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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 18h

On home turf tonight in Ballymena library reading a wee snippet of the new novel and having a lovely chat with Jamie Beamish #FewAndFarBetween @librariesni.bsky.social

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 1d

in the spirit of solidarity for @sathnam.bsky.social

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 2d

It's not 'our' media, that's why.
Print media serves its owners as do the commercial TV companies.
We should be able to rely on Public Service Broadcasting, but management at the BBC is full of people with strong ties to the Tories.
OffCom should be sorting this out, but it is supine, possibly dead

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 1d

@petedeller.bsky.social There’s another one!! bsky.app/profile/davi...

David's Music @davidsmusiclgc.bsky.social · 1d

FRIDAY

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight Remixes

Ltd Blue Vinyl + signed postcards

Remixes from alt-J, The KVB & more, remimagining the songs from The Last Flight, taking them to more shadowy & nocturnal places

Online & In-store ⬇️
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David's Music @davidsmusiclgc.bsky.social · 1d

FRIDAY

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight Remixes

Ltd Blue Vinyl + signed postcards

Remixes from alt-J, The KVB & more, remimagining the songs from The Last Flight, taking them to more shadowy & nocturnal places

Online & In-store ⬇️
buff.ly/FY9R0gy

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 1d

I know. It’s great. Thank you for sharing it.

John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 1d

Not read it but will do. Did just listen to it via @newyorker.com writers read podcast. Excellent. As ever! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Podcast Episode · The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker · 21/07/2020 · 33m

podcasts.apple.com

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 1d

This is funny yet Trump’s continuing descent into authoritarian folly is not.

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Pete Deller @petedeller.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one @psbhq.bsky.social

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Shirley Jackson explains how she got the idea for The Lottery

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

Really love to see stuff like this, and it's 100% why I'm very happy to beam into your classroom, workplace, book club etc, to talk Luddites, resisting AI and job degradation, organizing or whatever, whenever I can. Thx Susan, your group was great, and glad you're picking up the proverbial hammer

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2d

My recent adventures with AI:

—attended bookclub where BLOOD IN THE MACHINE author @bcmerchant.bsky.social zoomed in; I said I've been thinking about "What's my hammer?" (my answer to myself: "stories" and "copyright law")

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

A thing of beauty

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

💯

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Cheryl Arbonies @lucasaurelius.bsky.social · 1d

Just imagine where the world would be if citizens had always been free to reject harmful technologies.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely to see a stack of my books on home turf in Ballymena library @librariesni.bsky.social

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2d

Hi John - besides the guides and books that have been published by the Open Spaces Society, you might like to try Peter Linebaugh’s books - Stop, Thief! and The Magna Carta Manifesto.

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Guy.

John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 2d

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social Hi Guy, Where might be a good place to find out more about common land: its history, its present & its future? Cheers, John #CommonLand

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 3d

There is no ‘love’ in marriage but there an i and ‘rage’. Coincidence?

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Honest Bob gets the party started – the Reform party. It’s tough being a Tory | John Crace

Robert Jenrick gives Conservative conference delegates permission to be the worst possible versions of themselves

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Damn it, just successfully wired a wireless printer in less than 15 minutes. Missed out on the Nobel Prize for Physics by 8 hours. Early prediction for next year.

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Calendr360 @calendr.360.cymru · 2d

🎟 Bore Coffi Rhyngwladol
📍 Canolfan y Morlan, Aberystwyth, Morfa Mawr,
📆 10:00, 11 Hydref

Bore Coffi Rhyngwladol

calendr.360.cymru

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 3d

Really looking forward to reading from The Body In The Mobile Library next Thursday at the Cork International Short Story Festival with @paul_mc_veigh - click here for details: www.corkshortstory.net/thursday.html

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grahamxroy.bsky.social @grahamxroy.bsky.social · 3d

Honest Bob Jenrick

The guy who ordered Disney characters be removed from the walls of a safe haven hostel for unaccompanied/orphan refugee children.

Such a lovely human being

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