Yvonne
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Yvonne
@yvonnetheodora.bsky.social
Getting older, hopefully wiser
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Irish surgeon Dr Morgan McMonagle on Channel 4 News on how outrageous it is that western governments are allowing apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
"Nothing can justify what's going on in Gaza right now."
#GazaGenocide
July 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Good morning.

2025 ...so far.

The Accidental Immigrant @jomcmillan.bsky.social finalist in @orwellprize.bsky.social

Bluemoose - Northern publisher of the Year.

BBC - 6 part Drama series of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

L&HP selected for Nat Curriculum in Ireland.
July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I think we may be the only Indie publisher to have had

Two books adapted for drama series on the BBC in the last two years.

The Gallows Pole by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social

Bloody brilliant.
June 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
'National shame' isn't due to righteous rants against genocide. National shame is due to the inactivity to demand the end to genocide, and complicity in arming those who are carrying out genocide.
July 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The BBC has chosen censorship over art. It is not a public service, it is State TV for the UK govt. Kneecap, as artists, are being censored for their agitprop. If you believe in freedom of speech, then a band, fully aware of the violence of the Union Jack & flags must be allowed raise this debate.
📺 A chairde Gael,

The propaganda wing of the regime has just contacted us.

They WILL put our set from Glasto today on iPlayer this evening for your viewing pleasure.

The crowd expected today is far greater than West Holts capacity so "you'll need to be very early to catch us father...VERY EARLY"
June 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I’ve just been alerted that someone is pretending to be from Bluemoose asking for people to edit scripts and to send them
their bank details for payment.

We have our own editorial
team and this is a scam.

Take care.

Kevin.
May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Publishing has a serious class problem.

It is one of the most socially exclusive of all creative industries.

Please, if you can, read this.

@thebookseller.com
@ipghq.bsky.social

thebeemagazine.com/publishings-...
Publishing’s Class Problem
When you’re a child, your social class doesn’t determine how good you are at reading and writing. Yet half of our published writers are from middle-class backgrounds, and only 10 per cent are working ...
thebeemagazine.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Swifts are on their way back...and many are trying to reach the same nest sites they’ve used for years.

But scaffolding can block the way.

Check before you build & keep entrances clear. ❗

Their active nests are protected by law. Let them in.
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Good morning.

Please support writers and artists and musicians.

The Tech bros don't give an algorithm for creative folk.

All they're interested in is your cash.

Here is a books by a very talented human.
March 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Good morning.

I know, I know, its a sin and all that to go and on.

But bloody & thunder.

Northern Publishers of the year 2025 !

#BritishBookAwards

@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
@thetimes.com
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
@visithebdenbridge.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Thanks to Mark Foster at Artifice Design
artifice-design.co.uk
my website is now updated for my latest News, upcoming Events including tour of a one-man show, plus a poetry workshop idea for you at the button 'Blog'.
Hope you take a look:
www.michaelrosen.co.uk
artifice-design.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A two-year investigation has found that @wwf.org.uk have been lobbying for the continued international trade of polar bear fur , all while using imagery of these beautiful animals for their fundraising . Despicable .

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
February 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A brilliant night out with special nieces to see #CarlosAcosta's #NutcrackerinHavana at the #LowryTheatre.
January 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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There are a few hours of daylight left to do the @rspb.bsky.social excellent #BigGardenBirdwatch so if you haven’t - please do ! And if you are struggling to identify birds then this informative key from @vizcomic.bsky.social will be an enormous help . . .
January 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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If you want to read a story with young people (aged between 7 and 15) which conveys what WW2 felt like to two young Jewish boys, one in London, one in Poland, I wrote 'Please Write Soon' (@scholasticuk ) based on my father and his cousin in Poland. They write to each other.
January 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Want to see how everyone else's #BigGardenBirdwatch is getting on?

We've set up a feed just for that: bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here to stay! X deleted.
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The Wolf Moon rises tonight... 🌕🐺

Named by Native Americans for wolves howling in the depths of winter, January's full moon was also called the 'Ice Moon' and 'Moon after Yule' in Europe.

Look out for Mars glowing close by, its brightest in two years.

Moonrise: 15:13*
January 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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You are all cordially invited to the world book launch of:

The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social

In @bookcornerhx.bsky.social on Thursday 23rd January.

The event is free and you can book here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
BOOK LAUNCH: The Accidental Immigrants by Jo McMillan
Join Jo McMillan and local publisher Bluemoose Books for the launch of Jo's new novel The Accidental Immigrants.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Line up for 2025.

Jan - The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
Apr - Ghost Mountain - Pbk - @ronanhession.bsky.social
May - The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
July - Beasts - Lulu Allison
Sept - Celeste - Colette Snowden
Nov - Orca & Bird - Anna Chilvers

Magic!
December 30, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Please , if you are able , support Independent publishers who are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding great new writers!

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social

And many more
December 4, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Last episode of this series of #BetweenTheCovers is on tomorrow night @bbctwo.bsky.social at 7pm Sara Cox is joined by @richardosman1.bsky.social Ranvir Singh, Alex Jones and Ben Miller. They review The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet and share their BYOBs. Please tune in!
December 2, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.
November 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM