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Sarah
@sarahalba.bsky.social
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Book reader. Collects random facts and scraps of knowledge. Lifts heavy things for fun. She/her
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nunkie.bsky.social
tickets now on sale for "Casting the Runes" in London on 7 December
londonmonthofthedead.com/mrjames2025....
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Not just my Romani friends, any Romani person speaking up. So, here is a load of information that can get you started, basically. Now, go do some research and listen to actual Romani people. A good history intro? Here you go. 102/
The Roma: A Travelling History by Madeline Potter
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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cmrosens.com
All my books are on Kobo Plus - read the whole Pagham-on-Sea trilogy there, for your eldritch family drama/Gothic Horror with tentacles fix.

For a sumptuous Dark Gothic Fantasy and queer Beauty & the Beast retelling, YELEN & YELENA is there too.

Plus - all my short stories for bite size reads.
quartzen.bsky.social Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 3d
Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!
Rakuten Kobo
www.kobo.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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arndtezra.bsky.social
For those of you who study, read, and are interested in the Gothic genre and the history thereof, what books (fiction and non-fiction alike) would you recommend for someone with ADHD reentering the genre?
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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rhi.bsky.social
I can vouch for this family. Please donate if you can. gofund.me/b4655d2b7
Donate to Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness, organized by Jack Smith
I’ve set this go fund me up to support a friend who is care experien… Jack Smith needs your support for Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness
gofund.me
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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emanemz.bsky.social
I know the organiser and the family involved so if you can donate and share please do let’s keep this family together. #transmutualaid #transfundraiser #transawarenessmonth
jack6.bsky.social Dave @jack6.bsky.social · 1d
Being care experienced means you don’t have the traditional support systems

Please if you can spare any help please consider donating to my friend

Not only is she care experienced but she has a trans child & Im really worried about all of their welfare if they become homeless
gofund.me/69171e196
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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artseamoni.bsky.social
like honey on your tongue

#iwtv
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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feliciadavin.com
Wanna read about a powerful villain meeting a violent end? Here are my books where that happens!

I’ll thread links and details below. Other authors feel free to quote with your books
Shadebloom by Felicia Davin, a purple book with white flowers on the cover Out of Nowhere by Felicia Davin, with an orange-ish image of space on the cover and a man's silhouette in blue The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin. The cover shows a white hand holding a book, with the thumb inserted between pages The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin, the cover shows a white hand holding a quill
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
sarahalba.bsky.social
Every Wednesday @biggreenbooks.bsky.social does a groovy thing called #BuyAStrangerABook day. Someone kindly put money in the pot and I got Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. Thank you unnamed kind person!
A paperback copy of "Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver standing on a wooden bookshelf with the cover facing out to the viewer.
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
sarahalba.bsky.social
It's really nice when you are getting a new tattoo and other artists in the studio comment on how cool it is when they walk past 😊 My artist did a great job 💙🐙
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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cvcev.bsky.social
📢A public health campaign is needed to inform people about the benefits of high-grade masks in an outbreak.

😷Why isn't FFP2 a minimum requirement in healthcare settings?

🛡Why haven't Clinically Vulnerable people been informed?

#FluIsAirborne
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UKHSA advertisement: COUGH LIKE DRACULA Coughing into your elbow as if you're lifting a cape is a frightfully easy way to keep germs from spreading even beyond Halloween. Clinically Vulnerable Families response: MASK LIKE DRACULA Airborne germs float like mist. Wearing a well-fitted FFP2 / FFP3 mask and staying in your "coffin" (stay home) when unwell help stop them from spreading even beyond Halloween.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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merkyl999x.bsky.social
I'm so tired of study after study that shows clear economic growth and stability for everyone (UBI, 4 day work week, universal healthcare, etc) but because the richest people in the country get rich faster without them, we all just suffer instead.

And this over the top of already obscene wealth...
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
I have MORE #buyastrangerabook day action!

Bike fans!

@mrstevious.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Potholes and Pavements : A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker.

It looks ace.

If you'd like a copy, just get in touch.

