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Barry @barry-theangler.bsky.social · 1d

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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · Sep 7

Want to see who else is attending WFC 2025? Want to share excitement? Stay in touch?

We have a bluesky list of people who have posted that they are attending. You can use these to follow or set up a dedicated feed. If you want to join the list, just give us a shout!

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Anne Ortelee, Astrologer @anneortelee.bsky.social · Aug 11

3:29am EDT: Mercury stations to go direct at 4 Leo. Hurrah! After 23 days tripping over words and misplacing his devices, the God of Communications pulls himself together. We snap into the present moment with staggering intensity and clarity. This is now we set this to rights.

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Richard Bignell @nothinglane.bsky.social · Jul 6

With the announcement of the Season 13 Blu-ray Collection box set, here's what's going to be included in the PDF Archive this time round - a total of 4027 pages of scripts, production documents, studio floor plans, Radio Times cuttings, ephemera etc.

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · Jul 19

We’re pleased to announce that we will be publishing the first full-length biography of prolific Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks, written by Simon Guerrier with the cooperation of Terrance’s family. Written by Terrance Dicks is provisionally scheduled for publication in 2026.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jul 23

Please let us know if you're able to casually squeeze any of these into conversation today in Raymond's honour (perhaps NOT during working hours).

Thank you also to other donors for making this acquisition possible:
V&A Purchase Grant Fund
Friends of the National Libraries
Friends of the Bodleian

Image 3: Manuscript Page Titled "Similes and gags—Continued"

A third typed manuscript page continuing the list of similes and one-liner gags. Multiple handwritten edits and revisions appear throughout.

Transcript:
Similes and gags—Continued.

She threw her arms around my neck and nicked my
ear with the gunsight
As soothing as a piano salesman
The only difference between you and a monkey is you wear a hat
A salad so fancy it ought to be pinned to the wall for a decoration
This is hush-hush. I’m only telling it to the people I know
A little well-bred obscenity never did any harm
It was the kind of house where they have a monogram on the toilet paper
As exclusive as a mailbox
A great long gallows of a man with a ravaged face and a haggard glass eye. (used)
His smile was wide, about three quarters of an inch
He had a soft water voice
As lonely as a lighthouse
As much sex appeal as a turtle
The day lay ahead of him flat and heavy as a fallen cake

Fashion Note: cocoa-colored crepe dress and brown
straw hat. Deep blue frock with a matching halo hat, and a waist length veil on the hat. Delphinium colored. Gold-rope wedding ring.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jul 23

One of the most interesting glimpses into the author's writing process are these lists of similes which he kept, crossing them off as he used them and making a note of the book title in the margin.

#RaymondChandler #DetectiveFiction

A yellowed typed manuscript page with the title “Similes, etc.” at the top. The list contains similes, some with handwritten edits and comments in pencil. Photographed on a black background inside a glass exhibition case.

Transcript:

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Copy
Edit
etc
Similes—Continued

No more charm than a washtub
As limp as a busboy’s shirt
As lonely as an old abandoned well (cut)
“.” “.” The caboose of a fifty car freight (used?)
As French as a doughnut
Smart as a hole through nothing
No more personality than a paper cup
His face was long enough to wrap twice around his neck
As shiny as a clubwoman’s nose
Generous as a trade rat
As graceful as a Chopin ending
Like the little dog who goes around and wets after the big dog
Too weak to lift a Scotchman’s tip
Take five minutes of my time and tell me
Did you ever see an act of God? I never even saw God
So tight his head squeaks when he takes his hat off
He sipped like a hummingbird drinking dew from a curled leaf (used)
I don’t like your tone. I was hoping you wouldn’t. (Not much)
She had a nice cool goddamyou smile
Longer than a round trip to (Siam)
Take your ears out of my way and I’ll leave.
If you don’t leave, I’ll get somebody who will (Wutchie) (used)
I left her with her virtue intact, but it was a struggle. She nearly won.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jul 23

🎉 Today is Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)'s birthday.

We are lucky enough to have acquired his archives thanks to generous support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

These archives include literary papers, correspondence, business and personal papers...

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Anne Ortelee, Astrologer @anneortelee.bsky.social · Jul 4

8:44am EDT: Venus meets up with Uranus at 29 degrees, 52 minutes Taurus. It's their penultimate Taurus confab . . . at almost the last minute of the last degree of the Goddess of Love's coziest sign. Try a new and different way of caring for your garden . . .

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Mar 29

Solar eclipse in Aries today #astrology #solareclipseAries youtu.be/LAd9bqVv5vc?...

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Firestarter Partial Solar Eclipse 9 Aries. 29 March 2025. New quests emerge. #Astrology #ep98

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · Feb 8

Remembering John Ruskin, art critic, teacher & activist, born #otd 1819.
He inspired William Morris & the Arts & Craft movement.

As Morris wrote in 1892, his chapter 'On the Nature of Gothic' (reprinted by Kelmscott Press)

'seemed to point out a new road on which the world should travel'.

Printed book with decorative border & capital W - on left page is final paragraphs of Morris's foreword, and on Right is opening section of John Ruskin's chapter from The Stones of Venice.

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 31

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AstroLee. 2025 astrological energies. Echoes of the Future. #episode97 #astrology #astrology2025

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · Nov 9

You may or may not know but I run a blog highlighting indie bookshops and on it there is an opportunity to do an interview where as a bookshop you answer some questions and get added to the growing directory

#bookshop #IndieBookshop #interview

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Map of the British Isles with indie bookshop locations added as pins

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 4

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About

The Lucid Dreaming Experience publishes lucid dream interviews, articles, and more! For 20 years, the LDE is co-edited by experienced lucid dreamers, Lucy Gillis and Robert Waggoner.

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 3

#stress #relaxation t.co/BMzvLyjkWk

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Nov 26

Probably the oldest glass plate I have. Great Yarmouth old port, a crowd, not quite frozen, blurred by movement under a slow shutter. A date scratched into the emulsion – 29th of May 1856, celebrating the end of the Crimean War, nearly 170 years ago. #throughglass

A blurred glass plate showing people and buildings on a jetty.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · Nov 19

Jupiter and its moon Io | NASA

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Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social · Nov 23

Happy #DoctorWhoDay everybody! The show was first broadcast on 23 November 1963. And to celebrate, lets look back at a slightly forgotten part of its history.

This is the story of the New Adventures...

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Micah @rincewind.run · Aug 15

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

'People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”'

Micah @rincewind.run · Aug 14

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Aug 9

My novel, a supernatural thriller in the world of academia and adventure. Available here: amzn.eu/d/9P3hKp8 #selfpublishednovel #thriller #Mayanadventure #supernatural

Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 31

2024 Astrology Overview: An Electrical Year of the Dragon rumble.com/v448t8n-astr... #astrology #astrology2024 #horoscope #plutoaquarius

Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 15

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Dec 12

Today's archive post "But Don’t You Just Make It All Up?".
An essay on research for epic fantasy from 2006. It focuses on using books which reflects the world back then. That said, I can see us returning to libraries as search engines and online resources decay.
www.julietemckenna.com?page_id=484

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Lee Dorsett @leedorsett.bsky.social · Dec 9

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Dec 1

Today from the creative writing archive "How To Be Original and Still Get Published". Advice that still holds up, I think, though the submission statistics are nowhere near the deluge that agents and editors get in these days of email and ebooks.
www.julietemckenna.com?page_id=520

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