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Justine Crow

@swimble.bsky.social

South London born co-owner of the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy

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A nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in separate ICE cages.

A Threads user says "And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and seperated them from the babe lying in a manger. They threw them each in cages, because they were not native to Bethlehem and foreigners were not welcome there."
-Luke 2:16 CNV (Christian Nationalist Version)

A nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in separate ICE cages. A Threads user says "And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and seperated them from the babe lying in a manger. They threw them each in cages, because they were not native to Bethlehem and foreigners were not welcome there." -Luke 2:16 CNV (Christian Nationalist Version)

Nativity photo from Seattle.

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Loon

16.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Listen to the crows, the crows know…

13.11.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Pumpkin with Jon’s sign off - Fight Evil, Read Books

Pumpkin with Jon’s sign off - Fight Evil, Read Books

Stepped out of the house this
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step

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True Welsh poetry

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I really enjoyed answering a few questions about my book for the Bloomsbury website. Read it here: πŸ‘‡

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Truly

18.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A whole department spent months coming up with Hash Brown Topple Tower. And they were paid for it.

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Tomatoes in lllinois is also the title of a book I hope to sell one day, possibly short stories but always thoughtful with no blood or twists. Just a quiet tale that blushes to a conclusion

05.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How can you tell?

29.09.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thankyou comrade x

13.09.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks John. Only just venturing back out of the cave.

09.09.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He ran the Pan Bookshop for several years but as a friend of and a reader for Sonny Mehta, he was often β€˜upstairs’

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15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language. How we use it, how we weaponise it, and what happens when we rely on other to define ourselves. ...

If you're in Liverpool next month and fancy hearing me think out loud then please come along to the launch of THE DEFINITIONS. I'm occasionally cogent and, if you get me on the right topic, borderline interesting, and there'll be wine, good people and great books. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...

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13 Aug 1942 // Two former French drifters in #RoyalNavy service, Pierre Descelliers and Intrepide, were bombed and sunk at Salcombe, Devon, in an air raid. Three men on the Pierre Descelliers were killed, along with a local woman who had come aboard from her boat to deliver water. #WW2

13.08.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Still traumatised. What a waste of nerves. Didn’t even mind getting 2 tinnies confiscated for being over the limit once finally in as the release was so damn sweet.

13.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Therapist: …like right now, what’s in your head

(don’t say it, don’t say it)

Me: Zombie

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GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter? How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.

Not everyone is impressed with the latest Chat-GPT update
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...

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Placcy glass on a car aerial

Placcy glass on a car aerial

And a good time was had by all

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This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too ***

On the morning of July 31, Israeli military forces, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived at the site of one of the two propagation units of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in the West Bank city of Hebron.

They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Kinnell

08.08.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m a thicko and my only talent is passivity (oh, and freestyle egg poaching) but it thrills me. I think the answer is MORE Proms stuff for us to watch. Way more. Hours of it. And all of it. Hundreds.

08.08.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, 38 MILLION

07.08.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah, you’re alright.

07.08.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fgs Nick

06.08.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am up at @edfringe again and I will be administering the prestigious πŸ₯„AccoladlesπŸ₯„ once more.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.

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Hell yeah

05.08.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDown at yer local nick… He’ll ring you back..”

01.08.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.

People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.

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Hear, hear!

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