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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
bona-books.com
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/06/2026
When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."
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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026
Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE
DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat. 

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."
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Paulina Ganucheau @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🌈Happy Pride Month🌈
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 31/05/2026
A reminder that the victims of Unbound's theft are still suffering while the people on charge, who spent their money, have got away scot free.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remember: there's no difference between a fan watch and a hate watch in marketing metrics
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/03/2026
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Damn Harrison Ford should get an Actors Award for Best Actors Award speech
youtu.be
Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards
YouTube video by Netflix
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Starmer, son of toolmaker: we can win in G&D Hannah, actual plumber: hold my wrench
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
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danniemcq @danniemcq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
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aptitudor.bsky.social @aptitudor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Just in case anyone needs a good happy cry today.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 15/12/2025
A painting of a bird beside the text "all i'm asking for is one bullshit-free day"
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 04/01/2026
Sorry, guys, you got the wrong Pendragon. You want that Uther Pendragon.
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Von Hitchofen ™⍼☈♅ 🛩👹😬 @vonhitchofen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
Four men in parkas forcing a furious polar bear into a cage.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Funny story. I originally submitted this as "A Haunting, A Vacancy." The kind of title you're *supposed* to use. The acceptance was complicated, and energized me. I asked the editor if I could change it. It deserved a playful title. He said yes. And I forever changed how I titled things.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
An absolutely shocking story in two parts and outstanding journalism to boot. Part one www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
sheffieldtribune.co.uk
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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Megan Paasch @meganpaasch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I have a third cartoon in the current Private Eye. I'm fully expecting to appear in Pedants Corner with this one.
Cartoon drawing of James Bond. He is saying "It's 007.. or +4407 if you're addressing me from outside the UK"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Oh no, someone’s torn the cover off my dictionary. And they’ve ripped all the pages out of either end.. It just goes from bad to worse!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/09/2025
I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.
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Death & Milk @deathandmilk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
‘Crater’s Edge’ - artwork for an imaginary PS1 game ☄️
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
it's real support from actual racists
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BBBen and his Big Brass Band @bbbengames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#OnThisDay, 12 Aug 1990, American Sue Hendrickson finds the remains of a T Rex, the largest specimen found to date, in South Dakota. The fossil remains are now known as Sue and are on display in Chicago. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
Sue Hendrickson with the remains of Sue the T-Rex. Sue the human is a white woman with blonde hair. Sue the T-Rex is some fossilised bones embedded in rock.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again
Foreign correspondents

> “Broke Britain’s on the edge of financial disaster, Labour’s out of its depth — and people are angry. I’m scared for what’s to come.”
— Andrew Neill, Daily Mail, 22 July. Brillo lives largely in the South of France



> “Migrant hotels are radicalising Middle England.”
— Guy Dampier, Daily Telegraph, 22 July. Dampier lives in Germany



> “Small boats and sky-high legal immigration will continue to wreak demographic havoc. This change is permanent. Millions of immigrants from clashing traditions will bring only more of their friends and families. None of these people are going home.”
— Lionel Shriver, Times, 24 July. As Shriver explained in her column, she recently moved to Portugal, having previously migrated to the UK from America



> “Epping proves the police are the paramilitary wing of the left.”
— Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 25 July. Littlejohn lives in Florida for much of the year



> “All the online censorship & superinjunctions can’t keep the English down. Regime change.”
— Former MP and Telegraph columnist Douglas Carswell commenting on footage of asylum hotel protests, X, 3 August. Carswell lives in Mississippi



> “Unless our leaders get a grip — and fast — exasperated communities will turn vigilante. Then things could get really ugly.”
— Isabel Oakeshott, Daily Telegraph, 4 August. Oakeshott moved to the UAE in January for tax reasons
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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 17/07/2025
Might be worth sticking some more signatures on this - not because the government'll *do* anything about it, but because it's another way to show that these asshats don't have the support they think they do: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... (Also transphobia *shouldn't* be a protected belief)
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Stop "gender critical beliefs" being protected under the Equality Act
We think removing the protection of the Equality Act for "gender critical beliefs" could better protect trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. It could support organisations to properly protect ...
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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The first Cabal short "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day" was published sometime in 2004, but I can't be more exact than to a month. To me, however, the first publication of the novel in 2009 is his "proper" birthday, and that's today! Happy Birthday, Johannes, you irascible bastard ❤️
Original Headline hardback cover for JOHANNES CABAL THE NECROMANCER (2009).
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aptitudor.bsky.social @aptitudor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin/Claire North as a TV show, would love to see the paternoster square scene fully visualised. And then Butcher of the Forest by @premeemohamed.com as a film or mini-series!
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.
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aptitudor.bsky.social @aptitudor.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Can't believe Peter David has passed away. I can quite honestly say that while I enjoyed comics beforehand, his run with X Factor is what really cemented my love of the medium.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
yurt glampers? president of the netherlands?
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aptitudor.bsky.social @aptitudor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Well, Israel has once again fucked with the public vote.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Tumblr post by chongo blog from August 22, 2019: Can't wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say "hey, remember when we were all freaking depressed? That was a crazy time. Glad we aren't like that anymore"
Reply by Ampersketch from May 10, 2025 (marked yesterday): Hey
Reply by chongo blog, same day: Don't say anything
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Will the media finally do their job & ask No.10 who blocked the arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar during his UK visit? It’s astonishing the PM insists he had no role in blocking a warrant for an unindicted war criminal. So who’s lying? Because someone is.
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Mara Joy @marajoyloves.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Keir Starmer remains a spineless coward with no principles, no moral compass, and absolutely no compassion. News at 11.
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aptitudor.bsky.social @aptitudor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If his spokesman isn't immediately fired for misspeaking, then Starmer needs to go instead.
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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Only three more days until I can finally eat my 17th Easter Egg of the year.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.
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Jude Melon @jcmelon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
If you've seen one bear attack, you've seen a maul.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵
side view of a British destroyer, with two funnels, at sea.
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
(to the tune of We All Live in a Yellow Submarine) 🎶 The world's gonna end in a really stupid way, a really stupid way, a really stupid way 🎶
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