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Blue Poppy Publishing
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Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon. Submissions open for books with a strong focus on Devon and the South West. https://www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 20m
Bound to, since I can't remember, in detail, why the sky is blue. I know it has to do with light exciting electrons in the air or something, but that's about it.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 34m
Go on then, seven quid for the paperback. Bedtime reading.
I remember once, on a bus, explaining why the sky is blue to a child who had asked their parent. Said parent had no idea and I had recently read an explanation. The parent was, thank goodness, grateful rather than offended.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 42m
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 43m
Ah, if only. But I have had the pleasure and privilege of writing this: alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?
Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 44m
There's a sweet spot where someone understands what they are talking about but can explain it a way that doesn't leave ordinary minds spinning.
People who have that skill should be well paid for it. Good teachers, for example.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 12h
Either that or they are just ignorant
Either way, blocking
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 12h
Wilendorf seems to be a moron looking to annoy people for no obvious reason
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d
Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner
A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.
www.thepinknews.com
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 13h
So happy! 😁
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 18h
#inktober #Sting
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Rosemarie the moth @pastelgothmoth.bsky.social · 19h
Day 11 sting
3 honey bees a camera the drawing is in black and white
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 22h
Checks out
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Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social · 22h
Realistic Indiana Jones movies 🏺😁
Realistic Indiana Jones movies * Indiana Jones and tomb that had already been looted by robbers in the 19th century * Indiana Jones and pottery fragment #1478 * Indiana Jones and the site discovered under somebody's house so there was no way to actually dig it * Indiana Jones and the famous treasure that actually turned out to be an ancient chamber pot * Indiana Jones and the temple of maybe three damaged columns * Indiana Jones and the intro to archaeology class that didn't give a shit and just wanted to pass for the gen ed credit
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Chris Douch @thisisdouch.bsky.social · 22h
I’m running a Kickstarter to fund a self-published children’s book. Please take a look and support if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
CHEESE: Lights! Crackers! Action! A Funny Children's Book
The BRIEquel to CHEESE! a funny picture book aimed at kids aged 3-6
www.kickstarter.com
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The Wedale Bookshop @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social · 1d
It’s #bookshopday today, a chance to support your #localbookshop wherever you are.

We are closed this week but you can support us by liking posts and buying books online @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social or audiobooks through @libro.fm

Support local businesses, not billionaires. X
The Bookshop Day poster, featuring a brightly-coloured scene of a bustling high street with bookshops.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
Alternatively, Gwenn from the Wise Oak series: Gets up, looks around the room, places a bag of gold in the hand of the recovering landlord, to cover expenses, glances at the men who were given plenty of warnings and leaves.
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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 1d
#Scotstober: Oxter

Fae Moby-Dick, Ch. 110

Leanin ower in his hammock, Queequeg lang regairdit the kist wi a tentie ee. He syne cawed for his herpuin, haed the wuiden stock drewn fae it, an syne haed the airn pairt pit in the kist alang wi yin o the paidles o his boat. Aw by his ain speirin, forby
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
Felix: "Hmmm, well this is definitely not going in the book!"
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
😂
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
On the eleventh day of Halloween,
My true love gave to me,
11 werewolves prowling,
10 hyenas howling,
9 vultures singing,
8 nettles stinging,
7 harpies screaming,
6 villains scheming,
5 angry trolls,
4 vampire bats,
3 dead rats,
2 smelly cats,
And a whatsit in a thingamy!
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
He can award it to himself, surely? 😂
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
Obviously I can spell personality. I don't have much of one, but I can spell it.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
Fine by me.
It's a cult of perosnality and he hasn't had time to install a successor structure, so things will probably return to a degree of normality if he just gently moves on as a result of natural causes.
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Rosemarie the moth @pastelgothmoth.bsky.social · 1d
Day 10 sweep #inktober #sweep
An older woman in a maid dress sweeping
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, how appropriate, #Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the opposition leader of Venezuela. Meanwhile the Tango Turd Baby still think it is okay to murder Venezualan citizens in international waters. He, and his mates Putin, and Netanyahu, need to be in The Hague.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_No...
2025 Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 1d
On the tenth day of Halloween,
My true love gave to me,
Ten hyenas howling,
Nine vultures singing,
Eight nettles stinging,
Seven harpies screaming,
Six villains scheming,
Five angry trolls,
Four vampire bats,
Three dead rats,
Two smelly cats,
And a whatsit in a thingamy!
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 2d
Dream: The Party promised to protect us from the Xenomorphs.
All the guns were pointed at us.
Anyone who claimed that there were no Xenomorphs was dragged away on the grounds that they were already infected.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 2d
This amazing talented funny artist illustrated three of my own books before becoming much more successful and famous than me.
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Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social · 2d
Heavy 🎈 inktober day 9
Funny comic strip. “Our top slimmer this week is… Tim” *tim stands on scales with a bunch of helium balloons lifting him up* *rest of group looks on angrily* Illustration drawn in simplistic cartoon line art style. By Amii Illustrates.
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