I can’t believe this petition only had 14k signatures. Please sign if you value the Scottish rural environment. petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE... #petition #datacentres #environmentaldestruction

Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...

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From my new collection "Hedgerow of Voices", JCStudio Press for #PromptCombo #Stand and @jenthorne.bsky.social my second and final contribution:

Remove the AI you don't want, here!

Silversprite@silversprite.bsky.social · 3d ago

Disabling insidiously-placed AI on a few bits of tech I'd missed, using the check-list compiled by @librarian.bsky.social (thanks): www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Our short film, YASODHARA, is having its world premier today on YouTube! I wrote the screenplay and helped produce. So many wonderful people involved. I hope the film touches you in some small way. Gabriel TRAILER: tinyurl.com/YasodharaTra... MOVIE: tinyurl.com/YasodharaMovie

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Winner of 35 film festival awards around the world and soon to be expanded into an international feature, Yasodhara tells the story of a new immigrant who comes to the US from India with her husband. Not long after their child is born, her husband leaves her. A single-parent mother who lives next door helps lift her up and realize she isn’t alone.

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Poetry lovers...it's hard to believe SHINE Quarterly is coming up on our 2-year anniversary...with more amazing work (here's a snippet from John Compton)! Issue 8 is coming soon. My thanks to every SHINE poet & reader -- keep shining! 🎇 #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

I loved this heartwarming short, about grace, the kindness of strangers. Found family. Something simple like getting a haircut can help heal. Please check out Gabriel's film, like and share 🙏🕊️Yasodhara was the name of Buddha's wife; he left to follow his path, so she decided to lead a simple life.

GabrielConstans@gabrielconstans.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our short film, YASODHARA, is having its world premier today on YouTube! I wrote the screenplay and helped produce. So many wonderful people involved. I hope the film touches you in some small way. Gabriel TRAILER: tinyurl.com/YasodharaTra... MOVIE: tinyurl.com/YasodharaMovie

@uphilldowndalew.bsky.social please can you help? 🙏

Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶@kateem.bsky.social · 3d ago

I realised that I still have issues 1-21 of Grendel that I bought religiously in the mid 1980s from Gosh! Comics because it was amazing, also unusually feminist for the genre at that time. #1-#40 are being offered on ebay for £200. Seems a lot. Where can I sell these? #comics #mattwagner

Good morning! Does anyone have any information on #Nightingale&SparrowPress or Juliette Sebock? I feel like those of us who have books with the press are in limbo without any way to reach her or the press. #poetrypublishers

Poets, looking for a moment in the Spotlight? Send your work to SHINE international poetry series: shinepoetryseries[at]protonmail.com Submissions details are here: shinepoetry.weebly.com/submissions.... #poetry #submissions #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity #shinepoetry

It's Monday, and I'm musing! (Still morning here, but barely.) This is my weekly post with a #Poem #photos and commentary on the past week. merrildsmith.org/2026/07/20/s...

Survivors

Monday Morning Musings Survivors The Oracle tells me,life is a man-made lie, But we know the storycarried in DNA,Earth our mother,the stars hers, offspring scatteredacross time, continents,she brin…

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shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this

Watch out for this scam #freelancefriends I wasted a couple of precious hours dealing with this 💩 Thanks to Kevin Boone - kevinboone.me/cn_domain_sc... The emails were from: davis.wang@registering.org.cn (cloned?) guomin_lin@163.com ygmail26.com.cn

Jane's Studio@janes-studio.bsky.social · 3w ago

<guomin_lin@163.com> Application from Shenjia Holdings Ltd, China. Trying to work as a creative in 2026 is really hard, without dealing with this 😔

Delighted to read Ian Dew's lovely review of 'Never to Return' by Roddy Maclean (The Northern Mariner): "This work is a high-quality product..." Roddy "is an expert communicator telling a story that is engaging..." £18.99 from portopress.com/products/978... #bookdesign #typesetting #Photoshop

<guomin_lin@163.com> Application from Shenjia Holdings Ltd, China. Trying to work as a creative in 2026 is really hard, without dealing with this 😔

Jane's Studio@janes-studio.bsky.social · 3w ago

Latest scam?'To whom it concerns,We will register the China domain names “janecornwell.cn” "janecornwell.com.cn"... &internet keyword "janecornwell” and have submitted our application...these CN domains & internet keyword are very important for our business. We will persist in this name. Guomin Lin'

Latest scam?'To whom it concerns,We will register the China domain names “janecornwell.cn” "janecornwell.com.cn"... &internet keyword "janecornwell” and have submitted our application...these CN domains & internet keyword are very important for our business. We will persist in this name. Guomin Lin'

Andrew Wilson and I discussed Henri Rousseau in letters and poetry. #Art #poetry #collaboration merrildsmith.org/2026/07/13/r...

