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Polly Atkin
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Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller. FRSL hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs she/her rep @PortyLiterary Basic Nest Architecture Much with Body Recovering Dorothy Some Of Us Just Fall The Company of Owls https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · Aug 26
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 9h
Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · 9h
Happy #BookshopDay to all who celebrate... which is clearly everyone. Here are some bookshopbooks drawn from our bookshop shelves to help you celebrate the world of bricks and mortar bookshops. #BookshopsBookshopsBooksBooks etc
Book heap on a wall with sunny fells and the bookshop in the background.
 * Tom Gauld, The Snooty Bookshop: 50 Literary Postcards * George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying 
* Carol Ann Duffy (ed), Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse 
* Nanako Hanada and Cat Anderson (trans.), The Bookshop Woman 
* Adam Biles (ed) and Sylvia Whitman (introduced), The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews 
* Nadia Wassef, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
 
* Annie Gray, The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker 
* Lily Braun-Arnold, The Last Bookstore on Earth
 
* Mario Escobar, A Bookseller in Madrid 
* Sharon Gosling, The Lighthouse Bookshop
 
* Kei Aono and Haydn Trowell (trans), Bookstore Girls 
* Poppy Alexander, The Battle of the Bookshops
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h
Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire
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Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · 8h
Running up to #BookshopDay we were delighted to have @profbookshops.bsky.social in the shop this week, doing bookshop research the best way, by seeing how it all works. Grasmere produced some classic queries for her. You can read a bit about it here: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
Bookshop Bulletin
BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 12h
*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
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LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 23h
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 1d
About to activate my 3 free months of Health+ so I can get in on the eventual class action lawsuit
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”
Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more
Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.
www.cultofmac.com
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Tommy Robinson has endorsed Robert Jenrick's decision to turn up in person to offer support and solidarity to the asylum seeker Hamit Coskun, who shouted, “Koran is burning”, “Fuck Islam” and “Islam is the religion of terrorism" while burning the Quran.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 2d
breaking: man who got over £10million book advance doesn't known the price of a book

Indie bookshops absolutely CANNOT discount a £30 to £20. We'd be making a loss. We sell books at RRP, unlike big chains.

www.thebookseller.com/comment/richard-osmans-sums-dont-add-up?
Osman's sums don't add up
Despite widespread belief, indies just can't afford to discount books.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2d
A ceasefire does not erase Israel's genocide and illegal occupation. Alongside aid and reconstruction, there must be justice, accountability, and self-determination for the Palestinian people. (2/2)
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2d
My heart breaks watching people in Gaza celebrate a possible ceasefire deal, even while Israeli attacks continue.

A ceasefire must be reached, and it must hold this time. Our government needs to put real pressure on Israel to ensure this happens. (1/2)
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 2d
oh! that's so lovely! My first tawny owl of autumn was heard from that hill, when I was dropping a friend off behind it, so I knew there were owls up there, but hadn't thought of it the other night x
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 2d
It's taken over 24 hours to get this uploaded with passable captions, but here's my talk from last night @cumbriauni.bsky.social with @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social on #TheCompanyOfOwls and #DorothyWordsworth. Including some terrible slights on robins, and blackbird impressions. youtu.be/goiC3hhlsx4
Companions of Nature: from sickbed consolations to mimic hootings
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 3d
ICYMI: Viking has won an eight-way bidding war for Almost the Whole Truth, the first adult novel from the bestselling and award-winning children’s author, Robin Stevens. It will be published in early 2027 👇 #BookSky
Viking wins eight-way auction for Robin Stevens' adult debut
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Out with the Roamers today, to see/hear the red deer rut in Martindale.
Thanks Lena for leading a great walk!
Small herd of red deer hinds on a hillside Stag herding hinds across a hillside (red deer) Stag and hinds on a rocky hillside (red deer) Red deer stag 'posing' on a hillside
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Barbara Sutton @barbscov.bsky.social · 3d
This ☝️ I'm CEV and a carer but I can't get a Covid jab 🙄
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 3d
We need preventative medicine back - which includes making covid boosters available freely to ANYONE who wants one - which means masking in healthcare at the very least, which means a focus on clean air in schools, hospitals, workplaces. You can't limit long covid without limiting covid infections.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d
And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.
How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law
The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 3d
Are you a @societyofauthors.bsky.social member? Remember to vote in the management committee elections! Follow me as I go to post my ballot voting for Jen Calleja, Mohamed Tonsy & Matt Abbott.
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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 3d
Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.
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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 4d
Fantastic to meet the new @sgsah.bsky.social PhD cohort today at @vadundee.bsky.social, including a talk about the Thread Memory exhibition of Palestinian embroidery by SGSAH PhD researcher Leena Nammari, who has work included
V&A Dundee from outside The Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine exhibition (viewed by SGSAH researchers) Leena Nammari’s work Absence does not mean forgetting; with each clay tablet representing a destroyed Palestinian village, with a cypress tree motif
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d
4000 people have signed up to sue poultry producers.
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 3d
The next event in our free monthly Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by Cultural Historian, Dr Sue Allan, on 'Folk song, music & dance in the Lake Counties', taking place at our Ambleside campus on Tue 4 Nov. See here for details and to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/per...
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 3d
The #OverdiagnosisBureau: coming for you soon!

Thought you were longsighted and needed glasses to read? Turns out you just needed to adjust your attitude, not your lenses!
a painting of a woman 's face is projected on a wall behind a pair of magnifying glasses
Alt: The eyes of TJ eckleberg from Great Gatsby on a poster, changing to daisy dancing
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 3d
And what will happen to all the disabled people who can't work - and those who could work in theory but can't under these ableist conditions - what happens to them when the Overdiagnosis Bureau takes away the trickle of support they get to live. You know. I know. They know.
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