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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GOBLINHOOD: GOBLIN AS A MODE is 2 🧤 Here are some nice things that readers have said about it... 👹 PS. It's going in for a second reprint! So that'll be another 1000 on top of the 3000 sold ! roughtradebooks.com/products/gob...

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/09/2026

Many are saying this. You’re hearing “I read Metal From Heaven by August Clarke on Stella’s recommendation and I will never be the same” more and more

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

icymi I wrote a little ode to “Jupiter Ascending,” a very important film, in Saturday’s @newyorker.com Daily newsletter

"Jupiter Ascending" (2015)
There's just so much more nonsense than sense in the Wachowskis' magnificently insane space epic. The story, I guess, is about a beautiful Earthling toilet-scrubber catapulted into interplanetary political intrigue because she's a perfect DNA match for a recently-deceased galactic oligarch—but you're doomed if you go looking for coherent plot. Better to absorb this masterpiece as a high-production-value tone poem: Channing Tatum as a canine-spliced rollerblading bodyguard; something involving really hot siblings in a regeneration hot tub; Eddie Redmayne doing oh, so much ACTING; and something happens with bees? Whatever. It's all enormous and gorgeous-looking.—Helen Rosner, staff writer

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Prouder of this than my first cassette. No not saying.

Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes: album cover

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mudlarkers wanting you to transfer your money? You’d think they’d know how to take stuff out of a bank.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

clearly there was a mewtiny

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Kalum 🔜 GrogLaw 2027 @rolistespod.itch.io · 04/08/2026

The Odyssey is doing super well... ...It's time for Ulysses 31 and Andrew Garfield could pull this off.

Andrew Garfield with long hair and a beard reminiscent of the Ulysses in the Ulysses 31 anime.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 24/07/2026

having opinions in the group chat

me (jorklene) on a tear in discord:

STOP DUMPING WET SHIT ON MY BURGIES
STOP IT

NOW I CAN'T HOLD IT WITHOUT WET HANDS
I DONT WANT WET HANDS
FUCKIN... WET CHEESE HANDS

[image of betty white in golden girls shuddering and pulling a face]

SOG
SOG BUN

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hey check out what @improvgm.bsky.social has to say about #PsiRun2e! Then go check out the kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/117... You have....42 hours remaining. #DnD #pbta #roleplaying #DungeonsAndDragons #superhero #superpowers #comic www.tiktok.com/@improvgm/vi...

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#dnd #rpg #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #psirun

TikTok video by improvgm

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 21/07/2026

Meg is understating that the project REALLY deserves to hit its final stretch goal — rules for playing ON BlueSky or other microblogging/social platforms. I for one am VERY CURIOUS about what experimental work she’d dream up…

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ineluctable modality of the risible

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 18/07/2026

It's a year since I published Savage Sword of Susan. Still all up to read for free scarygoround.com/savagesword/...

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Scary Go Round Comics: SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN

A fantasy aside

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pet food

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amazing news from the biology centre this month, they've injected DNA into an incubating partridge egg and monitored its growth, and what hatched is confirmed to be a fully stable pheasant chick. This is a real game changer

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Summoning a lemon by Jim Benton I’ve never stopped thinking about this. One of the best things I’ve ever seen

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Oliver @dubiousdevil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Me, a wizard: Where hast my scrying orb gone? I cannot seem to find it anywhere in the tower... perhaps this is a cruel trick from my dark warlock rival! My Capricious and Gluttonous Familiar:

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

oh hey its the thing everyone said would happen

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I wonder what would happen if you made Doctor Who Creative Commons. Hundreds of writers doing non continuity possibles and it’s all true because someone reversed the polarity in the tardis core.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The same thing happened to Dr. Who as happened to the rest of the entertainment industry — it went from a mature business to a growth stock.

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Lots of doctor who comments in my feed. I keep describing it as a show I love without liking many episodes. If there were anything I’d be on ao3 over it’s that.

