I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you. @iamrobhughes.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to about a tenner!. So, if there's a specific paperback (or kids book maybe) that you're after, get in touch! UK only

Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13h ago

IT'S WEDNESDAY It's #buyastrangerabook day! People buy each other books, cos they can & they're ace! I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. If you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

IKEA have brought back the ghost mat. The Spooky Season has begun, this is not a drill www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/kust...

KUSTFYR door mat, ghost pattern black/natural, 40x60 cm

KUSTFYR door mat, ghost pattern black/natural, 40x60 cm Boo! Imagine being greeted by a ghost right at the door. Scary, right? This durable door mat is guaranteed to get your guests in the right mood ...

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We go on holiday in a couple of weeks and our finances are currently sub-optimal so I’m opening up ten Silly Little Guy slots. Usual rules apply: ⭐️ No portraits ⭐️ £30 each (via PayPal) ⭐️ Just simple silly guys My DMs are open! As ever, any and all shares are appreciated x

Oh no. It's only episode two and I'm already doing that thing where I bounce around my room in my head, singing the theme tune and making up OCs who are secret self-inserts. I am fifty-two years old ¬.¬

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 3d ago

Which autistic crime would send you down for all eternity? It’s a Superpower?? Chapter Two - An Army of Bums is out now wherever you get podcasts!

I just hope the moon doesn’t retaliate

I just did this. Perhaps you also would like to do this. gofund.me/85df32d4f

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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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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I'm just gonna do these like no one's listening.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

It's a wolf! Sort of! With the colour palette of the Rubber Soul cover. Am I going to draw galloping strange wolves for every Beatles album? Of course I am, come on now.

It's Napa, you doof. NAPAAAAAAA #OnlyConnect

Look at this thread of skrunklecats. LOOK AT THEM

poorly drawn cats@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 4d ago

i need the skrunkliest of skrunkles. the ones that look like crinkled tissue. mango pits. send me the pictures in the comments

Episode 2 of @thedailytism.com sitcom It's A Superpower?? is out now! Slap on some headphones, and listen to some of the strangest audioscapes an ear could wish for. We know who everyone is: now shit gets to go WEIRD. Search the title on yer apps, or gerrit 'ere: thedailytism.com/podcast/

It’s a Superpower??

From the team behind The Daily Tism and A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs comes the first ever sitcom by and for autistic people. Wait, surely that’s illegal? It’s a Superpower?? follows Norah, Sop...

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Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

@mrnotmoro.bsky.social "Britishitizen." I misspelled "British citizenship" earlier. Now it's a portmanteau going round my head and I have no other outlet for it but you

" Ich, Geoffrey Chaucer, minor bureaucratte and woulde-be poet, am heere to helpe wyth sum tippes on how to staye cool yn scole." www.npr.org/2015/09/20/4...

Advyce For The Sesoun Of Returninge To Scole

All hail the return of our favorite medieval advice columnist, who is here to get us through the back-to-school season, including helping us dress for photos and pull all-nighters.

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And this applies to cis people as well. Just because the "truly knowing yourself" isn't as obvious or pronounced for you as trans people... You've still gotta do it. You've got to be able to see yourself, face yourself, all of yourself. You've got to know who you are, beneath all the stuff.

Please look at these ducklings paddling about in a tiny pond

Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends@caenhillcc.bsky.social · 4d ago

Easy like Sunday morning with our Muscovy ducklings

And stfu about 'national service', they did it! We watched them sacrifice 2 years of youth for the greater good & the establishment barely drew breath from crying about lost dinner parties to call us all lazy & resume kicking. Climate collapse. Entry level jobs destroyed by fucking AI.

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth

Tiny scribble for #smaugust2026 (In ballpoint pen on old scrap paper, because junk tools are a way out of stiffhandedness, at least sometimes)

Things are awful, but I put a whole zucchini on a pizza, and it was nice.

Oh no, I listened to ep one again and got brainfluenced #redvelvetdisappointment

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · last wk.

Five autistics walk into an autism support group - before immediately realising what a stupid fucking idea that was. And that’s before the mysterious earthquake and useless magic powers. It’s a Superpower?? Chapter One is out!! allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower

when i was diagnosed age 10 we went through ALL SORTS of things that were said to "help with ADD" - weird little exercises meant to light up parts of the brain which left me with knee problems, omega 3 oils in my orange juice for breakfast, limiting foods with E numbers, not allowing me any sugar...

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”

Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far

DerkHerkenbersh@dochackenbush.bsky.social · 6d ago

Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far

RAAAAAIIIIINNNN

Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 6d ago

New by me for Sky & Telescope: Jupiter's moon Io is surpisingly fluffy. Also, it's fun to get data from a new (to Io) kind of instrument at a previously studied world! skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far

"The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall."

Save the real Hollywood. Save the Hollywood wher anyone kan go and worke harde and make dreames appear on screene. So much ys gone alreadye, but do not let it all fade and crumble and disappear. Save the real Hollywood. newrepublic.com/article/2136...

There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.

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