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'It turns out that slugs and snails hate caffeine, which is odd considering they are up all night running around.' Haha! I will try this, any excuse to drink more coffee.

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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

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Very much enjoyed this by @theodoragoss.bsky.social: theodoragoss.com/2025/05/04/i...

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Book bag under one arm, squirming Christ child under the other ~ carved by an unknown master from a single block of limestone, this is the 3/4 life-size polychrome Nostre Dame de Grasse, dating from late-15th century (photo: Nick Thompson; Musée des Augustins, Toulouse)

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Good morning!

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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Although I actually read Portraits at the Palace of Creativity & Wrecking a while ago now, it's stayed with me. So I wrote a little bit about it: gallimaufry.typepad.com/blog/2025/05...

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In one of the great conservation stories of this century, saiga antelope numbers increased from just 30,000 in 2006 to nearly 4 million today across the Golden Steppe ecosystem—an area three times larger than the UK. Mongabay news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025... #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Top tip for politicians: try standing up for the principles and vision of the future you actually believe in, forming policies based on that, and then convincing the public to vote for those principles, vision and policies. (I know, this’ll never catch on)

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Friday

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On the Ramblings today! The 10th Anniversary Club Reading Year is announced! @stuckinabook.bsky.social kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a...

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If you want to know where we are legally with trans rights, this is such a great explainer.

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Sorry to read that Jane Gardam has died. Still remember first reading a book of hers as a teenager, it was Bilgewater, & I loved it straight away. Her books have never disappointed me.

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I've often admired the sketchy qualities of Jacques Truphémus' work, particularly his interiors such as 'Interior Cévenol,' from the late 1960s to early 1970s. His work can be comical, charming, melancholic, menacing, tragic, hopeful, sardonic, or a combination of all these.

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So clever!

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'Beach Scene.' (1869) Winslow Homer was one of the first artists to focus on the theme of bathers on the beach, which had recently been made fashionable by Boudin in Paris in the mid-1860s - this work comes closest to Impressionism, both for its lively handling and luminosity.

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Great. Soon we'll be using gender stereotypes to police certain spaces & shaming women who aren't 'feminine' enough, whether they're trans or not. Complain to the EHRC asap. This must stop. & what is it with loos anyway?

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Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?

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In a gesture of goodwill, I may be willing to drop claims to parts of Italy I do not occupy. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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A Great Horned Owl leaves her increasingly cramped nest located in the hollow of a tree. #wildlife #birds #owls

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This & the replies are fun. 'Skin thing' seems harsh...

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2025 #FABPrize now open for entries: www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe... #kidlitUK

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Hahahahaha

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To Stanley Spencer there were two kinds of Resurrection, a 'particular,' kind involving being raised after death to a state of fulfilment in heaven and a 'general' kind which was possible to anyone at any time and place on earth - a sense of perfect love and peace.

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Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice. Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here: florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...

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THREAD. A short, true story, which I still think about sometimes. Many years ago, not long before they found the 19th Century house in Nottinghamshire where they live now, my mum and dad had wanted to buy a different, older house, not far away....

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Go Nicola!

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On a theme of pink, this feels like a cheat because I have literally just stuck them in the ground and not nurtured theme from rhizomes or whatever, but aren’t these Ranunculus Asiaticus gorgeous?

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The sun has reached Belgium & the tulips are pleased.

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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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