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Gina R. Collia

@ginarcollia.bsky.social

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Anti-fascist. #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 Historian, researcher, writer, editor, bibliophile, vegetarian, rambler. Publisher of supernatural/weird fiction at Nezu Press https://www.nezupress.com/. Haunted Library blog: https://hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 3d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 1d

I used Twitter for book stuff. It was a place to chat with people with the same interests. It was great.

It became X. A place where my feed was filled with racists spouting hate all over the place.

Searching through the hate to get at one decent post was like wading through a sewer. No thank you.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 1d

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

We returned to sections of the riverbank that we hadn't searched for a while, and most of it was under water, but after a little wade about up popped these beauties. The river provides.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Found some lovely little Woodland Inkcaps inside a hollow in a tree trunk.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

More shrooms...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

More shrooms. I like ones that cascade...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Waxcaps...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Yet more shrooms...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

It's lovely to see the pink of the Rosy Bonnets and the gold of The Blusher.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

More shrooms...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

I like the French name for these black ones... Trompette des morts (Horn of Plenty here in the UK, Craterellus cornucopioides).

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

We saw so many shrooms yesterday... More in one go than we've seen for the past few years. So, I'll split them up into separate posts (not in any particular order).

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida), a glistening (on account of the mucous), translucent, white beauty that has a very appropriate name. Encountered growing all over the place during yesterday's ramble, and it was a new one for us. Absolutely stunning.

Porcelain fungus, growing out of a fallen tree trunk, shown from underneath to display the gills.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 4d

Once they're gone, they're gone forever.

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 5d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 4d

And a reminder that this loveliness is also coming out at the end of October.

More info here:
hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Pre-order page is up on the website (global shipping available):
www.nezupress.com/product-page...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 4d

Just a quick reminder that this beauty is coming out at the end of the month.

More info here:
hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/shee...

Pre-order page is up on the website (global shipping available):
www.nezupress.com/product-page...

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 4d

Doris Lessing’s reaction to winning the Nobel Prize in 2007 is always worth a rewatch …
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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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SeaYou 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 10d

#WakeUpAmerica & #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles !

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

Which is why no matter what happens, no matter how much they pull down and destroy to create their idea of the 'perfect' world, they will never be happy. Their 'perfect' world, if they could achieve it, would disappoint them; they'd tear it all down again. For ever.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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