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davidbeckler.bsky.social
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I wonder if I still have my old Windows 95 laptop to use as a word processor...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Reformers aren’t taking Muhammad's return well 😂 #ukpolitics

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

What’s more worrying than these councillors’ youth is that the one in charge of adult services has posted racist messages & believes depression isn’t real, & the student in charge of children’s services thinks his experiences in life are representative of clients’. new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

🏆 I love LA.

submitted 2 days ago • 393 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the link between Shabana Mahmood MP and United Health…?🚨 EveryDoctor has been researching the financial links between our politicians and the private healthcare sector, because we are worried about the way that money is moving through Westminster, and we don’t think that any...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Hmmm. Craven, Turton, Whitaker, Casey, Mukherjee and Brookmyre. Can’t wait to see how many I got right on Thursday. What do you think, #BookSky? 👇🏻

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

AMSTERDAM Why the expat experience is the perfect starting for a thriller via @crimereads.bsky.social crimereads.com/why-the-expa...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Tory legacy. Fire stations in England “falling apart”, Funding down by £1bn, call outs up by a fifth. Firefighter numbers down by a quarter in seven years, 11,000 full-time staff. Population increased but lack of investment in infrastructure, tax cuts for the rich. Readying for privatisation?

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

It’s nearly time for Something Blue! Sherlock & Jack book 2 is out on Thursday and the ebook's currently 99p or equivalent. If you like tales with Sherlock Holmes, found family, mistaken identity, a mysterious stranger and a bit of mild peril, you should enjoy this! mybook.to/SherlockJack2

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Next on #StarterPackSunday is my set of packs of Brilliant People on BlueSky. This first (FULL) starter pack contains @kitdewaal.com @adamcsharp.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @bigbeardedbookseller.com & many more fantastic accounts. Please follow and repost if you can

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Had a meeting with 5 other Hove-based authors and my MP Peter Kyle today. As you know he is the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation & Technology. And he is the driving force behind all the Ai and copyright stuff I’ve been talking about. 1/6

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I am one of the 1,350 individuals and organizations who signed the open letter to HarperCollins in support of IMLS, libraries, and library workers across the United States.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

I am glad to see this list and some of the high profile names on it, alongside those of comrades in Fossil Free Books. May those prestigious writers act more rapidly - and write fewer both-sides-ing op-eds in major papers - in the earlier stages of the next genocide medium.com/@horatioclar...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent thread on the Transatlantic slave trade.

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Not bad for a small Independent publisher based in the North of England. The second Bluemoose book to be adapted for a BBC TV Drama Series. @thebookseller.com @newwritingnorth.bsky.social @northernfiction.bsky.social @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments