I want to promote writers and historians who are excellent writers, who write about ancient history and myth, but who don't get enough attention because they weren't a mega famous comedian first: Let's do a thread - feel free to add your own

Ooooh, this is gonna be a mess www.thebookseller.com/news/editors...

Same rules apply to this as the Tom Holland Umbrella video. See it, watch it, repost it. Prince here is EXTRAORDINARY.

'The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.' 1/2

IDF using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals and threats of sexual violence. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

#posterpit #a #t #spf #sf #w TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION ELEVEN A literary spec thriller featuring people in their 30s seeking art & kinship in a digital age & confronting their buried memories

#posterpit #A #F #H for fans of Heather Fawcett and T. Kingfisher, Macarons and Monsters follows a neurodivergent anthropology student terrified of fairies who discovers her sweet tooth and self-acceptance in Paris. What will scare her more: eldritch horrors or academia’s systems of oppression?

Inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian, Willow, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. #PosterPit #RF #NA #Q 🧙‍♂️A wizard struggling with his powers 🗡️A GNC thief with a grudge 🤪 Dysfunctional found family 🏹 Lots of armed men 🥕Cursed Carrot Fields 💘 Antiheroes find true love?!? WHEN REGULAR QUESTS WON’T DO

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #PosterPit #W #A #F #H

Can't wait for Franchaela in Bridgerton's fifth season? While you wait, shall I suggest my sapphic historical fantasy filled with family drama, dangerous magic, and so much yearning? 🌹 1908, Belle Époque, France 🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance 🗝️ Cozy *and* Gothic #PosterPit #P #A #F #HF #LGBT

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE When she becomes haunted by shadows and a mysterious stranger with eyes of fire, Augusta is forced into a desolate world she’s only ever dreamed about, and must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice everything to save it. #PosterPit #A #F #W #Q

THE ARGONAUT'S SON #PosterPit #HF #LGBTQ #Myth #Q #A #AmQuerying The Song of Achilles x The Women In Ancient Greece, when one man's dream of family and brotherhood collides with another's quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

Locrian Ajax, crushed by a massive rock and his own hubris, while someone quietly punts on by in the background. Thomas de Leu commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lo... 🏺 #ClassicsSky

The endgame of AI is that everyone has to rely upon the magic box to tell them everything they need to know. All hidden behind a paywall. No money = no knowledge. We're sleepwalking into capitalist idiocy.

Equilateral Cat #DevonRex #FelineTrigonometry

The whole idea that women's toilets are some large-scale social interaction and sisterhood is a nonsense. Get in, thank the forest godess that there's loo paper, wash your hands and dry them and get out again. My interaction and concern about what other women are doing in the loos are negligible

Marshmallows have the mouthfeel of dusty slugs and don't taste much better (I imagine)

"Superficial readings of Homer lead audiences to imagine that heroes are admirable. What each epic shows, however, is that the vast majority of people in heroic communities suffer because of their excesses... neoskosmos.com/en/2026/04/0...

Trump needs neither goading nor whimsy being attached to all the insider trading and profiteering he's facilitating. Every which you turn it, it is grim.

🥳Cover reveal for 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'🥳 Now officially available to pre-order with an early bird discount (though I'm not sure the release date on the website is 100% set in stone yet) www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Gladiators-i...

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Daffs, irises, forced rhubarb, and a job lot of purple sprouting broccoli. A good morning on the allotment! 😊 🌱 #gardening #AllotmentSky #Flowers

your reminder that Anne Frank died of typhus while in a concentration camp

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It's taken days for this to reach any mainstream media. How can these uniform wounds be explained by splinters? It's claimed the father used the child as a human shield. Rubbish. Torturing the child to force the father to speak? Disgusting! news.sky.com/story/gaza-t...

