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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · Jul 7
“I love writing and have learnt from experience that even when it’s not going well there is often some bit that is worth coming back to another day.”

John Maguire interviews Emma Morgan, author of Beggars Would Ride:

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Emma Morgan Interview: Beggars Would Ride - 10mh.net
Emma Morgan interview - 10 million hardbacks talks to the author of Beggars Would Ride, out now from Northodox Press.
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On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social · 23h
As the saying goes:

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a massively distracting fucking rumble.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 22h
More like bouncers now I think of it.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 23h
We've got to somehow stop these dweebs reading cool stuff. It melts their circuits.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 23h
We're still posting pictures of our younger selves when we know they train LLMs on those things? 👀
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 23h
Were they breaking up the fight or were they gonna have a pop at the winner? I'm not sure!
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 23h
It was a bit grey and grimsome but they looked incredible. The noise was awful though!
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 23h
My grandad told me a story of a bus that had its brakes fail on one of those hills and it crashed into a house. They rebuilt the house and then another bus came along with dodgy brakes and smashed it up again.
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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · 1d
Words have consequences and the far-right's toxic rhetoric on immigration is putting people at real risk.

Charities doing vital work are facing increasing threats daily. Hate in all its forms has no place in our society.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff
Voluntary organisations forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property
www.theguardian.com
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
It's all go around here, Stu 😂
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
Anyway, a pair of crows showed up and it's been silent ever since. Good for editing, bad for my need to know who won the Magpie fight.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
Been told it's siblings scrapping over who gets control of the garden. There was mid-air combat! One took a bit of a hit from flying into my neighbour's swing! Two were on the floor pummelling each other while the other two sat on the fence and shrieked at them! (What's magpie for GET HIM?)
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
Don't want to perpetuate the stereotype that people who work from home are easily distracted layabouts but there has been a magpie BATTLE going on in the back garden and I've been glued to the window for 10 minutes.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
Devvo'd for them today, they showed so much heart. Massive improvement since the derby but that final half hour was too much for them
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
Ahhhh heartbreak at Anfield, they deserved something but got nothing. Onwards, Reds ❤️
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 1d
What a goal! #LFC #WSL
Scoreboard at Anfield showing Liverpool 1, Man City 0
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 2d
Man City throwing everything at Liverpool, but we've been resisting all the pressure so far. C'mon you Reds ❤️
#LFC #WSL
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 3d
Many thanks to all the librarians at Hebden Bridge @calderdale.bsky.social for this magnificent display of Bluemoose authors with a nod to the upcoming @bbc 6 part b series of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social . Brilliant.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d
‘Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding.’

Listen to Seamus Heaney read ‘Scaffolding’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYB...
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d
School trip there sometime in the early 80s looms large in the memories. Keep thinking I've got to go back one day!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 3d
From the archive, my thoughts on FLÂNEUSE by Lauren Elkin.

A captivating combination of memoir, social history and cultural studies on notable flâneuses - including sections on Jean Rhys, George Sand and Agnes Varda. I adored this one! #BookSky 💙📚

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Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
When we hear the word ‘flâneur’, we probably think of some well-to-do chap nonchalantly wandering the streets of 19th-century Paris, idling away his time in cafés and bars, casually watching the in…
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d
10 October 1943 | After the selection of 1,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Drancy, 491 people were immediately murdered in the gas chamber.

One of those killed was Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish artist from Berlin. The author of the autobiographical series "Life? or Theater?: A Song-play".
A girl, Charlotte Salomon, painting outsite. She is sitting surrounded by grass. Self portrait of Charlotte Salomon.
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d
My great grandparents and their families are in NW Wales then, all having Welsh as their first language 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d
Set myself a sort of target to read every day in September no matter how busy it got and I made it! (When the line gets very close to 0 that day was just 5 pages 😅)
Great encouragement to put the screens down, thank you @thestorygraph.com
Graphics from the Storygraph showing the books I read in September, from Naguib Mahfouz, Rachel Seiffert and Vigdis Hjorth and pie charts of fiction (100%) and print (80%) to digital (20%) PLUS a chart showing how many pages each day
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 4d
The cackle I let out 😂
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Rich @richardsmart.bsky.social · 4d
Haruki Murakami is probably pleased to see people dunking on a different person unlikely to win a Nobel.
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