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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Matt S @coolseemer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bad-twin.bandcamp.com - my EP is out. It has my most complex, I think complete, work on it. 15 years of churning out this crap and i feel like I’m finally hitting paydirt
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the future of bad twin is ugly - EP, by Bad Twin
5 track album
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 29/09/2026
New EP dropped today, it’s a vibe ❤️ you should check it out!
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yeah, "both sides" of the argument, when one "side" in this case intentionally works to spread intimation and fear, and the other seeks safety in their own neighbourhood. Where they live. Sectarianism is a wild one.
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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
60 people, a whole concocted panic because 60 people, who've been waiting years, were scheduled to have surgery this year
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The description doesn't really do it justice. She disembowels him
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 21/09/2026
...I updated the OS and now Apple has decided to shove its slopbot into individual app settings instead of providing an all-purpose off switch. Attempting to hide how much slop they're inflicting on customers--and forcing people to go looking to opt out--is not good business practice.
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toril @toril.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i guess i "didn't love it enough" to quit my 9-5, to lose my health insurance, to work in perpetual crunch, for a publisher that wasn't doing anything on their end to market or sell the book. passion exploitation works because YOU think you're not good enough. i'm telling you: you are.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/09/2026
My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace #peace #poem #poetry www.un.org/en/observanc...
George Square
by Jackie Kay

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress.
‘What a pair the two of us are!’
my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,
you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’

And off they went, my two parents
to march against the war in Iraq,
him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis
to congregate at George Square where the banners
waved at each other like old friends, flapping,
where they’d met for so many marches over their years,
for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/09/2026
This channel is really good but this video in particular is amazing The "Inside you there are two wolves; the one that wants to be confident about your writing, and the one that wants to downplay everything" is so real www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPu...
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When you are your own worst enemy
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminded of this banger the glorious days of the Evergiven I posted on Twitter me in my 20s
The Evergiven trapped in the Suez (labelled "Gender Dysphoria"), with a tiny excavator next to it called "Making female characters in RPGs"
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 13/02/2026
Edited Silent Hill 2 screenshot. A faded letter rests against a black screen.

