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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14h

Something for anyone posting clips of voice actors performances to be aware of, I guess - your innocent attempt to promote your work can result in stupid Meta generating AI simulacrums of people's voices without their permission. 🤷

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14h

I scrambled to figure out how to turn it off (you can, phew), and looked to see if there's a way to disable that feature on an account level - there isn't, you have to remember to manually disable it for each individual post.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14h

Absolute horror, I uploaded a game trailer to Instagram and noticed it had "auto-translated". I thought that meant subtitles. Nope. It had automatically dubbed over the voice actors performances with AI. It was still (vaguely) their voices, just speaking other languages. So ghoulish.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.

A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting a lovely four-poster bed with Morris & Co curtains. There is also a woman passed out face down on the floor, but you’ll have to read the book if you want to know why

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a magnificent folk horror point and click adventure that I highly recommend. I'm still working on my video essay about the game, which I hope will be ready in time for Halloween, but maybe don't wait for that and pick this up beforehand? It's really good!

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Save 65% on The Excavation of Hob's Barrow on Steam

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the s...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you so much!!! ❤️ It's such a cool anthology with so many amazing artists and writers, I was delighted to get to be part of it.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OHHHH how beautiful, wow!!! All the different colours in there!!! This is so lovely.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Continuing to soothe myself from the stresses of trying to buy a house by designing the inside of potential future house.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BBC television's Sherlock would make some pretty bad assumptions about me based on my front door lock.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data centres make me want to apologise personally to William Blake for finding his 'dark satanic mills' line funny when I heard it as a kid. I'm sorry that 200 years later we're still finding ways to build things that destroy the environment, scar the landscape and exploit workers.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The creator crossover I didn't know I needed. Of course that's what Tove Jansson's Gollum looks like.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hey, it's the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The problem is that setting time aside for it would require there to be something else in my life I want to put down, and there isn't really? I've got a big to-read pile of books and a to-play pile of games, I don't think I want another pile!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I get a bit self conscious that I don't really watch TV. It sounds like I'm being a snob, but I just don't have a slot in my very screens-focussed life when I... do that?

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was primarily involved in the resources for our research reserve (aka. "The bit of the library which really smells properly like a library"), which gave me an exciting chance to become more familiar with various treasures which I didn't know were right under my feet every day!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The University of Birmingham Main Library Virtual Tour is now available! This is a huge project I've been involved with to create a resource to allow visitors to virtually 'walk' through the entire building, with photos, videos, and lots of useful info. www.thinglink.com/view/scene/2...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was going to comment "Edward Gorey Jeremy Brett Dracula" but i see you were already there. (Also the Raul Julia run of the same show)

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm trying to work out if beginning my house-buying search and then immediately buying a house identical to the one I've rented for eight years is the coward's way out, or absolute genius.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I haven't since I was a student! It's going to be so fun getting back to it!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Guess who is playing the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol at the Cresent Theatre this December? 🙋 If you're Birmingham adjacent, you can get tickets here! www.crescent-theatre.co.uk/event-detail...

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Event Details - Crescent Theatre

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Postmodern Adventures @postmodernadv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This museum was integrated into The Dark Rites of Arkham for several reasons. One was narrative: you’ll have to solve a puzzle there. Another was to give those unfamiliar with H.P. Lovecraft a quick introduction to his themes and obsessions. 🧵

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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

👀 📚 Just following the advice of the Cambridge experts: 'Reading for pleasure can improve health and wellbeing at any age and regardless of what you read.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reading for pleasure can improve wellbeing, Cambridge study finds

University of Cambridge academics say reading at any age improves brain and mental health.

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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 10/09/2026

Now look here. If you missed Wooden Overcoats: Rudyard on the Moon, then you can still stream it until the 20th! I reckon it was the best live show we've ever done, so have a gander at the trailer below to see some snippets! Undertakers + Moon = sitcom (hopefully)

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is the fandom name for fans of EW Hornung's Raffles stories "The Pre-Raffles-ites", because it should be.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm going to apologise right now for all Beekeeper's Picnic players. In the game if you try to submit an entire beehive frame to the competition (rather than processed honey in a jar), it's treated like a very silly idea, but this show genuinely does have a whole category for that.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are lots of ways someone might become financially responsible for another human and I don't think it's a good idea to wish any of them onto a total stranger in a professional setting.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Clearly I needed to be given hope that one day soon I could shed my unwanted independent spinsterhood and become the true final form of all women: a mother.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was speaking to a mortgage advisor and mentioned entirely neutrally that I don't have any financial dependants, and his response was to say "Oh, but I'm sure you will, one day!" 😣😣😣

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

She loves to dangle! The thing that finally got her using it was finding treats she liked enough to bother jumping up there to find, and positioning it so she can look out of the window like a queen surveying her kingdom

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Malkin has this one, and ignored it utterly for two years before becoming obsessed. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09N... I think if I was buying one again, I'd look for one with slightly bigger platforms, or at least a bigger one at the top.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was a lovely interview, I really enjoyed myself. Thank you so much for all your thoughtful questions!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's brilliant 😂 Accidental ally Yorkies

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They have dropped the sexist marketing now, if you want to rediscover it! I used to think "It's not for girls? Ok I won't buy your stupid chocolate then???"

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yorkie Raisin and Biscuit is the best chocolate bar and I had no idea until they dropped their stupid "It's not for girls" marketing and I no longer felt I had to boycott them.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He (and we) should be making kindness and the welfare of others our 'business', and wealth and power come with a responsibility to do so. It doesn't surprise me that people with the clout to make a tv show would go "I can see myself in this picture... what if Scrooge was right, actually?"

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He might not give charitable donations, but he pays his taxes which are used to support the welfare system. He's frugal to the point of miserliness with his own money, but it IS his money to do what he likes with, acquired legally. Dickens' point is that this isn't enough.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like I'm enough of a known Christmas Carol fan that I should give my two cents. Scrooge isn't an evil cackling villain who steals candy from babies. He's entirely above board. He's a businessman who pays his employee an average wage and doesn't keep him beyond his contracted hours.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes I remember about the coquette aesthetic Hound of the Baskervilles (From Wordworth Editions) I don't need to own it, but it makes me happy knowing it exists. I hope it has made lots of Gen Alpha teens who love soft feminine aesthetics and gothic horror very happy.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This copy of The Picture of Dorian Grey just fell off the shelf in TKMaxx and hit me in the head. I think that means I have to buy it.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I always want to know whether a good pun helps.

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