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Penelope Friday

@penthewriter.bsky.social

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Novelist (Bella Books & Nine Star Press) and Regency Period writer. This is my happy place. Find photos of cats & Cornwall, good news, funny things, updates of writing, and always ALT TEXT! #writersky No alt text, no follow. http://penelopefriday.com

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 14

Honestly, I think I’m proudest of my novel “The Sisterhood”. It’s cool (to me) because it’s focused around a real historical truth which gets little publicity: the way women fought to abolish slavery in the 18th and 19th C; but is also a lesbian romance.
www.bellabooks.com/product/9781...

Sisterhood, The – eBook

www.bellabooks.com

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Would people be interested if I started offering random useless snippets of Regency information on a regular basis?

It might encourage me to keep writing the introductions to different sections of my book on the topic and/or contact publishers with proposals about it.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

I’m neither young nor a woman but about to follow you because I liked your photography and I checked and also like your politics :)

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

That’s an awesome visual on its own, but the perfection of it in terms of the photo is amazing!

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Have a quick look at your ratio here, please, and consider what it says about the Labour Party.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 2d

THE FUTURE IS OURS TO SHAPE

Let’s be bold
and rewild & restore our lands, forests, oceans.

Let’s be clever
and rethink & reshape our global economic & political systems.

Let’s be defiant
and refuse to be complicit
in the idiocies of warmongers, oligarchs & wannabe kings.
#photography #rainbow

Partial rainbow across the ocean. Photo taken this afternoon in Koserow on the Island of Usedom.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

ugh, I’m sorry.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Also I’m two days late because apparently I don’t know the days of the week. My body is having a bit of a nightmare and I genuinely thought it was Sunday today!

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

*suspiciously.

I nearly spelt it with an h at the end this time, too. Perhaps Ares just doesn’t trust my typing…

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

What’s this? Is it @penthewriter.bsky.social a day late for #Caturday again? Perhaps that’s why Ares is looking at me so susiciously in this picture, suddenly alert as if he thinks I’m Up To Something…
#cats
#CatPhotos
#photography

Toy get cat whose front half is sitting up, alert, but his back half is still curled up in a nest of duvet and curtain. He is staring straight at the camera with suspicious green eyes.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the same vein,

“I would follow you back, but you don’t use alt text, or you repost a lot of people who don’t.”

I check the TL of everyone who follows me, and if they post at all, I follow them back… AS LONG AS THEIR POSTS HAVE ALT TEXT.

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · May 11

I see people saying

“I would use alt text but I keep forgetting!”

Thankfully, @bsky.app has a setting for that.

- Go to Settings
- Then Accessibility
- Toggle “Require alt text before posting” to the active setting.

Now Bluesky will remind you to add alt text to all of your posts.

Bluesky Accessibltg Settings menu

Alt Text submenus

Options are:
Require alt text before posting
Display larger alt text badges

Both have toggles for on or off.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

Being decent etc in the face of correction may feel hard the first time, but it gets easier the more times you do it, and what’s more, when you end up having a *nice* conversation with someone rather than an argument, you go away feeling so much better. Learning to apologise has been so worth it.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

It’s also not funny for precisely the same reason…

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed, and hard agree.

Tiny thing…but “disabled people” is sort of preferable to “the disabled” (like you wouldn’t say “the trans” as it’s generally considered depersonalising. Not meant as criticism, more info for future use, if that makes sense?)

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

I wanted to make this view of #Penzance look as much like a postcard as I could. Do you think I succeeded?
#CornwallPhotos
#photography
#Cornwall

A view across Penzance, with the sea in front and behind, in the town, a church “with ears” (the four little turrets sticking up from the tower, which is a typically Cornish style, and used to be something we looked out for on journeys to Cornwall as meaning we were getting close to the destination). It is all in faded colours.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

Ah! That makes more sense! Yes, you don’t want to have sex matters thrust in your face necessarily all unexpected like :)

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 9d

Why tf is this labelled “graphic media” by bluesky?

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 18d

stop thinking right now

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 18d

I have been slacking on photos of #Cornwall, so have one of Drift Reservoir.

There is a lake in the middle of the picture (technically a reservoir, but lake makes it sound prettier and it is quite picturesque). On the far side are rolling fields of green grass, rimmed with hedges, in typical British tamed countryside fashion. On the near side, browning bracken grows, then stumbling yellowy grass. The sky above is a light blue/grey, reflected in the colour of the lake.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 29

This is another rather nice story. Read about the fish doorbell, if you missed it back in March.
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Fish Doorbell: the underwater livestream saving fish in the Netherlands | Discover Wildlife

A canal lock in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been making a splash with its underwater livestream. But what is the Fish Doorbell and how is it helping local wildlife?

www.discoverwildlife.com

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 24

And another really positive story. They increased life expectancy by 75%, so people lived 4 years at each stage of illness they’d expect to spend 1 at.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 24

Huh, you know, I don’t think I quite realised that ignorant and ignore came from the same base until then. So to be ignorant is literally to ignore the information, whether through refusing to learn or refusing to hear because it’s inconvenient…

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 23

Wow.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Sep 23

Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed

A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.

Due to the light they're hard to photograph.

Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 23

Yes. Yes it does.
*hugs or if you are not a hug person, painkillers that actually work*
Also very much solidarity.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 23

You actually have to make a real effort to be that ignorant about climate change if you are in his position, I think. In his time, scientists *will* have spoken to him about it, so he will have to have looked carefully for the 0.01% of scientists who say there’s any doubt at all.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 23

Alt text, please, for future posting? It also helps people find things because the words used in alt text turns up in searches So if you put your name there it’ll reliably come up with the book name (which it won’t being just in your screen name, ime).