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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, thank you so much!

Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · 10d

Can’t find any information on this painting in Volterra museum by Cosimo Daddi, called ‘Madonna and Child between Saints Paul and Lucy’. Can any Arts folk out there explain the eyes in the dish?

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · 14d

Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett both absolutely superb in The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse tonight. Catch it if you can.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 5

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

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

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

www.theguardian.com

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Katherine @katherineo.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Armando Iannucci recommends
The Ballad of Wallis Island.
So do I!
Out to buy now and still in some independent cinemas. Really worth seeing on a big screen if you can.

Strong Message Here - Strong Recommend: The Ballad of Wallis Island - BBC Sounds

The first in a series of cultural recommendations from the hosts of Strong Message Here.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · Aug 14

Again: shock.

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Jul 29

Honoured to have given Keynote address at BSA Auto/biography Conference, here with colleagues and friends Mark Price, Jan Bradford behind the camera.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · May 15

Your weekly reminder that Unbound/Boundless should be avoided at all costs.

Claire Handscombe @bookishclaire.bsky.social · May 15

Wow. The article is somehow even worse than the headline.
www.printweek.com/content/news...

Pre-pack publisher Unbound leaves £2.4m hole in creditors - Printweek

Crowd-funded publisher Unbound, sold in a March pre-pack administration deal to a new company set up by its director and CEO, left an estimated total deficiency for unsecured creditors of £2.4m accord...

www.printweek.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · May 13

... Of course you could take me up on this offer instead, and get four signed books: bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · May 9

Still no payment from my ex-publisher, so I'm selling a few more of these (bought from their warehouse). ALL FOUR of these, signed, for the price of the 1983 hardback (£16.99) plus postage

Please email me at [email protected] with your address if you want them.

Any shares of this much-appreciated!

My books Notebook and 21st-Century Yokel

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · May 13

Fuck it. I'm going to give away 100 books. If you'd like one of these, signed, email yr address to [email protected]. All I ask is that you give me the postage (£4 UK). If you can give me more, brilliant. If not, no probs.

Stephen Fry called this "hilarious.". I think it's my best non-fiction book.

The rear jacket of my book Ring The Hill

A big pile of Ring The Hills in my living room

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · May 8

"I knew I shouldn't have taken the goddam road less traveled!" -- Frost in England, 1957

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · May 9

😂

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Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social · May 9

Good advice.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · May 9

You can read the rest here: tomcox.substack.com/p/can-you-pl...

The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever the hell way you want to.

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · May 9

Bit of a cheat perhaps as this is ‘Porta Pispini’ - one of the seven city gates in Siena.

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · May 8

Just spotted in a shop in Siena

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 30

I LOVED this essay. It discusses something I’ve felt deeply, referenced so many of the books/authors I love and made me laugh out loud.

Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · Apr 30

A bit late to this, but a brilliant essay by @iammilliam.bsky.social on suburbia in literature. He should write a book on the subject, and it would be a great book, and he’d get a microscopic advance for it because publishing sucks.

Boundless Magazine @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social · Apr 17

"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from."

@iammilliam.bsky.social

www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 29

Are you in Umbria?

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 26

Or ‘vedremo’ as we say here in Italy.. !

Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 26

Of course. Publisher lined up?

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 26

Hi Patrick, how’s it going on that front?

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Matthew Hayes @matthewfhayes.bsky.social · Apr 25

Great time this morning talking qualitative research methods with @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social who has a new book out with @policypress.bsky.social. Everyone should check out Karen's podcast series: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/q...

Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast

Social Sciences Podcast · Complete Series · The Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone podcast features lively discussions with Bristol University Press author Karen O'Reilly as she chats with stud...

podcasts.apple.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Apr 18

Background on why I'm doing this: bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Apr 11

THREAD. I decided to make this my pinned post because although a few people know about the books I’ve been selling myself and the sad story of what happened with my (now ex) publisher, not everyone who follows me here does...

Piles of my books Ring The Hill, 1983 and 21st-Century Yokel

A pile of paperback copies of my book Ring The Hill

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 18

Done! This is so generous - thank you!

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Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social · Apr 18

Oh! Then, yes please (if in time…)!

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