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📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS & DISPLEASURE ISLAND out now! THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out Jan 2026 ◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦ #BWithTheT Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno @totalplaytime.com https://alicebellauthor.com/

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · Jun 17

💙📚 COMING JAN 2026: THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH! The owner of a pro-wrestling gym died, and his ghost is convinced he was moidered. Can Weirdo medium Claire and her dead best friend solve it? What is kayfabe? Do personal issues really draw money? Pre-order to find out: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 7h

Like, seems to really goes out of its way for a drive-by on his dad

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 7h

This is hardly the main point but jeeze I wonder what Oz Perkins thinks of the stupid Ed Gein TV show

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 13h

That's four books a day! Are you reading or are you _consuming_? Do you like reading and books or do you like line go up?

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe this is ungrateful of me, but if you're going to read my book by listening to it at 3x speed or scanning a few key words in a paragraph, in the same month you scan through 100 other books, I'd sort of rather you left if off, to be honest.

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 15h

You’re a phenomenal writer and I’m excited to read your book one day

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 16h

This #overdiagnosis discourse is dangerous and will be deadly to many - not just those with ME who have been at the mercy of quacks like Wesseley and O'Sullivan for years -
but everyone who the govt wishes to remove support from and has to find a way to claim are not actually disabled to do so.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 17h

Ta daaaa www.theoscreative.co.uk

Jumpers And T-shirts | Os Creative

Jumpers and Tee's that are made with love and a sense of humour from the Os Creative. Perfect gifts for Gavin and Stacey lovers, Christmas addicts, and those that show their emotions on the inside! Th...

www.theoscreative.co.uk

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 17h

Forgot I ordered the best Christmas jumper in the world until it arrived today

A slate blue jumper with an embroidered group of five mice in Victorian clothes from the film Muppet Christmas Carol. It says “NO CHEESES FOR US MEECES” above and below the image

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 22h

Reform claim to have 259k... It's a stretch goal, but it would be really great to give them one in the eye, wouldn't it?

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

look how happy he is though! he's back in his podcast-bro comfort zone of selling merch, as opposed to having to, you know, solve crimes or whatever

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate analysis from Swifties, because I'm not so intimately familiar with her back catalogue. This is interesting!

Defector @defector.com · 2d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

One difference between me and many people in the 40k universe is that I would simply learn about chaos enough to understand its mysteries and make use of its powers without becoming corrupting myself.

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

(but no I do really hope Bloodlines 2 is good, I just feel safer setting my expectations to min)

Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

PowerWash Sim 2 is out two days after Bloodlines 2, meaning the PowerWash Sim is going to be the Van Helsing arriving to free me from a longstanding curse

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S SO CLOSE

PowerWash Simulator 💦 @powerwashsimulator.co.uk · 1d

Get ready to suit up, Washers 💦

You'll be able to collect your keys and get busting grime October 23rd!

Coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

I am so hype

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

@johnnyohnny.bsky.social bottom left: it u

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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