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The Little Book of Second Mentions, out August 2025 - available to buy on Amazon now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | [email protected]
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Exciting, wonderful, tremendous news - we have written a book!! The 300-page synonym-packed collection is coming out on 19 August and is available to pre-order now from our amazing publisher Biteback Publishing, Waterstones or Amazon - amzn.to/43oYehw
Front cover of The Little Book of Second Mentions, with the subtitle The Art of Avoiding Repetition, featuring an image of a banana and some alternatives for banana including 'the bendy breakfast staple', 'the curvy favourite', 'the potassium-packed produce', 'the elongated fruit', 'the energy-rich treat', 'the fruity pick-me-up'. The authors names are Juliet Maguire and Matthew Maguire. There are two quotes included, one from the Times and one from the New Yorker. The one from the Times says 'The best thing on social media' and the one from the New Yorker says 'Charming, insane, perfect'. The image notes that the book is out in August 2025.
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direthoughts.com
bring on the EuroSausage! welcome to the Emulsified High-Fat Plant-Based Tube
secondmentions.bsky.social
In celebration of World Octopus Day, here are our favourite second mentions for the multi-limbed creatures...

🐙 the soft-bodied cephalopods

🐙 the eight-legged marine animals (or should that be eight-armed?)

🐙 the slippery, slimy, tentacled bad-ass of the sea
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cdcubed.bsky.social
when the author thinks my stance re: "English does not tolerate repetition" is a bluff and not a boulder of a principle that I've chained myself to and that will drag me off a cliff

go ahead make all 95 characters say 了解 in a row, see if I blink
a World Trigger panel with five characters saying:
Sure, why not?
No complaints here.
All righty.
A solid choice.
Agreed. two more World Trigger panels, with nine more variations on 了解:
Roger that.
Sure thing.
All right.
Got it.
Of course.
Will do!
No problem.
Orders received.
Sounds good.
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joolia.bsky.social
i know that as a people (journalists) we have a deep and under-explored psychosexual attachment to second mentions but does anyone normal actually call cbs "the tiffany network"?
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pussellrarker.bsky.social
I mean, I’d hope it would go without saying tbh. Every human reading should really have a decent instinctive grasp of why we don’t drain nearby personunits for their vital scarlet power fluid* when pretending to injure people for fictional stagings

*one for you there, @secondmentions.bsky.social
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tartenormande.bsky.social
The roasted bean-derived hot drink, which is celebrated today in a global annual event, is also known as 'joe' or 'java' in the US etc etc
secondmentions.bsky.social
☕ Today is International Coffee Day ☕

Or in our household, International Caffeinated Brown Beverage Day