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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

The 2024 Little Richard documentary, I Am Everything, is currently streaming on C4 in the UK. Ignore the usual talking heads who appear at the start as this is excellent. Particularly good on the "queer" subculture of the American South. youtu.be/4YC8WUrWtZY?...

Little Richard: I Am Everything - Official Trailer | Documentary by Lisa Cortés | Opens April 21

YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 11h

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only

Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

www.biggreenbookshop.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Unite (First State), 1969 (screenprint) by artist Barbara Jones-Hogu, a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and co-fouder of the artists' collective AfriCOBRA #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Print showing the upper half of a group of Black activists with fists raised against a backdrop of diagonal text with the repeated word 'Unite'

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hey, there's me with The Beekeeper's Daughter, a fairy tale adventure.

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 2d

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 2d

My story "What Am I This Time?" has just gone live in the latest issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social. I hope you like it! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman

kaleidotrope.net

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 13h

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.

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MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 16h

#Vaquejada was officially banned in #Brazil by the Supreme Court but despite that it is still active. It is a brutal way of chasing and pulling a cow to the ground by its tail😡 #BanVaquejada #AnimalJustice #AnimalRights ✊

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 22h

Space Unicorns! SPOOKY SEASON is here again! Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/U9e7bru

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

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Juliet Kahn @sansromeo.bsky.social · 1d

My short story, SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN WITH THE ELECTRIC SERAPHIM, is live on the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social website! Read about how the true pioneers of bodiless cyberlife won’t be the Musks and Thiels of the world, but the anime club girls who wear the same hoodie to school every day! 💫

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MJ Mackenzie @redheadmuppet.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t take a picture of the moon, take a picture of the moonlight

A set of stairs with the glow of moonlight coming in from the window, casting big shadows of plants against the carpet and wall

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The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies @theanchoress.bsky.social · 1d

I know times are tough & not everyone can afford to buy a ticket for the show next month.

If you’d like to come the Union Chapel and don’t have the means to buy a full price ticket, I’m offering up a handful of half price concessions.

Just drop me a DM and I will do my best to get you sorted x

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one.

Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 1d

The Quatermass Xperiment is out in a massive new Hammer boxed set. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that Nigel Kneale’s original “organic invasion” scare show hasn’t lost its power.

trailersfromhell.com/the-quaterma...

The Quatermass Xperiment - 4K - Trailers From Hell

Wonder of wonders — Hammer’s massive boxed sets seem unreasonable until one sees the depth and breadth of the extras. Nigel Kneale’s original ‘organic invasion’ scare show hasn’t lost its power, thank...

trailersfromhell.com

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Chloe/ RAICA @chloeharris.bsky.social · 1d

3 Incredible artists @patriciawolf.bsky.social, @wndfrm.bsky.social and Mokedo join me for an evening of ambient tripzone at the Chapel in Seattle. I am so excited to hear and see what they do. Both Patricia and WNDFRM will have their new albums available. $5-20 NOTAFLOF www.instagram.com/mokedo/

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It's #buyastrangerabook day tomorrow.

It's one of my favourite things.
Cheese, The Fantastic Four and rhinos are three of the others

Let me know if you want to join in.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

www.biggreenbookshop.com

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 1d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · 1d

The Grandaddy Toppermost from @fourfoot.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/grandaddy/

Grandaddy - Toppermost

How best to describe Grandaddy? They’re the band you wanted to hear when you heard that Neil Young had made a synthesiser record. They’re the diplomats in a war between Pavement and Super Furry Animal...

www.toppermost.co.uk

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orlandolovekill @orlandolovekill.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, I sit beside her as she eats, enjoying the moment, having a wee chat. This evening, I thought I'd take a pic for you folks...

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

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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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

'60 yrs ago Wales gifted a commissioned stained glass window to a community in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of a bomb that killed four black girls
John Petts visited Alabama and opted to construct a stained-glass image of a Black Christ.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_W...

stained glass window depicting a black christ

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Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social · Feb 16

Bristol Noir (@bristolnoir.bsky.social) was nice enough to publish one of my crime stories today. It’s called “The Perfectionists.”

If you have a spare minute or two, give it a read.

Bristol Noir @bristolnoir.bsky.social · Feb 16

The Perfectionists by Frank Vatel

www.bristolnoir.co.uk/the-perfecti...

#shortstory #noir #goodreads #writingcommunity #readingcommunity @frankvatel312.bsky.social

The Perfectionists by Frank Vatel » Bristol Noir

Saddle River, NJ1973

www.bristolnoir.co.uk

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Michael Downing @kmwriter01.bsky.social · Jan 29

I've always had a deep love & appreciation for boxing (Watched Wide World of Sports every Saturday with my grandfather).

That's why I'm humbled & honored that
@NoirBristol
just published my story "THE LAST WALTZ".

If you have time, please check it out.
#writing #writingcommunity #boxing

Bristol Noir @bristolnoir.bsky.social · Jan 29

The Last Waltz by Michael Downing

www.bristolnoir.co.uk/the-last-wal...

#shortstory #noir #dirtyrealism #publishing #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #goodreads

The Last Waltz by Michael Downing » Bristol Noir

As soon as the Cuban hammers me with a short right hook, I’m pretty sure I’m fucked. The punch catches a soft spot in my ribs, taking everything out of me. My breath. The fight. The will to keep going...

www.bristolnoir.co.uk

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orlandolovekill @orlandolovekill.bsky.social · 1d

"...Pudding?"