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Iain Clark

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He / They.  Other pronouns welcome. Fan art / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Reader of SF/F & Romance. Vocal about inclusion, feminism, trans rights; tell me if I get it wrong. No AI art. iainjclarkart.com

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Jeff Goddard @jeffgoddard.bsky.social · 3h
I found some glossy photographic printer paper at work and decided to try it out and, well, damn. I don't like to really toot my own horn, but I'm so chuffed, I've never had full size (A4) prints of my stuff before and I'm so happy with how they look 😍
Picture shows five prints of Doctor Who digital edits. 
Top, l-r: 13th Doctor blended with a cyberman. 13th Doctor and a wheel in space cyberman.
Bottom l-r: picture inspired by I, Davros,  1st and 13th Doctors in the tardis, 1st Doctor surrounded by Daleks.
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 4h
'Trapped in the Sky', the first episode of Thunderbirds, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1965.
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 10h
If he's gonna watch that, he should also watch all the fan videos with fans playing the parts, making the costumes, writing the scripts etc. There is so much real creativity out there, born of an enthusiastic and inclusive fan community. We don't need artificial intelligence, we have genuine talent.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10h
I’ve been a writer and illustrator for decades, and the rise of genAI slop has only provided further proof that many of the clients who hire creative professionals need them as much for their judgement as they do for their skills.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 9h
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky They say, if you want to really know someone, watch how they behave towards people who they think don't matter. The Riven Kingdom will be published on 27th October 2026. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GK5RVZWT/
The Riven Kingdom cover art by Alice Claire Coleman is in the style of a stained glass window. Blue-green leaves and vines dotted with golden flowers coil around silver swords in panels on either side. These are topped with a golden sun on the left and a yellow crescent moon on the right. In the centre, rival hands stretch upwards trying to get hold of a crown that's just out of reach... 

Book extract reads: The woman brandished a letter in the light of the oil lamp hanging over the door. ‘The boy wasn’t injured. The lightning strike didn’t touch him. Now the shock has faded, he may recall further details of that day. I insist on asking him myself.’ 
‘You may consult his account of that day held by the high shrine’s infirmarians. They wrote down the recollections of everyone they treated who witnessed the tragedy.’ Brother Haber tucked his hands inside the sleeves of his thick black robe. ‘I can vouch for the boy’s honesty.’ 
No one could argue with that. The Moon God granted his priests the power to hear falsehoods. Everyone saw such magic at work when the nobility held assizes to punish criminals within their fiefdoms, where the justiciars delivered their verdicts in the crown’s name. A priest was always on hand to unmask anyone telling lies. Just as a pale-robed priestess used the power the Goddess granted her to endorse truth. 
‘Your obstruction is unacceptable.’ The woman took a half-step sideways. 
Startled, Reske thought she was going to force her way past the priest.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 15h
Just needs alt-text:
How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE* 

sexual violence centre cork 

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS 

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE. 

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM. 

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU. 

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 23h
Although often regarded as non-canonical, elements from Star Trek TOS's 4th season including Kirk’s jet-propelled rollerskates have recently appeared as easter eggs in Strange New Worlds.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 22h
Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social
Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller’s cover for the 1956 first edition of Philip K. Dick’s The Man Who Japed.
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 21h
If I were them I'd be more concerned about that Rutan.
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Paul Dunn @paulcdunnesq.bsky.social · 23h
I’m convinced Stor the Sontaron was heavily hungover.
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Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social · 23h
It’s certainly one of those days where you cross the river by foot and look up at a local clock only to notice that it is an hour behind and it is only then you realize perhaps the city was divided into different time zones while you slept.
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 23h
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car
Lt. Columbo waves from the door of his beat up grey Chevy.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think this might be my favorite photo in my collection. It's the one I picture being on the cover of a book if I ever make one someday. The light, her face, the way she's supporting the kitten so lovingly. ❤️ No date/info.
black and white photo of a light skinned woman with curly hair wearing a plaid dress, sitting with sunlight coming in from the left. She is holding up a shorthaired tabby kitten.
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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YES! It's that day of the week again... #StarTrekSNW's "Tomorrow's Enterprise"↖️ "Star Trek: Generations"↗️↙️↘️
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.
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tbuktwo67.bsky.social @tbuktwo67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car
Edit. Yaz and the Doctor standing in Bessie leaning on the window screen.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, leaning against the hood of his ‘64 Buick Riviera.Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, kneeling in front of his ‘64 Buick Riviera.
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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
Black and white high angle photograph of Jodie Whittaker closing a car door behind her. She is wearing a leather jacket, a T-shirt with a rainbow motif, black trousers and long boots. #JodieWhittaker
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026
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William Shatner in Star Trek Captain Kirk outfit sits in a yellow sporty car, hand raised in a wave.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The drama of the mid 18th century encapsulated in structured silk. Pale Gros de Naples was chosen for its distinctive ribbed weave structure supplemented with a riot of florals. It is sculpted in such a way, it seems it could stand up on its own #MuseodelTraje #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Side view of a short pale blue silk jacket with deep cuffed elbow length sleeves and colourful floral motifs. It has a pleated peplum at the back
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Count Grendel is tops. How many #DoctorWho baddies actually get away?
Count Grendel (played by Peter Jeffrey) from the Doctor Who story The Androids of Tara. Portrait. He is wearing his helmet and smiling.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello Tuesday. Ormesby Psalter, England, c.1310
Owl perched on back of a hare, marginalia.
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026
Always reminds me of this great little song. bsky.app/profile/iain...
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 29/09/2026
In a sensible world this would be a long running obssssion of the news. Reducing net migration is an act of self harm, both financial and human, and represents a purely ideological turning inward in the face of the evidence.
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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026
Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026
I love everything about The Watcher. The visuals, the music cue, the sense of mystery and foreboding, the fact that the Doctor understands but never tells us. There's nothing else like it in Doctor Who (perhaps a tiny glimmer in 37 Yards?) and it works so well. #DoctorWho
In a long shot the Watcher stands all in white with a white face on a London bridgeIn a long shot the Watcher stands all in white with a white face on a London bridge, seemingly conversing with Tom Baker who gesticulates
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026
Found it! Apparently I kept the issue of Starburst all this time. My very first glimpse of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. #StarTrek
STARBURST Issue 111 with a Freddy Krueger cover and inset images of Robocop and the Enterprise D (captioned "USS Enterprise!"

A Nightmare ON ELM STREET DREAM WARRIORS 3 Freddie Interviewed!

ROBOCOP Smash hit robotic law enforcer!

STAR TREK Search for Spock PLUS The new TV series

And. FROM BEYOND DOCTOR WHO SPACE POLICE WORLDCON

Free Videos LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE And a chance to win a set of Star Trek novels

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COMPUTERSCloseup of the Enterprize inset image The back cover image of the Enterprise D in fullStar Trek in 1991!

The new TV series of Star Trek The Next Generation will not be shown on the BBC until 1991. The pilot and selected episodes will be released on video. First will be the two-hour pilot in early 1988 with approximately six tapes a year. They will carry a three-year TV holdback which means the BBC will not be able to screen them until 1991
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And if you've not read Una McCormack's "Asylum," it became my favourite Trek tie-in, and it's such a wonderful counterpoint to this episode—and tells a brilliant Trek story that's full of philosophical and legal tangles in the best Trek tradition.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026
I'm reasonably aware of how time works but it really blows my mind that the temporal distance between the release of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) and the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was only FIVE (5) YEARS
wrath of khan posternext generation post
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UKPRES @ukpres1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 1981 Blake 7 returned for it's 4 series, and if you were hard of hearing Ceefax had you covered on page 170
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s fine. I know what I’m doing. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a white and ginger, tabby cat sitting on an outcropping of a building. The cat is not up very high and it can easily climb back over the short ball that it is sitting next to, so it is in no danger.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 28/09/2026
Felt peckish; had an apple; felt virtuous; looked up how many calories in an apple; it's 72; that is some bullshit.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Frodo says good morning and don't forget to eat your lembas bread
The cutest rat terrier in the world
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was just thinking "with an artist who could evoke the sense of scale and wonder like Francois Shuiten" and then immediately found this piece that could almost be from Piranesi
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 28/09/2026
Still one of my favourite dragons. A wood dragon from Strangehollow, a book you will find in my shop here: buff.ly/kor46L0 #dragon #dragonart #greendragon #wooddragon #bestiary
watercolour - the head and neck of a green dragon covered in antler/horn like growths all around its head and neck. Its nose is pink and its eyes are shiny and black and it has a benign expression.
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Seen on facebook - 12 men reacted with crying emojis.
Original and modern covers of DnD novel "Azure Bonds." In the original the woman on the cover has a boob window in her chainmail, in the edited modern version she does not. One imagines she will stay alive quite a bit longer in the modern version.
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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down
Dr. Strange by Chris Weston
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 28/09/2026
What an absolute legend www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bodhana Sivanandan: British schoolgirl becomes youngest woman grandmaster
The 11-year-old has broken another chess record after a remarkable performance representing England.
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doctor Who daftness from me - live! ⤵️
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights" 🎉🏳️‍⚧️
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lovely article about Saucer Country! screenrant.com/best-sci-fi-...
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X-Files Meets The Diplomat In This 21-Part Sci-Fi Masterpiece
The spooky UFO mythology of The X-Files meet the political intrigue of The Diplomat in a sci-fi masterwork that pays off its premise like few others.
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