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Beth K Crane

@bethkcrane.bsky.social
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Writer, voice actor, editor, laser wrangler. Linktr.ee/bethkcrane

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Lowri Ann Davies @lowrianndavies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A horrible (English) company wants to build an enormous data centre in Wales, I’ve signed to oppose this, and would love it if you would share and sign too c.org/CW7syqtYhx
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Sign the Petition
Menai Data Centre - SAY NO!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/09/2026
Thames Water is a zombie company, kept alive by debt. Take it into Special Administration. That way cash from customer bills can go straight into sewage and water infrastructure rather than servicing the debt. Then take it into public ownership. We can't afford privatisation.
Screenshot of Financial Times article from 12 September 2026: "Thames Water hit by £2bn bill for finance costs and advisers’ fees". The lede says "Embattled UK utility faces mounting costs as government debates moving ahead with temporary nationalisation".
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chuck 🐦💐 @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
wtf was that
PANEL 1: a pigeon sits happily eating a cheese sandwich
PANEL 2: the pigeon is struck by a white bolt of lightning. they are jolted into the air and they have lost their colour. the background is black. massive red text overlaying them says "SUDDENLY LOSE INTEREST IN AND MOTIVATION FOR YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES"
PANEL 3: back to normal colouring. the pigeon sits, looking traumatised, darkened with smoke. the top of their head sizzles a bit. their sandwich has fallen on the floor. they say "wh..."
PANEL 4: the pigeon flops back, crying out "whyyyyy"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Werner's not here for any of that noise.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It is entirely Pixar's fault that I find myself unable to throw away lamps.
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
People always talk about how popsicles barely look like the characters, but they don't even taste like them at all
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There's something ironic about me choosing to reward myself for releasing @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social Season Four, which was written during a horrendous period of writers block, by playing Alan Wake.
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Maddy Searle @maddyisabstract.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I'm DELIGHTED to announce that I'm in Season 4 of We Fix Space Junk! You can hear me RIGHT NOW on the Battlebird Productions Patreon, or wait until next week for the general release. I'm living my dinosaur dream. 🚀❤️🦖
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
For anyone who can't make it all the way to Leighton Buzzard to check out my #dnd paintings, I've made a gallery on my website! bethkcrane.com/virtual-gall...
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Virtual Gallery – The Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre
Virtual Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre Gallery Tour Click on the paintings to find out more!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any external information, but there's a reason when we read poetry, for example, we want to know when it was written and by whom? Where was it written? What were the circumstances of their life at time? And their country or city?
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Oliver Morris @oldermodal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Episode 3 of Tales of the Cog ⚙️ is releasing on Thursday the 12th of March and features the lovelies from @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social in leading roles. Get hyped ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️
Tales of the Cog
Tale 3: The roots beneath us draw up strength from the Cog
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Tale 3: The roots beneath us draw up strength from the Cog
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As Hjinkka Grudjellra, Fishmonger
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Season 4 is finally here! Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March and to our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March! Episodes will go out biweekly, and they'll be a week earlier on our ad-free Patreon feed.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's GREAT that because I've finally hit a minimum threshold for self-employed earnings I've got to pay next year's taxes too. Just dandy. It's not like my money is tight because I'm self-employed or anything.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Gonna get ahead of things now and optimistically schedule in "burnout" for March onwards.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Treating myself to a replay of Control in this trying time.
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Modified Roll Podcast ➡️ Dragonmeet @modifiedroll.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I had the pleasure to run a game for @noshortrests.bsky.social to help promote their #OneRoomOneShots Kickstarter! You can now catch me running Tomb of Grief for @iamloufryer.bsky.social, @ralphstickley.bsky.social, @bethkcrane.bsky.social & @masquewren.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/ytsd9ay2
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We Played D&D on a Boat! Adventures Ahoy! Part 1: Tomb of Grief
Set sail for something truly special! No Short Rests! is taking Dungeons & Dragons off the table and onto the water with Adventures Ahoy! - an actual play of Tomb of Grief, our level 1 adventure from One Room One Shots, whilst cruising along the River Lee. Back the collection on Kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/one-room-one-shots/one-room-one-shots Featuring an all-star cast from across the UK’s TTRPG community, discover just how easy it is to run a full adventure right from the book, using our free pre-made characters included with the One Room One Shots collection. See for yourself how much story, strategy and atmosphere can unfold in a single location - and all in just one session. Climb aboard, roll initiative and join us for an adventure like no other! The land has become cursed and all signs point to the tomb of an evil king as the source of this dark taint. The players must find a way to break the curse, and learn the truth behind the King's violent acts inside his desecrated tomb! Starring: Dungeon Master - Jordan Carmichael, @ModifiedRoll @alwaysreadytorollgm Torjor Meanfist - Lou Fryer, @OfDiceAndThemPod @iamloufryer Phyrra Stormborn - Ralph Stickley, @OfDiceAndThemPod Dra'osh Moonblessed - Beth Crane, @battlebirdproductions Myeldretharran Parakas - Wren, @StoryWeaveProductions @MasqueWren Crew: Director - Alex Powell Producer - Matt Potter Executive Producer - Matthew Lloyd Location provided by Gareth Wrigglesworth and Lee Valley Boatyard Music: Seven Seas Composer: Alexander Nakarada Website: https://creatorchords.com/ License: Free To Use YouTube license youtube-free Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Shadows and Echoes Composer: Jeremy Soule © 2011 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. The Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, Bethesda, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. The Lord Of Frenzied Flame Composer: Shoi Miyazawa Song of Despair Composer: Shoi Miyazawa ELDEN RING™ & ©BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. / ©2022 FromSoftware, Inc. The Airship Armada Composer: Filip Melvan ©Michael Ghelfi Studios
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Did a portrait painting session yesterday. Think I've hit my stride with it! I'm really proud of this one.
An acrylic paint portrait of an older woman with grey, neck-length hair, seen in 9/10ths profile. She has a slight smile and a friendly demeanor.The same portrait, earlier versionThe same portrait, even earlier
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland
How Hookland Works …

Almost everything online and detailed in the Hookland Writer’s Bible and the Hookland Guide publications is available for your free use. You want to use a picture for an album cover, a C.L. Nolan quote for an epigraph or even borrow a village or town for a story – fill your boots. As long as you give due credit to Hookland and in cases where the Hookland material is not created by me, the original creator, the copyright police will never pursue you. Not even if your story is a huge commercial success or your album sells more copies than you can dream about. There’s no charge. You own whatever you do with Hookland. It is a creative playground, a pre-enchanted landscape for anyone to use. 

You will only ever come a cropper with the copyright police if you use elements of Hookland and don’t give due credit. Everyone who loves and uses Hookland owns everything in the county canon. By not crediting that fact, you are extracting the urine and disregarding a whole community of people.

There are two other things to note:

Firstly, none of the above applies if you are creating work promoting racism, vile misogyny or homophobia of any sort. You can whimper about creative censorship, but I come from a long line that stands against the promulgation of hatred. You’ll find nothing but bitter curses and refusal in Hookland. Nastiness and nascent-Nazism has consequences, even in fictional realms.

Secondly, Hookland is not for the use in works using AI. When it comes to Hookland, AI as it currently stands usually means Arseholes Involved. It’s a thieving, hollowing and unethical beast of a thing. It has no place in a principled, decent society outside medical and scientific research. It has no place in Hookland and never will. Try to mix AI slop and Hookland and I promise you will be haunted.

I will always support and try to help/answer any questions for anyone wanting to use Hookland creatively. It is there to be explored, it is there to be played with.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
To the establishment the tragedy seems to be that a mother lost her child far far more than a trans girl lost her life and everything that’s followed has been about suring up the ownership and control parents have over their children
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The biggest “block” writers face is time and money and gatekeeping (by the people who can offer money to give you that time.) I would welcome a day that I didn’t wake up with fourteen great ideas that I simply don’t have the time or money to do properly. AI directly threatens that. It doesn’t help.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There aren't enough giant inflatables at gigs any more.
Onstage at the Brixton O2 - Coheed and Cambria play in front of a gigantic inflatable skeleton biker (head and shoulders). He's wearing LED goggles, a spiked leather jacket and a spiked, open-faced bike helmet. I'd guess he's about the height of a double decker bus.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just realised the reason I couldn't play Horizon Zero Dawn (I tried!) was that I watched Batteries Not Included about a hundred times as a kid. The majority of non-humanoid robots are friend-shaped to me. (I also didn't see ET until adulthood)
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
One day I will have one of these in my actual home, but for now I'm going to have to content myself with telling people that they're incredible and that you should treat yourself.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Repair Shop with Werner Herzog: Guest: "Stunning work, thank you" WH: "How do you feel seeing this object, a symbol of your dead wife? Though constructed of crude, worthless materials, it has been resurrected like some cheap miracle, mocking your grief and dead wife, now condemned to oblivion."
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have never heard praise for generative AI from someone I respect creatively
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months
English plaque the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New painting! Finally made it back to my wednesday painting class. This is for a new maybe-project? The bird basis for this Aarakocra is Marcus, my late cockatiel. She was my best buddy growing up and now she's a knight. #Aarakocra #cockatiel #DnD #DndMonsters #DnDCharacters #DnDPets
Final painting - a cockatiel Aarakocra, a species from DND with the head and wings of a bird but a human body. This one is wearing armour and a red undershirt and has a sword.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Taxing the rich is the only option. Their extreme wealth makes everything more expensive for the rest. We need everyone in the UK to know that the answer to "what can be done" is a wealth tax.
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Rhys, but most of these letters are silent @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Started talking to my cat like he's the protagonist in a point and click adventure game
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We Fix Space Junk @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The incredible debut novel from @victoriocity.bsky.social is out tomorrow in paperback and they're giving away a gorgeous signed hardback copy to celebrate! We're not entering (we already have it!) but a) you should enter the competition and b) buy the book! www.instagram.com/p/DGgZ3FuNpg...
The beautiful hardback cover and undercover of High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Been painting more recently. Seeing as I now have a decent scanner I'm gonna get some more prints up on TeePublic when I have time (so like 2026?) Anyway, this is Cthuleless.
Cthulu, but a teenage girl in the 90s, talking on a corded phone on her bed.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In one of my solo happy places (shed with power tools and female punk music)
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A typical night spent ruminating over events, past present and future. What I did or didn’t do to help Alice, that which I can or can’t do to help the trans community. It’s endless. My memoir has a throw away line, ‘I just want to find some middle ground’ that I don’t revisit. Let me do that now 1/
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Oh no this must be because people are just bad now and Labour has allowed people to just be bad and there can’t be any socio-economic reasons for shoplifting now being 0.5% of turnover (little detail). www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Crime ‘spiralling out of control’ in stores, warns British Retail Consortium
UK retailers report all-time high of 55,000 thefts a day and a 50% rise this year in violent and abusive incidents
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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
awkward gestures: - finger guns - hug/handshake confusion - trying to get past someone in a corridor and you both keep ducking in the same direction not an awkward gesture: - nazi salute
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
HMRC Self Assessment site is plain ol broken so I'm finding all the people I used to follow on twitter.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
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Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I'm exhibiting with the Leighton Buzzard Art Society at the Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre this month!
A painting of a parrot pirate captain with a budgie on their shoulder The wall of an art exhibition with assorted paintings
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters
MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
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