Radical Magic is now live on NetGalley ... historical fiction, Regency fiction, fantasy and Elfindom, a tangled plot about wrong choices, Lady Researchers, a lost husband, Radical politics and whether the Princess Amelia might survive her love affair. 💙📚 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Radical Magic

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I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

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It rained a bit yesterday, and for over an hour last night, the first time since June. Right now we're in heavy wet cloud. I'd forgotten what it was like to walk barefoot on wet (brown) grass. Yesterday I also forgot that putting laundry out might mean that it gets wet. The smell of wet earth is 😀

Flew home from holiday yesterday and in my entire life I have never seen the UK look like this. Actually shocking to see it. #ClimateCrisis

Anthropeum was very Mediterranean today. Anthropeum.com · Aug 3 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟩🟦🟦🟦🟨🟦 90,378 · top 2% of players today!

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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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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

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/

The Grumpy Cook website has a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme where you can pay for a range of meals for people who may be struggling. These range from a small breakfast through to a family pack lunch and also including a child’s meal. The prices are suggested and start at £2.00. grumpycook.co.uk/shop/

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d ago

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Deep night in Kyiv. The city is under ballistic missile attack. Many explosions.

It's all so wrong, wrong, wrong. I remember cheap 'publishing' companies in India doing this 20 years ago, pillaging the wrecked libraries of the Raj to locate and dismember books now extraordinarily rare in the West, then scan them and sell uncorrected POD versions at £20 each.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

I never had things like this in the dentist's waiting room when I was small.

Incremental updates from a writing life. peachfieldpress.uk/2026/07/29/g...

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Finally the Times Literary Supplement sent me the pdf proof of the Commentary article by me they are finally going to publish, in the 7th August issue (only 2 months later than first promised). Mos…

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Degradation of public discourse coming straight from the White House they all want to be noticed by. Playground bullying never changes. I'm sure this scene appears in Victorian novels where we have to watch the hero suffer in silence before his honesty and honour are redeemed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

There are plenty of children called Odysseus right now! In Greek families.

Jack Blackburn@hackblackburn.bsky.social · last wk.

Every now and then I am inordinately fond of a pun With thanks to @joetwyman.bsky.social, @warmovietheatre.com , @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social

Historic wildfires are tearing through Turkey fueled by heatwaves and megawinds. 70+ blazes. 13 dead. Multiple thousands evacuated. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

Desperately sad. And there will be no redress for the cruelty.

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

@martinfowler.com Recommended. Gives our early D&D experience good context. Didn't know any of this in the late 1970s!

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2w ago

In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...

You'll see my novel just before Tchaikovsky's!

Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · last wk.

Between overtime shifts, hospital appointments, and me breaking the site, I got way behind in my ARC posts. Here's everything from the past week or so. @titanbooks.bsky.social @kateem.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social @blackcrowpr.bsky.social

A long lost monologue by the great Alan Bennett from 'On the Margin' is just one of the many incredible survivals in our Galton and Simpson Archive!

Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · last wk.

Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...

Quakers in Bristol have issued a formal apology for their role in the transatlantic trafficking and chattel enslavement of more than 13 million Africans, as part of a growing Quaker movement towards reparation. https://ow.ly/fP5L50Zt2sa

Bristol Quakers apologise for role in enslavement

Quakers in Bristol have issued a formal apology for their role in the transatlantic trafficking and chattel enslavement of more than 13 million Africans, as part of a growing Quaker movement towards reparation.

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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

We’re so much closer to a national emergency than ppl think.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

BBC News, "Both terminals at Gatwick airport have run out of water" "It means toilets there can't be flushed and hand washing facilities aren't working"

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

What a week for validating my writing. 📚💙 peachfieldpress.uk/2026/07/24/o...

One week: one review, one commission, and one story

Last week was a bit of a surprise: Strange Horizons published a review that I had thought was still in the consideration queue. When the Malvern Book Cooperative bookshop was closing down earlier t…

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Just signed the contract for a story from the biggest name magazine I have managed to impress yet. Wheeeee!

For those wanting a signed copy of the book, a Right To Reside card or to buy from one the best esoteric bookshops around, here is the promised link to Hookland at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. www.treadwells-london.com/product-page...

Hookland Fragments Volume One - David Southwell | Treadwells

Discover the Fortean mysteries and folkloric history of Hookland, England's lost county. Created by David Southwell and documented extensively on social media for many years, the fictional Hookland ha...

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Want to laugh-worry and rethink the jpgs in your author headshots folder? Good advice and awful warnings for all.

Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · 2w ago

A field guide to horror author headshots: the leather jacket, the bare brick wall, the unsettling half-smile, the scene-stealing cat. https://gnofhorror.com/the-horror-author-headshots-a-field-guide/

Today's fail: the pair of linen trousers I was sewing from a new funky pattern turned out to be completely the wrong size so all that cut-out fabric is wasted, sob. I used to sew wedding dresses! Why can't I sew properly any more? 🪡 Today's win: another pitch for a book review accepted.

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Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses

The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...

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