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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · Jan 28

When one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

THE SONG OF ACHILLES x QUEENS OF THEMISCYRA x THE BINDING

👨‍👦‍👦Found family
♾️ Neurodiverse
🌈 LGBTQ
❤️F2L
💔HEA free zone

#A #HF #HR
#2025pit

A helmeted ancient Greek warrior walks frontal through a field of golden barley. He carries a round shield in his left hand and in his right, a spear pointing downwards. His cape flows to the left from his shoulder. The background surroundings are smoky and atmospheric. His face can not be seen. Along the top of the image in caps is a title: THE ARGONAUT’S SON.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 18h

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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Ryuma Sakamoto @ryuma21.bsky.social · 2d

🛑 UNCONSCIONABLE! This #Gaza #GENOCIDE rages on. STOP THE STARVATION TACTIC! DEMAND immediate, unconditional CEASEFIRE NOW.

Systematically starved despite talks. Tufts' Alex de Waal: "It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them."

Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Risks Normalizing the Weaponization of Food

Palestinians are still being systematically starved in Gaza even as ceasefire talks are underway this week. “It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them,” says...

www.democracynow.org

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, thank you!

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! 😊

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 3d

25 years with my old man today. 🥰
Not sure where QUARTER OF A CENTURY has gone, but feeling grateful he stuck with me!

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 9d

"Many Americans support foreign aid for health programs but overestimate how much the US spent on foreign aid"
tinyurl.com/mr3ya7as
Tragedy is the loss of this 1% = the loss of vital equipment, critical infrastructure, security personnel etc making other countries' combined efforts less effective

Our World in Data
How much of the US federal budget do Americans think is spent on foreign aid?

Bar chart based on the following data:
1,322 American adults were asked: "Just your best guess, what percentage of the federal budget is spent on foreign aid?"

0-1% = 11%

2-5% = 19%

6-10% = 13%

11-20% = 14%

21-30% = 11%

31-40% = 7%

41-50% =8%

51% or more = 15%

30% guessed less than 5%, which is close to reality
30% guessed more than 30%, which is more than 30-times too high

Note: The US spent around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid. The average guess among respondents was 26%.

Data source: KFF Health Tracking Poll (Feb. 18-25, 2025).

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 9d

School Reading List Children’s Book of the Month. 📚👍🏼
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-rel...
#kidlit
The School Reading List compiles this list of recommended books monthly. This children's and YA books of the month list highlights new releases and ed...

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 10d

Love how you've caught their family resemblances, yet have given them their own strong identities.

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 10d

👀👀😍

Wolfythewitch @wolfythewitch.bsky.social · 10d

Some redesigns wee #iliad

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 10d

Sounds like a fab idea
xx

Screenshot of a comment piece by Ed Miliband, titled:
"Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave
X"

Whilst referring to the hellsite social media, the positioning of the 'X' looks like the Guardian is signing off with a kiss and that Mr Miliband is, in fact, suggesting the government just leave

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 10d

Ah...

Guardian article with headline: "Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds".
Image is of a woman smiling making notes in a very organised and colour coded notebook.

The article goes on to say "On the other hand, being frequently stressed, anxious or moody could be linked to a shorter lifespan." Double-bum!

Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds | Psychology | The Guardian https://share.google/8gPkhz0GcQJNYgz6t

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 11d

Women: screwed by the moon AND by the sun!

Scientists find direct link between solar storms and heart attacks - Earth.com share.google/BQ0gWQKPqYKX...

Earth and Environmental News, Videos and Images

At Earth.com, our goal is to provide the internet with a homepage for anything and everything about our planet Earth and the environment.

Earth.com

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 11d

First ever Charity Commission Sector Risk Assessment

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Challenges to financial resilience among serious risks facing charities, regulator finds

Risks to financial resilience are among the pressing issues facing the charity sector in 2025, according to new analysis from the Charity Commission.

www.gov.uk

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 13d

I always find men telling me how trans-women harm my rights as a cis-woman one of the most pot/kettle arguments I've ever heard.
Like, break it down for me... for every 'right' you could list, I could give you 20 about how a cis-man has harmed me/my rights.

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 13d

Happy publication day!!
🎉🥳🎉

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 13d

It’s out in the world now, hopefully not getting lost on the way to its new home - in your hands.

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS is finally ending its journey from idea to book.

Illustration of Odysseus from the Title page of the paperback edition.

Odysseus, seen from behind, looking over the rail of his ship at the lands beyond the sea. Black and white illustration from You Are Odysseus.

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Jasmine G. Crawshaw @jasminegcrawshaw.bsky.social · 14d

My #shortstory, “The Eye of the Beholder”, which retells the story of Polyphemus from The Odyssey, is on @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social! You can read the first page here! Click the link to see the rest!
suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

#writer #writesky #greekmyth #mythology #writingcommunity #writers

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 14d

In Welsh folklore, the Black Wyrm of the Barrow was a huge serpent who lived in a labyrinthine barrow. As a barrow is a pagan tomb, some scholars assume the Wyrm was inspired by a pagan god. It was slain by Peredur (Sir Percival), one of King Arthur's most Christian warriors.
#WyrdWednesday

The Black Wyrm waits in its barrow. A painting by Alan Lee.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 14d

Minister encourages civil servants to volunteer in NHS share.google/6cMXtXOkXRd4...

Minister encourages civil servants to volunteer in NHS

Health minister Ashley Dalton says civil servants’ contribution would be particularly valuable given their “professionalism and integrity”

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so sorry, I can tell that she meant the world to you. That's a very special mark to have left in life. xx

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 15d

In or near Mancs? THIS SATURDAY: the return of Northern Publishers Book fair! Free! Mancs central library, 27 Sept 11-3.30pm. This time: chat with agents! Founded & organised by amazing Bella of @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social!

Poster with orange background and logos of 13 publishers and two literary agencies. Northern Publishers' Fair, Saturday 27 September, Manchester Central Library, 11am to 3.30pm. Text:

New for this Autumn networking edition! The chatty table:
Agents Emma Layfield (Children's Book North Agency) and Clare Coombes (Liverpool Literary Agency) will be on hand to chat to any aspiring/established authors with publication journey questions! Emma also happy to chat to any children's book illustrators.
Grab a Fly on the Wall Press goodie bag; a limited edition tote: 'Reading is Resistance', with two free mystery books and bookish goodies!
Publishers attending currently include:
Fly on the Wall Press
Manchester University Press
Spilt Ink Magazine
Confingo Publishing
Peepal Tree Press
Vertebrate (Adventure) Publishing
Carcanet
Stairwell Books
Saraband
Northodox
Flapjack Press

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 15d

From where? The foothills of Skafell Pike?? The great Pennine plantations?? Honestly, smdh!

Article from the Independent: https://share.google/hu0qBQNw7j6Xv6agl

Headline:
New research finds widespread misconceptions about the tea we drink
One in five British adults incorrectly assume the tea they consume is grown domestically

Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 16d

Ew, ew, ew!! As if! 🤢 🌱

Image of text box from a King's Seeds seed catalogue with the wording:
Kings recommend when not sowing directly into your vegetable plot you sow your seeds into a good quality seed sowing compost and watering only with tap water. Do not use BUTT WATER as this can contain harmful pathogens, resulting in poor germination.

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Claire Heywood @claireheywood.bsky.social · 18d

There's a giveaway running over on Goodreads for advance copies of my new novel, THE WANDERING QUEEN! If you're based in the US you can enter for a chance to win 1 of 10 copies. Open until 29th September. Good luck! 🤞

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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