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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Paying tribute to Jeffrey Archer by watching Defunctland videos.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An unexpected Robin Hood! Not your father’s Robin Hood. A different Robin Hood to differentiate from all the rest! Sir. The last traditional Robin Hood starred a cartoon fox and was released during the Nixon administration. Guy in green WOULD be different.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but it's about that one guy from Inglorious Basterds, and the day he misses is when they teach them how Germans count with their fingers

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I love their classic songs like Moon Bad Rising and Backin' Out My Door Look

A poster for 'Clearwater Creedence Revival All Star Band'. Four shaggy-haired men appear to be on fire in front of an American flag. At the bottom it says Pizza Express Live and a list of dates.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Cover reveal! Featuring: - A self-taught palaeontologist and accidental witch - A heroic young girl with ferret-training skills and raging ADHD - A cat that can animate hand-shadows - A daring rescuer with asexual motives - A beloved pet that DOES NOT DIE Pre-orders: tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

Book cover with publication date 3rd June 2027.

Book title: The Snakestone Girls by Kit Whitfield.

Watercolour images of ammonite fossils and please source skeletons nestling amid kelp and henbane flowers.

Quote on cover: ‘An absolute triumph’, AK Benedict.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but it's about that one guy from Inglorious Basterds, and the day he misses is when they teach them how Germans count with their fingers

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lay's WOW! Chips (1998-2003): A line of fat free chips, made with Olestra, a fat substitute. Available in Original, Ruffles, and Dorito varieties. Each bag stated "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." Check this thread for a *COMPREHENSIVE* look at this infamous snackline!

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Suppertime already and the table has been set for thirteen Everybody's tucking in but Judas doesn't seem very keen "One of you'll betray me," says Jesus, bringing down the partying mood "Thirty chunks of silver," he says, putting the lads right off their food It's just another manic Maunday

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Not seen: A farmer with a boat and a bag of grain scrumpling up his plans and throwing them away in a tearful fit of defeated pique

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm only going to see the new Star Wars Starfighter film if Matt Smith is nice in it. So I'll need to know that in advance.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself.

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Don't set your gritty detective novel during the Winter Olympics, or the sentence "He entered the room holding a Luger" will be needlessly ambiguous

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2026

Screaming Guy Rolling Down Hill In Wheelchair Hopefully Part Of Olympics

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS, will be published by Quercus in early 2027. It's a Jacobean tale of witchcraft, described by my agent as 'Fossils, feminism and found family.' 'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.' Ask me anything!

Text: The Snakestone Girls, publishing next year, is touted by the publisher as darkly 'lyrical', 'sweet' and 'beautifully realized.'

Literary agent Sophie Hicks has negotiated the sale of Kit Whitfield's new 'feminist folk-horror' novel The Snakestone Girls to Anne Perry, Publisher at Arcadia Books (The Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror imprint for Quercus). It is due to be published in 2027.

The Snakestone Girls follows the lives of misunderstood and powerful nine-year-old Lettie and her beloved brother Henry. He is sent to study in an English coastal town with Caroline, who conceals her magical abilities in order to prevent accusations of witchery, and instead 'supplements her income by selling fossils on the beach'. These 'three lonely people will finally be drawn together ... only to be torn apart' by prejudicial beliefs and the power of magic.

Whitfield is the award-winning author of works including In Great Waters (which was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award) and the recent Gyrford series (In The Heart of Hidden Things and All The Hollow of the Sky). She also teaches writing workshops online and works as a film critic. In relation to this deal, Whitfield said that the novel was 'a joy to research' and that 'in tough times we need stories that acknowledge how dark life can get but still give us reasons to hope' - a promise that The Snakestone Girls seems bound to fulfil.

The publisher Anne Perry associates the novel with the works of 'Andrew Michael Hurley, T Kingfisher and Alice Hoffman', proclaiming that 'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.'

Screencap from trade magazine Bookbrunch.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Is there any actual serious precedent, in literature or film, for anyone doing that old comedy movie thing of removing the eyes from a painting so you can watch people from a secret room? Related: cutting holes in a newspaper if you're a spy on a train.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads:

The History of the January 1 Birthday
The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Georgie: Oh no, it went in the sewer! Bluey's Dad: I got your toy boat down here mate, no worries, just stick your little arm in there

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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

RUN DON’T WALK - to #WakeUpDeadMan now in theaters! See my pinned post for a theater finder link 🎟️💀⏰🥰

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Muppet 'The Muppets'. All the Muppets are played by Muppets puppeting Muppets. It's very meta and cool

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"You just made a powerful enemy" would be a great alternative title for the story of Frankenstein

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A unique Halloween experience which is pure joy. Jaws meets Hot Fuzz meets The Mighty Boosh. Loved it last night, go this weekend.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

when will they make a YA post-apocalyptic movie about getting sorted into factions at birth, but the factions are the roles from Lemmings

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Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Jack and Jill were a husband/wife team of sleuths by Lowell Riggs, whoever that may be, and they're a hoot.

Panel 1: Car at night. "What was that? I thought I heard a scream!" Panel 2: Car outside window in which a figure threatens another with a knife. "Look!" "My wife!" Panel 3: Man leaping over his wife and a strange objecgt at the knife-wielder.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Please tell me I'm not the only person who clicked on this link in Peter Bradshaw's review of Materialists and expected to hear 'Two Princes' by the Spin Doctors

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Imagine if he'd done it on porpoise!!

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Me: Just three wishes, huh? Genie: that's right Me: well guess what? I've got a loophole Genie: go on then Me: So for my first wish I want the monkey's paw Genie: uh Me: second wish, I want to make a deal with a faerie Genie: oh god

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Man on the phone in the cafe where I'm working, I thought he said 'hello, I wonder if I could get a quote for a vampire?' Slightly disappointed when I realised he actually said 'van hire'. #amwriting

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Please tell me I'm not the only person who clicked on this link in Peter Bradshaw's review of Materialists and expected to hear 'Two Princes' by the Spin Doctors

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This offer ends today, if anyone was interested.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Apparently if you Murder By Christmas online at Waterstones between 28th-31st of July you can get 25% off! So if you like murder mysteries, Christmas or puzzles in any combination give it a go. The order code is SUMMER25. I feel like I should say something else here. Explosive death cracker!

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Michael O'Mara Books @omarabooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

We are incredibly excited to announce the official puzzle book with the award-winning series The Fortune Hotel on ITV 💼🥇 You have seven days to win the fortune ... will the decisions you make lead you to the prize? COMING IN JULY 🏝️ PRE-ORDER NOW: buff.ly/Ixmayfp #BookSky

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

HELP - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITEN WHO DOSENT KNOW WHATS GOING ON, EVER, BUT THAT DOSENT STOP THEM!!! MOSTLY BECUASE THERES NO WAY TO ACTUALY STOP ,WE ARE FLUNG THROUGH TIME EITHER EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOWLY OR SO FAST THINGS ARE GONE BEFORE WE EVEN SEE THEM, THE PASSING OF MINUTES OR YEARS NOT SO MUCH A MARCH AS A DERANGED PROGRESS BAR, TICKING AWAY TO 100% BUT SOME TIMES YOU SIT THERE FOREVER STUCK AT LIKE 31% SO WHAT DA FUCK !!! WHAT DA FUCK ANYWAY THE TEXT SAYS "NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST, I AM THOUGH, WHERE AM I ,HELP " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The best scene in Jaws is when the boat guys sing a traditional sea shanty and Jaws pops out of the water and everyone is terrified but Jaws starts singing as well. There's this unspoken promise in the air that no one will eat anyone until the song ends.

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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I decided to list the many, almost eerie similarities between these two famous historical figures.

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C G Regan @cgregan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If you're at MCM, Joel is going to be here too! It's a rare live Just The Thing meetup!

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Just a heads-up that I'll be at MCM London for a little bit today helping my friend @cgregan.bsky.social on his table. He's promoting his awesome kids book, Noobs, and his brand new horror anthology, Doomscroll. Maybe see you there.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"My latest project is a real love letter to Stephen Spielberg. It starts with a piece of paper and then I wrote 'Dear Stephen Spielberg' at the top..."

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Has anyone done this before? Watching DarkFry's charity stream and it popped into my head, so www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uuw...

Duke Nukem with Pingu's head badly pasted over Duke's head and the caption NOOT NOOTEM

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Big Bad Butch WIFE, Baro Dyke Of Tipperary @bigbadbutchgf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"a grinning billionaire calling himself mister Beast just offered me a million dollars to carry out this task" this is why we need more southern gothic literature to be taught in high schools

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/02/2025

every UK video game in the 80s and 90s was made by a guy named like "lord wensleydale" or two guys named "the chippy twins" and was about an egg with no special abilities going on an adventure and dying immediately. it was ported to the super nintendo where everyone hated it

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Check to see if you like crime thrillers by holding a bitter cop under your chin.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Divorced-beheaded-died-divorced-beheaded-survived. Always amazes me that Catherine Parr is still alive.

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Joel Jessup @joeljessup.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

You might find Kraven the Hunter uninspiring now. But I promise in 2038 you'll be watching Deadpool jr or something, and the main characters will find him in a parallel universe living in Galactus' armpit, and you will cheer. Cheer and weep with passionate affection.

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