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I'm sure this won't happen again soon. Anthropeum.com · Jul 3 2026 🟩🟦🟩🟦🟦🟦🟦🟩🟩🟦 87,800 · top 1% of players today!

Conservative religious formalwear: four men in lace dresses, matching yellow satin hats and WHITE GLOVES AND SHOES. Their leader wears a purple cloak that needs two tall men to hold its skirts open to display his gold embroidery and lace tunic while he walks. Out-performing in high decadence.

Went to check on frogs but garden took me by scruff of neck so I had to do an hour's weeding to tidy up the shameful bits, remove the orange chickweed from strangling the agapanthus, cull the feverfew to let the potentilla have a turn, deadhead roses and pull up gone-over foxgloves and sweet peas. 🌱

See, if you do Anthropeum early, a not that great score will put you in the top 8%, whereas later in the day it would merely be in the top 60%. Anthropeum.com · Jun 29 2026 🟩🟩🟨🟦🟩🟦🟩🟨🟩🟦 72,798 · top 6% of players today!

@sophiasgaler.bsky.social I loved loved loved How to Kill a Language, Sophia, fantastic book. But Cornish was not felled. We are here. Omma yth eson ni. Bew on ni hwath, we live still. And we are growing. It hurts to see our name listed among the dead.

Archaeologist knits socks to research soil stratigraphy. I'd grade that report as an A* 🧶 www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/kni...

Wren's nest above our front door.

Margaret Irwin was a tremendous writer.

Well, this made me laugh and shudder at the same time. But I KNOW Jim read my book: he couldn't have rhapsodised in his review so intensely, with actual details, if he hadn't. I feel safe. I believe him. (That review came out ages ago.) gnofhorror.com/horror-books...

We're in production. 💙📚 peachfieldpress.uk/2026/06/27/r...

Was supposed to be in London today, but heat says no. I got an instant train ticket refund from www.splitmyfare.co.uk Moved my Whistler ticket at @tate.bsky.social to next month at no cost. Moved my Queen's frocks ticket at King's Gallery to next available date ... in November. For £2. Fan ON.

Illegal Israeli settlement gradually engulfing Umm al-Khair, and the football pitch with it. www.eyewitnessblogs.com/children-on-...

*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.

Why is Musk operating on hundreds of monkeys at a secretive location in Texas? To put Neuralink chips in human brains. This is horrifying. open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

Today I made a cake & did the ironing (before house got too hot) found the electric fan and plugged it in wrote an article on an archaeology find polished and sent off a book review of this EXCELLENT novel by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social next, ice cream. www.wizardstowerbooks.com/shop/of-the-...

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Well the end of his speech had me in tears.

Our WH Smith has had its door locked by bailiffs and the lease repossessed. I don't know why the asset-stripping new owners bothered renaming it TG Jones if they were going to let the chain die. But I hope an independent newsagent will arise from the sorry ashes.

Good grief. Who ARE these people?

This is crazy. Businessman who revealed alleged corruption in South Sudan has been kidnapped from Nairobi and driven to across the border www.ft.com/content/5056...

We have the best library at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, packed full of ancient astronomical books. This one is (apparently) in German? Anyone interested in helping us find out what it says? Danke! 🙏

Getting better at Anthropeum. Top 10%! Anthropeum.com · Jun 18 2026 🟦🟦🟨🟩🟦🟦🟩🟥🟦🟩 73,966 · top 10% of players today!

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

Terrific story here about 'authoring' with LLMs. skywriter.blue/@alwaysthese...

A brief report on why I'm at @gladlib.bsky.social again. peachfieldpress.uk/2026/06/17/h...

I wrote about Schiaparelli's memoir. katemacdonald.net/2026/06/16/s...

Madame Cholet for Prime Minister

Repost if it's true 📣 Always and forever, right to our last breaths. 🫶🏳️‍⚧️

I'm putting together quarterly lists of forthcoming SFFH books published by small presses. I do my best to find the info but I can't possibly know every press or release, so I have a submission form. Please share broadly with small pubs, authors, and everyone & their dog so I don't miss a release 👇

Infuriating. Exploitive. Stigmatizing. And, I think, criminal. 🛑 🛑 🛑 Autistic children being injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Reality: NO evidence to support. Classic "scienceploitation".

Enter your name into this NASA image generator to have it spelled out by various rivers and landmasses. You can refresh 🌎🔭🛰️ science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

Finally. The definitive guide to Andycore. Or Burnham Style. open.substack.com/pub/thejaggy...

IT IS TIME 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 GO THROW MONEY AT STRANGE HORIZONS 💵💵💵💵💵 SPREAD THE WORD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

One of last year's frogs came to visit.

another Happy Pride Month, Hippies! Anthony Hurd (American, b. 1975) "Feeling One's Oats," 2024 acrylic on canvas 26 x 32 in.

Getting my animal fix at Three Counties Show.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

@themerl.bsky.social I think you should do a game like Anthropeum.com. In which county was this bonnet goffered? Is this cart from Somerset or Lancashire? Lincolnshire hurdles, or Worcestershire?

Well, yes. Ghostbusters with women in it was easily the best one. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

I don't play games on screens, but I REALLY like this game. Anthropeum.com · Jun 10 2026 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨🟨🟦🟩🟨🟩 63,606 · top 47% of players today!

Remember when Michelle Obama did anything?

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

Checking the proofs for RADICAL MAGIC. I've realised that it's a bit Bridgerton-adjacent, but with magic, much less sex, and more accurate historical detail. Plus elfins. peachfieldpress.uk/2026/06/08/p...

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

It really does. I'm still getting licensing income each year through ALCS from books and chapters I published 15 years ago: not enough for a holiday but definitely enough to buy a nice frock, or do a workshop, or a pay for a night at Gladstone's Library.

All praise the mighty swifts. #WorldSwiftDay [AD=video shows swifts flying into their nestboxes which are built into the walls of a building, and then inside, sitting on eggs.]

I don't bet but I do love a ghostly voice from the past advising on a snall non-life threatening decision, and getting it right! www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...