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@gabliotecaria.bsky.social

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🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · Sep 11

If you want to know how AMAZING @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social is, they somehow *knew* I'd be wearing this top on Loki release day and wrapped the book to coordinate. If you want to know how BRILLIANT @louiestowell.bsky.social's book is, just look at Godzilla trying to escape the frame to grab it!

I'm wearing the loudest hot pink Hawaiian shirt (it literally says Hawaii with illustrations of a sandy beach and hot pink and white clouds) and amazingly the ribbon wrapping my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is white, pink, blue, and orange, matching it PERFECTLY. Best bookshop EVER!

I'm holding up my copy of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos next to my canvas Godzilla poster so it looks like he's excitedly stomping through the waves to grab it off my hand. He would, too, if he wasn't a painting.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 8m

NEW HUX ROMCOM KLAXON!!!!

hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 54m

Tadaa, here’s the cover for my next romcom, Reality Check out April 9th (and available to preorder now!)

On reality tv, what’s behind the scenes will always filter through. It’s f/f, lovers to enemies to lovers, chaotic nonsense with hot disabled babes. 👰🏼‍♀️💓📚🎥✨

The paperback cover for Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones which shows two women in bridal dresses, facing forward but smirking at each other. One is tall blonde and fat, and the other is small and ginger haired. The background is a bisexual fade with confetti and film camera patterns.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 55m

I love the Shuri covers for my series. They were so PERFECT for the story. Fun Fact: The illustrator Sam Spratt also did Janelle Monae's Electric Lady album cover.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 55m

For those who don't know, yes, I have written some Marvel stuff.

For the record: I am the first woman to write T'Challa.

Ngozi, the first Nigerian Marvel character

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 43m

AAAAAAAAAA HUX I CAN'T WAIT

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 45m

ME TOO

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 50m

I know!!! plain salted tortilla chips are perfection

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 59m

Yes I adored these too! Quiet stunners, the lot of them 💜

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Dive back into #theelflands this #spookyseason!

@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!

Against black patterned fabric, four flatlaid UK paperbacks of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS with a silver crown in the middle.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 1h

Over eight months later, this post is still living rent-free in my head.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Jan 20

Well, America, we had a good run. I mean, mostly. Okay, not entirely. *flips through a history book* You know what, forget I said anything.

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Hops 🏳️‍🌈🌊 @hops45.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
My indigenous ancestors were the Tainos of Puerto Rico.

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Toshi the Fat Stoner @pandatoshi.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day and fuck Christopher Columbus :3

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 1h

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

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UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh.bsky.social · 1h

What a fantastic evening for @unisonbarnsley.bsky.social!

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1h

Timeless, evergreen

Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1h

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1h

Thing is, they have made the packaging roughly the same colour as the Chili Heatwave ones, and imagine the horror at getting this instead of the spice

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Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 1h

... No.

Ginger Bread flavoured Doritos on clearance at the mini Tesco, for God's sake. I did not try them.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1h

(but also during summer)

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so over these 'record number of millionaires planning to leave London/England/UK due to tax changes' etc nonsense.

There are a record number planning to leave because THERE ARE A RECORD NUMBER OF MILLIONAIRES FULL STOP. Up by a third in five years.

www.savills.co.uk/insight-and-...

Savills UK | Number of property millionaires increased by 34% over the past five years

Savills UK | News

www.savills.co.uk

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All beliefs are welcome in London – we cannot allow extremists to divide us | Sadiq Khan

Attacks against Jewish and Muslim communities are on the rise, and some politicians are exacerbating tensions by appealing to our worst instincts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

Clanging the bell on this again

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing the children in read auction again this year! Signed & inscribed paperbacks of Cursed Under London and Cursed in the Lost City up for grabs! www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Children in Read 2025

'The Largest Signed Book Auction In The World'Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds a...

www.jumblebee.co.uk

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 11h

LET'S FUCKING GO

International Day for Failure

Date

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

THE INTERNATIONAL

DAY FOR FAILURE OCTOBER 13th

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 7h

Literally already been done, but with Pot Noodle.

Man turns pothole into giant bowl of beans on toast

Ben wants to highlight the problem of huge potholes as the council has not taken action

www.walesonline.co.uk

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