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Alex de Campi

@alexdecampi.bsky.social

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Uncle Duke

@uncleduke1969.bsky.social

Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.

A horse looks out from the window of a brick apartment building.

November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Angry People in Local Newspapers

@apiln.bsky.social

Won’t anybody think of the second home owners?

On the bright side, sales of tiny, tiny violins are soaring.

Cornwall Live: Barry, 82, says people like him are going to end up paying a lot more thanks to Rachel Reeves.
Pensioner slams Budget as cost of second home in Devon now
'ludicrous'.

November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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James O'Toole

@jimmyot.bsky.social

Your mother strokes Corgis in Hull.

November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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Sarah Dempster

@dempster2000.bsky.social

The power of Crufts compels you

November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM

Clair Woodward

@clairywoowoo.bsky.social

Via Popbitch. What the actual??? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead

www.rightmove.co.uk

November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Clair Woodward

@clairywoowoo.bsky.social

Naturally, this pisses me off. My parents didn't want to buy their council house, being elderly, and thinking the whole thing was unfair. My sister and I inherited nothing from the value of their property when they died. I subsequently became a homeowner but am going to have to move as I can't...

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 2d

Mumsnet is already on the case.

My elderly mum lives in a London house worth about 2million. She's been there for over 50 years, and is physically and mentally fragile. There is no way she would EVER want to move, the house and her neighbours are her whole world. She has no spare money - at all. (Neither do I, before anyone suggests this!) How is she supposed to manage this? It's not exactly her fault that the value of the property increased so much since my parents bought it all that time ago.

I also have a friend, also in London. Both parents sadly died in an accident about 15 years ago, and she used her inheritance to buy a family home which has also increased massively in value. It's probably also worth over 2 million now! She's a single mum on a lower income with 3 kids who very happy at their local school and within their community - what's she supposed to do?

It's just not as simple as 'you live in a high-value house, you can obviously afford to pay several grand a year' as RR seems to think. And for anyone who is about to say 'oh tiny violin, their houses are worth two million' - both of these situations are complicated and quite sad in many ways. Neither my mum nor my friend can simply just sell up and move...anyone have any thoughts on this?

November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM

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Cliff Chapman VO

@cliffchapman.bsky.social

SEX CARDIGANS

November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Viz Comic

@vizcomic.bsky.social

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs

Magazine Top Tip: Banks: Convince people that you're not a bunch of soulless leeches who brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy, by having a northern person read a poem in your adverts. Matt G, London

November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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Enough Of That Now

@andygilder.bsky.social

I regret to inform you that we are currently experiencing a shortage of very tiny violins due to incredibly high demand

Please wait and one will be allocated to you shortly

November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.

www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal

Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government

www.thetimes.com

November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Justin Lewis

@whenisbirths.bsky.social

Bar book-related plugs and FLA episodes, won’t be on here much for a while. Genuinely quite scared about the future and the lack of paid work. If you know of any book editorial work coming up, do email me (email in bio). PS I do have to work from home at the moment. Thanks c

November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Count Mysterioso

@mysteriosox.bsky.social

November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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Kristi Yamaguccimane

@wapplehouse.bsky.social

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Gail Myerscough

@gailmyerscough.co.uk

I’m not doing Black Friday this year.
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

I’m not offering Black Friday discounts this year because I’m a tiny one woman business and I can’t compete with the likes of Amazon.

What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.

November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Jim Hawkins

@jimallthetime.bsky.social

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

laist.com/news/arts-an...

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

laist.com

November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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Berlin Typography

@berlintypography.bsky.social

Looking for good xmas presents for the Berlinophile in your life? We’ve got you covered…

Berlin Typography and Plattenbau Berlin (both from Prestel Verlag) and the Berlin Type Map (from Blue Crow Media) are available wherever good books (and maps) are sold.

November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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bleary

@bleary.off-the-records.com

This technique also works in job interviews

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 5d

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Aubrey Huff

@aubrey_huff

Fellas, next time you go up to a woman at a bar do this. I've done this countless times, & it works 9 times out of 10.

Walk up to the bar & stand confidently next to her. Order your drink from the bartender & immediately look into her eyes & don't break contact until she does. While looking into her soul shout out to the bartender confidently, "And please my good sir get this little temptress whatever she's drinking."

Introduce yourself in a seductive & deep confident tone which intrigues her sexually proving you're a confident man not afraid to ask for what he wants.

Then make an offhand remark which should make zero sense given the situation. Her curiosity is now peaked.

Then make an offhand remark which should make zero sense given the situation. Her curiosity is now peaked.

When the bartender delivers the drinks, ask him for a napkin & a pen. While you're writing your name & number on the napkin speak these words in your best James Bond impression which should be spoken seductively, slowly, calmly, mysteriously, & with a touch of cocky arrogance, "Nice to meet you sweet tits, & thank you for the drink, I'll be sure to get the next one when you meet me later at the bar I'm headed to."

Just slide the napkin to her, while graciously letting the bartender know to put your drink on her tab. Then simply walk away leaving the bar.

This sounds like a dick move, but you will be amazed how many times you'll get a text wondering which bar she should meet you at. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Justin Lewis

@whenisbirths.bsky.social

NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...

FLA 34: Emma Anderson (23/11/2025)

As a first-year university student, one of the first songs of the 1990s I cherished was ‘De-Luxe’ by the London-based quartet Lush, who were signed to the independent record label 4AD. I was in the…

firstlastanything.co.uk

November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM

Clair Woodward

@clairywoowoo.bsky.social

A movie that takes place where you're from. And the only one. And I'm so old, I remember that the supermarket was Maypole Stores. youtu.be/rQfgDybnEuA?...