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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

not sure if this is the most implausible thing that has happened to me but it's got to be top three

screenshot from the Simpsons fan wiki reading:

""Treehouse of Horror XXXVII" is an upcoming episode of The Simpsons[5] from Season 38, as well as the thirty-seventh Treehouse of Horror episode.

Plot
The original opening is a “Simpsons”/“Nightmare Before Christmas” mashup, produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios — featuring “Simpsons” versions of the “Nightmare Before Christmas” characters.

One segment is inspired by the British novel “The Husbands,” by Holly Gramazio, in which Homer goes to the shed and comes out as a different husband for Marge. Suddenly, she’s married to Lenny. Or Kang and Kodos."

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I was in Shoreditch and I went to an anarchist book fair and also to another, non-anarchist, book fair

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think we're all misunderstanding the NYT television list, I think they just asked some guy passing through the office to name 100 television shows and these were the ones he could think of

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the people who made the movie "Inside Man" should hire someone to stand at the window of anyone who has just watched the movie "Inside Man" and whisper "...don't think about it..." as viewers start to ask each other questions like "what" and "wait what" and "what" and "no just a minute, what"

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

would you like to meet our new cat? her name is All The Fur I Brushed Off Madeleine Over The Summer

A pile of cat fur arranged into a loosely cat-shaped mound; two ears have been pinched into shape, and two googly eyes have been attached in the place where the eyes would be. It is sitting against a green wall, and it is very wrong to the eye.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh my god she looks so much like a stick!! no wonder it took them so long to find her

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I get why nobody likes “The Last Battle” much but when I was a kid I loved it. Admittedly I still didn’t realise it was about Jesus and also, was convinced that all the “further up and further in” heading-into-the-mountains involved escalators, which I rarely encountered and considered very exciting

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Playing card museum in Gdynia is incredible, I’ll write it up properly later but strong recommend if you’re ever randomly in the area, which to be clear you won’t be, you go through an industrial estate and into an empty building full of cabinets of glass eyes and you press a button at a closed door

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These double tailed mermaids have a lot more leg going on than I would generally expect but I admit I am not fully caught up on the latest romantasy trends

A stone statue arrangement above a door: two figures, one with a shell that she is blowing as a horn, each with two legs that become tails somewhere around the knee area

Close up of the left figure confirming where the scales begin

And the right-hand figure likewise; the leg tail sits casually out in front

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m in Gdańsk / Gdynia / Sopot for a few days and it’s extremely nice!

Statue of a lion lying sleepy and made of metal by a fountain, another more alert lion and a big dark orange building in the background

Whole heads of sunflower seeds for sale - two different varieties maybe?

A big masonry building with a kind of rickety wooden bit built in front of it, like an entrance / sunroom, wooden bars across the windows

A funicular carriage passes along a metal strut above a pathway through green trees

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

enjoyed this post - even as someone who did a bunch of this kind of thing Back In The Day eg maybe 2004-2011 I have maybe *never* downloaded and played a print-and-play card game. Even though I own a printer, laminator, guillotine etc.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I haven't read ANY of these books from a couple of end-of-year 1976 best-of lists; I haven't even heard of most of them

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm sitting in a theatre foyer eavesdropping on a TV guy pitching ideas and: look, as much as we might go "ohhh game designers should stop only taking inspiration from games" it is NOTHING compared to how this guy is taking inspiration from, precisely, the 20 most popular TV shows he can think of

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Garden History Blog on “A Collection of Sociable Garden Games and Rural Amusements involving physical exercise, particularly recommended for people whose occupations require them to sit for long periods” from 1800 thegardenhistory.blog/2026/09/05/g...

An engraving of some men with sacks tied around their necks, standing in an elegant garden. Their friends who are not in sacks look very fancy.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I understand this change in the weather is objectively for the best and I am trying to think positively about the gentle coming-to-life of England’s desiccated gardens and depleted reservoirs as I turn on the giant SAD lamp that I will now keep running non-stop until approximately April

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

if you are in Australia then you should check out Pink Shorts Press's September releases (I wrote a little intro for Moya Costello's wonderful and funny and apocalyptic "The Office as a Boat", originally published in 2000)

A photo of four books laid flat on some wrapping paper: Moya Costello's "The Office as a Boat", Olivia De Zilva's "Sick Note", Preasanthi Ram's "Nine Yard Sarees" and Stavroula Adameitis's "Australianarama"

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two days left to sign up for next year's Arts Emergency!!! Mentors from games are often in particularly short supply! Give it a look, it's fun and pretty straightforward and you get to keep up with what The Young People are like (actually pretty great, reassuringly)!

