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@muninnherself.bsky.social
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Writes stuff, edits things, looks at rocks jackiefraser.co.uk #DailyMegalith #MDANT #RNA

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 17h
'Winter Dusk in London' (2013) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk
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Eilidh Beaton @eilidhbeaton-voice.bsky.social · 18h
It was just lashing down with rain so hard in the story I’m narrating that I was genuinely flummoxed when I left my booth to find the sun shining! #LoveAudiobooks #Narrator
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 15h
💜
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 16h
Ew. (I know I mention this practically every time, but the first time I ever heard of her was on the ol' Sparkle Pony. And truly she's the gift that keeps on giving.)
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 19h
CHRIST on a BIKE
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 19h
I think there were green ones as well? The sort of thing you'd buy in Staffords I reckon, very camping adjacent.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 19h
Fucking hell like.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 19h
Oh! Duffle bags!
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 20h
this is an excellent thread on writing:
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 20h
There was a 2010s documentary about art where he was breathtakingly rude to the presenter, Alastair Sooke. When I read Lights Out... it reminded me very much of that.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 21h
😄
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 21h
@soozuk.bsky.social I just read your list. It made me laugh in places but also want to, I dunno, offer to make you a cup of tea or something. 💜 (I have a weird nose too (someone headbutted me in the face in a nightclub! My glasses sit wonky) but my job is 'sitting indoors typing' so no one sees me.)
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 21h
I'm sorry to hear this. Sending love.
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IT'S SPACE CATS DAY TODAY! Only £3.73 for a wild ride, taking in trauma and the ethics of uplift and of course, cats in giant mechs! (And bears, and rooks) So come join humans Min, Glor and Sam, the cats, Hinder and Oz, the bear, Sitka Pete and the Rook Yawns-Too-Much out in the Wild Black.
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Beasts of the Wild Black: A Deep Space Novella: Beasts of the Wild Black, Book 1
Beasts of the Wild Black: A Deep Space Novella: Beasts of the Wild Black, Book 1 (Audio Download): RJ Barker, Clare Corbett, Vidish Athavale, Podium Audio: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 23h
Ha ha I often sing this to myself.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 23h
Well.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh that’s so fab.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026
Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Moose.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t think I‘ve ever seen colour pics of the inside of Dial House before. observer.co.uk/style/homes/...
observer.co.uk
Inside an open house in Epping founded on radical kindness
An anarchist punk legend opened his Essex farmhouse to strangers. Nearly 60 years later, the experiment is still alive
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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do I know anyone on here with philatelic expertise?
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Huh, that's annoying.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, I talked about this the other day, but I was absolutely terrified by this book cover when I was three or so.
It's the Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik, again. A skeleton with rotten clothes gone to rags is trapped under a large bell.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No! Oh dear.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yeah, this stuff scared me too.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've been thinking about this since yesterday and then I JUST remembered the answer, which is of course 'the terrifying doll thing in The Talons of Weng-Chiang' which I must have seen when I was five. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tal...
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The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Wikipedia
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my god these endless bloody bots pretending to be 18 year olds called fucking Julie. No 18 yr old has been called Julie since 1990. Also I guess the accounts are stolen; the one that just followed me had the profile pic of a woman who might actually have been called Julie because she was my age.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You know how you used to watch a classic buddy cop film and the old guy, who is this close to retirement, can't really run or climb over things, and that seems like a distant unimaginable notion? Yes, well.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THAT'S WHY WE TAKE DRUGS, DIANE. (Sorry, I feel like this is rude to your friend, but it's true. Also, there are daytime raves now, and also the disco nap very much exists.) My problem would be that my knees hurt so much after three hours that I'd need to be carried home.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
LOL
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh yeah I've blocked three Julies.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
don't forget, though - people are idiots.
the famous one star review of Pride and Prej -'just a bunch of people going to each other's houses'
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ollie went to the auction and bought a ‘model catalogue’ in case you want to pay someone 10 guineas an hour to advertise frocks in 1968.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is certainly a layered* artefact. *cursed
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@happytoast.co.uk just did a deconstruction if you're interested, it's definitely AI bollocks! (And all kinds of other bollocks too, obvs.)
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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Further up the valley and never before recorded: a cobweb tree, catching the dew in the early morning light.
Photo of a leafless tree adorned with large cobwebs heavy with dew with the sun’s rays glancing down the mountain behind. A wonder.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My parents only recently moved to a house with double glazing, my dad could never see the point and now he raves about how warm and quiet their home is, much to my amusement. (Obvs they don’t live in the US so this doesn’t answer your question.)
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love all of them obvs but the shadows watching the excavation is quite moving. I really like the shapes in the staircase one though, I think that’s my fave ‘artistically’.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My brain is full of pop nonsense, I expect I learned that from Smash Hits.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're named after a book, aren't they, by Carson McCullers, which I had a copy of for years and years but never read. #goshjackhowinteresting
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I loved it so much I bought a second copy for my dad!
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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Any Cardiff Bay gurus here? Do you know why the Q-Park Cardiff Bay site isn't showing pre-bookings online?
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is well worth your 99p should you be so inclined.
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Both these books are great btw.
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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's another one for Black Dog Day, a woodcut by Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1781, from MFA Boston's collection:
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m sorry Roger, sad times.
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