In front, blue text reads, "She's turned the weans against us."
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 20/09/2026
The spells have started taking on weird shapes
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Cos! @algernonentity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
idly reading about the rutherglen pigeon war
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 19/09/2026
I have a month until I can get the money together for editing costs Which is great, because it gives me a month to work out exactly how to draft the email where I apologise for all the weird formatting and the plot-relevant use of Wingdings
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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A repost for the morning crew. Yes, it's our Waterstones event. Tell your friends, make them buy tickets and books. If you're local to Glasgow, like speculative weirdos and not going to FantasyCon, this is the one for you.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40
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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 15/09/2026
Yo if I ever refer to you as "the best in the biz", please do not feel flattered by it It's just my deep desire to be a chain-smoking 60 year old woman who refers to her colleagues as "the best in the biz"
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 14/09/2026
It is wild that I live on a main road and can walk in four different directions to end up in wildly different green spaces within 15 minutes, do so multiple times a week, and I still feel like I'm not touching enough grass Like I don't understand how people in Car Cities manage
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We need your help! We still need donations for this year’s bookbag - a free book for every attendee at Fantasycon. If you can help, whether with 1 book or 100, please fill in the form here: shorturl.at/WD0lZ
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The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic
Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin is shrinking books to fit in his travel bag
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 13/09/2026
Smashing the "break glass in case of emergency" on the Gilmore Girls DVDs
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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Only about 1% of people leave comments in website comment sections. The person you're mad at is not representative of any demographic except "loudmouth"
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BURG: Slider Gaiden BEYOND @digijeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol damn
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 06/09/2026
When you’re writing something that’s already a bit depressing and then your shuffle brings on Laura Palmer’s theme
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Ashita No Joe: Joe in the Rain
ALT: Ashita No Joe: Joe in the Rain
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 04/09/2026
When no-one got me Hozier got me
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 02/09/2026
The stress of having to start a new notebook and make sure everything is copied over that I need is awful However it comes with the immediate dopamine hit of New Notebook, which helps
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/09/2026
Looking at that pic from 2010 of Mark Ruffalo being smoking hot in his early 40s is making me look at contemporary photos and y'know what, I am loving the Rich Marxist Uncle Energy he is bringing these days
Mark Ruffalo at the Golden Globes, giving a peace sign and looking like your lovably cranky Jewish red diaper baby uncle who was born during the Cold War and was raised to never trust Nazis OR Stalinists
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 31/08/2026
Today I was finally emboldened to fix this deteriorating stitch on my favourite bag. Was so convinced it was going to be impossible because there was no way I’d be able to pierce it w a needle Sat down, realised, “oh. The holes are already there, I can just use the ones that already exist. Idiot”
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Clockwork Librarian @jsands84.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of the aspects of “Sinners” I enjoy most is the sense of love between the characters. Romantic, platonic, familial, new… it resonates between the characters so strongly. Even when warped by vampirism it rings true. Great writing, direction, and performances really sells the love amongst them.
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Sammie Sinners Excited Reaction
Alt: An animated gif from Sinners (2025)c showing Stack (Michael B. Jordan) reacting enthusiastically to Sammie (Miles Caton) playing and singing the blues.
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/08/2026
Plotting out some additional meat on the bone for Witches 3. Man, I managed to cram literally every Bone-Deep Special Blorbo Vibe I had as a kid into this story. Have a look at this collage of influences 😆 Maybe when it comes out, you can join Leonardo DiCaprio point meme with me lmao
Screenshot, Madoka Magica (2011). One of the Witch's LabyrinthsScreenshot, Final Fantasy X. Specifically a shot from the final scene. I couldn't look up the entire clip to get a better one because I will just cryYami Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh looking at an offscreen character like it's POV the fridge sees me coming at 1 amScreenshot, Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie (1999). The spurned sorceress who is the antagonist of the film shatters a twister made to contain her into useless raindrops. 
I obviously couldn't include the entire clip but the "It is unforgivable...... it is unforgivable... UNFORGIVABLE!" from the dub has clearly lived in my head for 25 years.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/08/2026
Being a trans person in the UK is to be held by the throat on national TV as the government punches you in the face while they deliver a speech to camera about how nobody should be punched.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 29/02/2024
Joyce Carol Oates is the Final Boss of Twitter. You defeat Elon, and you think the end credits are about to roll, but then Joyce stabs your love interest through the heart and the music starts pumping. Good luck, motherfucker
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The most surprising thing about getting your book published when you’re not a big name is how little marketing actually happens.
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/08/2026
Being on the English bank holidays is usually the worst, HOWEVER if I have a list of 8 writing tasks I need to get done, and you give me the concept of doing them on a MONDAY?? Babes those feet are UP on the Sunday. The big sun hat is out. She's smoking a Camel and nodding off like "chhk mimimimi"
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Katy // Genderpunk 2026 @katysaint.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his balls? "No!" Says Lil Jon, "It belongs to the windows! To the walls!"
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Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 28/08/2026
Greg Freeman is so fucking good at this. someone please change this man's body ‼️
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Greg Freeman - Come and Change My Body / Tower (Live)
YouTube video by Greg Freeman
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'll always continue to create, I absolutely love creating, but the online world has become so hostile to people who are passionate about their craft. it's making me want to disconnect entirely
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Saturn Devouring His SunnyD
The painting Saturn Devouring His Son with a delicious bottle of sunny d over the sun
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm sure someone in marketing thought it was a wonderful idea, but unfortunately right now the only answer I've got to "what has the BBC ever done for me?" is "create a succession of moral panics around the ontological validity of me and my loved ones"
BIG QUESTION. EVEN BIGGER ANSWER.
What has the BBC ever done for me?
Find out more about the BBC's impact on the UKThe government said an independent review into services and what is behind the rising demand, including whether there is over-diagnosis of these conditions, would be published soon.
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Sophie C. Baumert @sophiecbaumert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Super excited to have a wee story in this anthology, and seeing the beautiful cover makes it all the more real 😍
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 27/08/2026
I saved this as a personal reminder but it's seeming to resonate with people, so I'll share it with everyone. All of you beautiful, weird people: we got this. They showed us how. And we will do our best to make them proud. 🖤
I know it's hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
Credited to Jonathan Edward Durham
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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 27/08/2026
The sense of divine empowerment when I do literally anything with a needle and thread that actually works and doesn't result in a massive mess
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I spoke about being queer in a religious upbringing to 200 Scottish teens at book event this afternoon. Had seven (yes, seven) queer students and two trans students come out to me quietly in the signing queue afterwards, one of them in tears. I will never forgive those who make their lives so hard.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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