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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1h

Next off the shelf...
'Enlightenment', (2024) Sarah Perry.
I've heard a lot of good things about this one. Gothic fiction, apparently. And a comet 😱👻☄️ 🔭
'Passion and scientific adventure'! Bring it on!
The blurb...
#BookSky 📚💙

Blue cover depicting a comet with a long, luminous tale stretching across the sky, past stars and curves depicting celestial orbits of planets, and comets, and other objects. A dark figure observes the sky from the edge of a wood.

The blurb.
From the prize-winning author of the Essex Serpent. 'An exhilarating exploration of the heavens, comets, faith, ghosts, love... This is a book of deep pleasures.' Booker Prize judges, 2024.
Thomas Hart and Grace Maccauley have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their religion and their desire to explore the world. But their friendship is ruptured by the arrival of love.
Over the course of twenty years, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as a devastating story of passion and scientific adventure unfolds and Aldleigh's unique mysteries are revealed.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 12h

Traitor hiding in plain sight.
Farage admits knowing his close aide Nathan Gill but not his Russian associates.
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Yorkie @yorkie72.bsky.social · 20h

The second one is a step too far but will get a rise out of him

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 21h

#BookSky 📚💙

Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · 22h

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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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

Next book off the shelf...
'Murder at the Black Cat Cafe' (1947/Trans2025), Seishi Yokomizo.
I lasted 50pp & donated it to the village phonebox library. Dreadful. Maybe the translation, or maybe it's as thin & boring in the original?
For a far better Japanese read try Seichō Matsumoto
#BookSky 📚💙

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 1d

While still waiting for the call from Norway, Trump hears that the Nobel committee have instead awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 2d

It's not you it's me. I'll be kind.
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is still, 46 years on, an enjoyable & speedy read. But IMO it becomes 'of its time' like Monty Python, & glam rock. Sure, it made me smile. Happy times. Simpler world. One to take with me to the Sunshine Home.
#BookSky 📚💙

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 6d

(In the style of Michael Parkinson.)
My next book off the shelf needs no introduction...
'The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', 1979, by the late, great, & all too soon whisked away Douglas Adams.
A welcome re-read. A new issue to replace my 40 yo, much fingered & time abused copy.
BookSky 📚💙

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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 2d

Shameless promotion is disgusting. Also my daughter has a new album out!

open.substack.com/pub/djjaverb...

The Ethical Implications of Streaming Service Marketing in an Intergenerational Context: An Appraisal

Just go with me on this.

open.substack.com

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 2d

YET AGAIN THE INCOMPETENT COMMITTEE!!! give SO CALLED NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE!!! IGNORE!!! MANY BIGLY NOMINATIONS I GOT!!! (among others) Daphne du Maurier (BIG FAN!!!), John STEINBECK, and MY VERY GOOD FRIEND CHARLES DICKENS!!!
#Booksky 📚💙
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

www.bbc.co.uk

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

... and a robot makes off with all the riches in a fast ship, leaving the solar system to begin a new life in a glitzy arm of the galaxy, to a place where taxes are low, the wealth gap cosmic, shanty dwellers many, & parking orbits chock-full of star-yachts at anchor.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 3d

The great inflation of AI valuation is the excitement in speculating how much profit it will generate…
The “pop” is going to be seeing it start to make money, but realizing how much less it will make than tech-bros fantasized.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 4d

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

Hold on, hang the futtock on ... two of these attractions are at least a quarter day's coach journey from Stratford-upon-Avon, and that's on a good day.

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

Also, whenever the government (whether Conservative or Labour) has tinkered with stamp duty in recent years, the net result has seen house prices rise.
Perhaps limit any changes to the various stamp duty bands to account for RPI only, & pin the genuine first-time buyer's zero rating to average price

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

None of this will actually come to pass, of course.
Tories Out! And stay out! At least for a generation, by which time the last of their more right-wing colleagues will have either joined Farage's Oblivion Express, or quit politics.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live

She says

www.bbc.co.uk

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 3d

None of this will actually come to pass, of course.
Tories Out! And stay out! At least for a generation, by which time the last of their more right-wing colleagues will have either joined Farage's Oblivion Express, or quit politics.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live

She says

www.bbc.co.uk

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

I am the proud owner of a new pentland shed.
In the foreground is Walpole the Pig, the master of the bottom patio, who, slowly rotting away, having lost one ear and one leg and now propped up on bricks, is home to a multitude of insects.

A timber pentland shed sitting on a patio alomgside a bench and a wooden pig, all on the shade of a beech tree.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 4d

Prof. Gurdon was Master at Magdalene when I was an undergraduate. I remember trying to make small talk while he had students over (generously) for Sunday lunch. But I also remember him making a magnificent job of introducing Nelson Mandela, who was being made an honorary fellow of the college..(1/n)

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 4d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

Nataliia. Sad, but fair decision.😪🇺🇦
Also, though I remain Team Jasmine, I thought Lesley more deserving of Star Baker tonight. Her showstopper was truly 3D & tasted grrrrrreat. #GBBO

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

It's pastry week on The Great British Bake Off, & I have no idea who will be exiting the tent tonight - they're all so good.
So it'll be down to someone's medieval castle showstopper ending up like this. #GBBO

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

Turning Point UK (TPUK) are a bunch of wankers.
Prove me wrong.

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tried to grab some US far-right energy recently by publicly meeting with Turning Point UK (TPUK) to mourn assassinated US activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of Donald Trump.

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

AI taking all the joy out of doing your own research.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More holidaymakers using AI to plan trips

Asking family and friends for recommendations and using guidebooks remain popular ways to plan a holiday, according to a new report from APTA.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 5d

The dark underbelly of #baking which they never show on the #gbbo Spectator #cartoon #interrogation #soggybottom

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4d

It's pastry week on The Great British Bake Off, & I have no idea who will be exiting the tent tonight - they're all so good.
So it'll be down to someone's medieval castle showstopper ending up like this. #GBBO

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Also, that second wall on Only Connect! Like the Keyboard Worriers, we didn't have a scooby.

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Disappointing performance. Only 7 questions answered correctly - shouted out before both the sofa & studio opposition (& there's 2 teams of bright young things in the studio). I now trail 6-7.
Never look pleased when you think you're on a winner just because the teams are stuffed with scientists.

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Coming up on Quizzy Monday - University Challenge. After 12 matches it is all square, 6 all in our sofa competition.
We are pretty well matched. Both going gaga at the same rate.
Followed by recording of Only Connect as the BBC refuse to reinstate the proper order of things. Team game is second!

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Disappointing performance. Only 7 questions answered correctly - shouted out before both the sofa & studio opposition (& there's 2 teams of bright young things in the studio). I now trail 6-7.
Never look pleased when you think you're on a winner just because the teams are stuffed with scientists.

#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Coming up on Quizzy Monday - University Challenge. After 12 matches it is all square, 6 all in our sofa competition.
We are pretty well matched. Both going gaga at the same rate.
Followed by recording of Only Connect as the BBC refuse to reinstate the proper order of things. Team game is second!

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 5d

Coming up on Quizzy Monday - University Challenge. After 12 matches it is all square, 6 all in our sofa competition.
We are pretty well matched. Both going gaga at the same rate.
Followed by recording of Only Connect as the BBC refuse to reinstate the proper order of things. Team game is second!