I'm rarely on Facebook, but whenever I dip in for a family announcement / to wish a happy bday, I'm always astounded by the flurry of email notifs after So-and-so updated their profile So-and-so posted photos So-and-so picked their nose SO NEEDY! If anyone were in doubt that we are the commodity...

Huge thanks to @mikebeer.bsky.social for this bumper episode - I just know that a lot of GCSE and A level students in particular are going to find his insights so helpful...

Some of these choices cut deep! I said what I said, tho 1 Ajax Major 2 Hector 2 Patroclus 4 Priam 5 Achilles 6 Menelaus 7 Andromache 8 Memnon 9 Penthesilea 10 Diomedes 11Agamemnon 12 Sarpedon 12 Cassandra 14 Nestor 15 Briseis 16 Helen 17Anchises 18 Glaucus 18 Aeneas 20Odysseus 21 Ajax Minor 22Paris

APRIL - Pitch Events! April 1st, we start the month off with #ChaosPit (chaospit.org)! April 18th, #PosterPit (@posterpitevent.bsky.social)! Then, on April 29th, we close out the month #QuestPit (@questpit.bsky.social)! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying #AmWriting

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

Yifan Zhang, a #contemporary mixed-media #artist known for combining masking techniques with bold, destructive gestures. He builds #compositions in layers, applying tape to preserve hidden patterns before #painting over the surface, turning the process into part of the #artwork #Art @dy_yifanzhang

It's finally coming to London! 🇨🇾 ISLAND OF LOVE blends myth, folklore, history & bio to tell the stories of me, my family and our motherland of Cyprus through the prism of our home deity, Aphrodite: goddess of love, beauty, desire... and conflict. 9 April, Theatre Deli storypickandmix.co.uk#april

Managed to pop into the library without the mini entourage today. Actually got to browse the grown-up* shelves and found this beauty. Ovid reimagined. Not come across Mason before, but I'm rather taken by some of his angles. *Nearly...! 😉

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social To be very clear indeed: 1. The US has started a war of aggression against Iran with the involvement of Israel, which is manifestly illegal under international law (neither articles 43 or 51 of the UN Charter are engaged). 2. NATO is a defensive alliance and

The Wirral is a densely populated peninsula. We literally have huge rivers running either side. Peak Cluster have not explained why the pipe cannot run under water or at least along the coast instead of through communities. Instead, they'd rather allocate £80m for additional deaths. #NoToPeakCluster

This is not just about destruction of the natural environment. It is about long term health implications, avoidable deaths when ambulances face massive diversions during construction, communities being uprooted. Boss 'very confident' £5 bn pipeline will go ahead share.google/eGDFn9vSR1Z8...

Racing heart. Daydreaming. Lovesick. It can only mean one thing. I'm in the honeymoon period with a new short story. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting 📚

Love the myriad ways in which ancient tales can be re-imagined. Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film | Film | The Guardian share.google/BXRnijpYi3JU...

When this article says 'some people' it means everyone, right?? www.sciencealert.com/some-people-...

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Weeding the rhubarb down on the allotment at the weekend and what should I find? Only the best leeks I've (n)ever grown! 🌱

ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors! reviseresub.com/editors

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Yes! This! The foodbank volunteers who give so much more thn 3 days food, those keeping tiny museums running, guarding our green spaces, teaching kids respect & tolerance alongside sport, holding space for our elderly, our veterans, our vulnerable They prove Britain is not broken And Reform hates it

My third novel, The Wandering Queen, is a historical fiction retelling of the legendary Queen Dido - founder of Carthage and tragic heroine of Virgil's Aeneid. Out now in the UK and US! 📚

🎻 Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody's Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place share.google/0bPLbTpjvPV4...

Err... as a woman, permit me not to be reassured Anthropic CEO: We're in the 'Centaur Phase' of Software Engineering - Business Insider share.google/DAIAUf8X5hPC...

So thrilled with this review from the Historical Novel Society, for my new novel The Wandering Queen. The book is out next week, in the UK and the US! 🏺📚 historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-...