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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I just spent far too long trying to find an electric dustpan and brush.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I hope you are spooked or cuddled as your Halloween desires!

Averagely done cat pumpkin carving with candle

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

When I was 16 I would’ve tried to write a really deep metaphor about life and how when you achieve something great it all comes tumbling out… Instead, I’m gunna say that f*ing hate the moment when you’ve spent 20 mins pumping up an airbed and then let it all out when you try and shove the cork in.

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The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Are you a UK or Ireland-based designer looking to get started in the industry? Penguin UK has launched its cover design awards and this year, the focus is fantasy – and one of the two titles is Terry Pratchett's Night Watch. More details: terrypratchett.com/news/calling...

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Calling all designers! Create your own version of a classic Discworld cover... | Terry Pratchett

Penguin UK has launched its annual cover design award contest where all UK and Ireland-based designers can submit their own designs for two classic Penguin titles. This year’s focus is fantasy and the...

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In advance of London pride and due to a desire to procrastinate from work, I’ve done my nails with a weird multi colored confetti like varnish… And my god I hate it!! So bumpy. Randomly falling off. And stinks so bad my cats won’t even be in the same room as me!

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Time for a weekend recharge! 💤😻

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

How do any Dungeon Masters manage to write any novels or anything while working on a campaign?? It’s endless! Currently having to research lots for a tomb raider sequence. And it’s very distracting having to play Lara Croft

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Kiki helping to wrap a present 🥰😂

A lovely long furred cat holding the ribbon that’s being tied round a box

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I regret calling every pet I’ve watched on TikTok dragging their poopy arse across the carpet cute. … it is not cute. It is a horror show.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m currently using a hairdryer on a stone I painted white. And my cat is looking at me with a ferocity of judgement that’s making my skin prickle.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When football fans and nerds cross paths.

WhatsApp chat.

1: ‘Orient wow. What a goal.’

2: ‘Is this some Edward Said shit?’

1: ‘pardon’

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My DM house-rule is that if it’s gone 10 days since the last session, then I add +1 DC to the first check of the next session for each player for every additional day they haven’t organized the time for our next game. (And no, I haven’t told them this.)

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I spend ages each morning doing beautiful coffee art. With foam and swirls and maybe even a sunset landscape. Yet by the time I reach the end of the frankly tiny hallway and reach my bf, it’s always an over spilling hot steaming mug of shite.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There is a lot wrong with the world right now. However. I have been slow roasting a pair of baby cauliflowers for 4 hours. Having massaged garlic butter into them with my own two hands. And soon I’ll eat them with my boyfriend for dinner. So I can briefly be content.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Forgot I was wearing a paper party hat, and only realized while showering when the disgustingly soggy clump fell off my head, slipped down my chest and splashed onto the floor. 🤢😂

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Pop into X: see disinformation (lies) about PrEP, and usual terf shizzle. Return here: see someone’s D&D art and a thread about new indie authors to follow. 🦋🥰

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

How many ‘don’t ask’ things do you allow your partner a week?? I know it’s Friday. But I feel he’s just had 10th of the week! This time, an 8:30 delivery of bleach after he’s been in the bathroom a while.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Just run my first D&D campaign of the year. I was setting up a story around wild magic and nature’s corruption. They’ve somehow already turned it into a capitalist adventure where they have a monopoly on sea shell trade. My homework after the session is writing an exclusivity contract. 🙈😅

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

After two years of sleeping on the cheapest mattress off Amazon after moving into the flat and waking up every morning aching, we got ourselves a mattress topper. And fuck me. I may never leave the bed again. As for sex? Screw that. This baby is far too precious and wholesome. The floor will do.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

One of the great privileges of humanity is the ability to make ‘once in a lifetime mistakes’ multiple times.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The world framed and centered through a blurring motorway fence for hours on end is a dreary thing. And yet, somehow, full of hope.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I’m in a house with 4 cats for Christmas. 2 shut in with me in my own room with bf. There’s also sea nearby. And I’m always being offered coffee and freshly made cake. I may actually like Christmas again!!

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

How am I meant to work on a boring annual review doc with this sleepy cuteness snoring beside me??

