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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8m

Even if you only watch the first 5 seconds... that BBC Northern Ireland ident! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zc...

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1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus | BBC Archive

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 15m

I know it's pretty tedious for writers to talk about their word counts but... I've made it to 10,000 words on the novel. Feels like a big milestone, if only because it's the longest continuous chunk of narrative I've produced in a few years. I think they're good words, too, because I seem to have...

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 45m

this Blur Lego set is genius ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

a Lego newspaper with "blur" in the band's font on the front. on top are Lego minifigs of the band, complete with instruments, and the milk carton from the Coffee and TV video

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Jamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 5h

Prepping for a big pitch meeting tomorrow, so of course it's time to start coming up with titles to James Bond / Studio Ghibli mash-ups: ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET DELIVERY SERVICE OCTOPONYO FOR YOUR EYES ONLY YESTERDAY ...

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 7h

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com

A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

"Force of nature" = a bit loud and pushy?

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Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social · 10h

Lord knows I've had my complaints about my boss but today she's running a workshop with a new client and is wearing a t-shirt that says 'I will succeed because I am insane'. I have no choice but to respect it.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11h

Found a joke just for me: in the episode of Futurama where they go to a realm of pure numbers, Dr. Farnsworth calls it a "realm of beauty bare," a hilarious reference to the Edna St. Vincent Millay line "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare." The fewer people get a joke, the funnier it is

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 11h

“Extracts from National Highways report 1727a, subject M5 Interchange, author redacted, UK Home Office eyes only...” ‘The Interchange' is a story in the form of an official road infrastructure report and, people seem to agree, one of the standouts in this collection.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 16h

The biggest jumpscare in the IT miniseries is when Richard Thomas turns his head and reveals his ponytail.

Richard Thomas as Bill smiling next to a bicycle tire.

Richard Thomas as Bill visiting Georgie’s grave and showing off his long ponytail.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 12h

‘The Life Drawing Class’ – a thread that could be a story by Robert Aickman.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 13h

On the liminal weirdness of Super Mario 64: “My personal memories of playing Mario 64 are somehow like those about a physical location — or perhaps more like an uncanny dream of a place that never existed — than like memories about a game.” denniscooperblog.com/marilyn-roxi...

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Marilyn Roxie presents … The Inescapable Weirdness of Super Mario 64 * – DC's

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"If we are to reinvest the world with meaning, I suggest we use the fragments of our old shattered mythologies to build ourselves a new one." -- Alan Moore in 'And What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Busted Myths' (additional short essay in the special edition of 'I Hear a New World').

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 17h

GOPHER LIQUOR STORE

Small store with big sign reflecting on wet blacktop

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 14h

From Sara Baume's Seven Steeples.

In reality, nothing was within their price range. They lived off social welfare payments and dwindling savings. They had become poor and shabby without noticing. Sometimes there was, over the twig-filled fireplace of the ruins they courted, a Sacred Heart of Jesus, its red glow lancing the gloom.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 22h

Dear terrible writers yo don't have to add 'and personal' every time you write 'up close.'

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Made an appointment at le salon du kitchen scissors & once again, I’ve given myself a fringe that’s a cross between the Dave Hill in a Romulan Slade tribute band & something a cruel 17th century priest might inflict on a woman accused of pridefulness, consorting with imps or strumpetry

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Train passes through Purley a vale-bound ghost of old suburbia now benighted and entropic. Deeply eerie and fascinating. It has the feel of some once grand Amazonian city subsumed by dank nature, an exhausted 20th Century hub dragged into desuetude by the thalloid might of the lower plants.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Create generative music by gliding around a virtual landscape choosing which tree to head to next. ambient.garden

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An Algorithmic Audio Landscape

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026

As another month draws to an end it's time for my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

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Monthly Link Dump: September 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘The Rich Man's Frug’ which subtle clues lead me to believe dates from the 1960s. “Wow, this place sure is crawling with celebrities. I'm the only person here I never heard of." youtu.be/5jio0ZzK4fI?...

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The Iconic Dance at the Pompeii Club 'The Rich Man's Frug' | Sweet Charity

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I take it you all knew there was a disco version of the theme from Alien? youtu.be/vdcOVjbP1TY

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Alien Theme by Nostromo

YouTube video by Guy Forshaw

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever one of these creeps turns up, it's always the same four mutuals who are following it. Stop automatically following people, people. Jesus. Audit your contacts. It's not your first day on the internet.

