I note that the very excellent Broken Veil series 2 by @gralefrit.bsky.social & @willmac23.bsky.social is available as a one off payment for £14 (WYKYK). I just finished listening to it and cannot recommend it enough. If you loved the first series then this is a good way to catch up.

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You've told your dad the dishwasher tablets go in the drawer, and he took it well. You can ask him where the will is. Or play our game in "Someone I love" mode first and find out what you already know: afterloss.uk/could-they-find-it

Could They Find It?

A two-minute game about the practical trail you'd leave behind. Eight things your family would need to find.

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Will you need probate after a loved one dies? My free probate checker works one bank at a time. Pick a bank, answer 3 short questions, and get an answer, based on that bank's own published bereavement policy. Used by over 450 UK families so far. Try it: afterloss.uk/tools/probate-checker

Probate Checker: Will you need probate? (UK, 2026)

Check whether probate may be needed to release money from UK banks. Compare bank probate thresholds, case-by-case rules and next steps, updated for 2026.

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The entire second series of #BrokenVeil is now available. Join the Broken Veil Channel on Patreon to hear it, ad free, and more. Patreon.com/brokenveil

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BROKEN VEIL II Episode 7 Step inside the circle. #brokenveil Patreon.com/brokenveil

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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The Stranger Women In Love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Appropriate #totp

Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · last yr.

Ivor’s recently started wearing some green shoes with crocodiles on, and this has caused me to think about Jimmy Nail for the first time since I recorded this video about the beauty of a particular slash chord

@unfortunatalie.bsky.social just finally finished Absolution and then saw this… harpercollins.co.uk/products/abd...

Abdication (The Southern Reach Series, Book 5)

Abdication (The Southern Reach Series, Book 5)

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BROKEN VEIL II EPISODE 3 OUT NOW Exclusively on Patreon Patreon.com/brokenveil #brokenveil

This week on Scholarly Futures, @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social ponders on the future for foundational research and whether we're at the risk of losing the fundamentals as grants and funding shift to 'fashionable' areas. #openresearch #funding #openscience scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/what-gets-...

Lion. I will be taking no questions at this time.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3mo ago

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Another plug for our latest article by @jontreadway.bsky.social about the different emerging versions of metascience, and whether any of them care about academic publishing any longer

Scholarly Futures@scholarlyfutures.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@jontreadway.bsky.social ponders on the rise of metascience in todays post and if big data even cares about publishers any more scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/the-changi...

Standard Broken Veil episode progression today: 😀🤔😐😬😱 So good, so affecting. Headphones absolutely critical.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BROKEN VEIL II Episode 2 OUT NOW Patreon.com/brokenveil #BrokenVeil

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Terry Pratchett took offence at a question I asked at a signing and called me a ‘so-called reader’

3ccentric@thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What's an insult you'll never forget?

Simon Jones messaged me to say how much he enjoyed my podcast tribute to Douglas Adams, and that the man himself would have enjoyed it.

Wyatt Sinclair@crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 8mo ago

What's a compliment you'll never forget?

@jontreadway.bsky.social ponders on the rise of metascience in todays post and if big data even cares about publishers any more scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/the-changi...

The changing locus of scientific reform

Do metascientists dream of academic publishers, or have they moved on?

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Unsurprisingly, this is excellent. Excited to see it unfurl over the coming weeks. Well worth supporting the patreon to hear it.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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I love this analogy.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social@sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think I'm coming to view LLMs as essentially being the Fae. The Fae are usually seen as not having souls, and therefore not having consciousness in a way we can recognize; they don't understand the difference between lies and truth, kindness and cruelty; >

It's (Good) Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press.

Christina Martin@christinamartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press. youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...

BROKEN VEIL II New series starts APRIL 15th EXCLUSIVELY for subscribers to the Broken Veil channel on Patreon. Patreon.com/brokenveil

Ringworld aged 9

K.W. Colyard@kristianwriting.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So what was everyone's book they read way too young?

So what was everyone's book they read way too young?