Acton Bellatrix Lestrange 🧙‍♀️
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Dead serious about crushing the Capitalist Patriarchy. Likes to embroider The Thick of It quotes. I listen to David Bowie instead of eating my feelings. Renegade.
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I have just read a genuinely terrifying short story from this book and am half way through another one. I made a good pick choosing this. (The short story was The Ship of Silence by Albert R. Wetjen)
The image shows the cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley. The design is part of the “British Library Tales of the Weird” series. The cover features a striking blue illustration of a large anchor descending into swirling ocean depths, with ghostly tendrils or seaweed coiling around it, suggesting something eerie or supernatural beneath the waves. The background is dark, almost black, creating a strong contrast with the vivid blue artwork. The text is printed in a white serif font at the top and bottom of the cover. The image shows the back cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series. The background is dark, with white and blue text.

The top section reads “WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIKE ASHLEY” in blue uppercase letters. Below is a blurb describing the book: it speaks of “choppy waves,” “the choking darkness of the abyss,” and “tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown.” The summary highlights eerie sea stories — sailors facing nightmares from the deep, a tormented U-boat commander, a ship trapped in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea, and supernatural revenge.

Further down, a paragraph introduces editor Mike Ashley, describing him as the author and editor of over a hundred books and a leading historian of popular fiction, with notable works including Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers.

At the bottom left, the cover design is credited to Mauricio Villamayor and the illustration to Enrique Bernardou. The price (£10.99), social media details for the British Library (@BL_Publishing), ISBN (978-0-7123-5236-9), and a British Library logo are also visible near the barcode.
actionbell.bsky.social
oh mate some of her love poetry is so steamy! *fans*
They did us dirty!
actionbell.bsky.social
*dances around her room* BEHOLD today's book haul! #booksky
A photo shows six books laid out on a bed with a yellow and blue blanket. The top row includes Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher, The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, and The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick. The bottom row features The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea edited by Mike Ashley, and Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin. The arrangement shows a mix of fantasy, horror, historical nonfiction, and classic speculative fiction.
actionbell.bsky.social
ICE Barbie is such lazy casual sexism and not needed here at all. There's plenty to criticise about Noem and her statements without denigrating her because of her LOOKS. Lazy, offensive journalism.
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“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.
ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.
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Morning all! It's 8.30, I'm up and ready and this lipstick fucking slaps!
Image of the head and partial shoulders of a woman wearing green cats eye glasses, with their septum and both nostrils pierced and wearing cyan lipstick
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'We're no more real than money '
Wow, what a banger of a quote this is from Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
The image shows a page from The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. The visible text reads:

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THE PENELOPIAD

Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money.

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The page has a cream background with serif text, photographed in warm lighting.
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danny.page
giving the nobel peace prize to someone who approved of indiscriminate military strikes on civilians is an indelible stain on the award.

but enough about Barack Obama,,
~ Aftermath
President Obama reduced the number of United States Army soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but expanded the use of unmanned air-strikes on these countries, as well as Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia. '12]
In 2016, President Obama joked in an interview with Stephen Colbert that even he didn't know
why he had received the award.!!13]
Analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that the United States Army dropped 79 per cent of all 30,743 coalition bombs in 2016.
Obama has been at war for longer than any other president in US history. 14]
The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. "Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for."
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actionbell.bsky.social
Re-listening to The Book of Dust - The Secret Commonwealth in preparation for the final book of the series and my GOD do I live Michael Sheen
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oh this is an absolute banger. Best Jamiraquai song. Safe. #totp
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Dame Bowers is probably the worst at lipsyncing out of any band I've seen perform on #totp but I appreciate the throwback to a band I'd also almost repressed
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I love hippie I can date this episode by the outfits as much as the music #totp
actionbell.bsky.social
If absolutely forgotten that Peter Andre had released more than one song. I think that was repression. #totp