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Dr Joanna Nadin

@joannanadin.bsky.social

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Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl. Autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · Dec 11

Best biog ever. Thanks to @rikinparekh.bsky.social for my pigeon.

Biog reading: Joanna Nadin is an award-winning author who has written more than 90 books for children. She has also been juggler, a lifeguard and an adviser to the Prime Minister. Her worst birthday was the one when bigger boys and girls INVADED her party and spilt olive oil on the curtains and someone did sick on a wall. She lives in Bath and her favourite things are goats, monkeys and crisps.

At the top is a cartoon of a pigeon.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 2d

every headline after 2022 that mentions the Queen should be legally have to have "(no not that one)" after it

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

Really hoped this would be, like, "Satan" and "Witches" or even "Popish conspiracies" but turns out to just be "reconciling the worldwide anglican communion" as you were

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 2d

Signed books for my first ever Aslan and Arrietty today, and I have serious name jealousy.

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 2d

Chaotic evil

Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 2d

Really tired of people pronouncing on em dashes when they can’t even identify one.

em/en dash explainer

– EN DASH – (in UK English, typically used as brackets or commas)

— EM DASH — (in UK English, used to indicate interrupted speech, with no space before it)

And then there’s the little - hyphen - (used for compound words)

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 2d

This is where it gets complicated. Are the clothes invisible? Murder weapons? I think if your skin is touching it then yes.

Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 3d

You have the power of invisibility. How do you use it to get rich?

Ideas so far include:
- become hired assassin (but only on evil people)
- read answers for Who Wants to Be A Millionaire in advance
- steal scratch cards

(offloading hard cash/learning what bitcoin is seem harder than murder)

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 3d

I love Taylor but this is depressing evidence that Matty Healy is more inspiring than Travis Kelce. (Or that Aaron Dessner is a way better producer. Or that heartbreak has the best songs bar Cure’s Friday I’m In Love.)

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 4d

The orchestra tuning up - never not brimming with excitement. Gorgeous.

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Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social · 5d

In an open letter, Walker Books 'is concerned to see the latest developments in Weymouth, particularly given the extreme reality of book banning in the US. We must ask ourselves is this the beginning of something, and what comes next?'
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Walker attacks The Hate U Give ban

BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

www.bookbrunch.co.uk

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7d

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 7d

The commitment to it. He’s loving it. Unlike Noakes who is awkward as hell.

Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 7d

I thinking I now fancy Peter Purves

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Matt Beanzy @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 7d

There is a...magnificence...to this

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop

Big cat and little cat read together. The caption reads ‘all animals love to read books’

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 9d

Trying to focus on the small brilliant things and today that’s Jesus, the three-legged goat, who is new at my local animal rescue, and who has lost his mum. Everyone take a minute to appreciate goat Jesus.

A black and white goat with three legs looking into the camera. He has horns and a beard. He is a fine goat.

Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 9d

This. And I hate Christmas Day

Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 9d

There is a special type of gammon who takes pride in this.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 11d

What’s your favourite song from a Disney film about lowering your standards in order to achieve happiness, with an emphasis on connecting with nature, that gets interrupted by a spoken-word section specifically about eating insects? Hakuna Matata or the Bare Necessities?

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 10d

Dear all of publishing: i need you to put the translator's name on the cover as well because I do not trust, at this point, that it wasn't google.

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 11d

I feared so. And one cannot start by living by a ‘be more asshole’ motto. Not even for a bed that comfy:

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 11d

Today’s vain hope (alongside the £30k mattress): that world leaders and the media would stop treating Trump like a sane human whose opinions deserve a platform and instead concede he is a very unwell individual whose pronouncements on anything are about as sane or valid as a toddler on a sugar high.