Abe & Eddie
@abdecker.bsky.social
Raised in Devon close to the sea, now landlocked in Switzerland, I write fiction for adults & children and translate.
Website:
https://abdecker-skinner-books.com/
Website:
https://abdecker-skinner-books.com/
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Abe & Eddie
@abdecker.bsky.social
· Jul 6
Blown away by this review of "Flowers from the Black Sea" that appeared on Amazon yesterday:
"A joy to devour. A great read. The author is as significant as Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene in bringing the vivid, often brutal, setting of Turkey alive almost as an additional character...."
"A joy to devour. A great read. The author is as significant as Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene in bringing the vivid, often brutal, setting of Turkey alive almost as an additional character...."
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Now with alt text because this affects the entire planet.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Now with alt text because this affects the entire planet.
Just one more reason to sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just one more reason to sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Buy a book this Christmas!
Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.
Books reflect dreams and change lives.
Here's our list of children's books that make great present
Buy a book this Christmas!
Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.
Books reflect dreams and change lives.
Here's our list of children's books that make great present
Children's books for Christmas gifts
Children's books for Christmas - picture books by Ben Manley, Sharon King-Chai, James Carter, Christopher Lloyd, Sandra Dieckmann and more.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/child...
Buy a book this Christmas!
Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.
Books reflect dreams and change lives.
Here's our list of children's books that make great present
Buy a book this Christmas!
Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.
Books reflect dreams and change lives.
Here's our list of children's books that make great present
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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo
#BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo
#BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo
Shame on the BBC
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Shame on the BBC
The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)
A guide to protecting democracies from the populists with a checklist of things to keep an eye on:
“For what’s painfully clear is that once you’ve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“For what’s painfully clear is that once you’ve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash
From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A guide to protecting democracies from the populists with a checklist of things to keep an eye on:
“For what’s painfully clear is that once you’ve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“For what’s painfully clear is that once you’ve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Coming 12 February 2026
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
www.tripfiction.com/literary-fic...
"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
@canongate.co.uk
#blueskybooks #booksky
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
www.tripfiction.com/literary-fic...
"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
@canongate.co.uk
#blueskybooks #booksky
Literary fiction set in the ENGLISH FENLANDS - TripFiction
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen, literary fiction set in the English Fenland. Our Numbered Bones by Katya Belen is a moving examination of the feelings
www.tripfiction.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Coming 12 February 2026
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
www.tripfiction.com/literary-fic...
"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
@canongate.co.uk
#blueskybooks #booksky
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK
Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
www.tripfiction.com/literary-fic...
"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
@canongate.co.uk
#blueskybooks #booksky
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The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the US. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 in the pursuit of religious freedom✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-19ka
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the US. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 in the pursuit of religious freedom✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-19ka
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“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi
― Primo Levi
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi
― Primo Levi
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Everybody is going to share ‘The Harder…’ but I want to share an earlier song with celebrations of Jamaican 🇯🇲 Independence (in 1962).
Here’s ’Miss Jamaica’
Rest in absolute power, King. 👑 You will be so missed, Jimmy.
youtu.be/_CXaqEY3gPc
Here’s ’Miss Jamaica’
Rest in absolute power, King. 👑 You will be so missed, Jimmy.
youtu.be/_CXaqEY3gPc
Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Everybody is going to share ‘The Harder…’ but I want to share an earlier song with celebrations of Jamaican 🇯🇲 Independence (in 1962).
Here’s ’Miss Jamaica’
Rest in absolute power, King. 👑 You will be so missed, Jimmy.
youtu.be/_CXaqEY3gPc
Here’s ’Miss Jamaica’
Rest in absolute power, King. 👑 You will be so missed, Jimmy.
youtu.be/_CXaqEY3gPc
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If
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This was a fun read with a lot of twists and turns and the dog doesn't die, so I'm happy (that is a spoiler I personally need).
#Booksky #Books #Book #Reading #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #BlueskyLit #ChristmasRead #ChristmasBook #Yule #MurderMystery
#Booksky #Books #Book #Reading #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #BlueskyLit #ChristmasRead #ChristmasBook #Yule #MurderMystery
12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas
Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, Knives Out and an…
www.goodreads.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This was a fun read with a lot of twists and turns and the dog doesn't die, so I'm happy (that is a spoiler I personally need).
#Booksky #Books #Book #Reading #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #BlueskyLit #ChristmasRead #ChristmasBook #Yule #MurderMystery
#Booksky #Books #Book #Reading #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #BlueskyLit #ChristmasRead #ChristmasBook #Yule #MurderMystery
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2014 "The Box" Andy Goldsworthy’s Leaf Sculpture—Sycamore Leaves each one gathered, shaped, and pinned together using only natural thorns. No glue, no string. Just leaves, patience, and a profound connection to nature’s forms.
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
2014 "The Box" Andy Goldsworthy’s Leaf Sculpture—Sycamore Leaves each one gathered, shaped, and pinned together using only natural thorns. No glue, no string. Just leaves, patience, and a profound connection to nature’s forms.
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Poets: cybersecurity threats
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
share.google/0XfsiLCfAuBU...
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
share.google/0XfsiLCfAuBU...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
share.google
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Poets: cybersecurity threats
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
share.google/0XfsiLCfAuBU...
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
share.google/0XfsiLCfAuBU...
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Just the thing for young readers: Kate Hale : find out more: schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/kate-hale/ #MiddleGrade
Children's books by Kate Hale
Kate Hale is a featured author on the School Reading List and appears in the following recommended reading lists for children.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Just the thing for young readers: Kate Hale : find out more: schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/kate-hale/ #MiddleGrade
After years of witnessing the inner workings of AI models, Pawloski decided to no longer use generative AI products personally and tells her family to steer clear of them.
Pawloski isn’t alone.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pawloski isn’t alone.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
After years of witnessing the inner workings of AI models, Pawloski decided to no longer use generative AI products personally and tells her family to steer clear of them.
Pawloski isn’t alone.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pawloski isn’t alone.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Message to that p.o.s trump.....
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Message to that p.o.s trump.....
The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season
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In ✍️ newsletter #44: a writing prompt, writing comps & publishing opportunities, resource news + meeting dates for November & December 🎉 If you're interested in subscribing please visit: www.christopherfielden.com/writing-news...
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
In ✍️ newsletter #44: a writing prompt, writing comps & publishing opportunities, resource news + meeting dates for November & December 🎉 If you're interested in subscribing please visit: www.christopherfielden.com/writing-news...
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Dante's revised Divine Comedy: Purgatory - now featuring circles for Las Vegas, Dubai and UK National Rail when the weather cools.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Dante's revised Divine Comedy: Purgatory - now featuring circles for Las Vegas, Dubai and UK National Rail when the weather cools.