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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

The cosy panel, a very agreeable bunch. 😁 @davidbamford.me @chiarab.bsky.social @pscwillis.bsky.social @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social

Standing in a line, me, Chiara Bullen, PSC Willis, David Green, and David Bamford.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 10/10/2026

This weekend at @britfantasysoc.bsky.social FantasyCon in Glasgow I will be on the panel ‘Cosy Horror: A Genre Blend Too Far?’ tonight at 6pm, and on ‘The Expectations of Cosy Fantasy’ tomorrow morning at 9am!

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 08/10/2026

I have a confession to make: I’ve never listened to this album before. Wait, wait! Hear me out.

The cover of The Smashing Pumpkins 1995 double-album opus MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS, featuring a woman in a dress emerging from a star amidst a background of planets

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples @ Glasgow Fantasycon 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Before I head out for Glasgow for the weekend, I'm now less than 20 days away from applying for settlement, so absolutely any amount you can help with--or even just a share--I'd appreciate so so much. Thanks in advance, you guys are the best. x gofund.me/7b3589a4e

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Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here), organized by Robert Berg

Who I Am My name is Robert Berg and I’m raising funds to hel… Robert Berg needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here)

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 05/10/2026

I haven’t written a *word* creatively for like a month and it’s been getting me down. Opened the document I’d been working on today and threw in 300+ words like a dam burst, and it felt so good. #amwriting

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 03/10/2026

If you’re at OctoCon, I’ll be on the 5:30 panel ‘When Do We Kill The Horror Franchise (And Make It Stay Dead)?’ Slasher movies! Unnecessary sequels! Come watch us discuss the rights, wrongs, and just plain WTFs of our favourite horror franchises.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it’s about time we had Richard E Grant as the Doctor (yes, I know about Comic Relief and the Shalka). He could then do a ‘Two Doctors’ story with Paul McGann where they go on holiday by mistake.

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Withnail and friend having lunch

ALT: Withnail and friend having lunch

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 30/09/2026

It should be mandatory for men to listen to, and appreciate, and understand, and be able to answer in-depth questions on the entire back catalogues, themes and meanings of the songs of: Lingua Ignota Tori Amos Punch Couch Slut Peaches before even approaching women.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 30/09/2026

My Top 10 for the 2020s (so far): Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma Sinners Barbie I Saw The TV Glow Nosferatu Weapons Bring Her Back In A Violent Nature Talk To Me Longlegs

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PictCon, Perth's SF and Fantasy micro-con returns on Saturday 17th October. Join Guest of Honour and GSFWC star Neil Williamson, as well as E.M. Faulds and Ruth EJ Booth for a day of games, workshops, panels and more! pictcon.com @pictcon.bsky.social Here's what we'll be up to:

In this black and white photo, Neil Williamson is a white bald man with a short cropped beard. He is wearing a dark coloured top.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 29/09/2026

You’ll find me talking all things Cosy Fantasy and also Cosy Horror! What’s everyone’s cosy horror movie? Mine is I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 28/09/2026

Today on Bluesky: - Called out a misogynist for participating in rape advocacy against all women because 47% of them voted for Trump - STRAIGHT AWAY got accused of virtually ‘raping his freedom of speech’ - Him: ‘Learn To Read!’ - Him: ‘You’re a snowflake!’ Sure dude. I’m the snowflake. Ok.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 28/09/2026

Just throwing my hat in the ring re: the ‘Choosin’ Texas’ discourse - the ONLY reason I’ve heard it is because mainstream chart radio is constantly on in my office (not my choice). If that weren’t the case I doubt I would even know what it was. People shouting about ‘living in a bubble’ - yeah. And?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

It's called Worldcon

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 25/09/2026

Halloween H20 [cautiously admits to never having seen ANOES] F13 Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A gentle reminder that science fiction has never been about who we will be in some distant future (or long ago in a galaxy far, far away)— it’s about who we are right here, right now.

An image of Owen Lars (Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen) standing in front of his house on Tatooine, captioned “Local Farmer is Worried.”

The quote above reads, “I didn’t vote for Amidala. She had a weird laugh and not much experience. Palpatine said he’s lower prices but now I’m about to lose my farm.”

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 24/09/2026

Join me at OctoCon next weekend where I will discuss how many horror franchises (but especially this one) should die.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026

Discrimination in the UK is when you can't have a pint in the stands at the football. But banning trans people from everything is not discrimination. Clear?

