📖 TFW you realise a deadline is this week rather than next week and you have ~350pg to read in 2d to complete the homework assignment in time! 😳😰 50pg/d is more my usual pace. This is gonna be tight… 😬🫣 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

The 20pp #Blakes7 magazine created for the Northern Horizon convention in August is now available as a digital download. The modest cost will be donated to their nominated charity North Tyneside Age UK. Available now from www.bit.ly/b7digital

👨‍🏫 A tag inside a used book that arrived in the mail today has led me to learning about a former chain of 🇬🇧 bookstores I was entirely unfamiliar with. I’ve also got the TinTin books, but haven’t read them since I was a kid so I missed the name reference. Today was a school day! 🚸 📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

📬 New #BookMail just landed on the 🚪 mat! This is @justinarobson.bsky.social’s “Natural History”. I first heard of this book from The @scifiscavenger.bsky.social over on #BookTube, and was reminded to check WoB following a recent episode 👇 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #SeptemberBookHaul 📦

📖 #TheGuestCat is helping me read my latest tome, @adapalmer.bsky.social’s “Too Like the Lightning”, 📕 of the “Terra Ignota” series. This is me going off my September TBR, after a chance to read it along with a #BookTube channel cropped up at a convenient moment 🤗 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

click the '#BookSky Directory' button below to find all the #booksky genre feeds! we have science fiction & fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery & thriller, romance, nonfiction, literary fiction, and audiobooks! 🪐📚🎧📚⚡️📚⏰📚🌶️🖋️📚⏳📚💡📚🩸 new 👉🏻 video only feeds & one for the #booktok community too!

❄️ Frak! First frost of the season. Feels early too. Got another bout of this tonight it seems 🥶 The 🌶️ and 🫑 plants in here are not going to be happy. This’ll slow them down for a while. Still tons of unripe pods within ☹️ 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🎧 The one in which @jasoncompton.bsky.social tells us that “we talk to learn,” and I‘m certainly gaining some learnings from listening in to the chaps talk on topics I possess only a thin sliver of familiarity 🤓 Very interesting stuff. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

😚🥰😊 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🌶️ LOLOLOLOLOL!!! I love this time of year! 😊🥰😍 I haven’t completely cleared the plant, but there’s some spice in that punnet 🤗 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🗞️ The amount of this coming from 🇺🇸 on a daily basis is 😳 I know 🇬🇧 has its own brand of it too, this past decade, but we’ve been thoroughly outdone in 2025 😬 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️

With the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) taking book entries next month, we're looking for a few good volunteers to join us as judges: spsfc.space/2025/09/19/j... More than a few, actually. #SPSFC

🎄 First advent calendar offer in my 📧 📨

🚨ARC GIVEAWAY🚨 🌊 Locked boat murder mystery 🌊 A world haunted by digital ghosts 🌊 Dark Academia after the world ends Drop a wave 🌊 in the comments, like, repost and subscribe to be in with a chance to win an ARC of @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE! UK/IE only, closes 23:59 BST 30/09

🕰️ Where did the day vanish to?! 😟

🍰 Made Apple Cheesecake w/ fresh 🍎 from McTavish Manor Gardens. I cocked up and got store-brand cream cheese which is really watery. So mix didn’t thicken up and topping will sink 🫤 Should’ve got the proper stuff! 🤦‍♂️ Probably should’ve broken up crumble chunks more too. Pre-baked 📸👇 👨‍🍳 #AmBaking 😋

From the creative mind behind the legendary FREEZE64 comes a brand-new, A5 brilliantly quirky 36-page gaming fanzine dedicated to the treasured ZX Spectrum. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re thrilled to present: **FREEZE-ZX**! Grab your copy today from: freeze64.com/freezezx-iss... #ZXspectrum #Speccy

🎲 Immediately entered this @solarisbooks.bsky.social giveaway on The #StoryGraph, and a few others that TSG suggested to me while I was at it 😆 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🥋 I have vague memories of this one, thinking it was probably my entry point to the genre though I wasn’t to turn into a player within it. Reckon I played the Speccy version though @superchartisland.com notes this was “not the same game but impressively close in feel”. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming

obviously the internet has become awful etc etc but I've just really enjoyed this gaming streamer I watch excusing himself briefly so he could stretch and walk for a bit, explaining that he needed to "unshrimp", something I'd never heard before but got immediately, isn't language great

🕹️ Just watched this @evercade.co.uk deep dive into #RoguecraftDX by @badgerpunch.com. This was a great view into an unfamiliar scene, particularly the making of in the latter half. I first encountered #Evercade via @kdsbooks.bsky.social 🧵: bsky.app/profile/kdsb... 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming

📊 Taking inspo from some of @joelstainer.bsky.social‘s reading goals, I went and looked up some award list Reading Challenges in The #StoryGraph. There are loads to choose from! 🤓🤗 I picked a few ‘winners’ categories and immediately TSG shows me my current scores! 😍☺️ 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I love a good asset mismatch. Comments on Facebook were gold.

