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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bracing myself for Saturday morning Borough Market and a thousand background appearances in ‘I Tried The Viral Chocolate-Covered Strawberries?!’ influencer videos.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🩸📚💙 Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey (dark fantasy horror). Once Was Willem isn’t 12 year old Willem who died of a fever in 1152, he’s whatever crawled out of Willem’s grave after he was indifferently resurrected a year later by Caradoc, a sorcerer who steals his immortality from children’s souls.

The cover of Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey. The title is in large gothic lettering against a red and black background made up of images such as skulls, swords, snakes and flowers, with a centred silhouette of a young boy.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly just having a nice, nostalgic time right now bimbling around in Silent Hill: Townfall admiring all the things I recognise from the 1990s. Hopefully will not at some point enter the nightmare world and get chased by a horrible mutated plastic guide dog full of ominously jingling coins.

A screenshot from the video game Silent Hill: Townfall. A plastic collection box shaped like a life size guide dog is chained to a shop front. There is a coin slot on the dog’s head and the base advertises that the box is collecting donations for Guide Dogs For The Blind.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Short Stay In Hell 🩸📚💙. Soren is condemned to a slightly absurd, but comfortable hell in the form of a vast library. No pitchforks or flaming lakes, his needs are met and all he needs to do to leave is find his own life story in the endless shelves of gibberish.

Cover of A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L Peck. A black silhouette falls between endless storeys in a library filled with all the books generated by every possible combination of characters.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kind of tickled that the reason I can’t get a London hotel room within my expenses max rate is because of the Bayeux Tapestry, which is very pleasingly up there with the likes of Taylor Swift when it comes to selling out entire hotels.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

After two days of contentedly sitting where I had left it, this melon, for no discernible reason, decided to very slowly and ominously roll itself off the fridge and bounce (not very well) across the floor right before my eyes, like a shit take on the bouncing red ball in every horror movie.

An egg-shaped, dark green melon on top of a fridge, now resting on a tea towel to thwart the beefy child ghost that was apparently drop-kicking it around like a rugby ball.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An interesting pair of advertisements from 1950. Do you want to slenderise gently with 20 minutes of nightly relaxation in a soothing Sorella bubble bath, or do you want to slenderise SUDDENLY AND VIOLENTLY with Bile Beans Laxative Plus? (unclear whether “not slenderising at all” was an option)

Two advertisements from a 1950s women’s magazine. The top advertisement is for Sorella Foam Bath and promises to “slenderize gently” after a regular 20 minutes of relaxation in a bubble bath. The other ad is for Bile Beans Laxative Plus, and does not comment on how gentle the slenderising process may be.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My pre-order of This Is Where The Future Bleeds by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social! This will be my heatwave reading this week 🪐📚💙

A paperback copy of This Is Where The Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks. The cover is dark blue with washes of yellow and green light. It features alien-looking bright blue wasps and a long-haired character with a sword viewed from behind.

Praise for This Is Where The Future Bleeds, describing it as fast-paced, fun and inventive, with praise for the humour, fascinating ideas and depiction of a found family.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#sotd is one of my favourite heatwave perfumes, Squid by Zoologist. I mostly get a salty, inky vanilla (actually benzoin) with incense and pink pepper. Dark, cool and bracing, and I enjoy the interesting blue-black murkiness when I’m getting bored with clean summer fragrances #fragrancesky

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New smells: White Rice by d’Annam (I hardly ever buy full bottles, but this perfume just may make an honest woman of me), J-Scent discovery set, 3x gothy botanical candles by Rosefox (big fan of Grave Flowers, a pleasingly moody incense and dark, dried rose petal bomb) #fragrancesky

Shopping purchases on a black background sprigs of with orange flowers. Three black and pink candles by Rosefox Candles with scent descriptions on the jar: Fenlight (smoky lavender, lemon and vetiver), Grave Flowers (rose petals, dark florals and incense), and Wychwood (wildflowers, bergamot, oakmoss and balsam). The perfume White Rice by d’Annam, packaged in a white box with a bowl of jasmine rice on the front. A plain white box of perfume samples by J-Scent.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#sotd is Orange Pekoe Tea. Possets’ excellent black tea note smells very like sticking your nose into a caddy of good tea leaves and inhaling, but here the tea has been brewed light, crisp and almost citrussy. A very refreshing, spa-like tea fragrance for a relaxed Sunday #fragrancesky

Two dark blue perfume bottles (Lapsang Souchong and Orange Pekoe Tea) by Possets perfume, resting on an orange book, against an orange, grey and black box of Twinings’ Lady Grey tea.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

YouTube recommended me a music video called Stacy’s Brother last night. Now wondering if anyone has written a song just called “Stacy”, from the perspective of a boyfriend who is actually quite keen on Stacy and doesn’t secretly have his eye on one of her more attractive relatives.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’

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Richard deValmont @devalmont.myatproto.social · 03/05/2026

General: That barrage damaged it! It's hurt! *cheers from soldiers* *smoke clears* General: PULL OUT!!! PULL OUT!!!

Haunted Tesco Fruit Monstrosity Plumbert (A giant made entirely out fruit) with part of his face blown away, revealing the face of 90s character Mr Blobby.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Very much here for ruddy faced pissed Tom Bombadil handing out some street justice at closing time at the Prancing Pony

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Playing Go Home Annie. I enjoy this SCP that causes a massive quantity of bananas to spontaneously manifest inside victims with the intent of killing them through the accumulated level of potassium-40, but mostly succeeding due to the accumulated volume of a billion bananas.

An image from the video game Go Home Annie. It depicts a laboratory environment, named as the Replication Division and focused on a sealed door containing a paranormal SCP entity. The porthole window in the door reveals that the room is entirely packed full of bananas. Reading the script in-game also reveals that a significant chunk of the facility was lost following the manifestation of all these bananas.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

London Weird by AV Wilkes 🩸📚💙. Three perfectly crafted, tremendously gothic stories set in a London that has something very wrong with it. Three women become modern gothic heroines, caught in spiralling obsession & often thoroughly justified fears around their careers, relationships, pregnancies.

The cover of London Weird by AV Wilkes. A circular purple-tinged map of London from above that resembles a moon, on a plain black background.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I am not the hot-buttocked workman that the advertising algorithm is searching for, but I do appreciate the cartoon bum’s little hard hat.

An advertisement for a product called Armachillo underwear that promises Cool Unders for Overheated Butts. A now-frosty cartoon bottom wearing a little yellow hard hat is enthusiastically giving the thumbs up to a pair of blue underwear.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Loved Coffin Moon 🩸📚💙. A straightforward revenge story, but graced with tremendous emotional depth. A Vietnam vet & his traumatised, fiercely determined niece embark on a bloody road trip through 1970s America searching for the vampire John Varley after he destroys their fragile happiness.

The cover of Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson. A slightly retro-styled cover that fits with the 1970s setting. An empty road winds through the mouth of a vampire skull on a plain red and black background.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Reached the despair point in packing when you realise that an awful mistake has been made, you own more stuff than anyone in the universe has ever owned, and it will take an entire convoy of men with ven six weeks to move it all 90 mins down the road (..a half day job for one guy with a Sprinter).

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Delighted to find out you can now get an iced strawberry matcha latte with your lukewarm steak bake at Greggs. What a time to be alive.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

🩸📚💙 Persona by Aoife Josie Clements had me at “a feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself”. Severely depressed trans woman Annie is sinking quietly into mountains of trash when she sees her cam girl doppelgänger, a seemingly happy & sociable mirror

The cover of Persona by Aoife Josie Clements. A painting of a woman with pale skin and brown hair. Her eyes and the top half of her face are obscured behind smeared grey paint. A quote on the cover describes it as “the year’s great work of literary horror”.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Going to spend my weekend sampling 4160 Tuesdays fragrances. Especially excited for Figs In White Chocolate and Lavender Rice, which will be my #sotd. Love their pretty boxes, the scent note cards, and how the samples look like sweets when they’re wrapped up in tissue paper 🥹 #fragrancesky

The opened 4160 Tuesdays box, showing the perfume samples wrapped in colourful twists of tissue paper.

