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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think perhaps it would be easier if you avoided the situation you mention for your book, unless you are intending a psychological novel, & a fairly warped lot of people.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/10/2026

“There is no objective place.” —Anne Carson, The Paris Review, 2004

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.)

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Found this!

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 1892 #BookwormSat 🎨 by Helen Allingham

Painting 'View over Sandhills' by Helen Allingham
It shows an idyllic summer scene of cottages nestled amongst trees with a cornfield with several figures in the foreground.

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RicksListeningPage @rickslisteningpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NowPlaying🎧🎶🔥 Glastonbury 1994 - @orbital Released on @londonrecords tidal.com/album/545179...

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Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well played, Sarah Connor, well played...

Sarah Connor subtly disguises herself to suggest a new way of resisting Skynet in her article about keeping the robots away for the FT.

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Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to the updated FCA warnings: "Remember that the existence of your species may go down as well as up."

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Applying Freud's principle, we can see that reason safely rationalizes reality for us.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For all its flaws, social media still consistently makes me appreciate how many smart, clever and funny people there are out there.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

𖦹 The Best Of Men 𖦹 I am still so proud of my Folk horror audio drama 🖤 The Best of Men is based on Shropshire’s Satanic folklore. Enter a landscape defined by its stories, where the Devil walks unfettered amongst us. www.buzzsprout.com/411730/episo... #Folkhorror #audiodrama #folklore

An image of the Stiperstones with the words the best of Men on it

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would YOU like to support a friendly, not-for-profit tabletop gaming event? Now in its 5th year, Trick or Retreat is open to sponsorship! ToR is a relaxed residential retreat for making friends, crafting, and a whole lot of tabletop gaming. Find out more at support.trickorretreat.uk

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Sponsorship - Trick or Retreat

Hello, friend! Would you like to sponsor Trick or Retreat 2026? Now in its fifth year, Trick or Retreat is a relaxed event where folks enjoy crafts, go for little walks, and play tabletop games. A lot...

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you do so, please support your local bookstore or buy direct from the publisher. We do not supply Amazon but we are distributed by Gardners Books. Thank you. tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend...

The cover of Penda’s Fen: Scene by Scene by Ian Greaves (Ten Acre Books 2025). Endorsement quote reads “***** ‘Surely the definitive statement on Penda’s Fen’ SFX MAGAZINE”

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 09/09/2026

I mean I did think about it, but listen, the ancient evil made a very compelling case, and --

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

– good lord, Parikian, what on earth is that? – well, sir, it’s rather complicated – yes, I can see – it’s an arboreal conglomeration of small Spanish dishes such as you might find in a slow-moving creek or stream – oh fuck – yes, it’s my… – please don’t – bayou tapas tree – get out

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/09/2026

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this opinion piece was the most-read story ft.trib.al/R2CCsIJ

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 07/09/2026

🗃️ 🐡 For Labor Day, a mystery... Is this a portrait of three workers or one man moving in sequence? A cinematic perspective would have been radical in 1875. Was the artist influenced by early motion photography? I spy only one wine glass. Is it a clue? G. Caillebotte, "The Floor Scrapers" (1875)

Gustave Caillebotte "The Floor Scrapers" (1875) • An Impressionist painting from a high, plunging perspective showing three shirtless men working on their knees to sand a wood floor. Sunlight streams through a large window in the background, illuminating the curls of wood and the linear perspective of the room. A bottle of wine and one glass appear on the far right. • Although the subject matter was deemed vulgar, critics praised The Floor Scrapers for its palpable immediacy and the convincing play of light across bare wood and human flesh.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), New York, 1944.

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Feel like I have to post this insane fight scene from Nemesis

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reggae Britannia, a fascinating documentary about how this wonderful rebel sound changed British music forever. youtu.be/ISL96z47-1o?...

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BBC4 Britannia - Reggae Britannia (2011) Dir. Jeremy Marre

YouTube video by Play For Forever

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today's writing features ghosts & history, two very different ways of experiencing the past.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/07/2026

Transport of a balloon from Lake Neuchâtel to Lake Biel, 1915. Museum Burg Zug www.burgzug.ch

A boat with a large balloon on it. people surround the balloon a ship in the background

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It is awful here today.

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qntm @qntm.org · 07/07/2026

The US Kindle edition of There Is No Antimemetics Division is discounted to $2.99 for this week only!

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Amazon.com: There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel eBook : qntm: Books

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 05/07/2026

It’ll keep you awake: it’s stay sitting up in that chair or get stabbed through the head.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Last day, UK #author folks and narrators! Register your hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, audiobooks (CDs and electronic file versions) for Public Lending Rights payments! And here's the page in the portal with guidance for how to split rights when there are multiple creators (e.g. for audiobooks). 💙📚

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Public Lending Right (PLR) - authors, illustrators - British Library

Published authors, illustrators, editors, translators or audiobook narrators could could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 24/06/2026

24 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.org

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BLEA. Brexit Lived Experience Archive Documenting experiences. Personal experiences provide valuable insights into how Brexit is lived and understood by those directly affected. Recording these accoun...

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ændra. @aendra.com · 22/06/2026

This is razor sharp in a way I've not read from any other writer on the topic. So many lines I could quote. It's absolutely excellent. Go read it.

The queer vote, the, for lack of a better word, ‘internationalist’ vote, are invariably going to be core pillars of any modern centre-left party’s coalition. They’ll put up with a certain amount of performative moderation, given how frightening the alternatives are, but their patience is not infinite. People will not cast ballots for a party that is actively oppressing them, removing longstanding rights, or describing them in dehumanizing terms.

The actual centre-left coalition is bartenders, supermarket shelve stackers, and waitresses. People who live in a big city in a small rental with roommates. Nurses, teachers, office staff. Young aspirational couples in the suburbs. Students and recent grads. Progressive professionals and, yes, academics.

To those who are baffled by the hatred of Starmer from the left, ask yourself, if you were to be prevented from using a toilet, would it matter to you if it was done directly, or through an intermediary? Ask yourself also how people who work service roles might feel about those who outsource ugly, discriminatory conversations to them, in order to keep their own hands clean, to maintain their self-image as ‘decent’ people.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Finally! The Early Recordings Of Musical Youth are out today! Forty-five years since they were first committed to tape; and six years after my first speculative message to their producer and mentor. As renowned reggae fan Morrissey once put it, these things take time! www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

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“And, along the way, there were the moments you dream about when you start an archival record label.” | Pete Paphides

So this how it started. “Hi Toney. I hope this finds you well. My name is Pete Paphides. I’ve been a music journalist most of my life and th

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Run Away It’s The Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New Review - another Clarke Finalist and this time I strongly recommend a trip to the creepier side of science fiction - There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a unique read www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...

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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Penguin Published – Out Now Price –£18.99 hardback £7.99 ebook An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so… These entities can f...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.

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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Pure reason / La raison pure - 1948 #artbots #magritte

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