Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy
Carl East
@thecarleast.bsky.social
Manager of award winning bookshop by day, mild mannered janitor by night. Lynx in bio. 🐈
Lots to think about about after The Odyssey today in IMAX. Good to get 30% more image than I would got at the local Odeon, very glad I took earplugs. Weirdly felt no longer than My Old Ass, which we watched last night and it’s *twice* the running time.
In person at a book event I was surprised to find Ann Widdecombe to be polite and chatty. I came to my senses and sat outside the talk though as her audience were rabid tories. Next time I saw her was in Tesco haranguing the staff about the Clubcard offers.
Have just shared my ancient Calvin & Hobbes books with my daughter. Am so glad she appreciates them. Then this nonsense appears on my desktop!
More examples of these please for a distraction prone reader?
Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator@owendennis.com · 2mo agoPerfection.
This is a lovely book if you like real quality quirky comics. David has a fantastic eye and draws a really interesting line. Buy one!
So after a great sold out evening event with Zakia Sewell and folklorepod.bsky.social what better way to finish off the day than a May Eve story from @johnnymains.co.uk Dead of Summer collection?
BBC Radio 4 Today was your guest from Catholics for Catholics John Yep unaware that the ‘one nation under god’ line was added to the pledge in 1954? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_....
Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia
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My tribute to the Artemis 2 crew in the style of Jack Kirby
There’s a part of my heart where I’m really happy right now that these pesky delivery robots in the city are treated just as poorly at traffic lights as we pedestrians are. What’s more: they depend on our help—which we’re allowed to withhold :D
Incredible picture: Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
I'll be in #Exeter on 14th of May being interviewed about THE DEAD OF SUMMER and how putting original themed seasonal books together are more difficult than they might first appear. Link below to book tickets (which are a very reasonable £4)
Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
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I loved this comparison of the two Menaces.
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt’s the 75th anniversary of a man in Dundee called David Law creating the “world’s wildest boy”, who lived in the pages of The Beano, and later that same year acquired a stripy jumper which he never again took off – and in 1968 got a dog as disciplined as its owner: Gnasher 🧵
As we count down the days until The Book Market on Sunday 14th June on Exeter Cathedral Green, we're looking back to the fantastic afternoon of free & affordable bookish activities that was The Book Market 2025! www.exetercityofliterature.com/current-proj...
Is it just me or is this a strange tag line for a restaurant to use?
one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism
Good suggestion, and replies switched of before I could add Longmire. www.imdb.com/title/tt1836...
Longmire (TV Series 2012–2017) ⭐ 8.3 | Action, Crime, Drama
1h | TV-14
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Will McDonald@wmcdonald404.co.uk · 6mo agoJustified. - 78 episodes - little shooty but not gratuitous - 37-53 mins/ep - Timothy Oliphant & Walton Goggins
Every sodding day, more self published novels in my feed with AI slop covers. Can you imagine presenting this to the world?
Happy Meldrew Point Day, Geri Halliwell! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social