Reposted by Rhys HowellMolly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave 4879581467
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I tried it. First bite, "this isn't good" but I did eat the whole thing. Which probably says more about me than the chocolate quality's to be fair. 010
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just did my first run in years. I am pooped but think may try for a half marathon in Jan/Feb but I want a t-shirt from it. Any suggestions? 120
Reposted by Rhys Howellhttps://jasonhynes.substack.com/ @jhynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Because I thought of it, that's why. 0105
Reposted by Rhys HowellJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502625643
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So Marvel Unlimited is sunsetting and changing to Webtoon? What does that mean for accessing unlimited Marvel comics, no longer? 010
Reposted by Rhys HowellPages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Some writers continue to fundamentally misunderstand readers. If your book has an AI cover, I immediately lose interest. I worry the text might be AI, too. Maybe it's not. I don't know. But I no longer care. There are a million books on my TBR list. I will read one of those instead. 131
Reposted by Rhys HowellCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The easiest, least risky path to friendship is “oh you liked that, so did I!” Make that impossible, and few will be able to form enough non-familial connections to rise up against so much as our own ennui, let alone The Regime. 09727
Reposted by Rhys HowellPrune Juice Journal @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Submissions are open and our old bar game is back! Pour yourself a drink and have a go, see if you can win a place in our Journal! #smallpoemsunday #senryusunday #senryu #writingcommunity 112112
Reposted by Rhys HowellDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 31128083993
Reposted by Rhys HowellOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10041591265
Reposted by Rhys HowellKatie @zizifothsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I put this in the Traitors WhatsApp group I’m in and NO RESPONSES. Pearls before swine 29614
Reposted by Rhys HowellFinal Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 29/01/2026🎶 A whisky drink, a vodka drink A lager drink, a cider drink The baffled king composeth Chumbawumba 04015
Reposted by Rhys HowellAndy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence. 15559195
Reposted by Rhys HowellSam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026that Traitors episode was a carbon copy of the SNL UK big crab man sketch 131
Reposted by Rhys HowellTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120563120
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Got talking to a colleague about foundational texts, those works of art that got their claws into your early and melded you into who you are. Mine would be "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Discworld" and "Fleetway Comics of the late 80's and 90s"(More as vibes than full memories those last ones!) 000
Reposted by Rhys HowellBex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book. 314947
Reposted by Rhys HowellSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 25/09/2023As a society, we need to move past the concept of "guilty pleasures" tbh. The world can really use some more joy, and if you get that from bubblegum pop or 80s power ballads, then that's only lovely and to be encouraged 12314
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Things that feel like writing (but aren't) 1. Favouriting submission skeets for later 2. Research aka doom scrolling 3. Researching films set on Arrakis aka Dunescrolling 4.Researching satellites aka Moon scrolling 5. Researching weaving aka Loom scrolling 6. Researching Fungi aka Shroomscrolling 010
Reposted by Rhys HowellREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh listen this is an uplifting one for anyone who needs cheering www.reddit.com/r/BORUpdates...reddit.comFrom the BORUpdates community on RedditExplore this post and more from the BORUpdates community 86912
Reposted by Rhys HowellAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/09/2026Oh wow www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...nytimes.comSylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself. 3327
Reposted by Rhys HowellAnna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that I think would change politics/policy discourse for the better is if young people & their interests were treated with the same concern and respect as pensioners. 34811
Reposted by Rhys HowellCaleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP! 022580
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hope you're on the mend soon. I'm currently googling a character name every other sentence as I read "The New Travellers Almanac" at the end of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2 041
Reposted by Rhys HowellPoocharé @poochare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Someone should make a film in 2.76:1 (Ultra Panavision 70), but the actual image printed on it 4:3. Start at the beginning of the film at the left side of the field and imperceptibly slide rightward, to be at the right edge by the end of the credits. That way the film is its own progress meter. 021
Reposted by Rhys HowellJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home 4303105
Reposted by Rhys HowellAntlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh man. @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social has preorders up for a furry beaver slipcase! Too cute. Side note: if you haven't seen this goddamn brilliant film yet, fix that. 041
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Isn't a big part of it anger at aging? My Star Trek (Choose depending on age) was bright and shiny and brand new and ground breaking, Your Star Trek is rehashing old tropes (and fundamentally not being experienced by teenage me), Their Star Trek has references I dont get and scares me 120
Reposted by Rhys HowellAnne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“It just goes to show that nature is always there waiting to push through.” Good news to counteract the doomscrolling 💚🙂💚theguardian.comSkylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools 072
Reposted by Rhys HowellJasPhoenixWrites @jasphoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Verifying a word I’ve used 500 times because I looked at it for too long and now it doesn't look real. 🫤😂 197
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Maybe it the RNLI hadn't been playing hide n seek with fascists they'd have been able to escort? 000
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So this is what gets the government to comment? Not the terrorising of RNLI, attempts to sink people at sea, radicalised communities but a few folk making it to shore unaccomoanied?BBC News - Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 100
Reposted by Rhys Howellchiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go. 1514949
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Don't use the previous email, use this to contact Andy Burnham. 010
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Something that all couples need to discuss before it gets too serious. 020
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My wife says we should declare Ambridge bankruptcy and start from this week. But we've come so far. We can't stop now. 100
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Two weeks? When I were a lad we dreamt of only being 14 days behind 😉 ( I am currently halfway through the 19th of April 2026 omnibus. )I can tell you tales of being behind. (Just praying my phone doesn't break and lose all the episodes on it, as it has before) 100
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've found Archers on the couch Podcast good to catch up with. Even just the recap bit 100
