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RÁNO NAD ZÁMKEM... ranní pohled na zámek Neuschwanstein v Bavorsku 🇩🇪 #bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #alps

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Arachne’s weaving wasn’t just beautiful—it was dangerous. She dared to challenge Athena, goddess of wisdom and craft, and wove the sins of the gods into her tapestry. The lesson? Mastery is power, but telling the wrong story can unravel everything. #MythologyMonday

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The first phenomenal anthology from @starsandsabers.bsky.social is now available, and we're already working on the second! Find all the info here: www.starsandsabers.com/upcoming-rel...

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So I heard you folks wanted GNOOOMMMEESSS stickers… I even did a version in colour! What do you think?

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Post your space art

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If there's one big negative about storytelling, it's that we have an image of heroism as fast and dramatic, when it's often the constant small acts over a long time that have the greatest effects in society.

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#MythologyMonday "Weird"derives from the Old English noun wyrd, meaning "fate." By the 8th century, the plural wyrde had begun to appear in texts as a gloss for Parcae, the Latin name for the Fates—three goddesses who spun, measured, & cut the thread of life. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/w...

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If you see this, post your 🤍🖤 art

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Future’s Edge has been officially out in the world for five days. Thank you to everyone who has bought, read, recommended, and reviewed it. You’re the reason I get to keep doing this.

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I had a conversation with a publisher the other day and we ended up discussing this issue, so I thought I’d repost this thread. Some thoughts about why it’s getting harder to read for any length of time, and what that means for the publishing industry, particularly in relation to children’s books.

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This is lovely to see - a smashing bookshop uk.bookshop.org/shop/westwoo...

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"A single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins and minerals. Everything the body needs." - The Matrix

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I got recognised in the bookshop where I work today by a reader who had enjoyed STARS AND BONES and DESCENDANT MACHINE, and was now picking up EMBERS OF WAR.

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Alas, then, who would be such a harsh mother, except someone with a heart of stone, who could suffer to see her children killing each other and spilling each other’s blood and destroying and dispersing their poor bodily members? - Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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In Shropshire's rural communities, the first of March was seen as the day that the devil would move house to house, shaking out his big bag of fleas. His goal was to spread discomfort and strife. The best way to prevent an infestation was to shut the windows and doors. #Shropshire #Folklore

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In East Slavic beliefs, upirs (our flesh-eating undead) can be identified by a growth below one of the kneecaps — it covers a hole from which the soul escapes. Fun fact: if you fall out of a tree and die, you will become an upir. #vampiresweekly #dailyspooklore #folklore Image: Robin Isely

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The Mabinogion is Wales’ great literary treasure, a collection of ancient tales filled with magic, love, betrayal, and transformation. If you’ve never read it, you’re missing out. #BookWormSat

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fauvel lives rent free in my head still so i wrote a 2,500 word blog post about him and why he isnt like bart simpson !!!!!! please read open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

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If you let an electron touch a positron (anti-matter version of electron) they'll both annihilate into gamma rays but if you are VERY careful and let them get close but NOT touch then they can form a bound state called positronium that acts kinda like a hydrogen atom for a few hundred nanoseconds 💫

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It's awfully fucking weird to a guy who's been writing about fascism for going on forty years now, I'll tell you.

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Tomorrow is St David's Day, the greatest of all the days. As daffodils begin to appear and the weather gets warmer, why not pay a visit to the many castles, abbeys, country houses and churches Wales has that are connected to the Tudors - I even wrote a handy guidebook for you!

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🕯New Episode 🕯 We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it! media.rss.com/the-shropshi... #Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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February's free 1-page RPG is HORSE AROUND THE HOUSE, a horror game set during an inescapable sitcom which features a live, untrained horse in every scene that gradually kicks you to death. PDFs, design notes, and a fan-made dice-stacking plugin to play online here: www.patreon.com/posts/horse-...

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A message to the UK government: please respect our copyright 🙏 #MakeItFair #HandsOffOurCopyright 1/2

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As part of my time with @cema-su.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr in the coming month, I'll be giving a public lecture offering an overview of my work on the medieval origins of celebrity. You can attend online too -- the registration info is linked below!

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The Fox and the Crow is a fable of deception in its simplest form. A fox spies a crow with a piece of cheese and flatters her voice until she caws in pride, dropping her meal. The moral? Vanity is a fool’s weakness, and flattery is a sharper tool than teeth. #BookologyThursday

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Lavishly woven in fine wool and silk with silver and gilded threads, the seven wall hangings collectively known as “The Unicorn Tapestries” are certainly amongst the most spectacular surviving artworks of the late Middle Ages: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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A Hubble Treasury Program used 1,000 orbits to map the 3D structure of Andromeda's 36 dwarf satellite galaxies, helping us understand the history of our neighboring galaxy's galactic ecosystem. This animation is based on real Hubble data. I find it delightful. 🔭🧪 hubblesite.org/contents/new...

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"Dave! Dave! Corrie's on."

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Managed to edit down the beast to something Bsky - and those of us with short attention spans 😅 - can manage! Spread the word, The Cunning Folk #TTRPG is coming!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

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It's out today! My new standalone SF book about horrible alien worlds and why you shouldn't get stuck on them.

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It killed me but... it is finally complete... and it's beautiful. If you'd like to make my sacrifice mean something - then head on over to the Kickstarter and sign up for notifications! www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi... youtu.be/fNyo3XAHS1E?...

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According to German folklore frogs climb upwards when it is sunny. So frogs were kept in jars with little ladders as a way of predicting the weather. #FolkloreThursday

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According to Nicholas Culpeper cabbages are "as windy meat as can be eaten, unless you eat bag-pipes or bellows." Welsh folklore says "If thou desirest to die, eat cabbage in August." #FolkloreThursday

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Belief in UK/Ireland: Shutting a cat up in a cupboard or under a tub caused storms at sea. “The sailors declare there is somebody on shore keeping a black cat under a tub, which it stands to reason must keep us in harbour.” Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle log, 20 Dec 1831. #FolkloreThursday

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In East Slavic traditional beliefs, witches can cause all sorts of bad weather, but also they are capable of transforming themselves into the fog and wind. #folklorethursday #dailyspooklore Image: SinyaPtaha

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According to East Slavic superstitions, if a witch wants to cause a drought, she can shoo away the rain clouds with her pinner apron. #folklorethursday #dailyspooklore Image: Iren Horrors

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I've been screaming this for years.

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This is very good and you should read it. And if you're in or near Nottingham (or fancy travelling) you can come and see me interviewing Adrian about it at Nottingham Waterstones in the evening of the coming Tuesday!

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Some of my Babylon 5 art. Enjoy. #scifi #SciFiArt #fanart #Babylon5

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"The threat of disrepute, and what happens when people face it, fascinated medieval writers. In poems and prose, they showed legendary heroes – and occasionally, versions of themselves – cannily rescuing their reputations." @psyche.co psyche.co/ideas/get-me...

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It’s fun being a writer and trying to write during this delightful era. I’ll write like three paragraphs and before I start on the fourth I blink and I’m doomscrolling and I don’t even remember commanding my hand to click to that tab. Then I go back to writing. Everything is fine! It’s all fine.

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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The really scary thing is, 10¢/word is pretty decent money 112 years later.

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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