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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20h

Me on Sept 30 : Me on Oct 1st

prosaic Tilda Swinton from We Need To Talk About Kevin looking drained of her vital essences

ecstatic vampire Tilda Swinton from 'Only Lovers Left Alice's, her mouth awash in blood

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The magnificence of the mushroom

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I'm studying biotech and every time someone brings up mushrooms our current professeor will look either extremely excited or pained and go, "listen, mushrooms are neither plants nor animals nor something inbetween. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce life-saving substances some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one of my favourite self-owns i see on the internet is in the comments on an article about an actor or band or author or whatever from someone being like "who? never heard of them lol" like, okay? that's a you problem. engage with the world.

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

once again blessing the old gods and the new for having a group of players who meet me where i'm at and then yes-and it, every single time.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As someone in the US and not subject to the UK's "any speech left of Oswald Mosley might be terrorism, so watch it guvna" laws, i feel confident in saying that it would be legally and morally justified if security forces shot every single far-right fascist in the Channel trying to commit murder.

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, this is columbo no. 5 a little bit of me getting outta your hair a little bit of suspect standing there a little bit of facts about my wife a little bit of you killed him with that knife

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i always like to have a little music challenge on the go and at the moment it's picking my 5 favourite albums from every year i've been alive (since i turn 40 next year bloody hell) and idk what they were putting in the water in 1994 but it's a ridiculous year LOOK at these contenders

A screenshot of the notes app listing the following 1994 album releases:
Dookie - Green Day
Dummy - Portishead
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Live Through This - Hole
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Trashed - Lagwagon
Blunted on Reality - Fugees
Hips and Makers - Kristin Hersh
24 Hour Revenge Therapy - Jawbreaker
For Your Own Special Sweetheart - Jawbox
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Smash - The Offspring
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
Welcome to Sky Valley - Kyuss
Punk in Drublic - NOFX
Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Built to Spill
American Thighs - Veruca Salt
Monster - REM
Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate
Under the Pink - Tori Amos
Split - Lush
Rubberneck - Toadies

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Love this... (artist: Janis Goodman)

Image shows a drawing by artist Janis Goodman and it shows a huge computer that is plugged into 4 electrical sockets and is guzzling water via a hose attached to 2 taps. There is a woman sat nearby. This drawing is titled "The Data Centre Who Came To Tea"

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

algorithm keeps feeding me fire lookout videos and it's making me seriously consider a career change as if my core skills weren't editorial, dungeons & dragons, knowing about music, and crying.

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new cat species discovered! bsky.app/profile/jonk...

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

David Walliams, the Jared Leto of children's books

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Sarah Fenway @kingrikk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It says they’ve told the author, but did they tell Walliams as well?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Still annoyed that the 2006 Thing prequel wasn’t called “And Another Thing.”

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i was going to be self-deprecating but actually you know what i've written 20 books, recorded an album, and i live by the seaside and that's rad.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ladybirds that are red spots on black instead of black spots on red should be called badylirds.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh because he's spent his entire career trying to profit off the artistic clout of vulnerable minorities like Irish and urban Black musicians without any of the risk or politics, easy

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the utterly bland maker of some of history's most beige music, and owner of apparently equally tepid politics, being clowned on so universally is the best schadenfreude i've had in years

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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's getting DARKER and COLDER so i think it's time we all agree to suspend work until spring so we can focus on being cosy.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

i have spent so long trying to find this original poster, failed every time. i hope they are living in a cottage in the woods surrounded by critters and plants and thriving

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Update on this that I kept meaning to add: the new usborne version is OUT NOW! www.instagram.com/p/DZexsFWDNT...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

excuse me, waiter? this take appears to be stone cold?

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Ruby Roberts @rubyroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

everyone is posting about metroid and meanwhile this post is the main thing I know about the series

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I feel like Samus Aran, when she’s not on a mission, would have a Tony Hawk type experience with people not recognizing her without her armor. Like she’d get carded buying alcohol or something and the cashier would go “Samus Aran? Ha, it’s spelled just like the bounty hunter too. I wonder what he’s up to now?”

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She would definitely take advantage of this when she goes to lesbian bars and stuff. She’d just tell the cute alien girls her name is Sammy because if they knew she was the great Samus Aran they’d expect her to top

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I originally put a shortened version of this in the tags but I feel it’s worth adding. Imagine being the alien girl at a lesbian bar on a federation space station. You meets this cute tall human girl who calls herself Sammy and you hit it off and share some drinks and eventually Sammy invites her back to her place. Her place is a space ship that you swear looks familiar but you can’t remember where you’ve seen it. Anyway you disregard it and spend the night fucking the brains out of this buff blonde tgirl. Then in the morning when you go to leave you make a wrong turn and catch a glimpse of the power armor belonging to the bounty hunter known across the galaxy. Imagine the realization that this “Sammy” girl you plowed into the mattress last night is singhandedly responsible for saving the universe multiple times

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Strange & Mysterious Ghosts is out TODAY!! please share it far and wide and buy it so i keep being allowed to write horrible little books for children 👻

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy publication day to @shinraalpha.bsky.social for this book, which is apparently for children

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 02/11/2023

[benoit blanc in true detective] now i know you think time is a flat circle, but if i may, you’re thinking of a clock

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Bob @bobappleyard.me · 04/09/2026

i agree with this i think the impulse to enforce "correct" language is connected to a project of cultural/civic nationalism i think that's why, for example, french culture is far more prescriptive about this, describing it as a sin against the language (une faute)

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

comic about the age of decay

yellow man going through a cursed hamlet with a fucked up angry moon thinking to himself: Ignore that you're living through the age of decay and get to work

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Sarah Amero @sarahamero.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Aw man, not the Gal Gadot Bitcoin movie! I was so excited for the Gal Gadot Bitcoin movie!

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Count binface will return in avengers doomsday

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AlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"I actually strongly disagree with Omelas. I think the tortured child deserves safety and dignity and respect and total acceptance. But I love Omelas. I grew up with it."

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Did Harry Potter create a generation of readers, or did it simply create a generation of Harry Potter fans? Did JKKK Rowling save literacy? That's been the narrative for decades... but the facts tell a totally different story. youtu.be/LmfFpg15ECI

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