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Thomas D. Lee

@thomasdlee.bsky.social

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Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him) Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London Worried about climate stuff Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 9d

Can't wait to hang out with cool author friends in Brighton at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 🥳

I'll be on the Politics in Fantasy panel with @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and other exciting people at 13.00 on Halloween itself (because there's nothing scarier than politics in 2025 🤣) See you there!

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Frances White @franceswrites.bsky.social · 11h

🐇 💀 COVER REVEAL 💀 🐇

I’m SO excited to reveal the UK cover of my next novel, The Bone Door! A fantasy/horror escape room novel, coming 7 May 2026

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone need a good proofreader or queer sensitivity reader? A friend of mine is going through a rough time at the moment and could do with some paid work. She has loads of experience with editing & proofreading, and I've paid her to do sensitivity reads for me in the past. DM me if interested.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy ☺️

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

At least the meat tastes like it's supposed to 🤣

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Depressingly common in academia. There's a lot of wagon-circling going on.

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Is this how we decide custody battles, now?

"We'll let the chicken decide..."

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Never try to make a pasta bake with vegan cheese. I speak from experience.

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 3d

😆 Adorable

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 5d

CONGRATULATIONS, this sounds amazing and I can't wait to read it

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 5d

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 6d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

If you're opposed to opposing fascism, the opposes cancel out and you're just fascist

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 6d

Not before noon, but thanks for asking

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 6d

Typical Green erasure 😉

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

doomscroll break

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 7d

The opposite of nominative determinism

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 7d

Has anyone spotted a gammon-faced King Arthur in the wild?

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 7d

You'd have thought that misspelling the word 'Britain' on her conference pamphlets would demonstrate the benefits of studying English

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 9d

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 9d

'Hengist, if we murder Vortigern, where are we going to put his corpse?'

'Ah, I'm glad you asked, Horsa. I've invented something called a 'barn...'

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 9d

Oh cool!! Backs up the whole Susan Oosthuizen hypothesis about 'The Emergence of the English', that the Saxon settlement was largely peaceful and gradual. If they're building barns in Oxford in 6th c. then they're not violently fighting the Britons.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 9d

Email [email protected] with the name of your works and ideally a screenshot proving that they've been stolen

(I'm not the first person to share his address here, but I hope he's not getting too much spam!)

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