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Keith W. Dickinson

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Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist. #SafeSpace 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 keithwdickinson.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi New Followers 👋

You've made a wise choice. 👍

As well as posting silliness and hope for a better world I also write books (full of silliness and hope for a better world). Start with this free book of shorts written to introduce you to the #steampunk world of Hammersmyth.

mybook.to/hammersmyth2

Book Cover for The Hammersmith Tales (spelt with a y instead of an i). A beige background with shadowy images of cogs and clock faces. In the bottom right corner sits a grey cat wearing brass goggles and a green scarf. H elooks out at us with a lopsided grin. His tail is segmented with metal joints and his eyes have mechanical irises. The book's title is across the top in red and gold. Written in white below it says "A collection of steampunk shorts from the author of", then in yellow/gold "Dexter & Sinister Detecting Agents." Below that is the author's name in white, Keith W Dickinson.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 42m

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1h

Edinburgh hitting the dating scene hard!

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3h

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 2h

Our publisher, a former archeologist, concurs. Also: the comments are mostly A+.

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2h

I was reminded recently of the fun fact that the Cadbury's Caramel bunny (voted 3rd sexiest cartoon character of all time) was voiced by Miriam Margolyes (drawing on her experience making adult audio tapes for sex shops)

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The Cadbury Caramel cartoon Bunny, seductively offering candy, wearing a big pink bow round her neck. Alongside middle-aged grey-haired Miriam Margolyes

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

I'm already tired, and it's not even noon.

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 6h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social · 5h

Let's have another round of: Things that people say to authors at comic cons...

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Things people say to authors at comic cons #4

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Kingland, apparently.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 20h

Mr England is setting the tone here for Europe which is very much What The Actual Fuck. The only thing impressive about this is that it's not actually the worst that Europe has to offer.

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes

Cover of Atlas Shrugged, but with new title "Atlas needs you to spot him like $20 billion", 1st argentinian edition

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

This was written in 1978.

Sound familiar?

The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

From 'The Power Of The Powerless' by Václav Havel.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 4h

This is today! If you're in the Humber area, come hang out with a bunch of lovely sff people & listen to me talk about books, murder, dragons, & more.

Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 12d

I'm heading down to Beverley in a couple of weeks to talk to the Humber SFF group about my books. If you're in the area & like big fantasy stories about dragons, murder, & characters kicking against the system, then please come along.

Author photo of Andrew Knighton next to the cover for his novel The Executioner's Blade, featuring a grey-haired woman wielding a sword in front of a dragon. Between them, details for an event:
Humber SFF
Andrew Knighton
Sunday October 12 from 6.30pm
Upstairs @ Monk's Walk Inn, Beverley

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

They're having a big jog at the end of my street and all I can hear is people drumming. And whooping. Lots of whooping.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 13h

Come on, where is a company like MARVEL supposed to find human artists who can do superheroes on a tight turnaround?

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 13h

Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.

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Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al.
"Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes."
(via: searcher_gold | X)

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 21h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Well, that's me off to Oslo in November. No idea what I'll do there except I've got a ticket for the ballet on the last night. I'll probably just wander about a bit lost, eat some food, and take lots of photos of things the locals find boring but which I think are fascinating coz they're foreign. 😋

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini: “We have returned, like we’ll always do.”

A cat sits in a window. Beyond a completely destroyed city

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Theraponies. 😊

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Hadn't thought about Helsinki. I went to Stockholm last year and it was lovely. Can recommend that.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

That's the plan (maybe). I need a couple of days away. Also thinking about Copenhagen. It'll be one or the other.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 23h

It is not too late, on this, #BookshopDay, to wander into your local bookshop (be it chain or otherwise) and order a copy of A Short History of the Future: 42 retro themed #sci-fi short stories, including some award winnners. From @northodoxpress.bsky.social, promoting Northern writers.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

As much to fly to Oslo and back as it is to get the train to Carlisle. FFS.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

I've got one in. What about you?

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 1d

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 1d

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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