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Grant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN FACTS MATE I SHALL BEAR THEM IN MIND

A black metal umbrella stand with the words: 'PREPARE FOR RAIN
RAINDROP IS A DROP OF WATER WITH THE SIZE OF MORE THAN 0.5MM IN DIAMETER AND COMES
DOWN FROM THE SKY' in white capital letters on it

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hats off to Jim Clash, living his best life.

Byline for journalist Jim Cash that reads “Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock.”

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Emily Fisher is not your average 20-year-old... Yes, she likes Harry Styles, getting her nails done... and pulling up to the function with her trademark bouncy blonde blow-dry... But she also loves driving the company hearse... This is because Emily is an undertaker.”

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A graveyard shift with Britain’s Gen Z undertakers

They’re barely out of school • They spend their days tending to the dead • Could apprentice undertakers solve youth unemployment?

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘At the Hanging Rock’, William Ford, 1875, as mentioned in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ by Joan Lindsay, 1967. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/coll...

A painting of a rural scene with a party of well to do people in silk dresses and suits having a lovely outing. There are tall trees with bare trunks and lots of huge rocks.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Jonas Downey @jonas.do · 28/09/2026

Has anyone done a sociological study on why corporate jargon business-speak is so pervasive? Whyyyy do we do this? Business weirdo: "I'm not aligned. Can we circle back to sync again, and assign a DRI to put more wood behind fewer arrows?" Regular human person: "I disagree. Let's make it simpler."

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Fretful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My party piece when I was younger was playing the chorus of Open Your Heart by The Human League on the recorder. With my nose. 😔

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 16/10/2024

In this spooky season, here's some advice from Quora that I found in 2019

Wow, don't be afraid, ghosts are just people. Except they have passed away.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s cemetery names: Asmusson, Conibear, Fullick, Grimster, Lamprell, Mozupe, Pester, Pitthers and, of course, Silas Stuckless. “He is at rest/ In God's own presence blest.” #CemeteryNames

Victorian headstones, collapsing, covered in ivy, surrounded by trees.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social

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Pirating the Pirates

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

who do I petition to get someone to launch a Tate Morden, to confuse the tourists

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning. Last week I found out for the first time that Champion The Wonder Horse (stalwart black and white 50s schedule filler up to 1993) was a spin-off. Champion was Gene Autry’s horse, and it was a 1955 cash in on the success of the Gene Autry Show. He’s like horse Frasier.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Out of more than 1,000 empty units he helped audit nationally, on average more than half didn't have a letting agent actively marketing the property. He says some councils don't even know who the landlords are.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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My hometown shows that high streets have to change or die

Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still lots of colour in the garden. Roses, rudbeckia, aster, dahlia, knautia #bloomscrolling

Bunch of late summer/early autumn flowers including roses, rudbeckia, aster, dahlia, knautia

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TIMtheTOON @timtoon.com · 28/09/2026

I forget who posted this here, but it was a whole different vibe

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When the British Future Was a Beautiful Mess

YouTube video by Retro Muel

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“...the early 1990s are the very last gasp of grotty, old school analogue Britain, before we all stampeded to join the digital world... there were still huge areas of waste land on the outskirts of town centres, and old bombsites left over from the war...”

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Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday presence

A field with a standing stone that’s actually 12 ft tall or more, it’s presence is somewhat diminished from this angle by a wooden electricity pole. A sheep grazes close by, you can only see its bum. In the distance, sunlit hills with electricity pylons cutting through

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like to consider myself a creative person. Unfortunately, I get no internal validation or Good Feelings from the creative process. I enjoy people liking the things I make, but I'm not sure I get anything out of the making of it. Only a sense of relief that I no longer have to make it.

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Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My top names from the apple and pear tent at the Autumn show

A pile of 5 apples on a table with a name card saying 'Knobby Russet'

Two black plates on a table with pears on, they have name labels behind the saying 'dead boy' and 'dead dog'

A pile of pears on a black plate with a sign saying 'butts'

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Sam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tonight on digital versatile disc, GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946), David Lean's brilliant gothic adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel — also available on YouTube youtu.be/-C2ouPXAok8

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