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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 2d

Not unless they're a dog and a boy in a small village in England

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Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Are you interested in Writing Fiction for Children? My new 6 week online course starts on 28th Oct. Tues eve 6.30pm to 8pm. Includes a one-to-one coaching session or manuscript critique.
Get in touch to find out more: www.sarahwebb.info/contact

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 3d

Precisely. It'll bother him for years 🤣

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 3d

I adore that play but would argue that baffled frustration is the exact response required 😄

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 4d

My goal for the day is one new patron. Signing up helps support my writing, my fabric art, and me as a human being and unofficial town sorcerer.

You'll gain access to fun posts such as my weird affirmations and Mothman's monster-based etiquette advice.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

www.patreon.com

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 4d

A true classic!! 🖤

Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 6d

Today we are discussing our fourth abecedarian picture book on the @fuse8nkate.bsky.social podcast and our second Gorey. This is a "cult classic" picture book, best beloved by older children who read it and felt like they were getting away with something. 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/06/f...

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

Today we are discussing our fourth abecedarian picture book on the podcast and our second Gorey. This is a

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 4d

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I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardi...

www.theguardian.com

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 4d

Awesome!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

"A pox on him, I know him already by his damn'd tone; tis one Monsieur le Prate, a singing, dancing, talking fluttering Nothing"
"such an eternal Tongue pad, that the clack on't never ceases, no not in his sleep"

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

"The printed song, “As soon as day began to peep”, was written for a character called Monsieur le Prate, a French fop, in a 1691 play titled Love for Money, which lampooned a girls’ boarding school. Its author was Thomas D’Urfey, a frequent collaborator of Purcell."

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 5d

"The beauties, the antlered, the winged ones, all awash in their sea of blue light...I thought, God help me, seven years of this, and this the first night...I tried to think of Meg and Gavin, but the blue light came between me and my image of their hearth fire, and blurred the sun on the hillside."

A photo of a copy of the 1992 Gollancz edition of Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner. The cover art is by Michael Posen.

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Ross Young @writingrocks.bsky.social · 5d

An essential report from Dr Francesca Bonafede and colleagues that deserves careful thought and reflection from everyone interested in helping children and young people become the best writers they can be — in the broadest sense! 👇

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Children and young people’s writing in school in 2025 | National Literacy Trust

This report examines children and young people's perceptions of their emotional and cognitive engagement with writing in school, and their views on and engagement with writing instruction.

literacytrust.org.uk

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 5d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 5d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my God this.

You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 8d

dēoren, adj: of or like a wild animal. (DAY-o-ren / ˈdeːɔ-rɛn)
It’s #WorldAnimalDay (Dēores Dæg…sounds better in Old English). Learn about medieval animals in THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY: buff.ly/l4Lbsip
#OldEnglish #WOTD #TheDeorhord @profilebooks.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social

A stack of THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY, including two paperbacks and two hardcovers. The books are on a wooden staircase and beside them is a brown and white cat sniffing at a treat.

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 8d

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 8d

Take pleasure where you can find it.

You never know what's coming down the pipe to stop you enjoying things.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 8d

'In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright'
-Walter de la Mare

🎨Lucy Grossmith
#BookWormSat

Artwork of a hare running across a field. Night sky. Stars.

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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 9d

As the Taliban erases Afghan women, the world looks away

The internet blackout has shut down the last hope of education for women in Afghanistan

🌎 Faye Curran

As the Taliban erases Afghan women, the world looks away

The internet blackout has shut down the last hope of education for women in Afghanistan

www.newstatesman.com

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 9d

I can remember who I am by recalling the journey to now…

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 10d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 10d

I am so sorry to hear about this, Sara. Strength to you and yours.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING

Dr. Jane Goodall has died. She was 91.

It is impossible to sum up the impact she has had on our world and on science in a social media post.

She lived a long and incredible life but I am devastated.

Full Story: bit.ly/4pPcNFH

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