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carolinelucas.bsky.social
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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jeffreyford8.bsky.social
The Shadow Year is on Fantasy Book Review's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of all Time.
www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fant...
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@dannythechurch.bsky.social Just finished The Hollows. SO much fun! Might even have rekindled my reading mojo. Thanks.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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victorlavalle.bsky.social
99% of the world is dead. In a small Minnesota town, 1 woman writes the monthly local paper but it’s actually an epic horror story mailed to your door.

THE END TIMES.

Brilliantly conceived by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social , published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social.

1 issue in and I already love it.
A photo of THE END TIMES, a faux local newspaper written in the wake of an apocalyptic plague. A little white strip of paper has been placed on the upper right corner of the paper to obscure my mailing address.
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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wocco.bsky.social
Old Boy Todd
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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drfernriddell.bsky.social
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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raynewman.bsky.social
FICTION: “This small monograph was compiled by members of the St Philips Folklore and History Society in order to record that which would otherwise be lost...”

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FICTION: Local Legends
I’ve extracted the text from the booklet The Boiled Egg Lady and Other Local Legends of East Bristol which I found on an online auction site earlier this year. It doesn’t seem to have been reprinte…
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October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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raynewman.bsky.social
If you're after suggestions for a short story or two to read for Halloween, here's the list I put together for A Personal Anthology a couple of years back. Not all horror or weird fiction, but mostly.

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A Personal Anthology, by Ray Newman
At the start of 2023 I set myself a target to read 365 short stories, which I’ve now done – and which is why Jonathan asked me to contribute to this ongoing project.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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kevinboniface.bsky.social
New episode: art for art's sake, DIY culture, working for nothing, free bottle of pop, greedy buggers, punk rock, job killers, the cost of idealism, taking strike action, Mr Briggs' Toyota Yaris
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Money and Finance | Round About Town
The Privilege of DIY Culture
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October 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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lairdbarron.bsky.social
Fascists catching bullets is just civilization's antibodies kicking in.
September 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
The Telegraph has finally found some unemployed people it sympathises with
January 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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johnspringford.bsky.social
On Britain. Shame we are outside the customs union - we will have to rely on diplomacy and some unpleasant trades with Trump to deal with the tariff threat. Security and defence co-operation with France, Germany, Poland, the rest of the EU is now absolutely critical.
November 6, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey:
"This is a dark, dark day for people around the globe. The world's largest economy and most powerful military will be led by a dangerous, destructive demagogue. "The next President of the United States is a man who actively undermines the rule of law, human rights, international trade, climate action and global security. "Millions of Americans - especially women and minorities - will be incredibly fearful about what comes next. We stand with them. "Families across the UK will also be worrying about the damage Trump will do to our economy and our national security, given his record of starting trade wars, undermining NATO and emboldening tyrants like Putin. "Fixing the UK's broken relationship with the EU is even more urgent than before. We must strengthen trade and defence cooperation across Europe to help protect ourselves from the damage Trump will do.
November 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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heatmap.news
Introducing Decarbonize Your Life, Heatmap’s comprehensive guide on high-leverage actions you can take right now to help the planet.

Read on for how-to's on everything from EVs and solar panels to sustainable food and e-bikes. 🧵
Decarbonize Your Life
A complete guide to making your everyday decisions count in the fight against climate change.
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September 23, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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jlkaufmann.bsky.social
Seriously, fellow British peeps, go and vote on the 4th. Don't take it for granted that the Labour landslide victory is a done deal and your vote doesn't matter. Brexit was such a catastrofuck because half the people who had a right to vote on it couldn't be arsed because OBVIOUSLY it was done deal.
June 29, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
First panel: a line of modern electric cars. Second panel: A woman and a man are talking. She is holding a book. She says "It's hard to get excited about these new electric cars when I've seen much ambitious possibilities in fiction" "Sci-fi fan,huh?" he asks Third panel. "Uhh... yeah. Sci-fi." she says unsurely, looking at her book. Fourth panel: We can see a page of the book. It shows animals happily driving food-shaped cars in the style of Richard Scarry. The cars are labelled: Pickle car, Apple car and Hotdog car.
May 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Good point!
Though Scarry had form on this:

“Animal cannibalism in the beloved works of Richard Scarry”
davegilson.com/scarry.html
Dave Gilson | This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef
davegilson.com
May 17, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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terriwindling.bsky.social
There are more good talks coming up as part of British Library's fantasy exhibition, including this one on Thursday. You'll find the full schedule at this link, where you can also access recordings of some of the previous talks from November and December: living-knowledge-network.co.uk
January 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Really glad the PM has brought in the genius behind my fucked Twitter feed to chat about tech. He's clearly got a lot to bring to the conversation.
November 1, 2023 at 3:01 PM