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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

qualifications for the ideal mad scientist’s assistant: willingness to work on one’s knees, tendency to hiss “yes, master!" at appropriate moments, having a thing for black surgical gloves

Digital art. Incomplete sketch. Martin Rem wearing three slightly old-fashioned-looking outfits, suitable to a doctor or scientist. All in shades of olive and mint green.

Digital art. Incomplete sketch. Martin Rem kneeling and looking up adoringly. Surgical instruments in background. All in shades of olive, mint, and forest green.

Digital art. Martin Rem sitting with legs crossed. Holding a book. Looking up at you witheringly for interrupting him. Simple sketch on radioactive-green paper.

Digital art. Martin Rem's body sketched from three angles. Small, cute, and wearing glasses. Surgical instruments in background. All in shades of olive and seafoam green.

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it isn't easy to maintain this level of elegance and poise when you're in the mad science lab all day doing unethical things with sharp implements and hazardous materials

Digital art. Incomplete sketch. Dr. Avenroyth wearing a silk dressing gown. Elegantly posed with legs crossed. Reading a book. All in shades of mint and forest green.

Digital art. Incomplete sketch. Dr. Avenroyth wearing a lab coat and pulling on a surgical glove. Sinister and seductive. All in shades of mint and jade green.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On October 9th, it comes ALIVE. The mad doctor awakens to discover that he has been made into the monster. His assistant's unnatural obsession with him leads to an agonizing betrayal. People close to them start turning up dead.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A Companion in Vice is a Frankenstein-inspired gothic-noir novel about psychosexual mind games and mad science — sent for free, a chapter per week, directly to your inbox. Beginning October 9th. SIGN UP HERE 🫀 -> stjohnstarling.substack.com

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What Manner of Man | St John Starling | Substack

WHAT MANNER OF MAN is the newsletter of St John Starling. Current project: A COMPANION IN VICE, a depraved gothic-noir novel about mad scientists doing evil things to each other. Click to read What Ma...

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They’re calling A Companion in Vice "a strange rectangular object that is vibrating softly and emitting a faint green glow". They’re calling A Companion in Vice "an immediate threat to life and limb."

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s been a long time coming, but at last, we made it. Wipes away a tear.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Companion in Vice is a gothic-noir hybrid novel about psychosexual obsession and mad science, sent for free, a chapter per week, directly to your inbox. Beginning October 9th. FIND OUT MORE HERE - stjohnstarling.substack.com

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m in a PotO4PotO (Phantom of the Opera for Phantom of the Opera) relationship. We’re always competing for whose soul is more tortured and who gets to unmask his hideous visage first. We live in adjacent underground lakes beneath the same opera house.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We only recently became aware of each other, after months of narrow misses while conducting opera ghost business. I have more candelabras than he does. He doesn’t even have a waterfall down here

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is a very good article but I particularly appreciate that they archived Ask Jesus

In some cases, it even pulled down entire publications. Bible Scriptures, a site where BBM had published content attributed to a roster of fake Christian theologians, hosted an AI-powered Jesus, and sold a $97 e-book supposedly penned by a made-up Franciscan scholar clad in a traditional robe — a curious choice, given that Franciscans famously take vows of poverty — has been locked behind a password since May. (BBM sold several other e-books attributed to fake writers on its site Hack Spirit; those volumes are still being sold, but they’ve now been altered so that the author is listed as Lachlan.)

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Automattic statement: "Matt Mullenweg is currently on leave from Automattic. Mark Davies, Automattic’s CFO, will lead the company as interim CEO. The Board has full confidence in Mark's leadership and in the team's ability to execute against the company's priorities."

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Matt's on Reddit, posting and not mad www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/...

rafark
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That’s surprising didn’t he own a majority of the company? Is this like how Steve Jobs was ousted from apple?

BerryBoilo
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12h ago
Although he owns a good bit and currently has proxy votes for some investors, their board structure gives each board member one vote regardless of their ownership percentage.

I imagine his next move will be to call a shareholders meeting in an attempt to replace the board.

cmetzjr
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I don't know. VCs are smart. Since they agreed to dual-class shares, they may have contractual agreements that prevent that.

photomatt
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I can fill seats on the board whenever I want, but that's not the point.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

cabalos
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At least he’s still pulling a paycheck. Wouldn’t want him to lose his post-economic status. /s

photomatt
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Yeah, it's kinda nice. I make millions of dollars but I don't have to do anything, so I could just comment on Reddit.

cabalos
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2h ago
Good morning Matt. Thanks for the masterclass on how to lose control of a company you own 84% of.

@dril: and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

being super normal on x too x.com/photomatt/st...

I really need some great sysadmin and security researchers to hire really quick, no one from
@automattic
! I'm on the board there and fully support Mark Davies in his interim CEO role. But I think it's probably good if I move some of my stuff currently hosted there, elsewhere.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Crowd of paramedics and firefighters begging me not to do it, telling me I have so much to live for, as I slowly raise a single blueberry to my mouth

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In retaliation, I am also implementing universal 50% tariffs across my household (my partner is American.)

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it's so cool waking up every morning to news of what the mad king has done this time, very 19th century central europe

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Knight of Dionysus @knightofdionysus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Prospero and Ariel but make it kinky

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Knight of Dionysus @knightofdionysus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Knight of Dionysus @knightofdionysus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Intrusion

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

flickering tumblr off and on and making "ooOOooOo" ghost noises

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

*starts feeling a warm fuzzy glow* Ooh someone’s burning me in effigy again

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

People are so unaware of their own motives. I have almost never seen widespread moral condemnation of a piece of media that, the moment you scratch the surface of the criticism, didn’t turn out to be because of personal grievance, resentment of popularity, and subjective taste.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It is Pride Month. Throughout this month, I will be sharing the stories of how Canadians fought for equality. Today it is the story of John Herbert.

Pride Month graphic featuring a black-and-white portrait of Canadian playwright John Herbert beside text about his 1940s arrest in Toronto, his imprisonment, and how that experience inspired his 1964 play *Fortune and Men’s Eyes*. The graphic notes that the play became one of the most widely produced in Canadian theatre history and was adapted into a film in 1971. Bottom banner reads: “John Herbert (1926–2001).”

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

portrait for a deep sea creature of my acquaintance 💚 (sea slugs in the background are inspired vaguely by a species called elysia ornata)

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This summer’s hot new craze is nonconsensual body modification. All the kids are kidnapping each other and turning their friends into crimes against nature.

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Mal [filth edition] @draxoplasm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I don't really mean this in a good way. I think the people that succeed in creative careers are outliers, because they're freakishly committed.

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Mal [filth edition] @draxoplasm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think you have to be a freak to succeed, sorry.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Crawling out of my grave to rub my eyes sleepily, grimace, and crawl back in for another five minutes.

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Shop update !! Have shirts up to size 4x, preorders if the shirt you like sells out ! Also have new stickers and tote bags.. No new prints / restocks this time because some jerk stole my prints 🥲 If you'd like one, you can get them at hydeangelus.bigcartel.com :)