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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watership Down is the classic British kid trauma, but mine is a bit unusual - I don't think my dad really understood the concept of books that were too scary for children, so I got read it as a bedtime story!!

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

when searching for a GIF leads Google to think you've fallen into AI psychosis and are hallucinating being viciously defamed by Glinda the Good Witch of the North

a Google search for "Ariana grande why are you coming for me so" (referring to an SNL scene where she plays Maria from The Sound of Music and doesn't understand why the nuns are singing about her shortcomings) results in the AI overview declaring "This is not Ariana Grande. This is an AI text assistant. There is no personal attack happening."

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Another vote for Le Guin (I love her short stories, and A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy classic for a reason) and The Fifth Season (brutal though, be sure you're in the headspace!). And, This Is How You Lose The Time War is an epistolary love story set in the midst of, well, a time war.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Morning Stroll Round Robin Hood’s Bay, painting by Yorkshire artist Hilary Burnett Cooper.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A pope and an antipope in mediaeval Europe go from excommunication to sex communication (early sexting via carrier pigeon, featuring some scorching hot calligraphy). St Peter's Rivalry.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Two contestants on the Great British Sewing Bee come to blows over a skirt and one has to go to A&E to retrieve a sewing mushroom from his rectum. Pleated Rivalry.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Two vets in a small farming community clash over their differing treatment of the same sheep, leading to hate sex in a nearby horse trailer. Bleated Rivalry.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Spending my bank holiday coming up with the next gay series to take the world by storm. Two guys working in different whisky distilleries meet at a trade show and start an illicit romance. Call that Peated Rivalry.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 04/06/2026

I move that these curious and monumental wind turbine parts are the most successful public artwork in Edinburgh in many a year.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ah, Livejournal 🥲

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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This also serves to try and intimidate anyone else from challenging wealth and power btw

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Feeling directly addressed today.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 23/05/2026

centrists and liberals prefer fascists to leftists, who knew

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Well, one out of two isn't bad.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Me @ the endless genealogy/murder spreadsheet that is Crusader Kings 2

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

[to colleague, wearily] streeting wes or wesley streeting?

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Shepherd's Delight- last night's red (ish) sunset at Nrwhaven brings glorious weather today...it works...it works #RedSkyAtNightShepherdsDelight

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

[Clippy voice] 📎I see you're trying to slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings; would you like some help with that?📎

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Seedy E @seedye.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Remembering the ancient ways

Screenshot from a BBC educational website. The expanded section reads:

"10. How to be polite and show respect

In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout

You are trying to view Flash content, but you have no Flash plugin installed."

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I mean, I can be stupid on ten hours of sleep, but, yes mother Ursula 🫡

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

KIM KITSURAGI - Never fuck with Kim Kitsuragi.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 02/03/2026

tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

What in the Maid Marian And Her Merry Men 🧐

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

You will not regret scrolling up for the rest of this thread about the sheer audacity of cats to walk into houses they don't live in and swan around like they own the place Honestly, excellent cat behaviour 💯

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

when they said there'd be bread and circuses, they should have specified that the bread would cost 200% more than it did four years ago and the circuses are only available on your least favourite streaming network for $19.99/month

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: The Reasonably Attractive South

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

papam, papam, I see it the smoke papam, papam, the Holy Spirit has awoooooke papam, and gifted us a pope, papam, papam, he woke or broke?, pa-pam... (Kylie Minpoupe)

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sitting on a little regional Italian train, reading Murderbot with CHVRCHES in my ears as little hilltop Tuscan towns roll by, and feeling pretty fucking serene I tell you

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

When you fuck up so badly that the Ribble Valley goes, Christ, even we aren't that Tory.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually sounds like a pretty decent alternative right now

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Aaaargh. Dear Saltsea Chronicles, if you're going to have a narrative video game, have a bloody resolution!!

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Boy, Steam, it would be kinda nice if the LGBTQ tag wasn't 40% crass porn games.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Still enjoying Saltsea Chronicles, but my god that card game is a chore. I don't know if I'm just bad at it or the AI partner is intentionally stupid, but it's like Bridge if Bridge came with random card values and a penalty for winning too much.

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Enjoying it so far, it's very Le Guin-esque (antagonists have their reasons, protagonists have their conflicts, babies must be cared for, there is always time to play cards).

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Started Saltsea Chronicles, because one can never have too many visual novels centred around post-apocalyptic community and interpersonality (Citizen Sleeper, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, etc., etc.)

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Flu update: spent my energy spoons for today going into town to buy a shirt and tie for the funeral on Thursday that at this rate I will not be going to 🙃

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Flu update: slept 12 hours last night, left the house today for the first time since Tuesday, and made it alllll the way to the Tesco at the end of the road. Then had to make dinner at breakneck speed before the last of my energy drained away. Going to be a fun weekend 🙃

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Jay @aihal.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

It's...not bad if not unpredictable, there are some great moments (especially early on) but some bits of the plot are tracing paper thin, and the supporting cast are a comic relief mess of Brits and Aussies and Emily Blunt planking repeatedly for no apparent reason.

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