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Mark Bouchard @barkmouchard.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

this would be many of you when faced with a HELLRAISER-esque scenario

Raphael says “wow a demon babe” and someone else says “it’s a demon, Raphael, a demon”

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Angel Down. Against the thundering, bloody backdrop of WW1, five lost and traumatised men are sent careening through the trenches on a desperate mission to save a downed angel in hopes she can end the war. Beautifully written in one long, breathless sentence like a never-ending scream 🩸📚💙

The cover for Angel Down, a novel by Daniel Kraus. The cover is mostly neutral in colour, with a white feather overlaying an explosion.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Reasons to journal: - Good for mental health ❎😡🤮 - Record precious memories ❎😡🤮 - Provide valuable enrichment for future historians ❎😡🤮 - Can buy more notebooks ✅ 🥳👍

A photo of six notebooks on a yellow background. Two feature cats (a white cat lying underneath a flowering bush, and a seal point cat sniffing a pomegranate). One is green with stacked slices of citrus fruit on the cover. One is yellow with a black and white drawing of a mountain with a yellow sun. One is orange with a picture of a male torso with an orange bouquet of flowers replacing the head. One is pink with a picture of a tiger among pink blossoms.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver Gaiman: have you ever considered Gaiman: the incredible power of story? Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In a Downton Abbey/Gossip Girls mash-up, Bunty Cutler would be an absolutely fantastic pen name for the mysterious source that’s all over the society pages revealing juicy secrets from inside the house.

A photo of Thomas Barrow, a footman/under-butler character from Downton Abbey who spends most of the earlier seasons being awful.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I make fun of generative AI, but my piece of ChatGPT shit brain is incapable of generating a normal cinema in my dreams. Always ends up the size of Wales & designed by Escher with literally not one seat facing the screen. Did save me from having to watch Silent Hill Returns in my dreams though 👍

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A slightly perturbing start to the day, as I wonder for exactly how long I have been walking around with a (just discovered) hole in the seat of my jeans. It probably just happened in the last wash, very probably 👍

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The fuck is wrong with you, Baby? (Baby’s Diary, 1920 Girl’s Own Annual. Appears to be confessions of a very literate and bloodthirsty two year old as she ruins her aunts’ pleasant spinster lives. Warning for a near-miss for Tiddles the cat, after Baby comes at him with a pair of scissors) 💙📚

A photo of a 1920s short story called Baby’s Diary, featuring a drawing of a toddler. The story describes how Baby was orphaned and came to live with her aunts, apparently ruining their pleasant spinster lives.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A successful antique market visit to pick up some highly eclectic reading material (see, I don’t always read horror! Sometimes I read enormous illustrated histories of the rocking horse with over 700 colour photos and/or 1920s editions of The Girl’s Own Annual) 💙📚

Books, magazines and postcards on a bed. One book is a 1920s edition of The Girl’s Own Annual, featuring a coloured cover illustration of a woman and a cat sat by a fire in a cottage. Three are 1970s/80s teen girl annuals, with photo covers featuring teenagers in styles of the time. One is a magazine called “The Great War.. I Was There”, featuring stories and photos from veterans. One is an illustrated history of rocking horses, housed in a slip cover. There are also 40 postcards from the early 20th century.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

After my success with the grey cat yesterday, I also managed to lure the little white and black cat (second from right) into sleeping on my lap this morning, followed by the beefy lad with the shredded ear (far left) when he realised he was missing out. 3/9 farm cats befriended, not bad at all!

Four farm cats sitting outside a window on a sunny morning. Two are black with white bibs, two are white with black patches. Their ears have been tipped to indicate that they have been neutered, and they are well-fed and appear very clean and healthy for feral cats.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A photo featuring but a fraction of the many farm cats I spent my Christmas trying to befriend. (I actually only counted nine cats, but 5/9 is still a fraction).

A POV photo sitting outside a converted farm building with a fluffy grey cat on my knee, and three other farm cats sat nearby enjoying the winter sun.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I mostly play horror, but at some point, a game had a tag for a bit of inconsequential nudity and Steam absolutely WILL NOT LET THIS GO. Every time I log in, a list of nude game recommendations for me, the nudey game enthusiast. I’m pretty sure it was like.. Slay The Princess or something too.

