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Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 32m

Bbc Sounds have gathered all their spooky stuff into a Halloween list www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/curat...

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BBC Sounds - Halloween Horror - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Halloween Horror on BBC Sounds

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 22m

This is definitely a thing! “That was shit!” [Three months of thinking about it constantly.] “I should watch that awesome movie again.”

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 34m

Interesting chat with @pgwodelouse.bsky.social earlier about whether Fulci’s The Beyond is actually *good*. It's on my 100 great films watchlist because I refer to it constantly; it haunts me; but I don't recommend it to everyone. boxd.it/WYzmE

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100 great films

100 films that I've either: • rated 4.5 or 5 • rated lower but couldn't stop thinking about • talked about constantly

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 5h

Nice seasonal Halloween announcement in Sainsbury’s. “Will a member of staff please come to the spirits aisle?”

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 46m

Telling my kids about how I was there for the infamous 'judas' concert.

Ticket for Keith Harris and Orville and King George's Hall in Blackburn on 2nd March 1985 alongside a badge of Keith Harris, a might aged man with curly hair, and Orville, a large green bird who, with hindsight, was really quite frightening

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

WOOOHOOO I FEEL ALIVE walked into the Institut Français at 11am and just left it now (aside from a brief break to launch myself at a jambon beurre at 2pm) WHAT a way to spend a day, fucking hell, cried so many times I actually had entirely dry eyes by the time Paris actually got liberated

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 7h

You need more potatoes this weather

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

At some point, they'll become rare enough to be listed.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

Saikaku (1642-1693) on social media. (Via The Penguin Book of Haiku, ed. Adam L. Kern.)

spiteful missives: scribbles like so many dried bonito shavings

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve been re-reading Alexei Sayles’ intensely inventive short stories. Even better than I remember them. Would you like to borrow them @gotpies.bsky.social ?

The covers of Barcelona Plates & The Dog Catcher. The covers feature bright colour images
1.A close up of a man’s neck & shoulders featuring a patterned tie & and clashing Fairisle cardigan
2. An ice cream cornet with a flake dominates the foreground, colourful street scene beyond.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

Another bulletin from The Phantom Zone.

A shop fascia with a colour photo of a woman totally blissed out with her beauty treatment. It's been splashed with red paint which has trickled down the photo.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

Spotted today at the entrance to a block of student/yuppie flats. Who will ever consider it their job to remove this?

A poster asking people to stay 2 metres apart to save lives.

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 10h

The submarine pens at La Rochelle, an obvious tourist attraction in 1973.

Holiday snap of me, my brother and mum standing in front of a giant concrete structure.

Giant concrete structure with sign that says DANGER: MANUTENTION DE GRUMES.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10h

New amazing entry to the Extremely Unknown Pleasures playlist.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1

No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21h

The annual murder-gonk cull is upon us. I hate these things with a passion. Every year at my old job, we'd be instructed to destroy them on sight because they're a massive fire & cancer risk. I've ripped the heads off so many, I feel like some kind of elven serial killer. www.gov.uk/product-safe...

Product recall graphic for those stupid 'gonk' dolls with pointy heads and flammable beards.

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 21h

I'm not a Mike Flanagan hater (or an Anti-Flan as we call them) but I am not in the Flandom either. My feelings are Flanbivalent.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 22h

Good John Guillermin stuff in the post above @bobfreelander.bsky.social. ☝️

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 22h

“For the Czechs The Bridge at Remagen was a ‘test situation.’ Should the country’s movie industry prove amenable to Hollywood it could result in an influx of hard currency and a stampede of U.S. productions.”

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Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mérida in Extremadura is a beautiful little place. So many layers of history - Roman, Islamic, Visigothic. Que bonito.

Blue skies over the Roman theatre in Mérida after a downpour

Two headless statues between the pillars of the Roman theatre in Mérida

The temple of Diana in Mérida lit up at night

A Roman road that runs into a brick wall

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Have only the afternoon to go. The time has flown" @uniofleicester.bsky.social #HigherEducationPostcard

An old colour picture postcard showing a road going under a university hall of residence.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really like The Witch. But then I'm a sucker for anything set in the era of little shoes with buckles on.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Music mind mushed. There's a jazz trio that plays Black Sabbath songs. According to Jazz Sabbath's own band bio, they were formed in the late-60s by Rick Wakeman's son (who wasn't even born until 74), and accuse the real Black Sabbath of plagiarising all their music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV18...

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War Pigs (Live)

YouTube video by Jazz Sabbath - Topic

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pointless therapeutic collaging project. Constraint: I was only allowed to use old copies of Sight & Sound for source material.

A little deck of cards bound with a red band. The title is Wonder (line break) Ful.

Eight card laid out on a desk: a mountain landscape; an explorer lost in an industrial space; someone with a shaved head and a halo screaming on a subway train; a man on a lonely country road with a line of computer code blocking the way; cinema seats, a nun, a pair of floating spectacles with sly eyes; a woman with bloody lips and mad eyes in front of a crowd; a boat on a lake with a pink sun.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder if there might be a gap in the market for a podcast where two or three men in their fifties take a sideways look at the cult media of their childhoods?

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Prospekt Niezalezhnosti’, Paulina Olowska, 2018. artviewer.org/paulina-olow...

A painting of a woman and a boy, both smartly dressed, staring glumly off to the right. The landscape behind them is bare and blank apart from a brutalist tower block. It feels unsettling.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All fashion articles when you're in your 50s

"Ball hog" is essentially the deep-fried zoomer equivalent of the millennial hypebeast aesthetic.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Re: tech bros and the reality of living in William Gibson's future.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every idea for a conference theme has already been don—

Frontier Forum Focuses On Small Town Planning When Tragedy Creates A Tourist Destination
Clear Lake, Iowa, a rural town of 7500, has spent more than the past 60 years linked to an event that has been musically coined “The Day The Music Died.”

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Face punctuation: Ears as brackets. Full stop nose. Mouth as an em dash

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was today years old when I discovered that when Melville's masterpiece LE SAMOURAI was released in the USA in 1972, it was not only dubbed into English, but they changed the title to... #FilmSky

US poster for LE SAMOURAI, with the title changed to THE GODSON

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Me defending my love of dream sequences in narratives against current industry trends.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Goodnight from the spectre of Ron Shadford, confusing Coreham General Hospital’s incinerator for one of Hell’s furnaces. Goodnight from the 23:36 Ashcourt to London train, stopped yet again, this time by discovery of bits of something not entirely human on the track. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At my Japanese class I heard about revenge lunchboxes for the first time. It's where a couple fight and the next day she makes his lunch but it might just be all rice with a tiny bit of protein, or rice with F YOU spelt out using seaweed.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

not many people wreak things other than havoc

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And finally the traditional Christmas acrylic geese

Box with two light up geese on the front with acrylic Christmas geese printed on it.

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