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Ed Fortune

@edfortune.com
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Journalist/Columnist for Starburst Magazine, print & online. Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech. Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing. He/Him. Edinburgh.

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 01/12/2025
Not rude things, a thread:
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 15h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 15h
Go to google and search for 'Fat Bear'.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20h
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 26/09/2026
I need to learn to be more Zen. By which I mean I need to find out how to be in charge of a powerful alien spaceship...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing news from Cosmic Lighthouse, who previously produced the Salvation's Child graphic novel.
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🗡️ Jess Jewell 🗡️ @jessjewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨FUCK✨ ✨GENERATIVE✨ ✨AI✨
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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026
Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart
Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.
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Fred McNamara - ALL SECTIONS ALPHA is out NOW! 🌔 @commandermac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For every like this gets, I'll give you a fact about Space: 1999. Have the first one for free! 1) Sylvia Anderson supposedly wanted a more vulnerable commander of Moonbase Alpha who didn't always have the answers to every situation. Robert Culp was a preferred choice of actor.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Seems weird the whole "are you ready for war if it happens" thing the government is pushing when clearly we've been at war via misinformation, funding far right hate groups, attacking British institutions and so forth for ages. A better question is "when is the government going to do something?"
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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More from Your Daily Dracula – Gilbert & Sullivan’s Dracula (2026)
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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've had some more thoughts on this; I want to change the title of the game to 'Away Team' and have it specifically for small-party missions to worlds or other vessels. Basically a Star Trek-themed one-shot dungeon crawl game, with one page maps/adventures for the teams to experience.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i'm largely opposed to AI rather than viscerally angry about it but today some of my lovely non-computer friends anxiously asked about it ending the world and it filled me with rage. what right do you have to worry these nice people with your made up bullshit. how dare you. they don't even go here
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✨ˢᵗᵒⁿᵉᵈ // STAR WARS✨ @stonedstarwars.com · 12/09/2026
A big villain in Andor is paperwork. It’s such a cold allegory for how people get crushed in the real world. You aren't being fought by a "dark side," you’re being deleted by an efficient clerk who wants a promotion. It makes the Empire feel way more dangerous and present. The monster is here now! 👊
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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Magnificent work by the @marvelbythemonth.com folks.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day...
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Sony let Kojima's next experimental game slip away to Xbox" "The hot new Looney Tunes movie was barely saved from oblivion by Ketchup Entertainment" "No one can figure out the premise for a new Muppet Show" we are living through an era of exceptionally high incompetence from corporate leadership
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Magic trick
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On pre-order, Sophia McDougall's hilarious Mars Evacuees is back in the UK at last. Your kids will love this. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall.

The image is of four teenagers in space suits set against an image of Mars and a robot goldfish.

Original art by Andy Potts, cover design by Ben Baldwin
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TigerRider @tigerrider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
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Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 08/09/2026
If you were a Rogue Trooper bio-chip, which bit of kit would you like to be attached to. (Rogue Trooper's comrades have their personalities encoded on chips in case they get killed. )
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Chloe Mashiter @chloemashiter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm doing a Halloween run of my haunted-Teletext larp TRANSMISSION! So excited that after years of developing it on and off, running it at festivals, I'll finally be doing a public run Group tix are on sale, w individual tix on sale 22nd Sep Info & tix here: everythingimmersive.com/events/trans...
A glitchy 90s style Teletext graphic with the title TRANSMISSION visible, and a popup reading "an online horror roleplay experience"
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 07/09/2026
Really looking forward to this. I'll be on the What Next for Doctor Who? & John Carpenter Retrospective panels, as well as running the Outrageous Liars panel show...
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Today I realised that Huel is just formula, but for adults.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough
Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 31/08/2026
And that was the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Plenty of reviews over on the @starburst.bsky.social website from me, lots of amazing shows seen and it was great to catch up with folk.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Name the Muppets
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/08/2026
“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cover of The Lancet, 22 Aug issue. The quote reads, “...movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.”
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have buttered toast Than never to have ate at all.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
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Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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STARBURST MAGAZINE @starburst.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ICYMI, we interviewed the fantastic @mrsamsee.bsky.social about his smash-hit @edfringe.bsky.social show 'Off With Your Head'. Go see it if you can! www.starburstmagazine.com/features/sam...
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Sam See • OFF WITH YOUR HEAD - STARBURST Magazine
We caught up with Sam See to talk about his hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Off With Your Head. Introduce yourself please. I’m a comedian originally from Singapore who’s moved to London, trying to...
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 19/08/2026
Yes, big yes and *absolutely yes* 👇🏼
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 19/08/2026
Back to the @edfringe.bsky.social thisFriday, spending most of this week doing the 'dreaded other job' and recovering from over doing it for the last dozen or so days.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This summer's most entertaining science fiction blockbuster is not in any cinema, it's going door-to-door in a small British seaside town. We'll be nominating "Count Binface's byelection campaign in Clacton-on-Sea" for a Hugo Award.
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Bin it to Win it
Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
huh
Accusations of plagiarism in Arday's work were first voiced by Nathan Cofnas - a US researcher whose role at a Cambridge college was terminated after backlash against his view that under a true meritocracy black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".
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wheatles @wheatles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is the Robin Hobb Live ship Traders trilogy which is presumably not the greatest series of all time already because it would cost about £400mil per ep
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Please share! Poets! Uncanny Magazine will be open to poetry submissions from August 17 to August 31! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to see your submissions! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Space Unicorn
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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think an underrated reason for the ferocity of British media culture war prosecutions is that it's the easiest possible thing for a columnist who has that kind of aristocratic laziness to write a little variation on a popular theme.
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 14/08/2026
Firmly believe the new TV show is going to crash and burn, but the hype from weird fash fans will be loud.
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 14/08/2026
The only traffic cone required on a statue in Edinburgh (not Glasow) is one round Bobby's head as a "cone of shame". Mostly to protect the little dog.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[everything is still awful but] Farage did think he was going to be standing there having beaten all the main parties and instead he's spending the day having to lie about the police so that he doesn't have to be photographed next to a high performance bin whilst the money investigation continues
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 12/08/2026
Bravo to the group doing an a capella version of Little Shop of Horrors on the Royal Mile during the eclipse. #edfringe
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STARBURST MAGAZINE @starburst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Five Stars for @robbotron.bsky.social 's stand-up show, Excitable Boy on at the @edfringe.bsky.social www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/john...
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JOHN ROBERTSON: EXCITABLE BOY! - STARBURST Magazine
John Robertson is a very, very naughty boy. And as the title of his latest show implies, rather excitable. The 40-something Australian comedian is better known for his consistently sold-out interactiv...
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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 12/08/2026
Four stars over on @starburst.bsky.social for Raj Poojara. One to watch. www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/raj-...
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RAJ POOJARA: DICE [Edinburgh Fringe] - STARBURST Magazine
Raj Poojara’s show DICE is a show about the choices you make in life, and the illusion of choice. Dice is about a single throw of a cube, and yes, die would be a more accurate description of a singula...
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Katy Moon @oog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
fuck the sun
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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You not only created a beautiful dragon you named it Vermithrax Pejorative and, fuck me, it's never been beaten. Never. Been. Beaten.
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