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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning! Today I'm starting the reissue of M John Harrison's The Course of the Heart, looking forward to it!

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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 10d

For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT:
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A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Case…

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

A perfect Joelinton performance there, did it all and didn't get booked. Love it for the big man

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Elliot Anderson your loyalty has been noted and will be rewarded in due course

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

That's how you take a fuckin penalty, get in BDN

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

matz sels could barely catch a ball for us, get to fuck with these saves

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NBC Sports Soccer @nbcsportsoccer.bsky.social · 11d

BRUNO GUIMARAES WITH A BRILLIANT BREAKTHROUGH FOR NEWCASTLE. 🎯

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Eddie Howe I am once again asking for you to not sit back and defend 1-0 for half an hour

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Can't disallow that, too good of a hit

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

BRUUUUUUUNOOOOOO

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Come on Newcastle, if any team's ready to be bullied it's got to be one of ange's. Let's see him mumbling into his shoes about how they just didn't score any goals, mate

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

The one where Alfie locks his mum out of the house is in regular rotation here

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Good afternoon! I'm cosying up with The Storm Beneath A Midnight Sun by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson today. Seems to have been mostly ignored after his first one but I'm enjoying it so far!

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 11d

Think matz sels might've been an even more unlikely choice to be part of a successful team than chris wood after their time at Newcastle

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Newcastle United @newcastleunited.com · 15d

UNITED 😍

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15d

We've already let that Bradford guy score a charity goal because he's a Newcastle fan, let's not bother with this one

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15d

Turning on the tv to see Newcastle go 3-0 up, looking forward to seeing how pear shaped this can get now I'm watching

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15d

These 5.45 kickoffs are only slightly better than the 4.30s for overlapping kids dinner/bedtime but we've got the operation down slick and tuning in just in time for the last half hour

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 15d

Ahhhh the white shorts in europe, big whack of nostalgia

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 4

TENTACLE by Rita Indiana. Fucking WILD. A slim volume so packed that depending on your frame of reference 2 readers might think they read 2 different books. I read it as an allegory on colonialism based in The Tempest, but it’s also a comment on Lovecraftian horror and machismo a la Junot Diaz. 3/

cover of Rita Indiana's TENTACLE: very magenta anemones

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 4

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT*
MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS

*nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 15d

Hi. I have fiction for you.

My collection Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions is now available.

Seven fantasy short stories; seven SF short stories; a novelette.

Not quite weird; not quite literary; not quite core SF&F but swirling around all that.

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Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM

Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction

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Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 18d

A travesty, arsenal losing to a penalty off this after that game would've been incredible, once again var not up to task (doing the funniest thing possible)

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 18d

One day I will live to see again a Newcastle team that doesn't need to sit back like that until the inevitable happens

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 18d

This is no way to live

Mike @mjultra.bsky.social · 18d

Sitting on 1-0 will continue until morale improves

Chris Waugh @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social · 18d

66: #NUFC triple sub - Elanga, Trippier & Osula replace Gordon, Murphy & Woltemade.

Looks to be a back five - with Trippier RWB, Livramento LWB. Joelinton left-wing, Elanga right-wing.

5-4-1 by the looks of it.

#NEWARS #AFC #NUFC