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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · Aug 16
What Wood Pigeons are saying:
“No, YOU make the tea”
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 7h
“M………/,,,,ml“
Cat on keyboard again
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 10h
Brash into chip always a good move. Composted chip onto arable should do wonders for expanding soil mycorrhiza/fungi, will be interesting indeed!
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d
One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.
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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 1d
My book is out this week, but so is @karenmccombie.bsky.social 's awesomely good My Family, The Enemy.
Loved it and learned so much!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/my-family...
My Family the Enemy
London, 1914. Fred Müller's life is turned upside down when his dad is taken away by the police - suddenly his family are the enemy because of where they come f…
www.bloomsbury.com
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
That’s lovely. Crows so intelligent!
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
Lots of copy-editing and chores here today. Sound of acorns falling, owls hooting. Wishing you more beautiful bright moonbeam blessings! Night night
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
Really enjoyed this; finished quickly as it was “all joined together”. Loved the WW2 London setting. Thought-provoking about family, politics, and secrets.
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 3d
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter.
Only about 1/3 in; so far it is Absolutely Tremendous and I foresee twists and turns ahead!
Front cover of library paperback edition published by The Borough Press 2017. Front cover Illustration is a close up of a woman’s hands, wearing white gloves, holding a mid-C20 camera. She is wearing a pale blue dress but, as the picture has zoomed in on her hands, her face isn’t in the picture. Cover puff quotes: ‘impressive (Daily Mail), ‘Terrific’ (Guardian), ‘Game-changing’ The Times.
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
Back atcha Valarie! How’s things? Amazing full moon here!
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
That moment in the evening when timezones overlap with other parts of the world and people like eachother’s posts and it’s like a little wave 👋 at eachother around the world.
(see also: insomnia: feed full of relentlessly chirpy morning Aotearoans)
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
depths of wikipedia is my new random follow of pleasing inconsequential information:
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d
The Anna Karenina principle states that for success to occur in a complex endeavor, all key factors must be present and work correctly. The endeavor does not succeed when even one essential element is missing, meaning there are many different ways to fail. It is named for Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This suggests happy families resemble one another because they possess the necessary traits for happiness, whereas unhappy families may have any variety of
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
Yes it is! interested to read your piece about women at Green Party Conference, thank you
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 1d
Great stuff from the new The Nerve!
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d
Join us here: www.thenerve.news
Thank you to the new Nerve community. Join us here: https://www.thenerve.news/
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 2d
When lots of us re-listen to this, there will be a shared sense of joy and grief and fun all mingled together and I’ll feel I’m saluting her in company with @backlisted.bsky.social friends around the world Xx RIP
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 3d
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter.
Only about 1/3 in; so far it is Absolutely Tremendous and I foresee twists and turns ahead!
Front cover of library paperback edition published by The Borough Press 2017. Front cover Illustration is a close up of a woman’s hands, wearing white gloves, holding a mid-C20 camera. She is wearing a pale blue dress but, as the picture has zoomed in on her hands, her face isn’t in the picture. Cover puff quotes: ‘impressive (Daily Mail), ‘Terrific’ (Guardian), ‘Game-changing’ The Times.
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 3d
What is a Grampian Condition?
A Grampian Condition is a rule in Local Authority Planning Process, where you get someone to agree to do something else, before they are allowed to do the thing they want to do.
Clearly these people have never tried negotiating with toddlers
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 5d
Writing people: unique location event:
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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 5d
There is "limited availabity" for the Festival of Writing and Storytelling with the @ionacommunity at Iona Abbey for the week 11 - 17 Oct (due to a late group cancellation). £846 full board, and £423 concessions. I'll be present, alongside 4 women authors: iona.org.uk/event/festiv...
Festival of writing and storytelling (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
Join our festival of writing and storytelling. Develop your literary skills and enjoy fireside readings and storytelling.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16d
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 5d
Omg yes!
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 5d
Brilliant, thanks for posting
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 5d
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.

First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.

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@dalevince.com
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 6d
Wow! Unexpected #BacklistedBingo overlap:
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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 6d
@unamccormack.bsky.social and @iammilliam.bsky.social I'm sure someone must have shared this already, but just incase they haven't: footage of Michael Powell filming scenes from the Earthsea Trilogy with students by way of teaching film. collections.dartmouth.edu/archive/obje...
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Dartmouth Library's Statement on Potentially Harmful Content
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 6d
great lineup of judges, looking forward to seeing submissions/shortlist…
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climate-fiction.bsky.social @climate-fiction.bsky.social · 6d
2026 Climate Fiction Prize Announce Stellar Judging Panel as Submissions Open!

📚 @arifa.bsky.social
📚 Jessie Greengrass
📚 @kitdewaal.com
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📚 @savidgereads.bsky.social

Publishers have until 13th November to submit novels published between 1 Sept 2024 – 31 Aug 2025.
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 6d
Comfort watching of the highest order. Some of us may find ourselves watching it too, in sympathy and solidarity. Hope you feel better soon.
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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 6d
The selection of news highlighted by lovely people in my bluesky feed seems particularly depressing this morning, for anyone caring about nature & human rights;
what else is there out there to care about, except the growing plants, trees and wildlife, and the way we people look out for one another?
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