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All this talk of weather - I spent yesterday on a campsite. 60+% humidity, I believe it got up to 30c, and had to walk across a field for the loo. Thank goodness for trees and my mate's ice machine. I still feel rubbish from it.

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I protested against the Iraq war in 2003. Please can we not do this again. Please.

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THREAD. After a tough few months (involving my ex-publisher Unbound ceasing to pay their authors, then disintegrating) I am enormously relieved to reveal Joe McLaren's fantastic cover for my 3rd novel. The book will be published on September 11th. I believe it's the best thing I've ever written.

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If anyone else would like one of these for postage (£4 UK) plus what YOU want to pay, please drop me an email at [email protected] with your address and I'll get one out to you, signed, next week.

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Request to replace all instances of "This is not who we are" with "This is not who we want to be."

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Oh crumbs, I'm listening to two people talk about their carnivore diet. Apparently carbs block the absorption of vitamins...

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A principled stand.

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My health cashback scheme is a bit odd. I can only claim £205 a year towards dental treatment, but I can claim up to £460 a year towards homeopathy treatments.

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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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And yet the UK government is pushing AI as the way to boost civil service productivity.

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I believe you could get so many shows out of what is basically a very short period of history. I also think it's badly needed as there's huge ignorance about this period in our history in the general public.

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Today I returned a library book that I had started but wasn't enjoying so stopped. Normally I'd push on and get through, but this time I was able to act on the belief that life is too short for books you're not enjoying.

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hello, read this if you tend to engage with the horrors and would like some practical tips on how to minimize the damage to yourself without needing to ignore the horrors entirely www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

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A weekend with my family was both exhausting and affirming. Seems my sisters have decided that I fit a bunch of criteria for ASD, and are enjoying waiting for me to catch up & be able to spot my own oddities. I love them really.

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All we need is for those numbers to sustain across a diversity of tactics for an extended amount of time-- strikes! boycotts! slowdowns! leaks! refusals! art shenanigans! more! -- and we will have this in the bag, folks. We. Can. Do. This.

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Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

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That thunder storm is on its way in - my back and shoulders have started to ache. I may need painkillers and a lie down.

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Well got called out on some of my BS, and I think that's healthy. I wish I could make some certain people this book, but they're not ready.

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I had the great privilege yesterday of seeing this in a cinema, followed by Q&A session. Dartmoor is very good at eluding capture on "film", but the film company did a wonderful job. You do get a sense of these very special places. youtu.be/mwhFoBDzWRE?...

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A key purpose of the 1824 Vagrancy Act was to punish magical practitioners; it originally criminalised 'every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose' 🔮

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I enjoy reading about history, but for personal reasons I'd like to read more about early 20th century India. In particular what the British got up whilst there. Anyone got any book recommendations?

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✍️ Sculptures honour East Yorkshire’s role in shaping Tolkien’s Middle-earth In Roos, Allen Stichler’s oak carvings commemorate Tolkien’s wartime romance and the landscapes that shaped his legendary world By Angus Young @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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Reading about economics, about childhood trauma, and about misinformation & AI, I am struck by the common thread - trust.

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Of course it's started raining, our outdoors pentecost gathering is due to start soon.

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God bless St Veep, the Cornish Saint that nobody can remember the gender of. What an icon.

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