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davidbeckler.bsky.social
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Congratulations on your new book my friend! Wishing you every success 👏👏👏

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#author #indieauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky

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

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

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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...

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🏆 I love LA.

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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...

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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? 👇🏻

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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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..

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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...

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Excellent thread on the Transatlantic slave trade.

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