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I've not listened to all of it yet - most of it, even, it's a double album! - but I'm side-eyeing everyone saying the new Carly Rae Jepsen doesn't have the juice. I'm hearing Minnie Riperton, Kylie, Dolly, Mark Ronson, even some Idler Wheel era Fiona Apple. It's good! It's pop! CRJ's flexing on us!

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 42m

PayPal is rubbish in many ways, but one of the ways in which it is great is when the day before you have to pay all your bills you suddenly remember a bunch of jobs that paid into your PayPal that you then get to transfer to the account your bills come out of and then your arsehole unclenches.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I won the lottery (or even landed a halfway decent job) I think one of the first things I’d do is set up a subscription to Shy Blooms. Their arrangements are just so… good?! Tender but spiky! Muted but textural! When there’s colour, there’s COLOUR.

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Gutter Magazine @gutter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Submissions close tomorrow at midnight 📝 We can't wait to see what you've got in store for us.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am going to become the joker

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're back, with some *good news*! Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism – more details at the link... www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...

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The Skinny is back!

Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism.

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get tired of the endless talk of ‘passion’ with regards to food. It’s become very irritating. I miss the butcher being the butcher because he is the butcher.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently watching Foundation and enjoying how it’s figured out if you throw enough maguffins, Mary Sues, exposition and dead parental figures at a story simultaneously, it ends up writing itself. Not sure it’ll maintain this over three reasons but as a fan of storytelling, S1 is very entertaining.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026

There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something something Orwell something something pigs.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not having lived in Northern Ireland for 22 years and counting, it often doesn't feel my place to have opinions on any of it, but thousands of Portadown protestors standing out in the rain all day to stop 35 Orangemen swinging their sectarian dicks around is good, actually.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Scottish context is different, but: I began considering ADHD as a thing in 2014, started seeking help from my GP in 2019 and didn’t get *~officially~* put on a waiting list until 2021. It is now 2026. You simply have to live as if you’re not getting help. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New episode: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) with @julesscheele.bsky.social Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs “Be sure and tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya!”

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pushing though my annual inability to escape freshers flu with uncharacteristic nostalgia.

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Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I remembered that seven years ago we made a podcast out of @smaychel.bsky.social’s reinterpretation of Animals of Farthing Wood and listened to it again, it remains funny, brutal and brilliant

poetryasfuck.bandcamp.com

Rachel Plummer: Head Set, by Poetry As Fuck

1 track album

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was a lot of fun putting together an illustration for Point.a hotels in Edinburgh, with the wizards at Print Clan providing live in-situ screenprinting!

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Ben @benfields.net · 24/09/2026

A poorly understood problem with age bans for social media is that all the adults give up the privacy (since that's what it means to verify your age) and the kids will still be social on the Internet, because, well, they're kids and it's the Internet.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah yes, that olde English curse, “May your band support a reunion tour.”

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Deleting unprofessional griping in the arts worker panopticon? It’s more likely than you think!

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: two boys accessed the crawl space in the ceiling, removed a panel during assembly, and lowered on a string a blow-up sex doll behind the headmaster renowned for perving on the girls during Sports Day.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

wait shouldn’t it be in italian

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Ryan Vance” has now published 13 books since June and I cannot thank him enough for allowing me to let go of my growing dislike for my own book’s comparatively lo-fi cover.

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Gutter Magazine @gutter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Gutter team are excited to welcome Rachel Ashenden as the magazine’s new Managing Editor. “I’ve long admired Gutter as a publication that amplifies Scotland’s immense writing talent within a global literary community,” says Rachel.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For maybe six months I've written "fix holes in jumpers" in my weekly to-do list, and yesterday I finally fixed holes in all my jumpers, and now I'm writing my weekly to-do list with no holes in jumpers needing fixed, I'm feeling strangely bereft, a constant companion is gone!!!

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Increasingly trying to psych myself up to drop money I don’t have on a studio space to work in despite having a work-from-home set-up just to get me out of the horse and (theoretically) less easily distracted by home comforts and more motivated by even more likely destitution, AMA

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Quiet Year’s a funny game because no matter how demure your starting settlement, by the game’s end there’s always at least two mass graves on the board, three rival cults, one corpse with all its bones removed, and a cosmic horror that can only be averted with ritualistic child sacrifice.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At a posh cafe, I set my napkin on top of the nice ceramic bowl containing a tea light, and when it caught fire, I carried it thumb and finger between the tables to one of the wait staff, who promptly slapped it out of my hand and stamped it out. Promptly paid and left without finishing my coffee.

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Aspirational proximity. Sept 18 2018

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

See the perpendicular pedestrian lights that force you to take your eyes off your destination to see if there’s cars coming? I’ve just twigged there’s no *traffic lights* positioned at right angles so drivers waiting are forced to take their eyes off *their* destination to look for the pedestrians.

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Jed @thelowestbitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you failed to get Charli XCX Glasgow tickets, firstly LOL, amateur, I got tickets EASY PEASY, but secondly, you should come watch me début Glasgow’s most misguided Charli XCX tribute, HARDLI XCX, on Halloween at Duck And Cover. Probably as good as the real thing! www.outsavvy.com/event/39264/...

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DUCK & COVER 2026 Tickets - Glasgow - OutSavvy

Bum Notes present : DUCK AND COVER 2026Our annual COVERS BAND HALLOWEEN BALL is back from beyond the grave. . We may have lost our hallowed grounds of The Flying Duck but tonight, Matthew, we're going...

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For once I would like to go viral when I actually have something to sell.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My daring vision for Doctor Who is for the next Doctor to be a big ol' bruiser. Tom Hardy or Gwendoline Christie. And I want the TARDIS to be comically small on the inside. Still bigger than a phone box, of course, but just really cramped, no room for companions. Really amp up the clown car vibes.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Given I did not dare admit to myself I was gay until I was 19 and 11 months, I don't really think 20 y/o me held the necessary context to have opinions on 40 y/o me. Seems a bit cruel to place retrospective expectations on a version of myself that was, at the time, only 30 days old.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bread ick: pre-sliced bagels.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

By making this stand, Irish artists are saving the country's reputation as being ethical & progressive; meanwhile our goverment does craven, lucrative deals to allow financial services with Israel run unimpeded. Artists are the mudguards of Ireland right now.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Desperately jealous of whoever’s growing sunflowers on Paisley Road West.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Budgeting for a potential publishing project, vibe-plucked some general numbers from thin air, then figured I should probably properly itemise everything in advance of a funding application, and spent two hours checking recommended rates. Vibe estimate was only off by £200. Feeling very smug.

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore's breakout hit was a keenly observed ode to the stealth wealth redistribution of thrift stores and then his second big hit was a well-intentioned if mawkish anthem in support of gay marriage, I don't know why anyone's surprised the cringe king of white rap has his priorities straight.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Currently discovering why our building factors Walker Sandford have a support website dedicated to their “survivors”.

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