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Seeing this temporarily derailed my train of thought, but I'm back on track now.

I mean they're not wrong, are they? It is all there. All the main food groups. Dried stalks, yellow grease, brown powder, beans (not "beanz"), soap with ideas above its station and whatever the eldritch fuck went into a tinned pie in 1968.

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Because you haven't got the proportions right on that bridge and your grasp of colour is workmanlike at best. Call yourself an artist? How are you supposed to learn if you aren't being shot at?

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Features some great footage of Whitby in 1974 and kids with Count Draclia's Secret ice lollies around two minutes in.

Shit, I forgot the book inspector is to be notified any time a new book arrives.

Pickle, a mackerel tabby, is thoroughly unimpressed at both my bullshit and a newly-arrived copy of Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, illustrated by Tove Jansson.

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Look at these! Exquisite work, crackling with energy - especially those owls.

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here it is, the cover of my first full book layout! I'm beyond happy to have been given the opportunity to work on this.

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It’s all a bit Slow Horses isn’t it? LAMB: Jesus Christ I told you lot to keep the base under surveillance, not get arrested on the tip-off of some carrot-crunching busybody. I wouldn’t leave any of you in charge of a whelk stall. The whelks would probably escape. And beat you all up.

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Anyway, this cheeky sod was yelling at traffic from his vantage point when we stopped at a junction earlier. I adore the impudence of corvids.

A crow, perched atop some traffic lights.

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Explore Stefano Perego’s 1,822 photos on Flickr!

As an addendum to this, the photographer who took the image of "Peace", Stefano Perego, has an absolutely incredible Flickr stream. Well worth a gander if you're into midcentury European concrete, rotting Soviet megastructures or just brutalism in general. www.flickr.com/photos/ste_p...

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Stefano Perego

Just watched a video on abandoned Georgia, showing some spectacular, crumbling Soviet-era landmarks. Nugzar Manjaparashvili's "Peace" monument is particularly haunting. www.flickr.com/photos/ste_p...

Nugzar Manjaparashvili's "Peace" monument, a highly stylised representation of a woman, lying on her side with her arms outstretched and her palms raised. The concrete used to form the monument is heavily weathered, several of the figure's fingers have broken off and there are holes dotted about the main form which expose the metal structure beneath.

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't have a favourite dance scene. Oh, wait, yes I do...

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I know there’s so much competing for your attention, but I’m very proud of Listen with Other and I’d be delighted if you gave it a try. Each series is standalone so you can start anywhere. If you like it, tell your friends. If you don’t, tell your enemies. I’m not fussy.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to time my weekly bath so I miss Highway, anyone know what time it's on?

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My Scarred For Life Patreon has 16 brand-new SFL essays, 5 Show and Tell videos featuring page-by-page looks at books and annuals, and 5 episodes of my SFL Bunker Show podcast! And there's new stuff every Wednesday at 9am! Join the lovely community over there... Link: bit.ly/4yl2ihl

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Theme From "The Warriors" (From "The Warriors" Soundtrack)

Alright, slightly obsessed now with Barry De Vorzon's Theme From The Warriors. Every second of it hits perfectly. A monolithic banger. youtu.be/rGFXiaaxIYc?...

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YouTube video by Barry De Vorzon - Topic

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I do love a bit of mid-'70s German Space Ambience. YMMV.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wherever you stand on Tab flavour-wise, that '60s logo is a thing of beauty.

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Good morning. Today, I'm going to give a little push to my second collection of stories, 'Intervals of Darkness', from 2024, partly because I think of it as particularly autumnal. www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...

The cover of Intervals of Darkness in black and red with an image of a figure being stalked through a dark space by an unseen figure, with a quote from author John Grindrod: "Existing somewhere between Robert Aickman and J.G. Ballard, these blackly funny tales are sure to chill you, no matter how high you turn the central heating."

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ITV - RAINBOW: Inside (TX 16.02.1977)

A clutch of 1977 Rainbow episodes just appeared on the Vintage Schools TV YouTube channel. I dunno about anyone else, but one of the best parts of the programme for me was always the slightly odd, sparse animations which popped up in each episode. I'd buy a DVD of those. youtu.be/nvYDGq8B13o?...

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YouTube video by Vintage Schools TV

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got halfway through watching The Warriors on YouTube last week, before thinking “no, this really needs to be seen on Blu-ray”. The combo of that title sequence and theme is just electrifying.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s very serious but it’s also funny

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think I've just experienced what's referred to as "shock and awe".

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm on a sort of 'please share and buy my art' kick because of needing that to happen

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Those fuckers at Meta have used this without permission to train their AI, and as it's self-published they've essentially stolen from me directly. So if you could see your way to spending a couple of quid on a legitimate copy, I'd be extremely grateful... timworthington.org/books/the-ca...

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The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society

The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society – a collection of columns and features by Tim Worthington.

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I don't know if anyone else on here sells via Gumroad, but I've just had this e-mail that might well interest a few...

"Hi creator,

Gumroad is hiring creators-in-residence. We pay $60,000 for the year, so you can make art full-time. The commitment is about an hour a week, for 52 weeks, and you can do it from anywhere in the world.

We want to see portfolios that showcase your human talent and experience. Paintings, films, music, video games, short stories, whatever you make.

To apply, send a portfolio of your recent work to support@gumroad.com. Applications close October 1 at midnight ET.

Thanks for building on Gumroad. What can we build for you?

The Gumroad team"

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When you see plenty of U.S. news coverage about 'shockingly' high gas prices (we're currently paying roughly the equivalent of $9 USD a gallon in the U.K.), but then you see how quickly the future is happening elsewhere...

A few more from Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre...

A monochrome ink illustration from Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre (Blackie, 1987)

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Keeping book arrived this morning. You'll have to make do with some iPhone shots though. I don't mind putting the dust jacket through my crappy scanner, but I'm not knackering a precious book spine for you lot.

The cover illustration for Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre (Blackie, 1987), featuring an intensely brooding ink illustration of a scene from M.R. James' "Oh, Whistle..."

A monochrome ink illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", from Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre (Blackie, 1987).

A monochrome ink illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lot No 249", from Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre (Blackie, 1987).

A monochrome ink illustration of an overgrown graveyard for H.P. Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter", from Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre (Blackie, 1987).

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Sorry, but this is only trending because thousands of Bluesky users are asking who the fuck these people are - and not one of us will be any better off for knowing.

Screengrab of the Bluesky "Trending" box, containing the frankly brain-stopping revelation that someone called "Ella Langley" is dating some guy who's apparently, genuinely, called "Tucker Wetmore".

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ever feel the need to escape, no matter how temporarily, the relentless madness of the age by whacking on an evening's worth of howling blizzard sounds and reading a book by lamplight? I know I do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojH2...

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Intense Blizzard strikes a Lonely Log Cabin┇Frosty Wind Sound for Sleeping & Heavy Howling Wind

YouTube video by DOVADO

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Dave Lauchlan @davelauchlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's absolutely no truth to the rumor that Anna Maxwell Martin will be playing as a live action Hamble. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It'd have been around 1979. I was 6. I remember playing Boot Hill before I'd even set eyes on a Space Invaders cabinet.

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I feel I should warn 'the kids' that "maxxing" leads nowhere good. We've been there before. But if they are intent on repeating another of history's preventable tragedies, I won't stand in their way.

A plastic tea cup and lid, featuring British Rail and "maxpax" branding. Made some time between the mid-sixties and early-nineties.

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It all went downhill from here. Everything.

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Lovely to get home from work and find Misty waiting for me.

A hardback copy of "Misty: 45 Years of Fear", a compilation of stories from 1970s British comic "Misty". Ostensibly aimed at girls at the time, because many boys were just too dim to know what they were missing out on (my excuse is that I was still at Beano age when Misty was being published).

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135 different flavours of fizzy piss, you say?

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