A screenshot from Steam, recommending games tagged as containing nudity. Oddly, the first recommended game is Devil May Cry 5, which is probably not even a particularly good recommendation for hardcore nudey game fans.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#sotd is Chivitavecchia by Possets. A fresh green lemon with sage and unusual mineral-like notes from whatever provides the ‘limestoney base’. Cool, salty, stony and bright; it’s a bit of a summery choice for me on a misty December morning in the UK, but I’m not regretting it #fragrancesky

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swoon ganz @swoonganz.medsky.social · 07/12/2025

Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.

A white long-haired cat sitting proudly in a litterbox that looks like a space shuttle.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Not sure how my order for two eggs sunny side up got misheard as FIVE eggs, but looks like I’m breakfasting like Gaston today.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Top 2025 read! Repercussions elegantly spiral on & on through a decades-long story of 6 friends who make a deal with something terrible & are trapped in a world-changing cycle of pain & sacrifice. Heartbreaking, almost infuriatingly clever & witty, like the awful, charismatic King Sorrow himself 🩸📚💙

The cover for the horror novel King Sorrow, by Joe Hill. A dragon’s coils are barely visible through flames and embers, set against a dark background.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#sotd is By Rosie Jane’s Lake. Fresh, pretty, very like a softer version of Byredo’s G-Water, minus the juniper. Mostly lemon, an airy vanilla, and very light woodsy & green notes on me. A pleasant, bright office fragrance that offends no one & still keeps my nose reasonably interested #fragrancesky

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This may not be the most sophisticated post I’ve ever made, but this absolutely perfect description of a fart has me wheezing. I can hear this exact sound, as if the echoes of this poor soul’s monstrous fart will reverberate forever.

“After day one of eating this soup I was woken up in the middle of the night by a fart that sounded like Donald Duck ripping a phone book in half in a fit of rage”

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We Love You, Bunny. A Bunny prequel in which the Mean Girls hivemind transforms their first unfortunate bunny into a beautiful, tragic himbo axeman, who embarks on a weird, touching and sometimes murderous journey to find autonomy & also delicious flowers. Surreal, hilarious, dark & slyly clever 🩸📚💙

The cover of We Love You, Bunny, by Mona Awad. A bunny mask that appears to be made from leaves and flower petals, on a dark floral background.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Probably should have run yesterday’s 5k slower considering I haven’t run 5k in months, but my new colleagues all run like majestic gazelles and there was pressure to also win a certified fast person T-shirt for the group photo (I am a certified fast person! With sore legs, but also a free T-shirt 👍)

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

#sotd is What I Did On My Holidays by 4160 Tuesdays, a delightfully weird & happy seaside fragrance. I mostly get a vanilla-mint, like peppermint rock, plus lavender, a waft of candyfloss, a bit of saltwater & seaweed and a dollop of coconutty sun cream. Sweet, nostalgic & lighthearted #fragrancesky

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Working overseas for a few months, and every time I grab my bucket of iced coffee and climb into my massive American hire car, I sing. “Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonerooooo” m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_J...

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The Simpsons - Canyonero

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Old Soul by Susan Barker. Unsettling & sinister testimonies of lives torn apart over the years & across the world by an ageless woman. She takes their photo, they die with their organs & features mirrored. Plot is focused more on the destructive reverberations of the woman’s unnatural existence 🩸📚💙

The cover of Old Soul by Susan Barker. A black background with a visible slice of a cracked, mask-like white face and blank, black eye.

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Genuinely tickled that @mikebrooks668.bsky.social is getting excellent feedback on his new novel Voidscarred, and my contribution was not to the ‘extremely intelligent conversation’ about subterranean engineering, but to the sexy wild space elves not smelling like Sauvage or whatever. I’M HELPING! 🤗

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Tipped 50% at the car wash out of shame and guilt as I watched them spray off moss chunks and dislodge evil ooze from the wheel arches. Realised it’s the first time I’ve taken my car for a proper wash. I’ve owned it for over TEN YEARS. (my car is a very forgiving grey and it rains a lot here? 😅)

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