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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed. Earlier than I had hoped.

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Authors, start your engines!

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 2d

www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 2d

www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...

Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support

More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity...

www.thebookseller.com

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 2d

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm delighted to have a post up on apersonalanthology.com/category/deb...

Huge fun to think about favourite short stories, very difficult to choose. Many thanks to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, curator of this rather wonderful website.
apersonalanthology.com

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 2d

We love it that the Christopher Bland Prize recognises debut novelists and non-fiction writers over 50. Not all of us are spring chickens 😁 Now open for entries.
#WomenWritersNet

Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 5d

The 2026 Christopher Bland Prize is now open for entry 🏆

Closing 5pm on Friday 5 December 2025: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-christopher-bland-prize/

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 18d

Project Drawdown has always been the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions 🌏.

With the new Drawdown Explorer, we’re moving beyond describing solutions → to spotlighting breakthrough strategies for accelerating climate action.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 9d

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 5d

human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis that could threaten the lives of up to 6 billion people this century, stating candidly: “We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.” .

www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

‘We Are Afraid’: Scientists Issue New Warning As World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory’

Scientists today warned that human activity is pushing Earth into a situation "no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."

www.forbes.com

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 6d

😆 …and how does the program *know* that excellemy is a real word? Unless it *thinks* it’s a name?
Just awful.

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Picket Fire @picketfire.bsky.social · 15d

Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 7d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Jonathan! Very fun to do!

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 9d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

We're hopefully doing a Welsh folklore anthology - gyffrous iawn! Please back and/or share widely!

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 9d

Great article! I have 3 family members with dyslexia - one is doing a PhD!
Do you know about the dyslexia friendly books here www.booksonthehill.co.uk/dyslexia-fri...
for children and adults (not dumbed down in any way - just different format).
@booksonthehill.bsky.social

Books for dyslexic readers - Books on the Hill, Clevedon

Books for dyslexic readers and dyslexic adults. Our range of dyslexic friendly books use clear layouts, larger line spacing and wider margins to help readers follow the text more easily.

www.booksonthehill.co.uk

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 9d

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 10d

We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.

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GreenChristian @greenchristian.org.uk · 10d

Finding our feet after 1.5°C
Green Christian trustee Paul Bodenham introduces our 2025 conference,
which will explore how churches can build climate resilience.
buff.ly/FBGBTSR

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 10d

I think Germany knows what could happen, because of the past... in Britain people are in denial, they think it couldn't possibly happen here. Just bizarre. It can happen anywhere, as history shows.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 10d

I still have not cruised past Judge Young's ruling in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio. This 89-year-old Reagan appointee zeroes in the most horrifying reason why ICE must be abolished: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784...

Block quote: And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking- up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

Highlighted line: ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence.

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 13d

We always used to do that in school. A half hour of reading, no excuses. Also, teacher reading us an exciting adventure book on Friday afternoons (primary school). Also, if you had finished the task given to you and were sitting with nothing to do, you had to read a book.

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to @jupiterjonz.bsky.social !
Looking forward to reading this piece from this brilliant writer.

Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social · 13d

We have our winning entry and runners up for the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction -

Congratulations to Jupiter Jones.

philiphoarecompetition.co.uk/results/

Results

We are delighted to announce the winner and runners up for the first Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction. Winner: ‘Hopeful Glimmer’ by Jupiter Jones. Jupiter Jones lives in Wales and wri…

philiphoarecompetition.co.uk

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! I wrote the earliest draft in about 2014/15.