace.bsky.social and @brandxjon.bsky.social 's Leaving Jackson Colorado and what they have in common. Featured boosts are @thedailytism.com 'and Black Armada's new projects and Emei plays us out. mailchi.mp/02edb0241a93...

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 24/07/2026

I can't recommend this event enough! No travel, no hotel costs, no need to leave your bed - regardless of whether you can't or don't want to. Queer books, queer authors, queer (and experienced) organisers. Grab a ticket, wherever you are in the world!

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