Rousseau Exchange, Parts 3 and 4

Hi all–I don’t think I even shared the final two parts of the Rousseau Exchange. This is a collaboration of letters with poetry between Andrew Wilson and me after I had mentioned to him…

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Thanks for the mention @kateem.bsky.social 💐🌟 I loved working on this book trailer for Kate Macdonald's forthcoming Regency fantasy, Radical Magic! Sound on! 🥳

Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶@kateem.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just trying this out .... created by @janes-studio.bsky.social peachfieldpress.uk/radical-magic/ Out 1st September. Review copies are being packed now: let me know if you'd like one. 💙📚

So happy to see this! Congratulations on your new book, Radical Magic, Kate! 🥳💐🍾🥂💫 Cover art and design by me - Kate's stories are so inspiring to create for! The books looks beautifully printed by 4edge. So chuffed! 😊

Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶@kateem.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have a new novel. It's not yet published, but I just ripped open the box from the printer, and then I wrote an explainer. peachfieldpress.uk/2026/07/09/t...

Get your copy today!

Jane's Studio@janes-studio.bsky.social · 4w ago

Catch the free #book offer running now on #Amazon! a.co/d/00tKAp5R Suzanne Craig-Whytock's gothic dual timeline mystery is an exciting read. @mydangblog.bsky.social

Here’s 'Rituals’ from my latest poetry collection This Joyful Interlude, out now ✨ Book links (or pm me for a signed copy) UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330 US amazon.com/dp/1068432330 CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330 DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330 AU amazon.com.au/dp/1068432330 #poem #poems #poetry #books

I'm excited for this lovely event - a chance to meet John Barrett, the former MP for Edinburgh West, and author of The Mayor of Kalymnos series, in aid of Sunflower Scotland🌻

Jane's Studio@janes-studio.bsky.social · last mo.

Join author John Barrett to celebrate the launch of his new book, Return to Kalymnos. August 29th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, The Dower House, Edinburgh. Tickets £5 - fundraising for Sunflower Scotland 🌻https://www.corstorphinetrust.co.uk/events/book-launch/

Bookshop.org is launching audiobooks in the UK, allowing readers to buy print books, e-books and audiobooks through the platform while supporting independent bookshops 👇

Bookshop.org to sell audiobooks to support indies ‘in all formats’

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Catch the free #book offer running now on #Amazon! a.co/d/00tKAp5R Suzanne Craig-Whytock's gothic dual timeline mystery is an exciting read. @mydangblog.bsky.social

Join author John Barrett to celebrate the launch of his new book, Return to Kalymnos. August 29th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, The Dower House, Edinburgh. Tickets £5 - fundraising for Sunflower Scotland 🌻https://www.corstorphinetrust.co.uk/events/book-launch/

Book Launch - Corstorphine Trust

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Bestseller lists are unhelpful in choosing an enjoyable book. Book bloggers and bookshop staff with similar tastes to mine are more reliable; they are better at recommending worthwhile investments of my time.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

Found out today that sales in some independent bookshops don't "count" towards "official" book sales as recorded for the bestseller list, just in case you wanted any more confirmation of how fucked up the world of publishing is in 2026.

Tell the First Minister Scotland needs a moratorium on new data centres: greens.scot/datacentres

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

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Good morning! It's Monday, and I'm musing. This is my weekly post with a #Poem, #Photos, and commentary on the past week. merrildsmith.org/2026/07/06/w...

Witness

Monday Morning Musings Witness “Poets are not to blame for how things are.”–The Odyssey Here I am. Witness of time. Teller of stories. Dawn, an oriole, sheds mandarin feathersacross the sky.H…

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Publishers are still waiting for “clear” legal answers on AI training, outputs and licensing, the Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) Conference heard. 👇

AI copyright litigation yet to resolve key questions for publishers, PLS conference hears

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Resistance is an art form! Kevin Champeny's work celebrates the beauty of accumulation how countless small elements can create depth, movement, & meaning that no single piece could achieve alone. A reminder that the smallest details often carry the greatest impact. 🔥🔥💙 #pinks