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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I used to share a communal back garden with Ann Widdecombe 25 years ago. Whenever she used it I'd go out onto our balcony with my boyfriend and be as flamboyantly gay as possible. As a politician she did everything she could to stop gays and lesbians getting equal right. She failed

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Disaster Ship Blonde @disastershipblonde.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favourite Ann Widdecombe memory is of her and her film crew lumbering after a sex worker screeching "Aren't you ashamed?!" and immediately getting hit in the face with a can of lager.

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ann Widdecombe was an awful person, a disgusting bigot and a stain upon British politics

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 10/07/2026

My favourite Ann Widdecombe memory is her going on the Today Show and complaining about all women shortlists because women nominated for parliamentary candidacy should have "beaten off the men in the usual manner"

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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great thread for anyone wondering why nobody on Bluesky is mourning Ann Widdecombe today.

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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I was just telling the offspring that Ann Widdecombe died when there was a massive BANG from the kitchen. A can of beer had thrown itself open in celebration, and we should all take that as a sign.

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Chris Guiton @chrisguiton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ann Widdecombe was a climate change denier, an all-round bigot, a supporter of the death penalty. The MSN this morning: never mind all that, she was an animal lover, a devout Christian and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

See below... And Ann Widdecombe claimed to be a Christian. She was the sort of religious person who made me, personally, glad I got myself free from all that. And I mean no offence to the many, many good, decent people of faith that I know, or who follow me here.

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

So, anyway, some news... churchman72.wixsite.com/danielchurch...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Wednesday's review is Shannon Fay on The Sound of the Dark, the latest from Daniel Church and @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social - a book which "changes gears and goes from being a slow-burn creepy mystery to an unchained horror novel." We also reviewed Church's The Hollows; he seems very good at mood.

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The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church

This novel's crime isn’t a mystery in the traditional sense: Everyone knows what happened.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Sound of the Dark by @dannythechurch.bsky.social? Don't listen to us, listen to Shannon. DON'T PRESS PLAY.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Yes, because that’s his job! His role *for years* has been to have his underlings dredge up files full of incriminating-sounding tweets and Facebook likes and then take them to the press, gibbering in terror and foaming at the mouth.

NEW: Green insiders claim Steve Reed has been put in charge of a 'toxic and divisive' smear campaign against the Greens

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A blast from the past here, over on Patreon - a short piece written as a monologue for radio. Read it for free, or listen to it being performed by the brilliant Michelle Hughes. Either way, here comes The Rain... www.patreon.com/posts/free-s...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

All the Time in the World: The most excellent Lynda E. Rucker, not for the first time, tells it like it is. open.substack.com/pub/letterfr...

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All the Time in the World

More than this

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

LOL sure Tony, okay mate. Even if we pretend the actual topic here is addressing a real, serious problem and it’s not the usual “I must never be held accountable for my career of horrifying crimes”: how, exactly, would we go about ending this sinister nexus of treason

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is extremely optimistic IMO. Really, all it will take is one motivated crackpot to dig up one or two whiffy Facebook likes, and we will be off to the races again at full 2018 intensity. It’s not like anyone involved will give a fuck what is real.

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This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now.
The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party.
We're ready to end Rip off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.
• Election Maps UKO @electionmaps.uk • 10h
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (-2)
GRN: 20% (+7)
CON: 18% (-3)
LAB: 15% (-3)
LDM: 14% (+1)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Via @veriangroup.com, 20-23 Mar.
Changes w/ 12-15 Dec.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Again: had these guys not gone to Cuba to draw attention to America deliberately strangling them and shutting off their power, then none of these worthless hacks would’ve addressed the issue at all.

The Spectator @spectator • 1h
There is a particular kind of weariness that settles over you when watching anti-West radical activists on tour.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A major victory here for the most repellent psychos of British politics and media, I guess

BREAKING: Transgender girls have been given until September 6 to leave the Guides.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Looks like @barnesandnoble.com has a new pre-order sale 🤩 This one goes from March 24th to 26th for upcoming print books, ebooks, and audiobooks, including my October psychological horror novel of bad breakups and alien abductions, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT 🛸 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/she-isnt-h...

image showing there's a Barnes and Noble pre-order sale for premium and rewards members, that you can get 25% off of books like She Isn't Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper, coming from Saga on October 27th. Other books are also eligible for this sale, but you'll have to find those on your own.

