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SIGNED BOOK NEWS! Copies of "You'll Like It When You Get There: A Life Lived Reluctantly" by the brilliant Rhys James @rhysjamesy.bsky.social are available to order from us! Published on August 14th. You can pre-order a SIGNED copy HERE. biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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It is extraordinary how Käthe Kollwitz packed a whole range of emotions and feelings into this work from 1903 even though we are unable to see the model's face or their expression.

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SIGNED BOOK NEWS! Susie Dent @susiedent.com has a new book coming out in September. "Words for Life". A year's supply of verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to entertain & enlighten! And Susie will be doing SIGNED & DEDICATED copies exclusively for us! Order HERE. tinyurl.com/3b2rtkc4

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SIGNED & DEDICATED copies of "One Minute Away", the new novel by the lovely Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social are EXCLUSIVELY available for you to pre-order from us. Mark will do any dedication you like! It's published next month & you can pre-order a copy. RIGHT HERE tinyurl.com/37vtcbur

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1970s picnic Artist: RobertAyton (Talkabout Holidays, 1977)

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Ireland, that most literary of countries with the most poetic version of the English language, choosing to ignore all its homegrown brilliance & slop up workaday words-by-numbers as its own face. Choosing to promote itself in a way that undermines one of the very things the world loves about it.

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I often get asked to help with bird ID problems when the answer is: it's a female of a common species! Here's a poster celebrating the often-overlooked intricacies of female bird plumage. During June, proceeds from my shop sales go to @instbirdpop.bsky.social topatoco.com/collections/...

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[trial] Lawyer "Could a murderer do THIS?" points to defendant doing cool tap dance "I remind the jury that only guilty feet have got no rhythm."

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FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore and folk horror themed linocuts galore including this recently reprinted M R James inspired print. RTs positively encouraged.

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A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...

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Here's an oddity. Today we found hundreds of these washed up (as if there wasn't enough plastic on the beach already). Does anyone recognise them - are they bio filters or bio media (used in aquariums or waste water treatment) or something completely different? About 1.5cm long.

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Our latest BBC Verify video looks at Ukraine's Operation 'Spider Web' - and what we've learned this week about what happened and how it was done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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When your cat loses her collar with the bloody expensive tracker on it, you do what you must.

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Nature.. our life support system needs help… and we need to rise to the occasion.

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The world's only Cornish Pasty Museum is in Mexico. Cornish miners introduced the pasty to Mexico in the 1820s. Real del Monte, the location of the museum, is known as Little Cornwall.

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Snowball, a smartphone app that’s been described as ‘TripAdvisor for the disabled community’, is using TfL data to integrate the accessible stations into its mobile app, making it easier for disabled people to plan outings in the capital. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sno...

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I'm off to Cheltenham Science Festival tomorrow to ask the big questions. Like, "is it a problem that my act doesn't have any science jokes in it?" Check out this lovely lineup: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/variety-night

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It’s being reported that the British Museum is ready to send the Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles) to Greece to resolve the long-standing dispute over where they should be displayed. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bri...

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We've been flooded with enquiries from worried followers. We'd like to reassure everyone that, whatever else is happening in the world, @merchantshallyork.org and @romanpalace.bsky.social are still absolutely solid. It's the important bromances that last the longest. 😍🥰

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Car finance mis-selling update: regulator prepares for compensation scheme – and warns against using claims firms. MSE's quick briefing... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/06...

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Sociable Weaver Bird nests around the phone masts of the Kalahari Desert. www.behance.net/gallery/4434...

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Happy Friday All! We’ve got stationery to go, open until 6. www.instagram.com/p/C6_UOBltXG...

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Kent folk, the art exhibition/fair ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ is running for an additional weekend. Come and see the beautiful weird art!

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How To Be a Writer, no. 19123: First, buy a writing-desk carved from a single ironwood tree A pen made from a lyre-bird's feather A ream of hand-made paper, embellished with moonflower petals A throne A special writer's hat Burn them all to ashes Try to read what's in the smoke Tea.

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Most of us are surrounded by things we use without even really thinking about them – door handles, kitchen utensils, light switches – and now the V&A Museum wants you to think about them, in a very different way. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...

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It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

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Live feed from the Kremlin

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I thought you’d like these pictures of Alan Davies, Brian Cox, Tim Peake and Kelly Weinersmith in the Green Room before tonight’s Monkey Cage recording

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Liz Truss is heading to the White House with a chicken, lager and a fishing rod.

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It’s so funny. Like awful and upsetting that these are the people etc etc. but two of the most powerful men in the history of humanity just having a full teenage girl BFF breakup in absolute public. Extraordinary stuff.

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it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.

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Watching The Crown s2 tonight and it's jarring watching very restrained 1950s politicians saying things like 'it's a delicate matter, your majesty' and then checking the Internet in 2025 where elon musk is tweeting 'the president is a nonce, pass it on'

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Cut-out hare linoprints by my mum, Jo. (The design is from my book, Ring The Hill.) More about her work here: tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-... And her Etsy page is here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/foxg...

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Eric Ravilious' famous 1939 watercolour, Train Landscape (featuring the white horse at Westbury), reimagined and repainted by my dad, Mick, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget. More: tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

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"How dare you have the audacity to wake me from my psychedelic sleep?" tomcox.substack.com/p/at-home-wi...

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Me: "Now... let me see. I bet those late 60s and early 70s Ladybird Books I read as a child weren't actually all that scary and I've misremembered the horrifying images they placed indelibly inside my young head." Also me: "Oh." More: tomcox.substack.com/p/a-deconstr...

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🚨 NEW: The Government has announced the following water companies are now legally banned from paying “unfair bonuses” to bosses - Thames Water - Yorkshire Water - Anglian Water - Wessex Water - United Utilities - Southern Water

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‘Wild Flowers of Spring and Early Summer’ Artist: Maurice de Sausmarez (for Odhams)

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Also contains Christopher Isherwood, Monty Python and Ann Widdecombe.

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#OnThisDay in 1985, Brazilian police dug up the grave of one "Wolfgang Gerhard", on the suspicion - later confirmed - that he was actually notorious Auschwitz "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele. In today's episode, Mengele's escape from Nazi Germany and 20 years on the run in South America:

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Bumblebee Altar, Until recently it was believed that bumblebees shouldn’t be capable of flight due to their wing to weight ratio but then tiny vortexes between their wings were discovered that gave them lift, magic!

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The only dictionary that truly matters.

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Important Information 👇 The Trustworthiness of Beards.

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This post by @barbdrummond.bsky.social gives me an excuse to share again (but possibly for the first time here) one of my favourite things: youtu.be/myRNKk0-63A?...

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Each one going about 28,000 kilometres per hour. The largest proportion of them controlled by a country that’s trying to get rid of all its scientists.

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