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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

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Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist. #SafeSpace 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 keithwdickinson.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi New Followers 👋

You've made a wise choice. 👍

As well as posting silliness and hope for a better world I also write books (full of silliness and hope for a better world). Start with this free book of shorts written to introduce you to the #steampunk world of Hammersmyth.

mybook.to/hammersmyth2

Book Cover for The Hammersmith Tales (spelt with a y instead of an i). A beige background with shadowy images of cogs and clock faces. In the bottom right corner sits a grey cat wearing brass goggles and a green scarf. H elooks out at us with a lopsided grin. His tail is segmented with metal joints and his eyes have mechanical irises. The book's title is across the top in red and gold. Written in white below it says "A collection of steampunk shorts from the author of", then in yellow/gold "Dexter & Sinister Detecting Agents." Below that is the author's name in white, Keith W Dickinson.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7m

🎶My lover's got no money, he's got his fun valise🎶

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 30m

If I have to have it stuck in my head all day then so do you.

GALA - Freed from desire [Official Video]

YouTube video by DO IT YOURSELF

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Elisabeth (J) Hobbes @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 56m

It’s time my class discover #TerryPratchett 😊 @rhi.bsky.social #teaching #reading #books

Two Terry Pratchett short story collections for kids.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 13h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3h

Starry Night, painting by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014). He was a coal miner for 33 years.

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 2h

The team here at Royal Cornwall Hospital have been fucking brilliant. Every one of them. Overworked and understaffed, they still do it with a smile, a kind word, a joke, and professionalism.

I'm begging every Brit (and anyone else living in a country with a similar system) to vote to protect it

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 17h

Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII.
Lessons should have been learned.

A satirical comic drawn by Dr. Seuss with a train with a swastika on the front of the engine is barreling down the tracks, and a man in a jacket is sitting on the train tracks wearing an "America First" jacket trying to reassure Uncle Same that the train will turn off at a point labeled "Appeasement Junction" onto a far too small track and not run him over.

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 15h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Pretending they didn't do special effects in an extremely special effects heavy movie.

Seriously, the effects are one of the few reasons to go see that pile of carp. Them and the soundtrack.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 10h

Director Joachim Rønning tells us why building practical, life-sized light cycles was important for ‘TRON: ARES’

“In the real world, everything needs to have a texture to it, it needs to be tangible. You need to be able to touch it.”

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Also, it should be noted that I didn't sit down to write anything. I was just going to respond to a couple of emails, which I still have yet to do. 😏

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beth phelan @bethphelan.bsky.social · 15h

#DVpit inspired me to reopen to queries sooner than I'd planned... Starting Nov 2025, I'll be open to unsolicited queries the first week of every month! Still just YA + MG fiction... Really hungry for 🤩 debut voices... You'll be able to submit here: querytracker.net/querybeth #mswl

Announcement:
I will reopen to unsolicited submissions for the first week of every month starting in November!
I’m only looking for YA + MG fiction. I am particularly hungry for debut voices! Also:
- high-stakes plots about liars, scams, etc
- fresh grounded dystopian with personal stakes
- smart, cutting social commentary
- meta shit and big twists
- multigenerational stories
- anything with a unique/risky approach or voice
- ugly underbellies!
gallt & zacker literary agency
querytracker.net/query/querybeth
www.bethphelan.com

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Tiff E. Sniffs @tiffysniffs.bsky.social · 1d

Morning conversation with @rosemary.world

Screenshot of text message:
1: you've bought veggietales porn, twice?

2: They had two volumes!!!
Also I'm supporting local independent artists who are creating subversive works in a time of increasingly fascistic governance and puritanical societal values so like??? Get off my nuts????????

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

It also proves that when you think you're done for the day there's often a little more to be had. I just wanted to establish where we were before finishing for the night and ended up writing the above (and more) instead.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

(Yes I know there are mistakes. This is the very first of first drafts. 😋)

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Bacon is what did it. Bacon, and eggs, and lashings of brown sauce. There wasn't a man alive who couldn't resist a good butty, and a man full of butty was putty in Euphemia McGillicuddy's hands.

#AttackMars #WIP #Steampunk

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

She had staff for that sort of thing, of course she did, but when it comes to a man's stomach the personal touch went a long way. She hadn't bagged three husbands in thirty years through charm, wit, and youthful good looks.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

1600 words earlier, and now another 825 on the current WIP, giving me a total of 54,820 and my favourite bit of writing for today:

Euphemia McGillicuddy was in the kitchen of her very large 'rather modest' home frying up a mass of bacon, ready for when he husband got home.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Who knows. Perhaps it was still too stormy that far north.

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The Steampunk Explorer @steampunk-explorer.com · 14h

This week in #steampunk: Amazing cosplay at Anno 1900; Steampunk authors to get payments in $1.5B AI settlement; Abney Park online concert; Ada Lovelace Day; New fiction; Weekend calendar; New Kickstarters. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

Steampunk Digest - October 10, 2025

Amazing cosplay at Anno 1900; Steampunk authors to get payments in $1.5B AI settlement; Abney Park online concert; Ada Lovelace Day; New fiction; Weekend calendar; New Kickstarters.

steampunk-explorer.com

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

salt-n-pepa: *nod approvingly*

Several signs on a door instructing to "Push to lock" without turning the lock.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 18h

This is awesome.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

This is what I went to see the other night. Absolutely wonderful.

annalapwoodorgan on Instagram: "This is one of those glorious slow burn crescendos - this clip is just the last section of it but the whole thing builds over about…"

This is one of those glorious slow burn crescendos - this clip is just the last section of it but the whole thing builds over about 5 minutes and OH MY GOSH the chills. @sigurros have created something so special, and getting to perform this with them alongside @lcorchestra @cvmsscholacantorum & @robertamesmusic was magic. If you’re there on Wednesday and Thursday then you have the incredible @andrewfforbes on organ so please give him an extra big cheer!! ❤️ #organ #organtok #pipeorgan #organist #sigurros #árabátur #royalalberthall #musician #collaboration

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

I saw a video on this. It was meant to land at Glasgow but couldn't because of the weather, flew around for a bit then tried again but failed, then it went to Edinburgh to try there, couldn't, then it flew down to Manchester.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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