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Year of Queer Lit is hosting a Sapphic Stuff Your Kindle day TODAY with lots of free or reduced price books, including one of mine. yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...

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Want dirt-cheap books? Here you go! @wifeyromance.bsky.social @breywillows.bsky.social @evbancroft.bsky.social

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Year of Queer Lit is hosting a Sapphic Stuff Your Kindle day TODAY with lots of free or reduced price books, including one of mine. yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...

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Autistic women report feeling unheard, misunderstood and even unsafe during pregnancy and childbirth, according to new research.

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Writing White Lives: What compels people to investigate their ancestors’ role as slave-owners? How do they go about it? What do they hope that their research will achieve? And what has been the impact on them and their family? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sl...

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“Truth doth flourish as the rose, and the lilies do grow among the thorns…”—early Quaker, George Fox, offered this comfort during a time he described as a “thick night of Darkness that may be felt”. No one seeks out the thick night of darkness, but when it comes the light shines out brighter.

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🚨 Out now! The new issue of Quaker Studies is a special issue on George Fox, with research articles on his legacy, including the George Richardson Lecture on Fox and the early Quaker movement, book reviews, and more: quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1329/i...

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Excited to announce that my book is out, earlier than scheduled. This was so much fun to write, given my lifelong interest in reading. The spirituality of reading. Reading for spiritual growth.

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The new issue of Quaker Studies is a special issue on George Fox, including research articles about history and fiction, George Richardson lecture about Fox's journal as literature, and book reviews. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1329/i... @ericanela.bsky.social @rebeccawynter.bsky.social

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Quakerism respects diverse views, but a common question is, "What do Quakers believe about the Bible?" Here @petersontoscano.bsky.social @markdruss.bsky.social @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social and Timothy Ashworth share "A Quaker Take on the Bible" as British Quakers www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAl4...

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This week my employer of 17 years English Heritage announced 200 jobs lost, and my Alma mater Cardiff Uni announced 400 jobs lost. The planning system that protects our heritage and provides thousands of archaeology jobs is at risk, and Higher Education is in free fall more generally #ThisIsFine

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Wonderful learning opportunities this year from the amazing resource that is @woodbrooke.bsky.social Highly recommended!

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Next time Republicans lecture about religious freedom, remember this. www.friendsjournal.org/quakers-sue-...

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There's one week left to nominate for these awards.

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Nominations for the Autism and Learning Disability leaders list awards are open until 3rd February. The awards are open to anybody with a learning disability and autistic people, and you can nominate someone else or yourself. Please share! Details and how to nominate: www.leaderaward.co.uk

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Nominations for the Autism and Learning Disability leaders list awards are open until 3rd February. The awards are open to anybody with a learning disability and autistic people, and you can nominate someone else or yourself. Please share! Details and how to nominate: www.leaderaward.co.uk

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Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

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Not just ok, but essential. Snatching happiness from despair is essential, and it's how we find the will to build strength.

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Let's all be Too-ticky in 2025!

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I'm teaching a new course for Woodbrooke exploring the many spiritual insights scattered throughout Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Come and join me 🌳✨️ www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/wisd...

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Helpful summary and commentary about monotropism!

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Happy #WinniethePoohDay from Pooh and the gang who are cuddled up and busy reading some of their old adventures. 🍯🎂 #WinniethePoohDay celebrates the birthday of Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne's who was born #onthisday in 1882. 📚

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Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

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I'm looking forward to co-hosting this exciting course on Star Wars and Quakers with @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social

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Wow, the @woodbrooke.bsky.social 2025 programme of courses just oozes excellent, thought-provoking content. I'm particularly loving the question "Are Jedi Quakers?" It's great to see Quaker theological engagement with pop culture. www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/are-... #theology #spirituality

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The Calanais Standing Stones have an extraordinary cross-shape. They were erected 5,000 years ago. They predate Stonehenge monument, and were an important ritual place for at least 2,000 years. #StandingStoneSunday

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Inside of you there are two households, both alike in dignity

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😀 Today's #FridayFeeling is nominations for the Learning Disability and Autism Leaders' Awards! We are hearing such wonderful stories of personal success in communicating, teaching others, overcoming challenges and just being awesome! Nominate today: https://www.leaderaward.co.uk

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I wish I could give the world, and myself, a month off to do nothing but read books.

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Hey Bluesky what would you recommend as a solution for someone who has dry skin and can't deal with the sticky texture of most hydrating creams? (We've tried hydrating solid stick and it hadn't worked either)

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Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #15

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I have a special surprise for all readers who get their ebooks from Amazon UK: Amazon picked my latest sapphic romance novel, Bachelorette Number 12, as a Kindle Deal of the Month in the UK, which means you can get it at £0.99 right now! www.amazon.co.uk/Bachelorette...

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Prediction: 2025 will be the start of a major turn in sapphic romance toward speculative fiction (especially romantasy) and, to a lesser extent, historical fiction

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Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities. 🚨Note the angle! Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts. Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else

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"Stop writing on [topic you are interested in and sometimes get paid to write about] and instead work on [topic which sounds related but isn't actually covered by your research] because it'll make it easier to get a teaching post." Perhaps it would have done. I made no attempt to follow this advice.

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Tony Benn proposed five questions to individuals and organisations who hold power of any kind: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interests do you use it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How do we get rid of you?

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