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Gabriella Buba - Preorder Daughters of Flood and Fury @gabriellabuba.bsky.social · 7h

Happy FAHM! Did you know I'm headed to the Philippines for my very first Philippines based book event in partnership with @fullybookedph.bsky.social ? I'll be in conversation with Mica De Leon 3-5pm at the Taguig flagship location on Oct 18!!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17h

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 11h

After tonight’s Strictly Come Dancing, in which Shirley Ballas was observed stroking a white cat before the James Bond homage rumba, I hope you will add her to your Evil Conspiracy.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 12h

This black gown with a swoop of gold lace at the hem is actually a nightgown, but honestly it seems to me a perfect night on the town kind of dress and far too glamorous to be kept indoors. Late #1930s @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in a long sleeveless silk robe with a high neck and ties fall centre back. The hem is trimmed with gold lace

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 12h

Some really fantastic outfits in the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread here.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 14h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 13h

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 14h

Alex and Johannes *rocked*. #scd

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 14h

That was a really enjoyable rumba. #scd

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. Absolutely.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 19h

Very sensible hippos.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 23h

A quick reminder for everyone in the UK (and mainland Europe, too!) that Wooing the Witch Queen's British edition is currently on sale in ebook for 99p!

Snap it up: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...

#romancelandia

An open e-reader shows the gorgeous UK cover of Wooing the Witch Queen in color on its screen. The e-reader is set on a rustic wooden table beside candles and a pine cone and a cup of hot chocolate with marshallows. A bubble reads: 99p!

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 20h

One could argue that’s yet another factor in them (the hippos) being dangerous - knowing there are some fights one shouldn’t get into…

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating, informative and terrifying thread about hippos.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 1d

Or Prince Caspian, for neo-Nazis. “Oh, bless his heart, his dear little Majesty needn't mind about the White Lady—that's what we call her—being dead. […] Sweet Master Doctor, learned Master Doctor, who ever heard of a witch that really died? You can always get them back."

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 1d

This is the month that THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA releases (Oct 21st!) and I wanted to share that I have a number of UK events, including an event with VL Bovalino and Samantha Shannon at a church, which feels slightly bonkers: tashasuri.com/events/

Events

22nd October: Tasha Suri and V. L. Bovalino with Samantha Shannon. Covent Garden Waterstones, London. 24th October: An Evening With Tasha Suri and V.L. Bovalino. Birmingham Waterstones, Birmingham.…

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

I can get behind this French definition of abstemious drinking:

American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 3d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful!

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404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 2d

A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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