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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Concept trailer for "Kafka on the Shore", a personal project by Joe May based on Haruki Murakami's novel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUs...

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Realised I haven't really posted here much lately, but I drew some fat bears for Fat Bear Week, so please enjoy

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

get yourself a grump Husband who loves old graveyard

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Amazing thank you! My grump Husband (who was a coal miner in England starting at age 16. Guess he has reason to be grumpy) loves old graveyard.
So do l! I am going to plan activities for us, stuff I know husband will like (kid is happy if husband is) so l have my first thing which is the graveyard.
Thanks! Any good antique stores? Just to look?

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The backdoor for former UK MPs into American big tech feels like it should be illegal, somehow. The way it's not at all in our interests

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If this is all unfamiliar to you, let this remind you how normal it is for women to contemplate whether they are being targeted for attack in all sorts of places, from bars to parking lots to hiking trails. As I said in Recollections of My Nonexistence, it gets you even if it doesn't get you.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2026

in this week's newsletter! I didn't have phone internet in Beijing so instead I wrote down every single nonsense English slogan I saw on people's t-shirts, and it may be my magnum opus: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-beiji... [free to read!]

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I am not asking for much I just want to know when the UK will get You Can See Everything

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The more I think about it, the more the idea of treating couples who live together but choose not to marry like they've entered into a secret stealth marriage is an insult to all relationships - married and non-married alike. This week's New Statesman column www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

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Treating cohabiting couples like they're married is a mad idea

A new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they've tied the knot

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Right, kids, it's LFF time - what are we feeling? I'm eyeing Elsinore, Bunker, Minotaur, Wild Horse Nine, Look Back (Kore-Eda), My Notes on Mars, All of a Sudden, Wicker, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Rose, The Devils...

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last 45 minutes to bid on the Secret 7" auction - 700 unique, artist-designed, one-off record covers (and 7" single) up for auction, all in the aid of War Child. Go! givergy.com/Secret7/

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the greatest joy in a freelancer's life is when an organisation that needs to pay you perhaps once every three years introduces a new fourteen part payment process

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of my biggest 'toxic beliefs' is that women need to be less grateful all the time for things which are supposedly good, but actually not nearly as good as they ought to be if it weren't for our patriarchal capitalist society - i.e. grateful for healthcare (sure, it's good) but not...

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There really must be a better way, tbh

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Omg, not LinkedIn. Guys, wtf.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Loved reading this! Insightful, relatable, thoughtful, funny: Sweater Weather by Brandon Taylor blgtylr.substack.com/p/i-quit-rea...

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i quit reading and almost died

but tennis and reddit saved me

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Secret 7" auction closes soon, on Wednesday 2nd September - don't miss the chance to bid on a selection of 700 unique record sleeves, designed by human artists. All proceeds support War Child's work with children affected by conflict.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Holla! I can finally share this sweet collab I worked on with Balvi for paint-by-numbers kits themed on cats and dogs, and the seasons. Topically, here is the summer version, featuring a Japanese Chin dog.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

'I said no' by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Stylised painting featuring a standing orange cat against a green background with a speech bubble that says 'I said no'

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This thread in response to David Perry's post of the (horrific) NYer piece on a Nobel laureate/serial child molester brings me back to something I run into all the time: a lack of awareness of how much society has changed over the past several decades.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just watched: Lady. Extremely funny, surreal, and surprisinly affecting - I loved it! For some reason, the hat just absolutely ended me. See it in a theatre bc it's so fun to hear other people cracking up at different bits

Poster for 2026 film, Lady. Sian Clifford stands on a lawn in front of an English stately home with the title 'Lady' in pale pink serif font. She's dressed in a tartan suit (navy and green) with a raven perched on her shoulder.

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Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wrote earlier this year that the shingles vaccine is the best-evidenced longevity intervention. New 2026 data: 24% dementia risk reduction. overmatter.substack.com/p/your-anti-...

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Your anti-ageing stack should include this injectable

The shingles vaccine seems to reduce the risk of dementia. There is speculation that it might slow down ageing

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

BLOODY HELL UK GOVERNMENT

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The concept of having to wait 2 more hours before the outdoor temperature might be lower than the indoor temperature, even though the indoor temperature is 30.5 C

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god but if this f*ckass infernal heat doesn't kill me, it can only make me stronger, amiright

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Hannah Lock @hannahlock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Updated my website with recent editorial work and personal projects! #editorialillustration hannahlock.com

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14/08/2026

Yellow fields covered in brown leaves everywhere. This parched and uncanny land

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Jennifer Dionisio @jenniferdionisio.com · 13/08/2026

Two monster drawings for a fun web project.

Drawing of Carroll Borland in Mark of the Vampire (1935) by Jennifer Dionisio

Drawing of Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931) by Jennifer Dionisio

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/08/2026

huge cultural split at this lido where non-Brits are visibly confused by the fact that they're getting told off for loitering in the pool, as clearly they cannot understand that here you can only deserve the pleasure of the cold water by submitting yourself to the labour of swimming

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For this month’s Buying Power, I wrote about a trio of nascent backlashes that are really all the same backlash: to influencers, to Botox-and-filler Instagram perfection, and to AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The Optimization Backlash Has Begun

Why the relentless pursuit of perfection — plastic surgery, Instagram, AI — has suddenly left us craving the imperfect.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's none of my business whether the website I post on is growing, shrinking, staying the same. I am yelling at the sky and whoever wants to gawk at me is welcome

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good book haul! I love a novella

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz, Pink Soap by Anju Gaston, Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11/08/2026

boiling a batch of eggs for the cold salads I'll be eating during this nth heatwave with the enthusiasm of someone being made to dig their own grave by the mob

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think every fucking discussion about AI should be about how it was used to undress women before it was used for any useful purpose

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hello id like to spend all at once please

4 panel comic.

Panel 1: A pink blob character in suit tells Forg “you did a good business”

Panel 2: the pink blob in suit hands forg a dollar bill. He says “here is your pay”

Panel 3: forg holds the dollar bill. The man in suit walks off the frame. He reminds forg “don’t spend it all at once”

Panel 4: we see now that forg didn’t really listen to his advice. He stands in front of a building labeled “things you don’t need store”, dollar bill still in hand ready to be spent

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lowkey one of my favourite things I've watched - Nostalghia. Liked better than Stalker and The Sacrifice, and I also liked those ones. The stillness, the water, the feathers, birds, buildings being returned to nature, the stunning speech from atop the statue of the horse - all will stay with me

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

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Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One animator put it plainly: “You have no idea how frustrating it is to see press release after press release touting how much money our animated film made and how many nominations we got; then [the studio] turns to people who have worked here forever and says, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’” Heh.

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Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation. So Why Won’t the Industry Respect It?

Animated films made billions in 2026 while Pixar and Netflix cut jobs. Inside animation's paradox and its long shut-out from the best picture race.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ugh. When will it actually end? Woke up to 27C in my flat today, after fully opening every window for the whole night

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