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Dom McCarthy

@bigbaddomo.bsky.social
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OU Health Science student, and tryna-be writer. Techie when the moon is right. Occasional (?) gamer.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Live your life such that no one says NEVER AGAIN about your legacy.
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@genevievecogman.bsky.social Got this from my local bookshop just now (Yaay!) Now I have to wait patiently for my birthday to read it!
Scholar’s Guide to DEMONOLOGY & Other Dark Arts, by Genevieve Cogman. Hardback with purple background and title in scrollwork, with cats, daggers, dogs, and copious other curiosities on the cover.
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder that LUGAN: VISION QUEST is out in both eBook paperback Proper, old skool portal fantasy, featuring one ageing biker, a fuckload of psychotropics, a derelict fantasy world lost to madness... ...and NO fucking AI. Cover by @tomsbrown.bsky.social :) www.amazon.co.uk/Lugan-Vision...
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Lugan Vision Quest: Book One of the Ecko Legacy series
Lugan Vision Quest: Book One of the Ecko Legacy series eBook : Ware, Danie : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula (I'm cheating really; I posted this one ages ago for a similar challenge but I like the pic)
Crop haired vampire with red eyes, chewing a bone on a mountain highway, starlit night. Self portrait.
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Too much fun to pass up :_
Dune poster, showing Paul and Chani, Paul with crysknife raised. 

Font says: BE BRAVE, write books, and ensure you have lifelong anxiety
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
we should be nicer to mimes, they're all fighting a struggle we can't see
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
God, I fucking love Bruce Springsteen. "Streets of Minneapolis", just released: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“They are on the table.”
blood spray covered scene, with text “caption this with the second to last text you sent.”
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Can't even begin to express how Andy's positivity and energy lifted up everything he was involved in...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
And this morning the Shed is a mirrorball, spinning and sparkling from the eaves…
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Joshua Alan Doetsch @joshuadoetsch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’m starting to suspect I don’t look like any of these people in particular, but in fact just look like a Funco…
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
While this is utterly offensive, it also gives us the perfect opportunity to send these asshats a message. This needs to flop, big-time.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
hippo :)
a rough pencil sketch of a hippo with its mouth wide open
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
An amazing film, well worth the watch.
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Thanks to YouTube's ludicrous AI bollocks, my son lost his Channel, and all of his subscribers. He's now putting the channel back up, so please do go and give him a like/follow! Reskeets appreciated :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzoI... #Buffy #Angel #fanedit #wearerofthecheese
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Buffyverse trailer Concept - Sweet Dreams (REUPLOAD)
YouTube video by Wearer of the Cheese
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 25/08/2025
This is so bloody tough and good – what we need to read. Brilliantly and generously written by @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/flags...
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The prevalence of England’s flag is a ghastly reminder of the National Front
Ever since the National Front co-opted the St George’s flag in the 70s, its presence has become a shorthand for ‘You’re not wanted here’, writes Sharan Dhaliwal
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
#goodnews
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This, 100%; it's the next step in a long game being played for our data (and personal freedom). "Online safety" can't be achieved by regulation, and that clearly isn't the real driver...
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek) (I'm so ashamed...)
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a blurred image of a person holding a pink light
Alt: Spinning 5-bladed golden weapon, from "Krull", 1983. Flashes and sparks as it spins.
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The difference between having a visit from the Muse and working the numbers...
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Definite WTF?! moment reading this...
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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever. So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?" Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.
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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
THIS. Every damn time I open a database report or even a topographic map Acrobat tries to scan the text and offer a summary. I'd trust that summary like I'd trust a wet fart in a cholera ward.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
With about a month to go until any vote on the government’s cuts to disability support it’s not too late for the Prime Minister to change course I’m joining Trussell in calling on government to rethink its cruel & irresponsible plan This is how you can help👇 action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...
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Cruel cuts to disability support: the Work and Pensions Secretary needs to hear from your MP
Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government has proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they’re already three times more likely to face hunger. A plan to slash payments and rip support from disabled people who most need our collective protection from hunger is cruel and counterproductive. Layla had to stop working due to long-term health conditions and needed to use a food bank when her disability payments were stopped, despite her conditions not changing.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Today’s Mirror front page. “Keir Starmer doesn't rule out change to controversial policy after backlash” It’s difficult keeping up with this one
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The real Living Wage is a win-win for workers and businesses – here's why More than 16,000 employers are now paying the real Living Wage, which has put £3.85bn back into the pockets of low-paid workers since 2011 www.bigissue.com/opinion/real...
bigissue.com
Why the real Living Wage is a win-win for workers and businesses
More than 16,000 employers are now paying the real Living Wage, which has put £3.85bn back into the pockets of low-paid workers since 2011.
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Jesus fucking Harry. Is our Govt doing anything about these filthy crooks? Something strong and decent that would - y'know - help keep them in No. 10 and not pave the way for that filthy frog-faced fascist Farage? No, it's focusing on immigration and on people's genitals in bathrooms.
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
If you see this, post a sword
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Me having absolutely fucked my make-up, way too much blusher, cakey foundation, crooked eyeliner, the lot, and adding bright purple lipstick to combat it.
The party starts | Morgan McSweeney, Starmer's chief of staff, will pore over the results today and is likely to conclude that he is right to pursue a
"Blue Labour" strategy to address the populist threat - a policy which is
already starting to be deployed.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
And this morning the Shed is a rocket ship, heading for the outer galaxies...
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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
After the Hulk/Dr. Strange pairup coming out May 20th in my 6 issue Marvel Mini-Event, the next one up will feature an epic throwdown between Ghost Rider and Galactus. Herewith, then, four unlettered preview pages from that issue....
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Kier Spineless, proving (once again), that the only thing he can do, with any degree of success, is alienate his own voters. Fuck the Labour Party. You don't defeat your opponent by emulating them.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"A lot of people have forgotten what a Labour Party is for" they say, "for example, the Labour front bench"
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Turns out running on “vote lesser evil” runs its course as a tactic with all the voters eventually going full fat evil or just not evil who coulda known ey
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Dom McCarthy @bigbaddomo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This. Starmer has been positioning Labour so far to the right that some people wrongly see Reform as a small step. This is Hell.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 02/05/2025
I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Me, sitting in front of the fireplace, slowly turning the roasting bird on the spit. Next to the fireplace, the pile of acceptance letters to Hogwarts teeters.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
WHAT'S. THAT. SMELL. Is one of my least favorite games.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Voters in Germany are being exposed to copious pro-AfD narratives online from AI-generated content and Russian disinformation campaigns news.sky.com/story/german...
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German election: From AI influencers to Russian disinformation, the far-right is getting a leg up online
Germany's far-right party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) has been more active on social media than other parties during the campaign and is in second place in opinion polls ahead of the country's e...
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This Govt punches down. And lets the rich get richer.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
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THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England has today - again - been laid bare
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#tea
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Chrystia Freeland, Canada's former finance minister & current Liberal Party leadership contender, has proposed a bold countermeasure: slapping 100% tariffs on select American goods, including Teslas, in direct response to President Trump's threatened tariffs www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
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‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war
Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ - NETFLIX HAS tried to silence me for calling out racism from the star of their so-called ‘trans movie.’ I'm absolutely LIVID. More info is in the photo, and even more is in the below thread.
ALT TEXT IS CONDENSED - Today, a vid about the Netflix film Emilia Perez will go up on my YouTube. The version that was supposed to go live included a last-minute section about Emilia Perez’s lead trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon’s resurfaced racist, Islamophobic, and violent tweets from 2020 and 2021. In Spanish, she wrote things like:
“Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.”
I edited and uploaded that version, but Netflix hit it with a copyright strike before it could go live, forcing me to take it down. This wasn’t just a claim—it was a STRIKE, which could delete my entire channel—my livelihood. I already had one last year for calling out Matt Walsh’s hateful transphobia. The more I speak out, the more my channel is threatened.
Netflix weaponized copyright to silence a trans critic for exposing Gascon’s racism—all to protect their so-called “trans representation” movie, which, as I discuss, is harmful to trans people and considered racist by many Mexican people. I am furious but not surprised by this blatant hypocrisy. Given the state of the world, I do not have the emotional capacity for kindness right now. This is unacceptable, gross, disgusting behavior.
Luckily, this older version was already uploaded, so it survived. However, it’s MUCH lighter on Gascon, as it was edited before these revelations. The deleted version had much stronger words. But make no mistake:  Netflix tried to threaten my livelihood.
Gascon’s tweets are linked below. Read them. Share them. Make noise.
And if you want the UNCENSORED version—the one Netflix tried to erase—it’s on my Patreon and Nebula. Support me there, where my work isn’t censored by corporations pretending to support us while actively silencing and attacking us.
Please share my videos. I won’t be ashamed to say I need financial and vocal support. I don’t know how much longer I can do this—to make my art, to pay my bills—because YouTube and the US is NOT safe for me now.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Privitisation is a con 😱 Renationalise water NOW 💦 Repost if you agree 🔄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April
Figures reveal a jump for billpayers in England and Wales despite questions over firms' performance.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/e...
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The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer
The world's richest man is amplifying a series of often extreme Alt Right voices bent on radically reshaping our politics
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