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm serialising my novel 'A Prayer for the Morning' on my Patreon, for members of my Book Club. This is an exclusive and available nowhere else. You can read the opening chapter free here. www.patreon.com/posts/prayer...

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

holy shit I didn't even notice what that moron named him

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Just a reminder of that time Gene Roddenberry said that he wished he had had gay sex, believed everyone was on some level bisexual, wanted LGBT rep on Trek & hoped he was “not male or female”, aka nonbinary in modern parlance. Anyways, tell me how Roddenberry would consider a gay Klingon bad?

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've just realised something about the names of the other planets in our Solar System. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, are all the Romanised names for the Greek gods Hephaestus, Ares, Aphrodite, Zeus, Cronus and Poseidon. 1/4

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A bit of free stuff on my Patreon about The Teardrop Girl - a novel now available to read there in its totalty, if you care to join my Book Club or Book Club Plus - and a heads-up about what's coming next. www.patreon.com/posts/153334...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Frankenstein meets Wilfred Owen, with the Armenian Genocide thrown in for good measure. Available to read absolutely free, because that's how I roll, baby.... www.patreon.com/posts/153091...

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Free Story: The Flowers of the Field Where I Died | Simon Bestwick

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My 17th and 18th books will release this year 🖤 One novel to make you shudder and one novel to make you cry, and both up for pre-order now—that's how we roll around here, bay-bee 😘 It's going to be a wild year of horror fiction.

Top: the cover art of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, coming from Titan Books on September 15th.
Text besides it: in 1994, three girls go to the movies. Only one comes out. 30 years later, the movie isn't done with her.

Bottom: the cover art of She Isn't Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper, art by Caroline Johnson, coming from Saga Press on October 27th.
Text besides it: alien abductions, a break-up from hell, and what you become when your worst enemy is yourself.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Fewer people sit next to me on the bus since I started shitting my pants

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Currently on sale at $2.99 in the US and Canada, Ellen Datlow's anthology INFERNO, which includes my tale 'Hushabye'. And much else besides. openroadmedia.com/ebook/infern...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A cartoon I perpetrated some years ago, that seems once again horribly relevant...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

And I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling Telegraph journalists!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just noting here that if a school headteacher anywhere in Britain had gone on National Front radio at any point in the last seventy years before now, it would’ve been a national scandal and she would’ve been dismissed instantly. Not now, of course.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"Board your window, keep on the light, When the Tatterskin walks at night. Hush and be still, make never a cry, And pray the Tatterskin passes by." Just in case you weren't already happy that spring is on the way, @dannythechurch.bsky.social has a horrifying winter's tale for you.

A photo of a copy of the 2022 Angry Robot edition of The Hollows by Daniel Church. The cover features a black and white photo of a snowy, rocky pass by Kieryn Tyler.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic
"Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself...
Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The novel-in-progress grinds onward once again. Lie de Thé ink again, and finally tucking into my birthday present from @categardner.bsky.social, @johannavanveen.bsky.social's BLOOD ON HER TONGUE. Really been looking forward to this one, after the brilliance of MY DARLING DREADFUL THING...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I imagine all the lads are horrified and devastated to discover Labour Together compiles bullshitty dossiers of nonsense designed to damage people they want to wreck, especially these journos, who took dossiers from Labour Together and presented them to the public as a terrifying national menace.

As I've written this evening, can we please stop pretending Keir Starmer represents some sort of "change" to the traditional political order.
The Pogrund/Yorke revelations demonstrate he is just as politically cynical and manipulative as his predecessors.

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

We binge-watched SHELTER, a Harlan Coben adaptation based on the first of the Mickey Bolitar novels. I think it may have been intended to be the first in a running series (presumably based on the other books) but it was cancelled after one season, which was a shame.

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A new pen! The ink is Herbin Lie de Thé, which I've used only once before, in my white pen which I think has a defective nib - the writing looked spidery and unimpressive. But used in a different pen, it flows beautifully on the page and looks gorgeous, almost golden.

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The day's longhand, in Tender Purple once more (specially for @jamesbennett.bsky.social), plus a photo from a long-ago trip to Barmouth, taken on Dinas Oleu of the ruins of Gellfechan Farm...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Green ink, red Lamy, Mellow Bird's coffee and the first few pages of Notebook Number Eight...

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Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Another day's longhand, once again featuring the glittery awesomeness of Diamine Mystique Shimmer Ink...

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