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sunrather
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Librarian. Animal fan. I read & write stories. London E17.

http://soniahope.co.uk/
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🚨URGENT! Today is the final day to submit public comments opposing the Trump Administration’s proposed ESA rollbacks. If finalized, these rules could have irreversible consequences for endangered species and their habitats.

📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4s5V1PL
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950
Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950
Who doesn’t treasure a handmade present? As the years go by, we may begin to offload the ill-fitting sweaters, the never lit sand cast candles, and the Styrofoam ball snowmen.
www.openculture.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
City of London charmers
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tortoise played yesterday @barbican.bsky.social
The bees' knees.
And I did get my oversized TNT t-shirt, despite the scrum at the merch table.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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AI seems to be everywhere these days. Is it overwhelming you? Here's a guide to reducing the overload:
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Remembering Millie Small on her birthday. Here's a joyous clip of her rehearsing Be My Guest and Daydream with Norwegian band The Vanguards in 1966
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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“Libraries should be beautiful and open; inviting, not intimidating. It’s not a shrine, but a place where you can spend time freely, take part in discussions, public consultations, or meet people,” he says.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A photo of J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. walking his two senior dogs, Candy & Morris down a street in Amherst, Massachusetts. Taken from his Instagram account, if you desire more similar content.
September 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Don’t miss out on the chance to win a free copy!
My NIF ‘William Prichard & Co’ is a year old today! To celebrate I am giving away a free copy. To be in with a chance of winning, please retweet & DM me with your name. I will pick a name out of the hat on Wed 20th. Sorry, UK only.
August 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
August 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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There is no Trans Debate, there is no Trans Ideology; there is a coordinated Anti Trans Campaign backed & funded by Bad Actors & Foreign Powers.

Transfolk are not the threat but the former, who seek to remove Universal Human Rights & Protections are.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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August 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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EFG London Jazz Festival has added another raft of names to the lineup for its 2025 edition. Leading the announcement is an additional matinee performance by Tortoise at the Barbican scheduled for the afternoon of November 22

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August 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Friendly tip to writer ppl who don't know: Share your shit shamelessly on here. It's super easy to miss bc of chronological feeds. The algorithim ain't gonna do the work for you, your work deserves enduring the slight embarrassment of reposting. If people judge you for it, that's not a fair critique
July 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The complete list of FlashFlood stories is up in an easy to access form: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
FlashFlood
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
June 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Fox News!
for @meesteralstar.bsky.social
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June 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
ICYMI!
FlashFlood: 'Hat & Ghost' by Sonia Hope #nffd2025
'Hat & Ghost' by Sonia Hope
One starless evening the hat appeared, laying on the pavement. It was ribbed, woolly, navy, with a cluster of mushrooms and toadstools embroidered on its front. Late autumn leaves swept along by a breeze kissed and dusted its surface. We walked past it once, twice. I picked it up, deciding that our gatepost could wear it – the hat would be its own lost property notice. So it stood, a headless hollow, perched on the gatepost.  The following night the sky unfolded, velveteen, stellar. The moon, oval and uncertain looked on, and the hat, unused to seeing jewels in the sky, glimmered.  By day, framed by our window, we saw:  A man in a sombre black suit frisbee his bowler away and sweep up the hat, easing it on to his head, and clicking the spike of his umbrella against the pavement as he strode away; a woman resplendent in an ivory wedding dress, train rustling behind her, cast off her veil, grab the hat and pull it on over her ice-cream sundae hair, laughing as she ran; a little girl riding on her dad's shoulders modelled it as an eyeless balaclava, cocking her head from one side to the other like a parakeet; and the plane tree outside our house tried wearing it at a jaunty angle on its most elegant, vertiginous branch. But by night, the hat always returned to its gatepost. Until, until…A new moon, Wolf moon. A figure, clear and fluid as a stream stood quivering at the gatepost. It dipped its gentle head for the hat to slip onto and, reunited, hat and ghost spirited themselves away.   --- Sonia Hope was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee (fiction), 2019/20 and shortlisted for The Guardian 4th Estate Prize 2019. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Novel Studio, City, University of London scholarship, and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Kingston University, London. www.soniahope.co.uk
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June 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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'Who better to cast that first spell than W.I.T.C.H., an acronym for We Intend To Cause Havoc? This was not just a name, but a manifesto. They didn’t knock politely; they kicked the door in.'

Organic Intelligence XLV: #Zamrock

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June 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM