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ClareJGold 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤟
@clarewrites.bsky.social
She/her. Typo Queen. American in the UK. Writer, Nerdfighter, recovering MG teacher, former Hollywood-ite, immigrant, compatriot, dyslexic, PIH booster, mama bear, film nerd, loud laugher.
Here for #Nerdfighteria #AFCWimbledon #kidlit #romance #generosity
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Are you a crafty creative who sells *non-digital* stuff online that might appeal to holiday shoppers? Pls post a link to your shop in the replies! NOTE: If you only ship to certain locations, please give specifics (to save people time). Thx!
#CraftSky #HolidayShopping #ShopIndie
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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NEW

A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC

The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak

By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)

(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider. n.pr/43p2sXz
Is hormone therapy for menopause right for you? 6 things to know
The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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hi, can you do me a favor?

take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them

thank you, this is for science

here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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11th November, daily stitching marking the passage of time.
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I want to quit social media but Warner Herzog is on insta being delightful and Hank Green is everywhere and I do actually get a lot of community news via insta now, though I keep resisting threads. Blsky seems up and down. Who knew I’d long for a gd message board one day.
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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If you can help please do!!!!
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Thought this was quite lovely.
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
What happens when you set a river free? | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Magma 95 - 'Architecture'
Closing date: 10th Dec 2025
Editors Leo Boix & Stav Poleg look forward to reading your work—your rooms, your ruins, your bridges of language...
Image: Charles Schridde
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Introducing The Art of McSweeney’s Kids 2026 Wall Calendar! Featuring art by Jordan Speer, Lisa Hanawalt, Tucker Nichols, Lisa Brown, Thi Bui, and more.

store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.

Wonderful piece.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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with alt text
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It's Remembrance Sunday and let's remember that the black and brown people fought and died as part of the Allies too.

In my new novel - Nate Yu's Blast From the Past
I feature a ghost from the Chinese Labour Corp because it was important for me to tell readers about this often untold history.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.

Posts like this explain why.
I'm obliged for the nod.

The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:

Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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We've plenty more things to "ruin" yet 😉😈💪
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Controversial opinion, but in after 1yr+ back in the querying trenches, and speaking with others in a the same boat, feedback in queries is practically nonexistent now. And I think it’s because less manuscripts are selling so agents have started selling their feedback via writing consultancies …
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’

Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Asim Qureshi · Short Cuts: Misuses of the Terrorism Act
Thousands of people each year are detained and questioned under Schedule 7, the majority of them from ethnic minority...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Kinda hate that I spend half my time on the Internet wondering if what I’m reading or seeing is real, whether it makes me mad or sad or hopeful or happy.
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM