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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm trying to get #community #allotments running where the old Victory Gardens from WW2 were, but it's been so hard - some monster stole the hens from the kids allotment and stabbed the poor cockerel to death. Spent all this time dealing with police and a crying kid. Hopefully more present soon.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Looking at moving all the animal and nature-related posts to a new account. Cornforth Animal Welfare desperately needs to exist and be funded, so I'm wondering if that would help. Thoughts?

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The Trial of Soundwave('s patience)

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

about 10X more people than this showed up to watch me change my flat tyre

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

And of course, after having to deal with a break-in for one plot holder, there's a buzzard attack for another. Honestly, I wish Allotment Manager was a paid job XD I've had my hands in so many animals guts and butts over the years.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dealing with an allotment break-in for a resident, and chasing up Durham Police via the local MP regarding their refusal to do anything in the village regarding DV cases. I should not have to chase them to do their jobs, but taking hours to get to an incident involving a sledgehammer is evil.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It would be a cheaper transition for my trans-brothers.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever way you want to.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So, that "short" meeting ended up being 3 hours long, and has resulted in me doing more work for the playpark. The toddler park needs new safety flooring, and we want to add some equipment for toddlers with mobility issues. Also, the stuff looks cool, there's a bee springer and a rocket ship one!

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Off to back-to-back Parish meetings - we're covering my work on funding for allotments, deciding what to do about lack of support for Domestic Abuse victims, and how to do ANYTHING to help locals screwed by Durham County Council. We mostly voted Ind/Lab, but we're being punished by Reform Cllrs.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I should really learn another language. I'm old, but learning is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Difficult though when I need to find A LOT of cash as my Reform County Council have pushed disabled people a £2k bill to claw back council tax from the last 2 years.

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Valery North @valerynorth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm really eager to do this, but because GlamSlutButch has baked-in kinky, NSFW language and vibes, I do need people to signal their interest - I've reached out to people I know, who have played the game & those who already interacted with the post, but other folks - I might not know it's ok to!

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Well, this is fucking moronic. Though I expect nothing better from the FT's Associate Editor and lickspittle, who wrote "In Defence of Elites".

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

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Johnny Rebeck @johnnyrebeck.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Remember to hit "ignore" on game + dev pages on Steam when you find slop! If storefronts won't make consequences for non-disclosure, then we have to make our own.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Can we have some new cool musicians and film-makers please? A fair bit of this batch have gone very bad indeed.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I just got gifted No Players Online! ❤️ I've watched it for awhile, so thanks Kraken! Going to play it, hopefully enjoy it, and do the usual - review on #Steam and on the website. What a lovely thing - I'd had to go try and find someones chicken that escaped AS I GOT IN MY BATH, so this is nice.😊

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay, stay for the play but start watching for the music references!

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Look! Look a lot - and give KeyCheyn a boost for their thesis! Well done!

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KeyCheyn | Open for Work @keycheyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I would like to share this too! bsky.app/profile/keyc...

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#SelfPromoSaturday - what are you making, or have succeeded at this week? Please share and keep the love going! I've been working on designing puzzles for my point and click #game 'Where The Flowers Grow In Salt', doing #art, and council work.

a woman drawn in dark and red, with long wavy hair and an angered look on her face .

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Anyhow, I'm taking today and tomorrow off as I'm absolutely full of cold. Time to work on the point and click game! My old mother thinks it's sickening, which is excellent news!

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Oh yeah, I also write stories and poetry, and my #poetry book "Growing Anarchy" is looking for an indie publisher/crowdfund soon: #booksky #poem

A poem called break the boughs, which reads:

The graveyard in my mind is full,
Yet not a space for me.
Hope, it drags me deeply down,
Yet anger sets me free.

For what wicked words we wend,
About our morality,
We feed it poison, so sickness bends
The limbs of that great tree.

We see our kin and strike them low,
With sickle rainging from high.
And claim they all but need to show,
The truth of their insides.

And yet they did, and so they do,
For those not blind to see.
But some would rather see them hang,
From the limbs of that twisted tree.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Having done 8 hours of HR Meetings and training regarding the changes, I can say this with utter certainty: They made very few changes that weren't already best practice, and the misinformation is rampant.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay, for some reason YT automatically made the vid private despite the settings. Oh I hate doing these. But people need to know their workers #rights, and the new changes.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In other news, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, and I'm a bit distracted as second grandson may be getting born RIGHT NOW! We're not related, but if next doors little boy decides I'm his Grandma, then I'm his little brothers Grandma too.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr0... RIGHT, that apparently works now!

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Don't believe all the new Warbook crap from Labour - yes, we'll likely be doing some backing of that cunt Trump, we are already, but there's a good chance that it's ALSO to make even more austerity more palatable to the UK public in the long-term. Britain's complicit in genocide at home and abroad.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NOT the vid I wanted up today (I am trying to work on it now), but a quick unscripted about this stupid Reform stunt: youtu.be/8Xr0Rr8sdoI

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Do you think if we named something Big Kiers Fun-time we could persuade him to go live in it, while actual workers sort a lot of the shit out?

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

And he's absolutely spot-on - NATO has needed changing for a long time. Unfortunately, with the Workers Rights vid and the Farage vid going up today, I don't have time to cover this rn. We need alliances with reliable partners.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Typical, I work on a nice, short, and simple video regarding how your actual rights at #work stand NOW, and then Fartage pulls his traitorous stunt. Going to do 2 vids today I guess. And yes, this is the fash's fault. #politics #video #youtube #learning

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In 1985, Wendy Carlos spoke about the reaction to her transition: "The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent ... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life."

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🚨 indie dev has their kickstarter up with 8 days left. Check out this pixel metroidvania and give it some love. Shares appreciated. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

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Soulflame

Save your sister in a pixel-art adventure game of self-reflection, mistakes and loss.

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Can we stop with directors falling over themselves to use AI slop in their films? *screams into a cushion*

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

As a kid, I never had the opportunity to sit around a campfire and tell scary stories. As an adult, I still haven't. But I do get to share my stories with the internet, and that's pretty good, too

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Finishing a vid for tomorrow about UK Employment Law changes. Sounds exciting right? Looking for work, or at risk in employment? This Parish Councillor explains your rights and protections! There is a lot of misinformation. Get it from a member of local Government who HAS to learn about this.

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Do NOT agree to pay. You have the right to inspect the mail first at the Delivery Office, and can refuse to take it. Every refusal or Return To Sender results in a £5 charge to the sender, and letters will be returned if unclaimed after 18 days.

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Morgana Ignis @morganaignis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

When all is said and done, let it be remembered that the ones that fought against the trans community hardest were a bunch of warmongering, sex trafficking, racist pedophiles.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Borg Queen: Prepare for assimilation. Riker whips out his trombone: BWAwawaWaaaaWAAAwawawaWA The Borg Queen: You know what, we’re good, actually

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Joy Makes Monsters @horrorartistjoy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

How much gore can a gorehound hound in a gore hound gore gore gore? Figured out how to add a hand drawn animation of you ripping your hand skin off in the game. Nice.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It turns out there was a lot more to this Tobey Maguire children's movie than Phelan and I thought, so we went down a rabbit hole and discovered...it's secretly a horror film? Our look at 3 different cuts of Revenge of the Red Baron is on Patreon Early Access! www.patreon.com/cw/movienights

The thumbnail for our follow up video on Revenge of the Red Baron. Phelan and I are dressed in black trench coats and look like we're solving a mystery. Tobey Maguire screams and points at the Red Baron toy, who winks at us. The text says, "You decrepit piece of ****!"

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