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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*Excited noises* I'm wildly happy and somewhat awed to be included in this anthology with so many talented writers and awesome human beings. You should come to our launch at Fantasycon...

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: Oh man, this idea is awesome. 15K: Hmmm, I need to do some in depth worldbuilding. 30K: Map, pencilled out nations/races 50K: Religions, history 90K: Civil wars, lineages, pre-history, cosmology, magic systems... 100K: What was the story again?

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/08/2026

"International assassin" always implies the existence of national assassins, or possibly local assassins. Every midsized town has a minor assassin working out of a storefront at the mall between the Cinnabon and the UBreakIFix guy

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am awful at regularly updating here. Especially given I'm intending on doing and promoting vids again once the schools are back. Anways, off to Fife for summer visit to my aunts with the kids. Obviously after an insane heatwave it starts to rain as we head to the seaside...

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Verify your age" I used a pencil to fix my music player. There were 4 TV channels. My first computer had a tape deck.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

"O Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” 🎨 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1903, detail)

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

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The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Almost like theres a constant media narrative to make folks think that social security claimants are the issue and the billionaires avoiding tax and rolling back public spending and protections are untouchable job creators.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That sounds like a beautiful way to end the night. Quite jealous.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

stop the count, etc, etc

Table showing Scotland’s World Cup Group with Scotland at the top with 3 points, Morocco and Brazil on 1, and Haiti on 0

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

No. Its cause people have less disposable income and the world is evidently getting worse in numerous ways. The only part smartphones have to play in that is making access to the 24 hour doomscroll news cycle a bit easier.

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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/06/2026

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Scotland? On fire. Your defence? Terrified. Super, super. John McGinn.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Just watched that and yeah, a nice counterpoint to the whole 'you should stop making fascism look so awesome' angle. Grimdark is many things, but aspirational is not meant to be one of them. The compelling human story is in spite of the setting, not glorying in it.

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Kenzie ✨ @notknz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’ll either start a new game or restart a comfort game, but I will not be finishing anything.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Omg, so much this. Two of my favourite things but SO many bad folks into/using it in negative ways.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 03/06/2026

I hate the Nazi attempt to co-opt Norse mythos as their own with all the blazing power of Surtr. It's a blatant pillaging of aesthetics without navigating context, not unlike what generative AI is doing today. Read one Icelandic saga and you'll quickly understand why the vikings would hate Nazis.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 03/06/2026

You can’t collaborate with a tool.

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Adam Windstorm @neohumanoid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The people that use gen-AI and scream about “gatekeeping” don’t really want to make art. They want to be praised and to make money and want to skip the actual “art” process. They don’t JUST want a product, they want everyone to tell them how gifted and special they are, too, for no work!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Currwntly hyperfocus shopping for camera toys notionally to start making videos again. Torn between fun action cam like the Insta360 3s or a gimbal for my phone like the Osmo Mobile 8. Could I possibly spend hours and hundreds of quid on stuff for a project that doesnt get finished? Again!

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Not quite lilacs, but almost the right shade for the glorious 25th. How do they rise up?

Photo of Chris in a white t-shirt next to some pink/purple flowers

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Photo of a screaming red fox on a dry-looking hillside background, with the meme text "IT FUCKEN' WARMDY"

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

In a panel on faeries and folklore in fiction, Meg quips.... 'This is no longer a panel, this is a djinn tasting.'

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Star Trek panel past and now in a panel about folklore related to faeries and myths and such. Fairly good spread of my interests represented TBH.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If you were 46% wrong at work, you would be fired.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

celtic fans knew hardship for about 3 weeks this year and almost firebombed celtic park and were insufferable about how badly run they were and now they might win a double and somehow they will be even more insufferable about it

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Aye, IIRC there was a lot of immigration from Flanders to all of Scotland for a bunch of reasons through the centuries but also natural trade links, similar fishing practises across the north sea makes it a nudge more prevalent in the East.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There is a Dutch influence on the accents in Fife & about Dundee, so that kinda makes sense, lol.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every year, I aspire to become more and more like my icon, Granny Weatherwax. “Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” Happy Sir Terry Pratchett Day! Grateful for the books and the magic, always.

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Cryptopher - will be at Fantasycon @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It amuses me that melktert looks like milk tart in a Dundee accent

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Definitely not making much of a case as to why they’re not voting remotely from their constituencies instead of getting second houses in London paid for by the taxpayer, let alone for their enormous salaries

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.

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