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 23/09/2026

So happy to have fucked Instagram off for a bit. Holy hell what an absolute cesspit that place is. Rewards/reinforces compulsive behaviour, buries people you actually follow in favour of accounts the algorithm thinks you should like, rampant with AI slop. Grim.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Haverin TOC reveal alert! Find out what's in our 40th anniversary anthology, including tales from Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan, Hal Duncan, E.M. Faulds, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Cameron Johnston, Neil Williamson, and more. Check out the Haverin TOC at the link below: #GSFWC40

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GSFWC 40th Anniversary Anthology

Haverin is a Scots word that means talking nonsense, babbling or chattering. Often that is how stories start, in the nonsense, the babbling, the chattering of writers inspiring each other to keep g…

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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 23/09/2026

I am a two-time Eisner nominated comics writer (ETERNITY GIRL, KIM & KIM) looking for a transfem comic artist professional interested in developing a new book with me to take out to publishers.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 12/09/2026

May we celebrate Trump’s death the way we celebrated Dolly Parton’s life.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fear is the Project Killer.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 05/09/2026

Anyone not currently up on the Horror Writers Association mess, the below article does a really great deep dive on it. Huge props to the writers and those affiliated with HWA who lobbied for fiscal transparency and committee-wide change. www.michaelpatrickhicks.com/blog/hwa-shi...

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The Horror Writers Association’s Never-Ending August 2026 Shitshow — Michael Patrick Hicks

This post was originally supposed to be my monthly wrap-up, but the Horror Writer’s Association decided it was, instead, a good time to come along and tell horror writers everywhere to go fuck themsel...

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 16/08/2026

Football fans today be like ‘first game of the season!’ - as if it hasn’t been f’in wall-to-wall football literally everywhere since MAY. Ugh.

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Drusilla Adeline (aka Sister Hyde) @sisterhyde.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New Work + Literal Dream Job - Poster and Title design for KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS. Restored. Uncut. In theaters Oct 16

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 04/08/2026

Watched IN A VIOLENT NATURE a couple of nights ago. @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social if you haven’t seen it, this thing is incredibly Friday The 13th-coded. Brutally violent, stupidly funny and the scenery and diegetic sound are honestly beautiful. Loved it.

Movie poster for IN A VIOLENT NATURE, showing a masked killer wielding a hook.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 21/07/2026

Love how on the 2000 song ‘Freakin’ It’, Will Smith doesn’t apparently realise that the lyric ‘I read in rap pages, they referred to me as soft - yeah, more like micro soft’ is a massive self-own. Like - you’re reading nothing but yourself there, my guy.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 21/07/2026

This is probably the most niche joke I’ve ever made. Major props to you if you get it.

A black t-shirt design for the band Deerhoof featuring the midnight dinner scene from the film Goodfellas, in which Joe Pesci asks to borrow a carving knife to cut a deer’s hoof out of his car grille

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 13/07/2026

Miranda: OMG Sam Neill has died! Charlotte: That’s so sad, I loved him in Possession. Samantha: I’d let him breach my Event Horizon. Carrie: Big is moving to Jurassic Park.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

once a month someone sends me this game and says "have you seen this" and I have to look up, haggard, with ink stained hands, and say 'yes i made it'

i cant face typing the text of Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron out because I lost the original file and I dont have the strength

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 12/07/2026

@octothorpecast.bsky.social We live just off Great Western Road in Glasgow so we are absolutely not short of wanky coffee places near us - which reminded me of this Modern Toss cartoon:

A yellow greeting card and blue envelope. On the card is a drawing of 2 men on a high street, with several coffee shops around them. One man is saying to the other, ‘Excuse me, is there anywhere round here I can’t get a coffee?’

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 18/06/2026

Apocalypse is imminent. You can save ONE author’s entire bibliography. Who are you picking?

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 17/06/2026

How does one define scary? For me, when I think about movies which genuinely upset or disturbed me, rather than just going for the cheap, something-moved / loud-noise jump scare, I’d say: POSSUM TERRIFIER 2 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT MARTYRS MIDSOMMAR

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 17/06/2026

Manchester friends! Gonna be in your fair city on Fri afternoon for a couple of hours from about 3pm if anyone fancies a coffee/pint/catch-up/? 🐝

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Horror.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 15/04/2026

If I was world’s most powerful wizard Lord Voldemort, and I wanted to infiltrate a high school (normal) because I had beef with a 12-year old (normal), I would simply not make my alias an easily solved direct anagram of my real name.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 28/03/2026

Your path is blocked by two Shakiras. One’s hips don’t lie. One’s hips don’t tell the truth.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 28/03/2026

@octothorpecast.bsky.social I’m a week out on this but wanted to address John’s comments around the ALIEN movies. Huge fan of the first 2 especially and the reason I think both Alien and Aliens work is that the first one is a straight horror movie, and the second one is essentially an action comedy.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 18/03/2026

More Hard Times News potential headlines: Harsh Noise Band Issues Apology After Recognisable Musical Note Heard During Their Set

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 11/03/2026

The music that I used to listen to as an angsty teenager wanting to be edgy and piss off my parents is now considered playable on daytime mainstream radio. Old age incoming… 👴🏻

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

On this day in Horror History, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER premiered on television in 1997.

Blonde woman holding a wooden stake against a dark, eerie background with 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' title above.

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David ‘Obligatory Seasonal Name Change’ Bamford 🎃 @davidbamford.me · 10/03/2026

One of the best things about getting a bit older (I’m nearly 40) is that not only do I have no idea what anyone under the age of 25 is even saying, but I’m also actually at peace with that. I really don’t want to get into a Steve Buscemi/30 Rock situation. I’m irrelevance-maxxing. Or something.

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