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Ian Collings
@bookamatic.bsky.social
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running | reading | ‘rithmetic
Autistic & ADHD (Inattentive)
Supports Ipswich Town F. C.
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · Nov 29
🎵We’ve got super Ian McKellern,
He knows exactly what we need,
Viggo at the back,
Elijah in attack,
And now we’re going burn the f**king Ring 🎵
#Fellowship #ITFC
a man with a beard and a hat looks at the camera
Alt: Gandalf the Grey is nodding along to unheard music, suggesting that he’s down with the kids in the Shire
media.tenor.com
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paulsinha.bsky.social
In honour of its greatest son, Minneapolis should refer to ICE as "a big disease with a little name."
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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swansonian.bsky.social
Happy Burns Night. A more important national day than St Andrew’s and it’s for a poet. My art isn’t very Scottish (people who don’t know me often guess I’m Irish for some reason) but there are occasional clues.
A very rough some would describe as “poor” sketch of a giant stag with a tiny head. Alan of the Glen is written next to it. Ghosts of Scottish churchyards shows a huge ghost dressed in tartan outside a rain swept church and graveyard THE LAST THiNG I REMEMBER BEFORE I LOST MY CLOTHES shows a highland cow with glowing eyes This one is called hashtag visit Scotland and is one of my most popular prints. It shows a highland cow on two legs with misty hills and a farmhouse behind her
January 25, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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jontofski.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Ade Edmondson!
January 24, 2026 at 2:49 PM
bookamatic.bsky.social
Starting #ITFC XI for this afternoon’s match at Sheffield United
Starting #ITFC XI for this afternoon’s match at Sheffield United
January 24, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Panel 1. A graveyard: the gravedigger sits on a pile of earth. Hamlet stands before him, holding a skull. Hamlet: “Alas, poor yorick! I knew him, professor Horatio.” He tis looking at a lab-coated figure. Prof. Horatio: “Actually, my analysis suggests this skull belonged to a young woman from the late Neolithic era.” Panel 2. Leaving the graveyard Hamlet: “Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.” Prof. Horatio: “What’s that, my lord?” Hamlet (angrily): “Dost thou have to spoil everything.”
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
OOINYA could have sold the remaining Unbound copies of the books to me, in bulk, & no longer have had to pay for warehouse space.

Instead, they have decided to sell them via Amazon, as new, interfering with my attempt to restart my career.

Please do not buy these. Buy the new Swift press versions.
turquoisespiff01.bsky.social El @turquoisespiff01.bsky.social · 1d
Unbound was a very dodgy publishing enterprise, treating its authors appallingly and failing to pay them. Sadly, the awful treatment continues even now they are gone.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d
I thought I'd bought all my Unbound warehouse stock, but then I found out that OOINYA/Omni have a load more and are selling them as new via Amazon. I made them an offer to buy the whole lot and they refused. So all I can do is ask people to buy the new Swift Press versions of my books instead.
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:47 AM
bookamatic.bsky.social
Boom! Ordered "Fake History" by @ottoenglish.bsky.social
As recommended by @clairecopperman.bsky.social this very afternoon.

#booksky #tbrpile #amreading #books
bertsbooks.bsky.social Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 1d
I've been a bit busy and taken my eye off the ball, but not many people have bought a book off the website today.

So before you log off, pick yourself a book, then head home and find somewhere comfy to read it.
January 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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minnmax.com
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
bookamatic.bsky.social
Added to book shopping wish list TY!
clairecopperman.bsky.social SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 4d
Book no 2 - Fake History by @ottoenglish.bsky.social. I very much enjoyed this debunking of some of the history we all think we know. It's well-researched and thoroughly entertaining. What's depressing is that, as it was published in 2021, we all thought we'd seen the worst of Trump ...
#Booksky📚
January 23, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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katebevan.com
The existence of Nosferatu implies the existence of a more formal Nosferavous
martinsfp.bsky.social Martin SFP Bryant @martinsfp.bsky.social · 1d
Can I watch Nosferatu without seeing the original Nosfera?
January 23, 2026 at 3:13 PM
bookamatic.bsky.social
youtu.be/OlaTeXX3uH8?...