UK only
Front cover of the book. Blurb for the book. A unique journey around the UK’s National Cycle Network and one journalist’s quest to investigate the state of our country’s cycling. What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond?This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain’s National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and where it is now. What has gone right – and wrong – with this piece of national infrastructure? Why is it run by a charity whose CEO once admitted ‘we’ve had enough of it being crap, we need to fix it’? Laura lifts the lid on this maddening, patchy, and at times dangerous network, and the similarly precarious politics and financing that make it what it is. She discovers beauty, friendship and adventure along the way, from the Cairngorms to Cornwall, from the Pennines to the South Wales coast. On her mission to pin down what the NCN is and what it means to those who use it, she also meets up with high-profile travelling companions, including Chris Boardman and Ned Boulting. In a country where 71% of trips are less than five miles, two thirds of Britons say they want to cycle more and doing so could help our climate, health and wellbeing. Laura is on a mission to see if we can make that dream a reality.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
Here's another AMAZING #buyastrangerabook day offer.

@spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead.

Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy!

UK only.
Front cover of The Glorious Dead by Justin Myers. Blurb for Justin's book. Laurie Blount, enfant terrible of the West End, the voice of a generation, a shining star. Also: dead. Very, very dead. Killed in a car crash in the middle of the night, Laurie exited this world the way he lived his life - dramatically and dangerously. Laurie 's husband Jo, best friend Vivi and goddaughter Rosy must step out from grief 's shadow and face life without him. Until rumours of Laurie 's unpublished memoir begin to haunt the group. Waspish, wicked and witty, these confessions reveal a side to Laurie nobody really knew . . . or would admit to knowing. But can the words of a dead man be trusted? Laurie 's grieving loved ones are about to discover that comedy and tragedy are the same mistakes, made under different lighting. If Jo, Vivi and Rosy are ever to find peace in the future, they might need to lift the curtain on Laurie 's past - as well as their own. Can a dead man shatter your life one chapter at a time?'
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
It's #buyastrangerabook day today, and as the rich & privileged continue to evade anything like real justice,
@sallyhinkley.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Nobody's Girl by Virginia Giuffre.

If you'd like a copy, get in touch.

UK only.
front cover of the book Blurb from the book.
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you.

@magentakoru.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £15!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch.

UK only
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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cupofmin.bsky.social
A bookmark that belongs between the pages of an old and loved book...
𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑!
Bookmark shaped like a teabag, with a mushroom embroidered on it. The mushroom is inside a golden frame, also embroidered.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
It's #buyastrangerabook day, and @melissaschuh.bsky.social will buy someone a book.

Here are the rules.

Wanna book?
Not sure what?

Let Melissa know the kinda stuff you like reading.

She will then give you a choice of 4 books.

Pick your favourite & Melissa will pay for it!

UK only

GO!
melissaschuh.bsky.social Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 2d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
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Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only.
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
biggreenbookshop.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE
Some stunning arrivals today

A wonderful mari painting by @mythagoprints (insta)

And two fantastic maris by @anatomoth.bsky.social

Please go see these and the other wonderful entries here!

skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
sarahalba.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to have been one of the lucky people to win. The print arrived today and I adore it. Now I just need to find a nice frame for it ❤️
A lovely lino cut print of a witch gathering herbs. There is a hare at her feet.
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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patricksamphire.bsky.social
Because THE DEAD MAN is out in exactly one week, let's go for the first sentence of that.

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

books2read.com/thedeadman
Screenshot of the opening of The Dead Man showing the first sentence of the book. The text shown reads: The Dead Man There comes a point in the life of every mage-for-hire when the thing they want most in life is a knock on the door, an indication that someone – anyone! – might want to part with a few copper oars, maybe even a silver shield, to employ them for their valuable and irreplaceable services, preferably before they starve to death. And there comes a point sometime after that
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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daviddemchuk.com
From THE BONE MOTHER, the first sentence plus a bonus *second* sentence.

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
from the first page of The Bone Mother, a 90 year-old photo of two similar men in their best clothes seated together with a bouquet of flowers between them; the title Borys; then the following sentences: “My brother Sergyi and I were married in a small ceremony in our village church. such things were possible then that now are not.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
UK: You are “more likely” to catch COVID “indoors and in crowded places”, the NHS warns.

"Avoiding these areas where possible could help limit your chances of infection."

Source: archive.li/IfLIi
An older woman sits on a couch holding a COVID rapid test stick in one hand while pinching the bridge of her nose with the other, looking tired or unwell. She has short gray hair and is wearing a white top. The background is softly lit and neutral. Below the image is a news headline from the Daily Mirror titled: “NHS warns of two places you are ‘most likely’ to catch Covid.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM