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Philippa R. Francis
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Writer, editor, reader, photographer . . .
https://ko-fi.com/philippa
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#Glowvember photopoem shared 24th November 2025
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Jelly Ear fungi growing on Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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the last honeybee
lured on by the remaining
pink chrysanthemums

#haiku #autumn #latebloomer
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🌲🌿🍄 Delicate Milking Bonnet

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I’m begging novel writers to hire an artist for their covers. At least someone who can do graphic design at a minimum. I see the worst book covers on here everyday and you’re all doing such a disservice to yourself to put in the effort to write a whole book only to turn people away with a bad cover.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Writers, there are SO MANY unique ways for your characters to have side effects or overdoses from medications, compounds, and the natural world.

Don’t just make stuff up. Ask your friendly neighborhood doc/toxicologist for ideas to add some flair and realism

#writing #scriptsky #gamedev #booksky
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Your daily horoscope:
Today you will feel like a dentist - working in the dark, filling little voids, and cleaning up after others.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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A thin layer of #ice on a mud puddle, roadside. #leaf #sun #november
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Happy Tuesday! We had an amazing sky this morning 15 minutes before the sun came up before everything quickly dissipated into gray. It was a tough choice in coffee shop voting but this one took it. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Hello Bluepals, like the tub of Quality Street we bought at the weekend that was supposed to be saved until December 23rd, we are open.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Hey you
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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you delicate moon
slicing the cold into shreds
that bare-blade sickle
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Hey new illustrators! If you're creating a picture book w images that are a full (2-page) spread, be mindful not to put anything important in the gutter. (aka the middle, where pages connect to spine)

For ex: If the main character is dead center in your image, he'll be cut in half by the gutter. :/
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Any self-identifying liberal who voted for these instinctively authoritarian pieces of shit should hang their head in shame. Genuinely worse than the Tories on basic legal freedoms.
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I want David Lammy to read this particular case. I want him to understand what it means.
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
#Glowvember photopoem shared 24th November 2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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It's never too late to learn something new.
It's never too late to read dusty books of dark magic.
It's never too late to weave a cloak of moss, feathers, and thorns and become the horror that haunts the forest north of town.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I am not going to dive into the back and forth on piracy. I have a side, you can guess what it is.

But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but I think we can all take at least some solace in the fact that libraries, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and Oxford commas exist.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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the measurable distance
between poems

one maple leaf falls
then another

one Canada goose calls
then another

one snowflake drifts
then another

one memory arrives
then another

one lifetime
then another

and another

#vss365 #measurable
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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winter afternoon --
the crow's shoulder shines
blue-black in sunlight.

#haiku ##shahai #haiga
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM