I'd forgotten the joys of #amQuerying Agent 1 - open every full moon, query on form, 5 pages, sacrifice to old gods. Agent 2 - open 3-5 days every 4 weeks, 35.7 pages, shoe size, life history. Agent 3 - open once a decade on blue moon, 320 pages, draw pentagram surrounded by salt & MS in middle.

Menopausal potionista, Cass, needs a job–magic costs are sky-high. Petsitting her cousin’s wyverns sounds easy until she's embroiled in murder, race fixing, and her teen son’s kidnap. Hot flush-powered rage saves her job . #DVPit #A #F #Mys #Dis #CI

Cass, her teenage son, and his anti-phoenix deal with murder, wyvern race fixing, and kidnap with a hot flush-powered traditional manor house library showdown. #DVPit #A #F #Mys #Dis #CI

Good tips. I'd also say establish reading as a habit when they're young but don't worry if they don't read much for a while. Mine didn't read much at high school but has now gone back to it even though he doesn't 'need' to for his uni course.

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

A joint statement from Green Party groups in response to the recent organised far-right activity. Signed by: Black Feminist Greens @disabledgreens.bsky.social Feminist Greens @globalgreens.bsky.social @jewishgreens.bsky.social Latinx Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk @younggreens.bsky.social

'Adult content' is anything suggesting people have bodies now?

ChronicleLive - The Chronicle@chroniclelive.co.uk · 4w ago

The event takes place in Druridge Bay in Northumberland, with hundreds taking part

The ads on Merriam Webster's blossom boss are so horrifying I have to cover them with a box!

So the creator WheelieMSAdvocate has created this petition - if they won't listen with their plans... time to make them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK

Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awarene...

petition.parliament.uk

Yay, my son got the grades to go to Durham uni! Really proud of him.

Could be darker because eclipse but could be cloud 🤷‍♀️No danger of blindness here, anyway

Uncharismatic, green revolution, and single malt

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

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Wensleydale.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

Still sniggering to myself about a FB (I know, I know) uni parents group that had a load of people moaning about their kids being indoctrinated into being Marxists. I'm hoping mine will come back as a Marxist feminist - but he's hoping to do engineering so unlikely LOL

TBF most of the article is fairly good but this bit is ridiculous! How far from the sea do you have to be for opportunities to be halved - we're 2 miles-ish, does that mean we have half or 1/3 of the opportunities or some other random fraction?

Sam Whyte@samwhyte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ever read a take so stupid that you feel like it's just punched you in the face?

Look Out, There's a Monster Coming by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBzU...

Look Out, There's a Monster Coming (2007 Remaster)

YouTube video by Bonzo Dog Band - Topic

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Spooky Becky Tyler Mulder@beckytylerart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.

I guess the world cup stadium doesn't have enough toilets so they have to have a long break so everyone gets to have a wee 🤷‍♀️

buy @jessicalewisauthor.bsky.social's book! bookshop.org/p/books/hall...

Hallie's Rules for a Recovering Romantic

Perfect for fans of Erin Baldwin and Elise Bryant, this sapphic rom-com--a companion novel to Nav's Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love--stars a girl determined to reinvent herself, in life and in love...

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If football was always this fun I'd become a proper fan.

My exceedingly small and unreasonable hope that Burnham is going to pull a reverse Starmer (pretending to be centrist to get into power then pivoting left) is going to be dashed today, isn't it?

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Wait, The Telegraph is on here? Shit. Must block them!

Who even needs AC when there's a drunk girl with a fan cooling half the passengers on the train?

I'm going to have to stop scrolling and get a life - everything is 1) Heatwave - which I haven't got even though I'm in England or 2) Fucking air conditioning which I haven't got because of 1

Had to go in my polytunnel this morning to see how the rest of the country are feeling! (It's 24C here- outside the polytunnel)

I thought this was about British politics for a moment.

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026

I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.

petition.parliament.uk

Sending coal to Newcastle is out of date so we can now adopt giving guns to Belfast as the new saying.

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The second amendment can be hard to defend because when things are going even moderately all right, you do not need to own a gun When shit like this starts happening, though, it's a damn good right to have

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

petition.parliament.uk

Thanks for the pin @jamiebgall.co.uk And Happy Pride. Thanks for the sticker too!

Trans people need your help - what can you do? It’s been a pretty tough year for trans people with their rights being written down by the nonsensical ‘For Women Scotland’ Supreme Court judgment, … translucent.org.uk/petition-on-...

Petition on restoring trans rights

Petition on restoring trans rights - calling the trans community and allies to mobilize against a new draft code that implements a flawed court ruling

translucent.org.uk