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I wrote about my time on the off our backs collective.

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Books I Read in 2026 (as of Feb. 23): junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I Read in 2026 (as of Jan. 2): junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I Read in 2025: junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I've Read in 2025 (as of Sept. 7, 2025): junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I've Read in 2025 (as of Sept. 7, 2025): junethomas.micro.blog

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@Miraz Indeed. Thank you!

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@Miraz I have a question: My partner is a keen cozy mystery reader (several per week), but she won’t read books written in the present tense. Does Martin write in the present tense? (If not, I might have to seek some out, because I haven’t seen her reading this author!)

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Books I've Read in 2025 (as of June 17, 2025): junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I Read in Q1 of 2024: junethomas.micro.blog

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Books I Read in 2023 (updated): junethomas.micro.blog

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The Books I Read in 2023 (as of Dec. 15): junethomas.micro.blog

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@jean One unexpected aspect of moving internationally was being forced to say goodbye to weird souvenirs-disguised-as-recycling like the old FNAC bags we used to find at the bottom of the “bag of bags” from time to time!

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What a lovely obit. I remember that book so well, though I never owned it. www.nytimes.com/2023/04/2…

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This sculpture outside the Edinburgh Council building is called “Everyman,” but is anyone else getting Jerry’s dad vibes?

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So cool to see my latest zine (somehow mine is not “Rebel Dykes”) at the Edinburgh Zine Fest communal table. Open through Sunday evening at the Fruitmarket.

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Three years! I miss my misspent youth!

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A really interesting insight from Hanif Kureishi’s Kureishi Chronicles newsletter hanifkureishi.substack.com/p/a-crick…

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Sorry, boss, we can’t just use the Scottish ads in other markets …

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Sorry, boss, we can’t just re-use the Scottish ad in any other markets …

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@jean Tuned in to The Weekly Review last night to learn it was the last. Congrats on a great run!

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The latest episode of Working Overtime has some really good ideas for how you can reprime the creative pump. If they worked for Claes Oldenburg in the 1960s, they should work for us now, right? slate.com/podcasts/…

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@Brad Madly trying to use my Toby Twitch emojis on this!

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@inknideas I’m so afraid of springing the nib that i can’t bring myself to buy one!

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@annahavron This is amazing news. I was “into” rubber stamps in the 1990s, in the Rubberstampmadness era, and I remember their stamps from back then. So glad to hear they’re still in production!

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@inknideas Ooh, I’m very curious about those flex titanium nibs. I’ll be interested to hear your impressions. The question of whether flex is possible in a modern pen is still open, I think!

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I’ll take two artisanal haggis, please!

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@annahavron Love this. Not sure about a bell, but maybe I can do a pattern of claps when shifting from work to play?!

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@ericmwalk Hope you’re OK. Just this morning I watched a jogger take a spill on an icy hill. (She seemed to collect herself quickly and ran off with her companion.)

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Judging by today’s “In Memoriam” section on Hyperallergic, a career as an artist appears to correlate strongly with a long life.

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That feeling when you know that the way to tackle a big, overwhelming task is to break it down into small parts, but you’re not quite sure what the parts should be!

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I sent some zines to friends in the US last week. Pretty sure all are stalled by the cyberattack that has meant no international mail has left Britain in the last week or so. www.bbc.com/news/busi…

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@junethomas And I can practically recite the tweets that will apparently forever be stuck at the top of my timeline!

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In the however many days it has been since the various Twitter clients stopped working, I must’ve reflexively checked Echofon hundreds of times. It’ll take some serious retraining to reprogram that reflex.

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@jean So sorry, but thank goodness for kind neighbors.

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@Medievalist Aha! I also have a Platinum converter with goldfish.

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@Brad Do Narwhals count?

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I admit to being charmed by the sight of burly blokes eating while wearing paper crowns.

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@onewildcrow So great! I have also made journals with Gelli prints. Going to see if I can find some photos to share!

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@jean Hmm, I asked because I put the pen emoji in a post about inks (not EXACTLY pens, but yes, about pens!), and it didn’t show up. I’m not asking because it’s an amazing post–it’s really not–but just so I can understand the system. (This is the post, BTW. junethomas.micro.blog/2022/11/1…)

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@Miraz I’m not a water person–not even a swimmer–but even I think that seems a bit like paradise!

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@jean Am I right in thinking that anything tagged with a particular emoji should show up in the discover timeline for that “emoji”–so anything with the pen emoji should show up in discover/pens, or is that also a curated list? (Just trying to figure out if I’m using the emjoi correctly–can they go anywhere in a post, or is there a max post length or something?) Thanks!

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@RobinH What a gorgeous animal! I love gray cats!

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@Miraz Thank you, Miraz! I much prefer the series to the standalones, but I’m not sure which ones are available at the right price!

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@collin I know they’re divisive, mostly because of the grip, but I really like Lamy Safaris. Another high-impact, attractive, easy-to-use and inexpensive pen is the Kaweco Perkeo. I have had a lot of QA issues with Kaweco Sports, which are also fun for beginners, but never with Perkeos. 🖋️

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