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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 2h

No idea. Sorry.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 7h

Arbutus and Towson are both decent.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 1d

YA came in around 91, because most literate teens were shunning the teen sections.

I read a bunch, S E Hinton, Lois Duncan and some others. It was mostly decent. Top pick would be Janni Howker's Nature of the Beast.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 2d

Someone has dumped a large teddybear in the graveyard.

It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.

I hope there's not a corpse inside it.

A giant teddy bear slouches against a tree stump in a graveyard at night.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 3d

There is a cafė in Colwyn Bay where people just go and make art. Great music too.

It feels like it should be in a large bohemian city.

Ink, Colwyn Bay - my kind of place.

A man in a purple hawaiian shirt, sits in a cafė adorned with artwork.

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Andy Best @andybest.bsky.social · 26d

Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?

It's wide + available to libraries.

UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky #fantasy #sword&sorcery
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Andy's fantasy novel is finally available, and it's wide at all APPS and available for libraries.

Sword and Sorcery. Inspired by the New Wave fantasy of Moorcock, McCaffrey and le Guin. Existential journey in unfamiliar lands. Action, quest and adventurers. A standalone story.

“Everything decays, but the glass’steel decayed at a rate so slow as to be invisible on the scale of a single lifetime. In the sword she saw visions of her home. Her home so far away, deep down in the reflection of her elven eyes, sunk deep in her memory, transferred to the blade, as far away as a million years is long.”

Zana Hala’Kaalni is a warrior princess in exile, untethered from her home, and from her sense of self. Allowing chaos to lead her, she enters a nation on the verge of civil war, a quest for a failed utopia, and the ruins of a long dead era, the lost history of her world.

Aertelis combines the action of classic Sword & Sorcery, the literary themes of the Sci-fi Fantasy New Wave, and the character-driven storytelling of the modern era. Aertelis is a standalone story in the Kalni Chronicles anthology.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 22

Robert Graves' Claudius novels are what you want to read next.

Especially if you're looking for the second world experience fantasy used to give you.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's weird that you know a lot of kids.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 3

You don't know many kids, do you? I teach around 200 year. If you can use Discord, Roblox, or any console you can turn on VPN in Firefox or Edge. It's less steps than logging into a school lunch account.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 2

Mildly harder to watch, and massively harder to regulate content.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dude, they're rigging the face recognition by showing it game characters. They don't have to be savvy, they have to be able to use Google, Firefox or Edge. I do think it will beef up their tech skills a little but it absolutely will not stop them getting porn.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm not sure it was the intention of the UK Online Safety Act to teach an entire generation of kids that breaking the law is easy and fun. But...

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 17

It's a slippery slope.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 17

Women have menopause for like 10 years. That's a health issue that impacts 50% of the world's population for a decade of their lives. I make that roughly 0.6-1.2 billion people at any given time.

HTF is there not a common medicine that helps with this?

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 17

ASCAB?

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 11

The UK heatwave is great. It has reduced all smalltalk to one topic that everyone has the same opinion on.

"Aye, it is hot."

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 11

I was very excited to watch it, thinking it would be a monster flick with bubbling test tubes, those big electric switches, and head clutching transformation scenes. But it turned out to be an effort at serious drama that my parents enjoyed.

Let me know if I'm remembering the wrong version

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 11

TBF, I am guessing she was the female lead. I think I was about 8 when I last saw this.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 11

I think she's the wilting Mina type in this one. Torn between the passion of Hyde and the stalwart feality of Jekyll. I only vaguely remember it, that said.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 6

An AI takeover is not inevitable. But governments and corporations sinking billions into AI tech in order to create further inequality is as inevitable as the narrative that everyone's lives have improved since it happened.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 5

For real

Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jul 5

Fact

Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social · Jul 5

Steve Coogan in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 45% off during the Steam Summer Sale!

Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.

What lies beneath the soil?

Find out here: t.co/nguGAst9vv

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jun 25

Countdown (Amazon Prime) drinking game. Take a shot everytime something mediocre happens.

See if you can make 15 mins without vomiting.

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jun 19

Please find attached, a Hobbsian descent into savagery, including several deaths and graphic descriptions of corpses (human and animal) and running themes of bullying and torture . Written in dense figurative prose, it should appeal to ages 10-13.

All the best,
William Golding

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James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · Jun 16

I have the DVD. Talking Pictures is a surprisingly great resource at times, if they replay Night of the Eagle it's up there with this one.

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