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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Dec 14

It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.

1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats

Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 2h

A Possible Sword but for pitching

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 4h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 47m

I have a Dutch relative who is an artist and fashion stylist so I was actually going to get her a present.

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phylan @phylan.website · 4h

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 4h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 3h

When I was a scout we learned several knots for different purposes, is that special? Because they are all normal knots you see ropes tied off with (less and less common).

Untangling was just something we also had to do.

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 7h

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

And a poem, To The Man Who Left A Jar Of Bees At The Bookstore by Jude Marr in Feral Journal 11/11 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2020/09/i-re...

I Read Poetry: To the Man Who Left a Jar of Bees at the Bookstore by Jude Marr

To the Man Who Left a Jar of Bees at the Bookstore by Jude Marr (scroll down the page) A poem to a man in a blue coat who left a jar of ...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

The Bee Thing by Maggie Daniken in @strangehorizons.bsky.social in which someone came back from the war with a beehive for a head and now their great-granddaughter has had her head transform /9 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2021/04/i-re...

I Read Stories: The Bee Thing by Maggie Damken

The Bee Thing by Maggie Damken in Strange Horizons The narrator’s great-grandfather came back from world war one with a beehive for a hea...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

And another from Kat Howard with Telling The Bees in @morningtransport.bsky.social a story of a witch who takes a lover, not realising what he is until the bees tell her. /8 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-re...

I Read Stories: Telling The Bees by Kat Howard

Telling The Bees by Kat Howard in Sunday Morning Transport Telling the bees the family news is a real thing, my Grandfather did it. Why...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

One Heart Lost And Found by Kat Howard in @lightspeedmagazine.com in which a searcher finds a witch whose bees live aboard a subway car /7 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/stor...

Stories Catch Up 3

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

And in here The Itch by Makena Metz in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social where a woman suffering from an unstoppable itch - until she tries a desperate cure. /6 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2024/12/dece...

December Stories Update 2

10 Stories I read earlier this year **** 1. Cathedral by Paul Crenshaw in Kaleidotrope Del Valle found a letter from an ancestor. It had di...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

In this set, The Honey Witch by Kathryn McMahon in @pseudopod.org ; For The Pollinators by A D Sui in @seizethepress.bsky.social ; and Tell The Bees by Varsha Venkatash /5 in @expositionreview.bsky.social nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/03/marc...

March Story Update

Ten stories I read back in 2024. How long ago that seems. **** 1. Nine Tenths Of The Law by K J Parker in Beneath Ceaseless Skies It turn...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

Limb From Limb by Annika Klein in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social about a woman who deals with pests in her own way /4 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-re...

I Read Stories: Limb From Limb by Annika Klein

Limb From Limb by Annika Klein in Trollsbreath Her business cards say S Lowell, and she advertises discreet removal of tree limbs and...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

With The Nectar Comes The Sting by Jennifer Hudak in @apparitionlit.com in which a mother becomes a superhero to save her daughter - and inevitably loses her. /3 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-re...

I Read Stories: With The Nectar Comes The Sting by Jennifer Hudak

With The Nectar Comes The Sting by Jennifer Hudak in Apparition Lit When a bee stings it tears it’s own guts out, killing it. It stin...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

The Bee Wrangler by Jessica Brook in Bullet Points, a veteran drone operator uses their skills - and obsession - to assist the bees. /2 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-re...

I Read Stories: The Bee Wrangler by Jessica Brook

The Bee Wrangler by Jessica Brook in Bullet Points Ines was a drone pilot in the war and has a head full of cybernetic gear for that....

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 4h

In celebration of this being published, some reviews (by me) of bee related stories (by other people); a thread. /1

Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 23h

Read the story that other people have called "fun, clever," and "just wonderful," and said "I'd spend more time with the beekeepers daughter and the hobgoblins for sure," only in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social www.kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10h

When people say "gods and aliens contact the marvel universe all the time, everything should be different" I remember things like this.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 14h

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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How the Email Found Me @howtheemailfoundme.bsky.social · 11h

The email has found me carefully dusting the haunted portrait gallery. The Drowned Duchess is still asleep, pillowed on a tangle of green weeds, and I don’t want to disturb her. More than one colleague has been found floating in the gilded frame, her hands around their ankles.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 6h

Fine, promoting contemporary arts in the Netherlands it is.

Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 11h

when houellebecq learned annie ernaux won the nobel in 2022 he gave up on trying to win it himself and decided to focus his efforts on promoting contemporary arts in the netherlands instead

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 22h

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7h

We continue to welcome stories, the portal is still open. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 7h

A mysterious eighth clone of the seven clone lords of Valis V has appeared. Easily identified, the clone lords have learned he has come from off planet and have asked you to take him on your ship and discover his origin and the intentions of his creator.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Found it. Here is Captain Scott, near the end, regretting having a big curry. I seem to recall this is the moment it really starts to unravel.

sledge.
Sunday, March 18.—To-day, lunch, we are 21 miles from the depôt. Ill fortune presses, but better may come.
We have had more wind and drift from ahead yesterday ; had to stop marching; wind N.W., force 4, temp. - 35°
No human being could face it, and we are worn out nearly.
My right foot has gone, nearly all the toes-two days ago I was proud possessor of best feet. These are the steps of my downfall. Like an ass I mixed a small spoonful of curry powder with my melted pemmican
—it gave me violent indigestion. I lay awake and in pain all night; woke and felt done on the march; foot went and I didn't know it. A very small measure of neglect and have a foot which is not pleasant to con-template. Bowers takes first place in condition, but there is not much to choose after all. The others are still confident of getting through—or pretend to be—I don't know! We have the last half fill of oil in our primus and a very small quantity of spirit-this alone between us and thirst. The wind is fair for the moment,
VOL. I.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 19h

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Sep 1

The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain

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Of all the strange interactions l've ever had on social media
A British person telling me that chicken ticket masala is British cuisine is really really high up there.
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