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A mid-week threesome

21.00 FILM: THE ROCK
Nicolas Cage thriller that
is not as good as its sequel but better than the third film in the series.

23.05 FILM: THE PAPER
Nicolas Cage thriller sequel that is better than the original but not as good as the third film in the series.

01.55 FILM: THE SCISSORS
Final in a trilogy of Nicolas Cage thrillers that is inferior to the original but better than the film that directly precedes it.

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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I now realize tofu is overrated. It's just a curd to me.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Wrens are usually solitary birds but when it’s cold they will sometimes huddle together for warmth. Some people call this a ‘herd’ but technically it’s known as a ‘scene’. That’s because chilled wren should be ‘scene’ and not ‘herd’.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I wrote about what it's like to read the poetry of J.H. Prynne

someflowerssoon.substack.com

In Darkness by Day

Reading J.H. Prynne (1936-2026)

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Well. What a lovely thing to wake up to. Thanks @yagashow.bsky.social and everyone who voted <3

Screenshot showing laurels for i will strangle a horse winning best itch.io game. The screenshot also includes a nightmarish hobby horse

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This was one of my favourite things on Twitter, when it was a good place. I’m delighted to see it return

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ten years ago I tweeted a horror story about me 0n the 19:52 from Kings cross to Edinburgh. @scopperil.bsky.social just reminded me about it. So I stuck it on my blog. Enjoy... spleenal.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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The 19:52 to Edinburgh.

0. Wanna read a story? #1952 Ten Years ago I tweeted a horror story. Someone just reminded me of it. So here it is here. 1. Coming back ...

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@n-auchterlounie.bsky.social is your wonderful train / whisky comic online anywhere? I’m trying to press it on a friend.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 13/04/2026

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The time it takes to write a joke, from conception to birth, is the jestation period.

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

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Henri @henriwords.com · 29/03/2026

– I can tell this is an authentic Van Gogh just from the frame – How? – There’s a bit of veneer missing

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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I will take "all of the above" please 📚💙

Three options are given and the third is marked:
Option 1: "buying books because you love reading"
Option 2: "buying books to support artists"
Option 3: "buying books as a little treat to fill the void inside you and then stacking them in comforting piles."

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

You’re Green You’re keen You’re here for a week In Ork Experience, you need to get through a week’s work placement without anyone working out you’re a 9ft tall green skinned brutal fantasy warrior.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Closing this run of Louise Glück poems with a personal favourite

REUNION

When Odysseus has returned at last
unrecognizable to Ithaca and killed
the suitors swarming the throne room,
very delicately he signals to Telemachus
to depart: as he stood twenty years ago,
he stands now before Penelope.
On the palace floor, wide bands of sunlight turning
from gold to red. He tells her
nothing of those years, choosing to speak instead
exclusively of small things, as would be
the habit of a man and woman long together:
once she sees who he is, she will know what he's done.
And as he speaks, ah,
tenderly he touches her forearm.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hey, friends. Three years ago today I released VOID 1680 AM, the response to which legitimately changed my life. I've added 100 community copies free to download. Become the late-night radio DJ of your dreams and build a playlist tied to your history with music here: bannerless.games/voidam

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VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games

A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I picked up The Merry Wives of Windsor as a favourite during a read-em-all challenge, and I don’t see any echoes for that in the other replies. (I know I’m outwith critical consensus here)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/02/2026

thought you probably needed to see this

a barnes and noble display of emerald fennel movie branded copies of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. the sign over them reads:

"It's Wutherin' Time!" -- Heathcliff

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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I never thought I’d have a favourite Pokémon until my nephew taught me the card game. www.serebii.net/pokemon30/56...

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

you can tell the AI revolution is going well because every CEO is begging you to use it in the same tone as the government asking good citizens to buy war bonds in the 40s

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hell of a thread on the UK government's AI training

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