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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 15h

Managed to play the first couple of hours of Control Resonant. It's a very good time so far! Great vibes, proper eerie, and the fighting is very solid. I don't normally really dig melee in video games but they have nailed it here

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flu jab today. All fine except that I bled like a stuck pig, visibly alarming the poor nurse!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just discovered Netherwilds. "all my friends are thieves and witches" fuck yeah, peasant metal

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Ministry of Secrets @ministryofsecrets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For those Territorial Operators who have somehow FAILED to sign up, here is this week's BULLETIN. RECTIFY YOUR IGNORANCE

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get up to speed on clones, cryptids, and more!

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 01/10/2026

The Hum marches North #Hookland

View from behind a pylon looking north beneath a line of them to the horizon.

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting. There's a screening of We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher in Coventry next week. Sounds like it might be up my alley

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My neighbours' smoke alarm battery needs replacing. I am not chill about the beeps at all. Had to replace the smoke alarm in my other neighbour's just the other month. They were very grateful but clearly didn't realise that I would have done it by force if necessary

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anybody around in Sheffield on the 21st of November? The film Tether that I did VFX for is showing and I expect I shall be there - anybody else up for it?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good morning. Mood.

a giant kitten rises from the ocean, shooting lasers from its paws at the hapless swimmers in the shallows

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/09/2026

in the immortal words of President Khatami:

iranian president khatami on CNN saying most americans have read alexis de tocqueville

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👉 Free Art for Three Days 👈 I’m not pointing any fingers...but if you are, then I have made the perfect stock art bundle ^^ Free download for 3 days. Free for personal and commercial use. www.patreon.com/SilverGlass/... or ko-fi.com/s/f9cdee8279 Tell your friends! #ttrpg #stockart #lineart

Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Regarding the AI skin people are calling an “actress” Studio types would LOVE this to succeed, so the skin is being featured and anthropomorphized in the mainstream press. Remember, movie producers left money on the table pre-1910 and refused to credit movie actors

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve got no desire to watch the Musk documentary. I’m sure it’s really well made, but I just can’t spend four consecutive hours thinking about Musk. However, the Elizabeth Holmes doc by Nathan Fielder looks utterly insane so I’m definitely going to have to check that out

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the slackers that haven't signed up yet...

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BBC News - Mystery of concrete ring at Orford Ness 'solved after 30 years' - BBC News @hookland.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mystery of concrete ring at Orford Ness 'solved after 30 years'

The concrete ring on the Suffolk coast has baffled people since 1993.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Called into an important work meeting this morning apparently

A beautiful black and white cat, sitting and looking judgmental

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A wonderful trip to @hookland.bsky.social tonight, via London. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while and it was everything I’d hoped for - good company, expensive beer and genuine, true magic I’m sitting waiting for the train to take me home to the provinces with a very gladdened heart

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tips for journalists covering "AI in space": -Ask about heat dissipation *at scale* -Ask "Doesn't the sun come down here too?" -Ask "y tho?" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...

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Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space

Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower.

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.

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Ministry of Secrets @ministryofsecrets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The FIRST Informational Bulletin for Territorial Operators will be distributed to INBOXES at 1900 GMT. If you have not yet signed up, visit ministryofsecrets.org and JOIN US. For King, Country, and the ghost of John Dee. Keep the Secrets.

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THE MINISTRY OF SECRETS

THE MINISTRY OF SECRETS DOES NOT EXIST // IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE MINISTRY OF SECRETS // PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US // IF YOU DO CONTACT US, PLEASE USE FORM MO/S/17B //

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girding my loins and selecting my most occult tie for my trip to London this afternoon. I don’t get to the Capital that often; in general I lurk in the hinterlands. This is a very worthy occasion for a trip, though Really looking forward to seeing @hookland.bsky.social and @zos93.bsky.social

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great Spy Action with @kehaar.bsky.social @willoughbywrite.bsky.social @thatmartin.bsky.social @whodo.bsky.social tonight! That compound is getting stormed next week. Hopefully we will have @sardonicus.eu as sniper to seal the deal. These slavers are going down.

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah if there’s one thing Ukraine has taught us, it’s that we should not have any drones, nor anybody who knows how to fly them Fucking muppet

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve got a joke about Traveller but you might die before I get to tell it to you

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Started reading China Mieville’s latest doorstopper. It’s a chunky boy. The man can *write*. It’s very good so far and I haven’t even got to the weird stuff yet

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shattered after doing event photography last night! My old bones are not up to it anymore. Time for the glue factory

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One thing you can say about the UK, if any PM ever tried to cover the exterior of No 10 with pretend gold leaf, they’d be hanged in Parliament Square

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Splendid LOTR game tonight - regime change is still on the cards but we have to lay the groundwork! Thanks so much @edoffannyside.bsky.social @andyhemming.bsky.social @k000.bsky.social - we're an excellent fellowship! And thanks as always to @viscountjonkeer.eurosky.social for running the game!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here we go then bsky.app/profile/mini...

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nim Chimpsky is my favourite denizen of Mega City One by far! These are all great choices.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dope ass game of Dragonbane tonight - we fell down a lot of cliffs and then fought a bunch of giant wood lice, it was ace! Thanks @fenrisgames.com @andyhemming.bsky.social @zos93.bsky.social and @dozy139.bsky.social for some excellent stabbings and fireballs

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I still find it hilarious that despite being an NT member for over a decade, it was the Restore Trust people who actually made me vote in NT elections, purely because they are horrible and I feel compelled to vote against every one of their propositions

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I watched Head in my early twenties and was an instant convert.

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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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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This also applies to filmmakers who get into directing animation because “you can do anything”

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years since 9/11. I lived in the US at the time. The change in the country was profound and immediate. Until then, I’d never felt like a foreigner in the US. After that, I always did. A couple of years after that I watched the Katrina response and decided it was probably time to move home

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The always insightful Charles Stross here:

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