A sleeping British blue (grey) cat with him legs all folded and crossed over and toe beans on show.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

4 Lesser Known Books I’m Buying People for Chrimbo: ‘Lesser Known Monsters’ by Rory Michaelson ‘Untouched’ by Jayme Bean ‘Future Fish’ by Conor Sneyd ‘A Botanical Daughter’ by Noah Medlock (View thread for details) #books #BookSky💙📚#bookrecommendations

Book Cover: ‘Lesser Known Monsters’ by Rory Michaelson

Book Cover: ‘A Botanical Daughter’ by Noah Medlock

Book Cover: ‘A Future Fish’ by Conor Sneyd

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just love how life gives you slo-mo moments! I was just falling backwards into the dusty air above my hallway in a calamitous accident, and my brain decided to let me watch it all in slow motion and see the screws ping off the ladder as it separated from the hatch and I fell from the attic.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

On a scale of 1 to ‘you’re screwed’, how much does liquid charcoal stain a carpet?

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I like the one with Jar Jar Binks

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Listening to BF practice lute while I edit a collection of poetry a friend wrote for their mum’s Christmas present and my cats chase some ribbon = perfection 🥰

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Woah. Did not expect this! Has been a ‘depressed rainy day folk while crying and cumming into the same sock’ sort of year. But still! Anyways. If you’re in that mood, go check out Cooza @cooza.bsky.social

Spotify Wrapped top song: ‘Swell.’ By Cooza.

Spotify Wrapped: ‘You’re a top 0.005% fan and you spent 2,188 minutes listening’.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

4 Christmas films to get to know me by.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

People often ask where to start with the Discworld books, or are intimidated by how many there are. Well, this is a fantastic and random standalone that can be read in isolation! Some really interesting themes, great characters and world building, and funny. You can’t go wrong 🙌 🪐📚 #BookSky💙📚

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When will they learn?? The more they meow and interrupt, the longer it’ll take for me to finish the book and feed them! 😂😺

An open book with a dozen or so pages left. And two cats waiting in the background for me to finish.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I had a nightmare that The Ting Tings were my most played artist on Spotify Wrapped. During the dream it was the most humiliating and terrifying thing ever. Today I’ve listened to them on repeat 😂. Nightmares: Shut up and let me go.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Women were banned from football for 50 years, not because we needed to be protected, but because women’s football was seen as too challenging. As women’s football grows, we must not now leave any women behind and this includes trans women, who can benefit hugely from being part of the game we love.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Off work today sick. So was really looking forward to a reading session in bed with hot chocolate. The second I settled and opened the book, a van pulled up outside and a loud guy yanked out a drill. I’m all for meditative zen and love. But. I truly hate them.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

5 writers I’ve read 5+ book by - Fantasy Edition 🧌🐉 Terry Pratchett Trudi Canavan Raymond E. Feist George R. R. Martin Janny Wurts #booksky💙📚

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations

Cover of book: ‘Adrian Mole. Aged 13 3/4. By Sue Townsend.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Update: he found me, he killed me.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

plant: Monstera tree: Apple flower: poppy Small animal: harvest mouse Large animal: jaguar Fish: seahorse (fish?) Insect: ladybird Fungus: ballerina waxcup

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As I’m away, playing a big online Civ game with bf. We’re 300 turns in and haven’t met each other yet! If anything it’s making me feel more lonely and isolated 😂

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with. This was me during Covid. Enough said.

A guy going slightly crazy and doing a tea party photoshoot on his own with badly made snowmen.

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Me: ‘Anything vegan?’ Them: ‘Ach no. Be off.’ - welcome to Scotland -

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

10 movies to get to know me: Your Name The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King Four Weddings and a Funeral My Neighbor Totoro The Wind Rises Bridget Jones Diary Shrek 2 Die Hard

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I love rural life sometimes! Since I was last here, the local shop has added self-service machines. (The horror!) And because they are such new fangled things, there is never a queue & I get to waltz passed the long line for the counter and buy my avocados (and doughnuts) in peace. 😂🙌

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📗 - Night Watch, Terry Pratchett. 🎥 - Your Name, Makoto Shinkai. 💿 - these words are all for you, Wrabel 📺 - Merlin

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Mj He/Him @mjbaines.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ashamed to admit in my very first butterfly post that I’ve been in Scotland for 2 weeks alone (cat sitting) and haven’t managed to write a single word of any WIP. I apologize. However, in spit of this I’d love to refind some old friends on here and new writers too! 🥺

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