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"A rope swing is, and will always be, inevitable. If nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bow offers the perfect height for a swing, at some point in time a rope swing will appear." *Lovely* book extract courtesy of @jon-moses.bsky.social on how space becomes place.

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Prosecutors have been illegally eavesdropping on Luigi Mangione’s calls with his attorney.

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Celebrating Scottish women’s football 22 May, @natlibscot.bsky.social Edinburgh – free Prof @fionaskillen.bsky.social, Karen Fraser & @juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social – joint editors of A MOST UNSUITABLE GAME – discuss the history of women & football in Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

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You know it must be #WorldPenguinDay if we're posting our Book Penguin made of Penguin Books. 🐧

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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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There’s growing discourse around the “overdiagnosis” of Autism and ADHD—particularly in adults. Critics say these diagnoses are now being handed out too easily, "its all gone too far", even framing them as trendy. But this view misses something fundamental. 1/24

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Just one of the many reasons football will have a massive fight on its hands if it tries to ban trans women. Here's Man City's Kerstin Casparij, dedicating her goal today to trans people

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

J D Vance got the same handshake of death as Liz Truss, huh

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On the off chance, if you flew into Heathrow T5 from JFK early yesterday morning and picked up the wrong black Eastpak suitcase from carousel 10, my husband would really like it back. Yours is still at Heathrow! Please RT! We’d really like our stuff!

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'Jesus was snacky' is cracking me up

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BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT. Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Man films and confronts two suspected undercover ICE officers (potentially NYPD) after they racially profiled and handcuffed a random civilian. Keep doing this shit. Make these fuckers famous. Make all police and immigration officers fear having their faces known to the masses.

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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The Quine Report is a deep dive that I genuinely look forward to reading in full, but the top-notes are pretty damning in and of themselves. This is not the inclusive, progressive, exceptionalist story ScotLit likes to tell itself, or promote on the world stage.

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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

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It’s always weird realising that people will pay more for a blank Moleskine notebook than for a novel.

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Just noticed that Oxford has also recently withdrawn a number of digital resources as a precautionary step - and "in light of the severe damage done to the digital infrastructure of the British Library" www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/service-upda...

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