Aw, Jeez.
This has just come up on random whilst I'm working.
This always brings me up short.
Something about this haunts me and I have to stop whatever I'm doing when I hear it.

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (Remastered 2019)
YouTube video by BrianEnoVEVO
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January 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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moonflowerbooks.bsky.social
The @waterstones.bsky.social exclusive paperback of Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social is a limited edition, and stocks are going fast – so if you want shiny foil, red spredges, a sneak peek of the sequel *and* a bonus short story, you'll need to pre-order ASAP! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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effinbirds.com
Tom and I (and many others) got totally fucked by the same publisher.

I have 88k followers here, and if every one of you bought a book, those royalties would pretty much add up to what they owe me.

Related great news: my books & cards will be back in UK & EU stores next month.

eatf.art
January 23, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Books are amazing. This novel was published back in 1995 but reading it TODAY, it's hasn't dated at all.
A novel titled January 23rd by Rachel Canon
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 AM
bookamatic.bsky.social
Hand in hand with Paddington, yeah?
Or are they going to deny us that as well? Cuh!
thewritertype.bsky.social Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 2d
Bad news. If they can’t afford an equestrian statue they could at least put her on an e-bike.
January 23, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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swansonian.bsky.social
Jings but it's been a poor month for print sales so far. Almost as if you'd rather spend what little money you have on food and keeping warm. But if you're thinking of buying some art can I just point out my pictures are edible*

*they are not edible.
marswasrubbish.etsy.com
My picture "His Intimidating hat". Shows a figure shadowed by their massive hat. Untitled rabbit warrior person. Shows a figure with sword and shield and rabbit ears Cat god condemning a village that's just out of shot shows an angry giant cat in a crown of red ivy pointing off camera as it were at a village we cannot see. A beautiful horse in the sunset shows a poorly but lovingly drawn horse with the word Horse written in the sky behind it.
January 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Off and on it
[Scene is heaven, in clouds. JESUS, acting as God’s PA, is briefing God, a big ball of light with arms sat at an executive desk, with a computer on it]. Jesus [holding a tablet computer]: OK, so - The next one to check in on is… ‘Earth’. God: Spelling? Jesus: E-A-R-T-H. [God types into the computer] tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. Tap. God: F—ing hell. What’s happened here!? We need to complain - get me the manager. Jesus: Uh, well, the most powerful one is… [Jesus turns his iPad round to show God. We can’t see the screen] God: What is that. I mean, it’s been a while but that’s definitely not how I designed them. Are you sure we’ve got the right planet? Jesus: Yes, this is the… top human. God: Off and on it again Jesus: I’ll book the meteor [Ends]
January 23, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
The phrase “knock on wood” - or “touch wood” in the UK - is an ancient one deriving from the belief that tapping on trees awakes the gods and spirits that reside within them and brings good luck.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Nov 19
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM
bookamatic.bsky.social
Perhaps Brahim Diaz needs to read...

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
January 23, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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This is just one example of the writing of @ronanhession.bsky.social that brought me up short and made me reassess my own experience, in light of the words on a page written by someone miles and years away. Magical.

Panenka. Read it. It’s fantastic.

#booksky #amreading #books
An excerpt from Panenka, the book by Rónán Hession. The highlighted text reads: “When you’re consumed with the effort of processing internal pain, it becomes impossible to do anything else. It’s like holding your breath under water: you realise that you need to breathe but if you breathe at the wrong time, you drown. I only survived thanks to the people in my life - people i repaid by letting them down.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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The moment you realize the world has more than one side and none of them fully agree 🤯 Growing up starts when simple answers stop working.
#CalvinandHobbes #Perspective
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM