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Death Fucking Metal, ADHD, Humanist, Green, Antifascist. ¡no pasaran! 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🤘 🚮 💚 ♻️ he/him.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We were pylon pilgrims. Each transmission tower a sacred destination in the electric ley of the land. The Hum called us to walk to them, to move under their steel legs and into our temporary temples. We marched lines of electrical ecstasy. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH
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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I heard there was discourse about Batman and money again, so it's time to once again bust out the ultimate take: shelfdust.com/2021/11/03/b...
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Bruce Wayne Should Never Give Any Money To Charity
By Steve Morris One of the most commonly-heard arguments on the comics internet is this: Bruce Wayne should not dress up as a bat, go out at night, and punch the criminally insane. Rather than put …
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, wanna hear one of the most important concerts in modern music history? Orbital just put out their full concert from Glastonbury 1994, a festival that was broadcast live in the UK and marks the moment techno went mainstream orbitalofficial.bandcamp.com/album/glasto...
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Glastonbury 1994, by Orbital
9 track album
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Natasha Pulley's The Salt King investigates a salt farming community that feels more like a cult, pulling together memorable characters and intensive worldbuilding reminiscent of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon:
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Fiction With a Grain of Salt: The Salt King by Natasha Pulley - Reactor
Tobias Carroll is ready for more stories in The Salt King's compelling setting.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2026
rough first week for humans at the intergalactic council. everyone was really nice but we spent a lot of time at orientation trying to figure out what made us unique among all the galaxy's species. turns out we're the only ones who thought to deep fry cheese. that's it. we're the fried cheese planet
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Métal Précieux - Precious Metal (JM) @preciousmetaljm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🆕 200 STAB WOUNDS album « Lowest Form » 19 February 2027 First single « Pangs of Conscience » released today 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have been hunting for boiler paperwork (engineer due any minute). Found it in a pile with a load of old doodles, including this one, which i am fond of.
A shitty drawing of a cat and a mouse. They are in love.

Above them, the text reads:

TOXOPLASMOSIS:
MAYBE IT’S LOVE.
MAYBE I’VE BEEN SENT MAD BY THE PARASITE I PICKED UP WHILST EATING YOUR FAECES.
EITHER WAY, WHO CARES?

Aww.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today's writing of the talk finds me angry, ranting about folklore, Mars and the lie of AI and attempting to curse Elon bloody Musk.
One day, when that billionaire class – as hollow of humanity as their beloved machines – flee to Mars, they will find they’ve unwittingly taken folklore with them. In all their scraping of our collective data, a phantom infection. The ghost soil will continue to be universal, even in Mar’s red hematite dust. Gremlins will sabotage their rockets. Their mad kings will know its terrors, know how it’s the place where our collective ache for justice lives. Folklore will be an imagined knife to their throats. It will be as a Pijavica chasing their bloodlines. Every rocket’s glare will carry it as ineffable cargo. I say this as promise. I say this as curse. I ask you to imagine it true for all at the bruised margins, suffering their greed for power and water. Say it as true story against their false narrative that we need their monstrous AI agents.
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Happy 45th birthday to the best comics panel ever!
Judge Dredd saying "GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD!" and punching the undead Judge Fear so hard, his fist bursts out the back of Fear's helmet!
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Process Driven @processdriven.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We should name hurricaines, typhoons & cyclones after fossil fuel companies.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNMENT THE OTHER DAY I OPENED IT READ IT IT SAID THEY WERE SUCKERS ALSO THERE WAS AN URGENT RISK OF WILDFIRES
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Métal Précieux - Precious Metal (JM) @preciousmetaljm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As promised, the seventh album in seven years. WEREWOLVES is back on October 9th with « You’re Weak And You Know You’re Weak » 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD
New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Day one of a new Labour leadership.... And Green Party membership is rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk
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sam @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026
I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.
A screenshot of an article snippet featuring a photograph of J.K. Rowling credited to Twocoms / Shutterstock.com. Below the photo, a heading reads "J.K. Rowling" followed by "Net worth: $1 billion." Two paragraphs of text follow: "Before she was a best-selling author, 'Harry Potter' creator J.K. Rowling lost her job as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International because she was caught writing creative stories on her computer while on the clock. She used her severance to begin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Today, Rowling is a billionaire, thanks to the book series that has sold over 500 million copies and a blockbuster film franchise."
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hi! Want to see the report JKR forced Amnesty to take down? ⬇️
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Thinking of the couples with divided football loyalties
Johnny Alpha (ENG) and Wulf Sternhammer (NOR) peer grimly through a whole on the cover of 2000AD
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Spare a thought today for the literal fucking devil, who now has to spend an eternity with Ann Widdecombe.
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Wild Card @wildcard.land · 08/07/2026
This Tuesday the @archbishopofcanterbury.org and the members of the @churchofengland.org’s internal parliament, The General Synod, have a massive choice to make that will affect all of us. Will they restore 30% of their land to nature by 2030? #SynodVoteForNature @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.
The coverplate of the book HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE by David Southwell featuring a picture of the Ghost Bear of Hookland by Maria Strutz and the following blurb:

I firmly believe David Southwell’s Hookland to be one of the great 
imaginative achievements of our age. One that will one day be 
spoken of the way Lovecraft’s Mythos is now. Hookland is the 
folklore of the county that exists on the edge of our vision, an 
unseen but sensed Britain that is at once familiar and strange. 
It is the land just to the left of where we live. David’s work is 
made even more remarkable by his open invitation for all to 
come and play there. Though of course visitors to Hookland 
must be wary, the county exacts its price from us all. – R.J. 
Barker, award-winning author of bestsellers such as The Bone 
Ships and Gods of Wyrdwood.

As a visitor I am more frequently in Hookland than the barrows 
and chalk downs of my childhood. – Roger Clarke, best-selling 
author of A Natural History of Ghosts.

Hookland is gold standard eldritch world building. – Ian 
Simmons, Fortean Times news editor.

This a shimmering place of deep time, cold wars, old gods and 
ever renewing mysteries.The heartland and home county of the 
restless and the outsider, a lamp glow to welcome the lost, a 
pole star for those who dare to step into the dark and follow its 
glorious glowing ghostlight. – Rose Ruane. Artist and writer of 
Birding and This Is Yesterday.

Hookland has been called many things. Psychic shrapnel 
embedded in place. A re-wilding of folklore. The English Eerie 
told in strange fragments. According to its creator David 
Southwell, nothing in Hookland is made up, just remembered 
differently.

Hookland Fragments Volume One offers both an introduction to 
Hookland and an exploration of its agenda of re-enchantment 
as resistance.
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Filthy, feral Black Metal from 🇳🇿 (absolutely do not miss this shit) #metalsky windsweptband.bandcamp.com/album/howlin...
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Howling in Baptismal Filth, by Windswept
8 track album
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/07/2026
"Our local party have decided that we won't be standing a candidate in the by-election." - Hannah Spencer outlines the Greens position for the Clacton by-election, arguing that Farage’s decision to trigger it will create turmoil for Clacton's constituents.
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
USA 1 BELGIUM 4
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.
Photo of Nya Bevan with a quote saying: "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Properly awake now.
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "The first priority for our new Prime Minister has to be a wealth tax." #WealthTaxNow
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Alez Les Bleus
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Where did the John Smith politics go?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives. We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well this is embarrassing
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Government still aren't listening to deaf and disabled people for example with Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans. Time and time again the profit of the property developers is put above the needs of people who live in the buildings. The property developer led model has to end.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We need to push back on the BBC mainstreaming far right lies.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/06/2026
“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
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Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It's me, an older white bloke with a beard, shaved head and glasses wearing a Celestial Sanctuary hoodie. I'm throwing horns and sitting at the a table eating Ben & Jerry's for breakfast as a little treat because I'm 4 years sober, mutherfuckers!
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Transcending Obscurity @transcendingobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
JUNE OFFER: Pay what you want for digital albums on Bandcamp! Times are tough everywhere and hope this helps a bit. Label Bandcamp - transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Eagles poisoned. Hen Harriers shot. Buzzards beaten to death. Birds of prey have been legally protected for over 60 years, but the law is still failing them. Our new report reveals 921 confirmed persecution incidents across the UK between 2015–2024. Read more: brnw.ch/21x2Rir
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
26th May 2026 05.07
Warm orange glow
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Remove Palantir from our NHS. Get Palantir out of our country. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Palantir boss rebuts Polanskis wild NHS claims
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Inhuman behaviour from a blood crazed murder cult
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Inhuman behaviour from a blood crazed murder cult
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today's answer to What is Hookland?
Hookland was made by Soviet science fiction and cosmonauts. It was made by pulp novels my mother didn’t want me to read, but that my Aunt Barbara still lent me. Made by countless bad films surreptitiously watched on an old black and white TV. It has been shaped by a refusal to sneer at the work of Stephen King because Salem’s Lot was brilliant when I read it at 11 and still is. In fact, it has been shaped by a refusal to sneer at anything that generated a sense of sublime, awe and terror in childhood – even being forced to perform interpretive dance to Tomita.

It has been made by brilliant writers – Aickman, Machen, Jackson – and it has been made by bad ones. It owes large debts to comics, goth, punk and movie soundtracks that is will never repay. Its substitute parents are free public libraries and Radio 4. It comes with a childhood place soaked with fear of ghosts and UFOs, it comes from a place of love for those exact same engines of terror.

It comes from a revulsion for how psychogeography has increasingly became an academic and art language that excludes people from their own primal experience of landscape. It comes for a raging dislike of commodity writing about place and nature. It comes from an absolute refusal to allow fascists to easily occupy their cherished grounds of myth and folklore.

It comes from the cunning, the ghost soil, the landscape of England as experienced by this broken body for five long decades. It comes from being a Fully-grown Changeling. Fay Godwin, Paul Nash and Dame Laura Knight are always muttering about it with disapproval in the imagined afterlife.

Nothing in it is made up, just remembered differently. It was designed to be a permissive space, a common ground where people could explore and find their own hauntings. You all own it, you all make it. You are all marching with the spirits of dead spaceman, wood sprites and a thousand lost childhoods. You are all scuffling up your memories, your own stories as you navigate across th…
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