👨‍💻 Really cool update for the #ZXSpectrumNext @specnext.com over on KS. Loving seeing the prototypes and the revisions being made 🤓 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️

🏍️ Trying to piece together the 📺 times and channels for #BSB #AssenBSB this weekend. It’s a bit all over the place it seems, bouncing around channels and streaming. Going to have be on my game to catch the vital stuff this weekend.

⚡️ Making 🍕 and while putting some recycling away I noticed the boiler is burbling away. Hmmm 🤔 Then I notice the lights aren’t on on the router. Ah, boiler is rebooting itself. Yup, another momentary power cut. Well, I don’t actually know how long that one lasted for, but they’re usually brief.

🍕 Prepared some Pizza dough, so I know what I’m having for dinner tonight 😋 Spotted a pair of ripe looking 🫑 growing well out in the garden earlier, so will be having them. 🍅 🧅 🌽 🌶️ 🧀 🫑 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱

🤓 Oh, a theme that caught my 👀 We were chatting about our %-age re-read rates for 2025 after @scifiscavenger.bsky.social first brought it up 🧵👇 Now @sfgeek.bsky.social has highlighted a re-read each quarter. I try to read a non-fiction each month (ish). What 📖 goals do you have? 💬📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🤓 I do like a good stat, and @scifiscavenger.bsky.social raised an interesting one below 👇 So I looked up my own data on The #StoryGraph and determined that I am bang on a 5% reread rate for 2025 so far. Likewise I have far too many books unread 🫣 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🛎️ Oh great, I now have a Chat notification that I cannot get rid of! This is now a permanent feature on my display😏 I saw the toast appear, @vip-8888.bsky.social, so I know this is your fault! 😂 I do not have access to DMs I’m afraid, and I did not realise Ascension was still a thing 😯

🎧 The one in which @victorehunter.bsky.social gets excited about playing older games on the Nintendo DS rather than looking at remakes and remasters! 😆 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻

🎧 The one in which @seththevoz.bsky.social treats us to some historical factoids on by-elections, with some surprising data nuggets 😯 Interesting points! @rmcunliffe.bsky.social asks “tell us about Churchill!” And I thought she meant there was a 🐶 or 🐈 named Churchill! 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🧟 I am a yuge fan of #DyingLight, love these games, great to see them constantly being updated too. Loads of things to do, places to see, approaches to take. I like to assess a situation/mission, load up, execute the plan, but be wary at night because scary AF 😱 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

🍞 Prepared some bread dough, went through all the folding and first prove stages 🕰️… Knocked it back, rolled it into ball, left it in a Banneton basket for a ~1h second prove 🕰️… …then went to read a book, bit of gardening, popped podcast on 🎧… 3 HOURS later I remember about it! Frak! 👨‍🍳 #AmBaking 😋

📖 There’s a glimpse of ☀️ so I grabbed bonus #HammockTime to start @robjhayes.bsky.social’s “Death’s Beating Heart”, the fifth and final book of “The War Eternal” series. Reading with @nssecretbookaholic.bsky.social and @lisadoeslife.bsky.social from the #BookTube. ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🔊 The one in which @drkatedevlin.bsky.social chats with @alexvont.bsky.social about a 🤖 future. “It’s just so baked into everything. So how do we resist when we can’t escape it?” “So it’s not that we’ve under estimated it, I think we’ve been ambushed by it.” 🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

📬 Oooo, new #BookMail from @saltpublishing.com just landed on the 🚪 mat. “Chimera” by Alice Thompson, “deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros.” Delighted to discover 🔖 inside too 🤗 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #SeptemberBookHaul 📦

😆 “cheat code to my wallet”! Absolutely robbing that line 👏😁 🪐📚💙

the obvious explanation for this is that until at least 1260 BC, the people of the outer hebrides lived for several hundred years and that their heads were interchangeable, much like lego figurines. the real mysteries are when they lost these abilities and how we can help them get them back

THIS TIME IT'S WAR! We're picking up our pulse rifles and getting on an express elevator to Hell. Yes, we're watching Aliens. Stay frosty. Wherever you get your podcasts.

If I saw Melania glide towards me down a dark Silent Hill corridor, I’d shit myself.

📲 As I’m downloading this episode I noticed The. Emphasis. On. The. Episode. Title! What could that mean?! 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻

⤴️ I‘ll shortly be taking a slight detour off my September TBR! So naughty 🤭 One of the original three BookTubers that YT presented to me back when I discovered #BookTube mentioned they‘d soon start reading a series I have on my shelves. So I decided to follow along 🥳 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🍦 Ice Cream Van Man is working it 🎶 this evening, despite it being grey, damp and overcast 🌧️

🔊 The one in which @rostaylor.bsky.social suggests: “Everyone should read books that they originally read when they were an adolescent, because they’re so much better second time around and you see so much more.” 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🪫 Battery charger no longer wants to play ball 🔌 Went rummaging in my cable box for replacement power leads, but ended up digging out my collection of assorted fuses from a toolbox to see if replacing the fuse would light it back up. Sadly not this time 🫤