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Joanne Hall

@hierath77.bsky.social

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Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, woke hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · Jun 6

New pinned post - currently slush reading novellas for @wtpress.bsky.social with @rozc.bsky.social . If you have novella length SF or F we want to read it!
Also feel free to ask questions here before you submit.

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 4h

*passes the brain bleach* sadly I wasn't kidding.

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 6h

UK people- this is happening on 27th November and it would be really useful if more MPs were to go. You can write to yours w the form provided.

@greenparty.org.uk
@yourpartyuk.bsky.social

www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 8h

Me, cheerfully skipping through the pictures..."looks nice, rural, be lovely if it was....WTF????"

Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 10h

Alright, who wants to make this horror movie? www.futurepropertyauctions.co.uk/property_det...

Auction Details - The Coach House, Innellan, Dunoon, Argyll - GUIDE PRICE £74,000

Property Schedule

www.futurepropertyauctions.co.uk

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 9h

Gorgeous!

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 9h

I'd advise against it.

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 13h

No, the other one.

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 14h

The absolute worst of the worst.

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 14h

Penblwydd Hapus I ti!

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 14h

Sending love x

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 22h

Well, I've had an absolutely lovely day. The David Bowie archive was brilliant (in fact I want to spend at least a month just wandering around V&A East), and we had a really nice meal out with Rob and Courtney. And Ian Watkins is dead so that was an extra cherry on the cake :)

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 22h

If you're not British and you're wondering why British people are largely expressing satisfaction at the death of Ian Watkins, DO NOT Google what he did. Really don't. It is hideous and distressing and you dont need to know. If there's a hell, he's going there, alongside Hindley and Brady etc

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · Jun 5

#MSH45 | June 4, 1980
Seventeen days after the eruption, the 304th Air Force Reserve found Robert Landsburg three miles west of Mount St. Helens. In his ash-covered bag: camera, film, and ID—all shielded.

Published in National Geographic in 1981, his photos became iconic records of the eruption.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 23h

So that some good might come of this, I'd like to encourage everyone reading this to make a donation towards Barnardos' work with victims of child trafficking. Here's the link.

@barnardos.org.uk

donate.barnardos.org.uk/donations/

donate.barnardos.org.uk

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 23h

Milankovitch cycles—infinitesimal shifts in the planet's rotational axis that allowed marginally more sunlight to hit the planet over millennia—repeatedly brought the Earth out of its ice ages.

It was mad to think that 1.3C of heating in, like, a century wouldn't totally destabilize our climate.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 23h

And by "in" I do of course mean "into a horrible boiling pit in hell, which is where you deserve to be, you pedo scumbag".

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Get in!

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reading The Girl From 1000 Fathoms by @dergullen.bsky.social

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 1d

And frogs, apparently...

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so excited!

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d

#travelling week! I am in a coach. We're going to that London to see the David Bowie archive with @chf-ldn.bsky.social !

a man in a suit applauds with the words yay written on the bottom

Alt: David Bowie, in a suit, applauds with the words yay written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d

Prynhawn dda Nora!

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d

Llandybie

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 2d

*raises eyebrows yn cymraeg *

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2d

Shocking evidence revealing the extent of mental health problems suffered by people working in Wales’ creative industries has led to the launch of a major initiative aimed at addressing the issue ✍️ Martin Shipton

New initiative to combat poor mental health in the creative industries

Martin Shipton Shocking evidence revealing the extent of mental health problems suffered by people working in Wales’ creative industries has led to the launch of a major initiative aimed at addressing...

nation.cymru

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