A warm welcome from Shirley Hughes & Friends!

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

An amazing 1 day trip to see Billy. The first time I've been to see a dog I've rescued in their own home.

This was magical

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Here's what the federal funding and policy issues currently under debate in Washington may mean for libraries.

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

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Every morning I feed 80 street dogs in Thailand. It's the best feeling in the world. This was today.

🥘 All the food is cooked fresh daily
🐕 We actually provide food for 1000 other dogs daily

It's a small part of what we do but it is an absolute joy to see the tails going 🥰

As part of a recent most-appreciated review of The Three Keys series this: "...goodness that woman has an amazing imagination or plays a lot of video games OR she smokes some serious sh&*!...Wow! Is she writing another book?"

Well, no video games and sometimes I wished I smoked some "serious sh&*"😉

A tiny portion of the deep universe.
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Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.

The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.

Fiat lux!

📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

The Eye of Horus
NGC-1097
Photo credit ESO-VLT
Distance 45 million light years
Diameter 120,000 light years
Constellation Fornax
Discovered 1790 Willian Herschel
The center of the eye contains a black hole 140 million times the mass of our sun.

I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

NEW: WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.

Very foggy morning in Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy

#alphabetchallenge
#WeekIforItaly

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The Hourglass Nebula seen by Hubble

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.

We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.