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Una McCormack
@unamccormack.bsky.social
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NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981.

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Garak and Bashir on upper pylon 3
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Next month, London! My first play "The Failure of the Century" will have its staged reading as part of Talos Fest, on 12/13!

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November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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caylen.bsky.social
a “Space Force”, if you will
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
we need a department of kerning
The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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annecharnock.bsky.social
The best hour of my week! @backlisted.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social
@iammilliam.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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First day in @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social was fantastic!
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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acarpen.bsky.social
Easy to forget the campaigning involved in improving basic food hygiene bsky.app/profile/groo...
groomb.bsky.social Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Jun 30
#OTD 1957 the British Egg Marketing Board began stamping a crowned lion with the grade and packing station of eggs as a sign of freshness. Liverpool’s Bessie Braddock was the politician behind it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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acarpen.bsky.social
How many pop stars do you see dancing with their local MP these days? Bessie Braddock MP (Labour - Liverpool Exchange, 1945-70) died on this day in 1970. She had been an MP for nearly 20 years when this was taken with a 21 year-old George Harrison. Braddock was a huge supporter of music in Liverpool
beatlesarchive.bsky.social Beatles Archive @beatlesarchive.bsky.social · Aug 27
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
24th March 1964. Beatle George Harrison takes to the dance floor with Liverpool MP. Bessie Braddock at
the Carl-Alan Awards ceremony at the Empire Ballroom.
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You 24th March 1964. Beatle George Harrison takes to the dance floor with Liverpool MP. Bessie Braddock at the Carl-Alan Awards ceremony at the Empire Ballroom.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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commapress.bsky.social
SCI-FI COURSE w/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀

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November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Exceptionally beautiful tribute to David Jackson on the #Blakes7 S2 Bluray. Well done @tobyhadoke.bsky.social.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
unamccormack.bsky.social
Extraordinary that this might be a thing actual people are saying.
stevenperkins.bsky.social Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d
anybody trying to tell me that Wes Streeting is “charismatic” is going on a list of people whose judgement I will not trust on any subject ever again
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Shop!

Christmas is coming and this is an ideal gift for anyone living:

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And Other Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Quantick, David: 9781738514946: Books
Buy And Other Stories by Quantick, David (ISBN: 9781738514946) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Last Saturday we took over a cotton mill, and subverted the workplace by filling it with music and art and drama - This Slavery came alive before our eyes…

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Scarlett and Sophie (in costume) sitting in a life-size cartoon kitchen from This Slavery graphic novel
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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As a kid/teen I LOVED The Fast Show, so I was delighted when @charliehigson.bsky.social invited me on his fantastic history podcast. Episode "The Far Right History Hijack" is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Far Right History Hijack
Podcast Episode · Willy Willy Harry Stee... · 21/10/2025 · 54m
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October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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faduda.bsky.social
Four presidents
Mary McAleese, Catherine Connolly, Michael D Higgins, and Mary Robinson in Áras an Uachtaráin, 11 November 2025.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
Calling fans of @whatsfsaid.bsky.social & great middlegrade books!
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ewacat.bsky.social
oh HELL YEAH www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
unamccormack.bsky.social
And it can keep on fucking off.
unamccormack.bsky.social Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 2d
This week can fuck off already.
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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dancoxon.bsky.social
Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder).

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248. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm — Backlisted
Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick ( Veep ,  The Thick of It ) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller  The The Eye of the Beholder  (1980). David ...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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nmamatas.bsky.social
Look, the film opens in Heaven with James Bond stealing an angel's wings after strangling the angel with harp strings, then he throws a halo at the pearly gates to keep them from closing all the way, he flies out sideways and finds himself back on Earth reincarnated into a royal corgi.

It's easy!
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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ikax.bsky.social
Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!
Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
unamccormack.bsky.social
Bust of Rosalind Franklin in the gardens of Newnham College
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut
A sticker with an illustration of Kurt Vonnegut holding a cigarette. There is text around him in an arch styled after the original cover of Slaughterhouse 5. It says "We are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different," punctuated by Vonnegut's drawing of an anus.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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A large, hairy monster Muppet with a bulbous orange nose and lower lip barely containing two pointy teeth looks out from under a mining helmet with a frown on his face. At the bottom of the picture, a caption has been added: "You're never involved, are you, Avon? You ever cared for anyone?" (I'm picturing the word "cared" being half-roared in frustration.)
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"YOU. BETRAYED. ME?!"
Kermit as Blake getting shot Miss Piggy as Avon shooting Blake
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM