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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 3d

Tomatoes in lllinois is also the title of a book I hope to sell one day, possibly short stories but always thoughtful with no blood or twists. Just a quiet tale that blushes to a conclusion

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 9d

How can you tell?

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 25d

Thankyou comrade x

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks John. Only just venturing back out of the cave.

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 29d

He ran the Pan Bookshop for several years but as a friend of and a reader for Sonny Mehta, he was often ‘upstairs’

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you're in Liverpool next month and fancy hearing me think out loud then please come along to the launch of THE DEFINITIONS. I'm occasionally cogent and, if you get me on the right topic, borderline interesting, and there'll be wine, good people and great books. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...

15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with

The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language. How we use it, how we weaponise it, and what happens when we rely on other to define ourselves. ...

deadinkbookshop.com

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · Aug 13

13 Aug 1942 // Two former French drifters in #RoyalNavy service, Pierre Descelliers and Intrepide, were bombed and sunk at Salcombe, Devon, in an air raid. Three men on the Pierre Descelliers were killed, along with a local woman who had come aboard from her boat to deliver water. #WW2

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 13

Still traumatised. What a waste of nerves. Didn’t even mind getting 2 tinnies confiscated for being over the limit once finally in as the release was so damn sweet.

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Los 🥑 @los-los.bsky.social · Aug 13

Therapist: …like right now, what’s in your head

(don’t say it, don’t say it)

Me: Zombie

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Aug 13

Not everyone is impressed with the latest Chat-GPT update
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...

GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?

How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 11

And a good time was had by all

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Aug 10

On the morning of July 31, Israeli military forces, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived at the site of one of the two propagation units of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in the West Bank city of Hebron.

They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too

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www.haaretz.com

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kinnell

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m a thicko and my only talent is passivity (oh, and freestyle egg poaching) but it thrills me. I think the answer is MORE Proms stuff for us to watch. Way more. Hours of it. And all of it. Hundreds.

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 7

Also, 38 MILLION

Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 7

Nah, you’re alright.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 7

‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns Equal parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing. As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fgs Nick

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Ben Moor @benmoor.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am up at @edfringe again and I will be administering the prestigious 🥄Accoladles🥄 once more.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hell yeah

nottinghampost.co.uk @nottinghampost.co.uk · Aug 5

Officers have appealed to find the owners of the scooters

'Joyriding' mobility scooters chased down by police in 'low-speed pursuit'

www.nottinghampost.com

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Aug 1

“Down at yer local nick… He’ll ring you back..”

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · Aug 1

David Calder is your friendly Crime Prevention Officer in this late seventies PIF.

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.

People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.

Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel

It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hear, hear!

Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is the kind of terror surge we need to block.

That lady could have put crochet all over the nearby post boxes if the police hadn't cracked down on it.

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nottinghampost.co.uk @nottinghampost.co.uk · Jul 24

We published the story in a measured and unsensational way because we take our responsibility towards contempt very seriously as publishers

A man's been charged with rape. Speculation could collapse the case

www.nottinghampost.com

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · Jul 23

Absolute boiling point here at the Craft & Courage Crystal Palace before bookgroup. So boiling that we need another pint. If I could get off my bum that is.

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