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Paul Cooper
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Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 15d
Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!

LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
Image of the Fall of Civilizations cover, with Waterstones Paperback of the Year written beside it.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 18h
Glad you're enjoying Kevin!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 6d
Glad you enjoyed Murray!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 6d
Really hope you enjoy Kevin!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 14d
Thank you Rebecca!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 14d
Hope you enjoy and thanks for supporting your library!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 15d
Cheers Kevin!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 15d
There is and it is - it took so long to do.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 15d
Thank you!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 15d
Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!

LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
Image of the Fall of Civilizations cover, with Waterstones Paperback of the Year written beside it.
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 25d
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 25d
Thanks for reading!
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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 26d
St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 26d
Also this one
Musée des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden December 1938 About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 26d
Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one
Landscape with the fall of Icarus
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 27d
Yes certainly a factor! Yew is great for bows because the heartwood and sapwood act differently under pressure, so it forms a kind of natural composite if you cut it right.
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Hyperbolic Pair of Pants @corinnethespin.bsky.social · Sep 7
Holy smokes, FASCINATING thread about Caligula's "pleasure barges" and their attempted recovery by Mussolini.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 1
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.

In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Onlookers queue up to view the excavations of Caligula's ancient Roman vessels, known as the Nemi ships 1932.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Apr 27
Everything not saved will be lost. —Nintendo "Quit Screen" message
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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · Sep 5
A Moment In The Ruins
The interior of the ruins of a large 13th century gothic abbey church. Arcades of arches atop heavy pillars flank a stepped grassy area leading up to a stone altar below 6 tall pointed windows. The altar of a ruined ancient church stands visible between light stone gothic arches open to the air. Two arcades of pointed arches of a ruined gothic abbey stand side by side, viewed diagonally. The exterior of a standing portion of a ruined abbey church constructed of light stone, featuring tall gothic arches and many pointed windows. Surrounding the church are the many ruined rubble walls of other abbey structures.
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writermusician.bsky.social @writermusician.bsky.social · Sep 6
After the fire.
#Photography #Urban #Street #Ruins
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Sep 5
Ruins of Eldena Monastery near Greifswald, 1825, by Caspar David Friedrich, born OTD 1774. Love the little house nestled safely among the huge ruins!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 7
You sound boring and I'm blocking you too lol
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 6
No problem man, got my copy on the way
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 6
Pre-order his collection: orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...
We Had it Coming
A haunting yet darkly humorous exploration of a world teetering on the edge of collapse. In stories that pulse with both the familiar and the uncanny, O’Neil’s characters struggle to survive in a real...
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 6
Maybe @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is the poet laureate of our times...
How good we had it Planes were falling from the sky and the sky itself was falling but didn't the driveway still need shoveling? Salt for the icy steps. The kitchen sink full again too. And every day a new reminder that crying can get you anything you want in the world if it's the right kind of crying. Tears of men weak enough to do grievous harm. I'm told that we can't post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. I watched a Family Feud the other night where Steve told one of the teams that they didn't give him the answers on his card beforehand but he damn well knew what the answers were not. One of two scenarios have presented themselves which is that everything gets so bad so quickly that a sufficient response becomes inevitable or else they only get just so bad overtime that we can keep putting our duty off until it is no longer ours. I pick up my phone every five minutes expecting it to tell me something good about the world and I thought of a night some friends and I crawled around on all fours looking for crumbs of cocaine that had been accidentally blown off the table into the carpet. I've been asking myself just how it is that a person can go about their day to day life at a time like this and I keep coming back to another question which is how did we ever convince ourselves we had the right to do so before?
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Louise Fryer 🎃 @louisecfryer.bsky.social · Sep 4
#blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #fog #beach #graffiti #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited
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