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For plotting / procrastination reasons I am reading a zoo's 72-page Animal Escape Response Preparedness plan.

Text reading: The objective of the "Animal Escape Preparedness Plan" (separate document) is to develop best practices, tools, training and drills to prepare staff so they may safely implement all aspects of a recapture plan should an escape occur. Drills of this procedure will be conducted at least twice per year. A maximum of one actual
escape response per year (if they occur) can be counted as a drill. "Table top" discussions by Animal Section Curators and Animal Management Supervisors may supplement drills." The bit about how an actual escape can count as a drill no more than once a year has been highlighted.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The new toilets at Green Park are very nice but I’m not sure I understand the significance of all the decorative forks in the tiling. What do these indicate? “Dig in”? “Remember: don’t touch the shits with your hands”?

A bathroom sink with shiny blue tiles, and also, six black-and-yellow tiles showing forks

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I put a note on my contact-me page saying "if you want me to talk to your book group please tell me about your favourite tree so I know you're not an automated scammer" and it's actually very nice to get emails going eg "I run a small library book group and my favourite tree is the poplar"

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

this is a great little bookshop; if you're anywhere near Turnpike Lane, it does a mix of new and second-hand which is always such a treat. They also have a bunch of events on allgoodbookshop.co.uk/events-1

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The cats are three years old today!! This means nothing to them and they don’t seem to want to pose charmingly for a birthday photo so here is them recently, and just turned 2, and just turned 1, and as tiny kittens

Madeleine is upside-down, exposing her white fluffy belly, little paws crooked in front of her, looking up with suspicion. Gelato is belly-down, orange-brown, very asleep. They touch at the butt.

A study. Maddy is on a pink chair, mostly fluff and eyes. Gelato reclines below, in the sunlight. They are both looking at the camera with slightly baffled hostility, as if they were having a private conversation and you have blundered in

They are smaller, squashed onto one cat shelf that they don’t really both fit on but they’re going to try, or rather Madeleine was doing fine on her own but Gelato is convinced that he should join her. Madeleine is tolerant. Gelato’s eyes are vast.

They are very small. Gelato is balancing on the towel-covered arm of a chair, and he is so round. Madeleine is sitting on a shelf behind him, very fluffy even for her, especially about the ears.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My first lunar eclipse: I was about 11. Convinced mum to let me stay awake an extra two hours. Sleepily went outside and looked at where the moon had been earlier and huh, yeah, I couldn’t see it, cool. Went to sleep. Realised in the morning that the moon moves and I’d been staring at empty sky.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

absolutely wild that even the "good" game publishers go around posting triumphantly about "our games" without, for example, naming the people who actually made the game.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have started a new todo list system where each week if something fills me with a sense of immense dread and guilt it goes on a separate Shame List and as soon as I've done one thing from the Shame List each week I don't have to look at it or think about it again until the following Monday

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@adamatomic.bsky.social are you interested in hearing about a very specific non-game-breaking punch dungeon bug or would you prefer to just not know

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I had to go and look on streetview to be sure this wasn’t some sort of complicated New Zealand joke but no, this is a real place

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm enjoying linguno.com for listening exercises and conjugation drills - looks good for upper beginner learners through to upper intermediate, maybe even revision for lower advanced? Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian. Free + no ads for now (until their beta phase ends later this year)

linguno.com

Linguno - Language learning tools

Efficient language learning tools for practicing conjugations, listening and vocabulary in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Really enjoyed this on @glasgowindiegamesfest.org ! Helped me figure out why I felt confused about answering a couple of people who asked if they should go next year: that the answer is "well yes, it's lovely" but also that it feels like a _local event_

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

God I love how excited the Glasgow railway machines are to sell you a ticket

Screen reading

ScotRail
SCOTLAND'S RAILWAY
This is the new TicketXpress machine!
PLEASE TOUCH THE SCREEN!!!

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is basically the only photo I have of @glasgowindiegamesfest.org but what a lovely time this weekend has been

Folded yellow paper saying”photos and videos will be taken” with a big bright crowd of people and umbrellas milling around in the background

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm not saying this is *wrong* but also, what if the imaginary book critic DOES come round

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

my new theory is that Euston is... like it is... to promote decentralisation through making literally anywhere a joy to arrive into by comparison

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m reading an odd little 1950s pamphlet about reciting poetry and the writers keep breaking off to talk about how much they hate various modern tendencies including, most notably, people who listen to music out loud instead of using headphones

Small black pamphlet called “How to Say a Poem” by Dilys M. Turner and Oliver C. de C. Ellis

