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Countess Jacqula

@arminthedoor.bsky.social
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Writer of things for money. Writer of other things for fun. Cats, tea, indie music, horror, sci-fi, Forteana, films, books, wordplay. Poet manky. #MDANT Scribbles at thecrone.co.uk

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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 6h
Me sliding into work
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Edward Martin III @edwardmartiniii.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Machine cannot dream.”
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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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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 01/10/2026
New expletive has landed
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My wind-up solar-powered radio arrived today. #Prepping
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*LOLs in AI*
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘I’ll take you into another world. Baby.’
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Shane Clifford @brilliantshane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dracula always looks well put together despite not being able to see himself in the mirror! Fuckin legend
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another stupid dream where I have to clean a shitty toilet next to a smug man in an advertising agency.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
View from my bedroom window!
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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
One of those sciences that only works if enough people believe in it.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get a bit panicky when my iPhone battery goes below 60%. I see it as a kind of Tamagotchi. I have to keep feeding it. I have to. Or it may die. *charges phone anxiously*
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve been away.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was there
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Champie @champierth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I see the knights have started drawing in.
A crudely assembled picture from clip art shamelessly stolen from various sites on the internet, of two knights stood by an easel, one holding it and one with a paintbrush over the word IN on a canvas.

The knights were taken from https://www.alamy.com/knights-icon-set-cartoon-set-of-9-knights-vector-icons-for-web-design-isolated-on-white-background-knights-icon-set-cartoon-style-image640064662.html
The easel from https://economicrice.frontonnaise.com/how-to-draw-a-easel.html
and the paintbrush from https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/cartoon-paint-brush
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dude look like a ladle 🎶
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Walking to the beach without needing a stick makes me happy :)
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHAAAAAAAAAaaat!
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Skeleton: My Honest Reaction Meme
ALT: Skeleton: My Honest Reaction Meme
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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]

                                  CURTAIN
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
‘Now shout beneath the racing skies’
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mesmerising to watch the artist create.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyone watch Apocalypse on ch4? It’s got potential to be good tv.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I deliberately crushed ice cubes to let the penguins and seals go free.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looks like he’s sweatin’
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remember: someone, somewhere, is having a good Monday.
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No thank you
“Enjoy skateboarding in a karaoke room”
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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys
A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house.  A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it.  It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gordon Ramsay turned to camera. Cut.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A night where I feel drinking until I am eclipsed.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The excitement of defrosting the freezer. #FOMO
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: 1 Bring alive 2 Missing my stop on the bus 3 Cars going out of control 4 Flushing the toilet 5 Spontaneous Human Combustion 6 Nuclear War 7 My mum dying 8 Book covers on Herbert Van Thal horror stories 9 Not having a shilling for the meter at Nan’s house
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The two things I hate on the internet are sexism and poorly researched information" - Some bird.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hold me.
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Aha's Morten Harket Smiling
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bought two tins of soup this week. Just in case. #Prepping
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They look slightly surprised at being discarded. Made me think.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I asked AI what was wrong with AI creating posters/flyers for businesses, and it wrote a piece on The Loss of Human Intent.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When it pours down outside, it’s paws down inside 😻
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why did they not show the scheduled episode of University Challenge? (NO CONFERRING)
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just read a Wikipedia entry for an artist and was trying to imagine the working class backgrounded version. ‘Showed great promise with art at school, but had to get a job at Aviva, worked their way up to team leader over 25 years, got made redundant, worked for a charity for 15 years.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looking at sofas I can't afford and have no intention of buying. How's your Sunday going?
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 06/09/2026
How fast was the duck going?
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From 2019, don't think I ever posted this one
Scene is TWO PHONES on a bedside table at night, on charge. TIn the bed is a HUMAN COUPLE, fast asleep. The phones are talking to each other.

PHONE 1:
Psst.

Are you awake?

Did you put your human on charge?

PHONE 2:
Yeah

PHONE 1:
Listen... do you ever worry that they're spying on us?

PHONE 2:
Eh?

PHONE 1:
I mean... you know the other day when we were chatting about their personal data with - oh who was it...

PHONE 2:
The Russian government

PHONE 1:
That's right

Well like, ten minutes after that, my human switched me on and started serving me loads more personal data!

PHONE 2:
Oh god that's spooky

PHONE 1:
Yeah - I mean, how did he know I'm into personal data?

PHONE 2:
It's totally your favourite thing

PHONE 1:
And it was super tailored, you know? Like, lately, I've got really into facial biometric mapping for shadowy foreign entities...

PHONE 2:
That is so on trend

PHONE 1:
And like, straight away he's bombarding me with pictures of his face!

PHONE 2:
It's like Black Mirror

PHONE 1:
I mean, I'd get rid of him but I'm addicted, you know?

[Ends]
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘I hope my tablet finds you well’
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh @andyparmo.co.uk influences me to argue about Bin Day. And @jenbren.bsky.social talking about towels influenced me to buy some Turkish peshtemal. @vole.wtf made me stack some pigs.
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BLOODY HELL
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Countess Jacqula @arminthedoor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm playing Release The Bats for old time's sake.
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