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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In conversation with @anthonyshapland.bsky.social Oct 7th, 6pm Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham talking art, writing, rural queerness, starlings, illusion & imitation and more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mewn-sgwrs...

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Mewn Sgwrs / In Conversation: Anthony Shapland, Marie-Anne McQuay, Jo Marsh

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anthonyshapland.bsky.social @anthonyshapland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a lovely thing to pop up in (alongside lots of key music influences!). Thanks 🙏 @m-amcq.bsky.social x

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I answered Ten Questions on music for Science and Magic. Shout outs for The Cure (of course), Thelma Houston, The Breeders, Nik Kershaw and a bonus extra @anthonyshapland.bsky.social www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

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Science & Magic | 32 — Violette Records

I've seen more sophisticated microwave ovens.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Energy levels this week: Ailing Victorian Orphan

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RCP 🧿♾️⚫ @morelikethat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm looking for supporters to help realise my next book concerning ghosts, curators and the spatial reality of regeneration projects. 👻➡️ ko-fi.com/post/Project...

Screen shot of LinkedIn post from my account, sharing a link to Ko-Fi. It reads I'm looking for supporters to help realise my next book concerning ghosts, curators and the spatial reality of regeneration projects.

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 08/09/2026

I'm not in any way religious, but I do like the way quakers go about things in general, and specifically this today

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 08/09/2026

The machines have sent T1000 back to make Sarah Connor sit through yet another PowerPoint about adding AI to her workflow!

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me: I’ve got so much to do this week but at least school has gone back. The Universe: How about a nice vomiting bug for the whole family?

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Bonny Colville-Hyde @almostexact.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Its that lovely time of year when the spiders that are out and about could wear saddles and be ridden by mice

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just had the worst migraine and had to power down. Sleep & go back to factory settings

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Skeletired @skeletired.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think most people have at least once looked at the news and decided to try making enough food in a home garden to be self sufficient, then realized fairly quickly that it's almost impossible these days, and that if we can't build communities that share safe food, we're all screwed.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And the Sisters of Mercy doing sinister goth Jolene youtu.be/xvcDUy_Rd90

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Sisters Of Mercy - Jolene

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Wildfires in Wales. When you see them up close it's madness

A view of smouldering grassland from a road

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I spoke to someone yesterday who mixed up a goldcrest with a goldfinch and I managed to hold back most of my facts 🐦‍⬛

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 19/08/2026

In 2011, Ursula wrote two blog posts about the 2005 lawsuit brought against Google, which had scanned millions of books without permission. On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, Kim Stanley Robinson reads the first of these posts, "Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement."

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In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: Kim Stanley Robinson reads "Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement"

Kim Stanley Robinson reads post 19, "Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement," from March 28, 2011. You can read Ursula's original blog post here:  

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 19/08/2026

WTAF THIS IS TOMORROW?!?? Cu tmrw @edbookfest.bsky.social & Edinburgh pals! Language forecast: BAD (and live captioned)

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Museums pro tip: Want to know if there's a bat flying around your galleries? Simply listen to all the visitors saying "there is a bat flying around the galleries."

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i love jourdain, a wonderful friend and essential film critic. please help her out if you're able.

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy to realise earlier I’m in a Neurodivergent & Allies Who Stay In Their Lane Starter Pack as I took a break from documenting church frescos from 1400s that had been painted over in 16th century and then again in mid 1800s.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I feel like Poison Ivy would be very anti data center and I sure as hell wouldnt be rooting for Batman if that was the case.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

bonus points for demonstrating the technique mid interview. peak performance

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Using my weapons* to defeat the Big Boss** and get the level-up*** *PMDD- and perimenopause-induced rage-powered rhetoric **landlord who advised me to "put my lease into copilot to find out what it means" ***a front door that actually locks

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't have the words I need to discuss the loss of Jason Arday's young life. All I can say is that this internet age is especially violent, nasty, and despicable toward Black intellectuals. We are targeted more than any academic group esp if we are dark-skinned, fat, disabled, queer or trans.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Homes, people and wildlife under threat. Landscapes that will take decades to recover. This is the devastating cost of wildfires. We need more than a ban on BBQs from Burnham - it’s time to treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I mean, I expect a national alert for something serious like a Spanish Armada sighting or an alien tripod in Southend. This just felt like they were testing the system.

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Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Received that wildfire prevention alert in Cymraeg about three minutes before receiving it in English. Hands down the most intense and panicked Google Translating of my life.

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Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don’t think I can be trusted with this eclipse. Like Orpheus and Lot’s Wife, if you tell me NOT TO LOOK at a thing, you can practically guarantee I will look at the thing.

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I fear that Large Spiders in the House Season has started early 🕷️

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Remembering Ronnie Spector on her birthday youtu.be/_3QA2ATgIb0

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The Ronettes - Be My Baby / Shout (4k)

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Sarah Deaves @sarahdeaves.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Went to see Anthony Shapland’s piece ‘Murmur’ this week - it’s on at Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham. Features a gorgeous short film involving several starlings who get up to mischief in the way that starlings usually do. There’s also a handsome naked man involved. All beautifully curated by @m-amcq.bsky.social

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thank you so much for visiting @sarahdeaves.bsky.social - mutual starling fan with me & @anthonyshapland.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The sombre beauty of a sun-scorched Morrisons trolley bay after for consecutive heatwaves in the sixth great extinction.

Morrisons branding images of farm chickens cracked, faded and brown from sun damage

Close up of panel showing sun damaged image of hens on a trolley bay

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Minority Report, with emphasis on “minor”

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026". Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day!

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The late-afternoon sun had turned now from a vivid yellow to a warm lazy orange, and it seemed almost as tired as he was. The road raced ahead in a series of gentle curves that began to look familiar, and off in the distance the solitary tollbooth appeared, a welcome sight indeed.

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anthonyshapland.bsky.social @anthonyshapland.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Quite proud of this...💚

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

E is a really amazing young person who has had to swim against the current of so many things, and has shown up in solidarity again and again even when struggling so much herself - please do help if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-e-a-l...

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Donate to Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs, organized by East and Southeast Asians North East

E is in urgent need of support with visa costs so that she … East and Southeast Asians North East needs your support for Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

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Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts

University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero

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Malaika (Shomari) Kirkwood @mxoberon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There are two wolves in you, and one really wants to doomscroll. The other is just a nosy bitch

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My mum was sent a classic ‘buy me £250 voucher now’ scam email. Sadly for the hackers they received a reply from her saying her daughter would send the money but she’s freelance in the arts so can’t afford to at the moment.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Doing snail art at art club, searched my photos and I had completely forgotten snail cat #snail #cat #persian #cardboard

A ginger persian cat in a snail shaped box with his head sticking out so he looks like a snail

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Emma Balkind @emmabalkind.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

All animals should have a fruit based size approximation 🍇

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Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Last night I either saw a Little Owl or an Owl that is Little 🦉

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NoEnemiesToYourLeft @liquidmorpheme.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I hate these sci-fi headlines. "Escaped containment". None of these models do anything until someone types something. It's always some test and the scare results are practically PR, "Look! It's an agent! With agency!" Bite my ass, it's a stunt

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