The growth of a crystal is an intensely individual affair. It must be undisturbed. External tranquillity is essential also to the Production of a poem. Railroads, said Bridges in 1918, have added greatly to the vain, feverish turmoil, which is the worst foe to spiritual life; but since then there have come the omnipresent omnibus, the aeroplane, and worst of all, the wireless. At first, since ideas of elementary courtesy were still prevalent, listeners used ear-telephones, as indeed gentlefolk who can bear to listen still do.
Now the monstrous "music while you work" not only fills every factory: it has also become a part of the din of the street, where, t00, loud-speaker vans roam at pleasure. The gramophone and wireless advertisers assert that suitable settings for their wares are Stonehenge at sunrise, the backwater reaches of the river, or Esthwaite under the moon. There is no refuge from the wireless or from the whistler even in the university, the post-office, the bank, the library, the hospital or the home; while the amenity of quiet conversation with a fellow-traveller on the railway or on the omnibus, or the opportunity to follow out a train of thought has not even been imagined by a present generation-supported by elders anxiously keeping up-to-date-that has been reared on the conveyor-belt of the monstrous combination of state " education" and "national service."
The enemy sedulously propagates the notion that it is "queer" want to be quiet, to breathe untainted air, to think. It is well-own that the enemy breaks its prisoners by a long-continued rivation of every kind of comfort, relaxation and tranquillity.
"They

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

alternative 1937 British name for the platypus! Had never heard this before, lacks dignity but you’ve got to admit it’s descriptive

Slightly bedraggled old hardback book called “How to See Beasts” with an engraving (I think) of some field mice on the front

“Most beasts are born alive, but in three very remarkable creatures, eggs are laid and the young hatch from them after a time, just as do the chicks of birds. These curious beasts all live in Australia, Tasmania, or New Guinea, and are not only unlike all other mammals in that they lay eggs, but also in that the young, instead of suckling their mothers, lick up the milk provided for them as it is produced. These three egg-laying beasts are called the duckmole, the spiny echidna, and the spiny anteater.”

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Look I know this applies to max. 3 of you but if you are in Leyton and you like apricots, the apricot gelato at Chunk today is INCREDIBLE

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hmmm still mostly keeping up with Books Peckham's reading calendar but this month it's "One Big Book". Honestly I am a lazy reader and usually only go for the big guys in December, when I don't want to leave the house; any suggestions for something 600+ pages that feels summery?

A picture of a sketchily hand-drawn photocopied calendar saying "JULY: This month I'm reading ONE BIG BOOK" with an asterisk saying "must be 600 pages AT LEAST". There are various suggested books hand-written around: Middlemarch, One of the Tolstoys, The Sea The Sea, etc

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What a great catalogue of Japanese toys from 1891 to 1923 at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social , I have so many questions eg - what is the spurting whale - how does it work - why are these boars so smug - what do you do with the magnet mice and may I have one publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

Toy catalogue illustration: a dark whale shown with water coming out a hole, and maybe you operate the flippers to make it do that? Plus some sort of skittle dressed as a lady.

Toy catalogue illustration: four boars of different sizes, the largest of which looks very pleased with itself

toy catalogue illustration: this is a confusing one, there's a mouse in a wheel, a mouse on a carriage, two mice on a stick around a central pivot, a mouse attached to a ball - these are presumably all wooden - and also there's a big magnet

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here are some tricks to help with your mnemonic devices. M ake sure the first letter matches N o skipping letters E ach part should make sense M an, there's another M? O h no N o no no I have no idea what I'm doing C andelabra

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

tried Guy Mont-Spelling Bee on various recommendations, and it's very charming, but I would love to read some long essay about the role of, like, performed unprofessionalism in Australian comedy of the last decade (Aaron Chen, Sam Campbell, the Katering Show, Most Upsetting Guessing Game etc)

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

couldn't sleep last night so I read J.R. Ackerley's 1956 book "My Dog Tulip", which the NYRB republication describes thus

The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the “ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, Ackerley tells of Tulip’s often erratic behavior and very canine tastes, and of his own fumbling but determined efforts to ensure for her an existence of perfect happiness.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Author spam getting very assertive lately

Email opening reading “Dear Holly Gramazio, This email finds you well” (which as it happens was true)

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Procrastinating by making a list of my personal favourite book for every year 1926-2026 and it seems like I have not enjoyed a single book from 1959. Please recommend me books from 1959 I guess? nb Shirley Jackson is too creepy for me, sorry, the fault is mine, I hate to experience fear

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

okay it’s hermit crab day for the house plants, everyone get in line

A row of half a dozen different types of house plants in increasing sizes, crowded onto a countertop, with an empty tiny pot at one end and an empty big pot at the other

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