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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have finally put my Christmas decorations away!

LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely something primeval terror inducing about standing alone, facing away from a vanishing sun while the local rook swarm kicks off at the false sunset

Cloudy grey skies with the sun peeking behind them and some nearby roofs

A tint dot of light from inside my pinhole viewer showing a chunk of eclipse when the clouds moved briefly

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And please feel free to share amongst your own people who might be interested in answering too

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And please feel free to share amongst your own people who might be interested in answering too

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A family member is doing their 4th year Phd dissertation on the perceptions of modern paganism and are seeking serious raw data from the public. Its entirely anonymous and you dont have to *be* pagan to answer. Please consider taking a look. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/modern...

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Attitudes toward modern Paganism

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Slowly creeping back to myself and the online world after a turbulent year. Lots is new after putting my life on hold, but one thing that'll never change is my utter thanks to everyone who looked at my little book. Seeing a few plr loans was a very happy surprise amidst severe doubt & winter gloom.

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Still alive, still looking at the sky. Still seeing beautiful things

Photo of a hazy green aurora cloud over a calm bay. Hints of red and the show to come

Bright green and red aurora clouds wihh large vertical pillars, tegilar clouds for dramtics, amd thr shape of a friends head in the foreground

Lower brightness image of a faint but deep green cloud and a singular bright red vertical pillar like an alien abduction beam

Bright green aurora swirl over the bay of inganess, red aurora at the top of the photo

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Even orkney is under a heat adviaory warning today. So does that mean i am handfeeding the cat a frozen cat yogurt as a good use of my time?

A black cat sitting on a cream blanket is in mid lick at a frozen cat treat held out in front of him.

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This little doughball has made it to ten whole years old! Gonna show him all the new toys he can ignore because i never learn the best toy is a bit of long grass.

Photo of a black cat sleeping in a sunbeam on a pale blue carpet.

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sun came out today, so went paddleboarding. Made it from one side of the beach to the other twice over. Almost got as far as the Juniata wreck before I chickened out too. D went to see how close he dared get to nesting bonxies, we waved at an isles plane. Good day.

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

There's a tiny spider in my living room. It likes the sofa. So do I. Spider is a house spider, and won't survive outside well so I'm trying to leave it be, but it keeps coming close enough to cuddle. Might be the more reciprical option, as the cat is more interested in background reality tv than me.

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(spoo)key @lefttwix.com · 05/03/2025

[doing my daily affirmations in the mirror] i am the horror and i will be persisting

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Charlotte Platt @chazzaroo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This was a fantastically fun interview, come see what The Basker has to offer

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🐾🐾🤍.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

You forgot didn't you? Yeah you did. Don't worry it's easy to forget, the weeks pass so quickly these days of tilting towards the sun! It's #Orkney. It's Monday night. It's 5pm. It's time for EPISODE EIGHT of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' IT IS THIS LIGHT! 💡

The view out the back of the library. The sky is light blue and the sun is still just visible over the buildings on the horizon.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 23/02/2025

"You've been chosen," the spirit said. "What?" "Save the world, make it kinder, cleaner, safer." "Me?" "Yes." "Alone?" "We chose everyone." #CrossRepost

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #103876: Never worry about whether what you write "matters." It matters because you do. And one day, someone else may read it and understand that they matter, too. This is how we build a world, one connection at a time.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 21/02/2025

I’m sure I have some deaf followers: a Creative Writing PhD applicant is researching Deaf representation and Sign Language in Fantasy novels, and looking to speak to D/deaf or sign-user members about their experiences with sign and how they could see it in a fantasy setting. Let me know if…

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Charlotte Platt @chazzaroo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Ehehehehe we have an infographic for Treasured Guest now! Come see what horrors await in The Basker undertakerbooks.com/products/tre... #horrorwriter #indie #queerhorror #cosmichorror #Scottish #Glasgow

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Victorian gold charm with a tiny demon that pops out opened, ca 1880. Worn as a reminder to resist the temptation of alcohol.⁠

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Maybe check it out: The Lies we Tell Ourselves, available from @lunapress.bsky.social and pretty much everywhere else books are sold. www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... (And please please check out Luna's other works too. Its been an absolute honour to be alongside these amazing works!)

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The LiesWe Tell Ourselves | Luna Press Publishing

Release Date 7 February 2023. Dark FantasyBSFA for Best Shorter Fiction, Longlist 2024 In a world still bearing the scars from an ancient magical conflict, those who wield magic – or are changed by it...

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Captain Fiaer Dradorn is on a desperate quest for a long lost treasure, forced to rely on magic in a world where magic is a curse. 'LIES' is 2 today! Like all 2yr olds it wants to be noisy & bite things, so if: Very Queer pirates and rebellion against an authoritarian isolationist state appeals...

Image of a mostly grey book cover. The title: the lies we tell ourselves are in white letters agains a blue circle in the upper third. The author name: LK Kitney are in black letters underneath. This is the 17th novella in the Luna Press Novella series.

Image of a block of text. It reads:
You have always tried to be if not a good man, then a decent one. One who knew the value of an oath. One your father would have recognised as an ally - at least before the paranoia had destroyed him. One that your mother might have been proud of, if you had ever known who she was. Sure, there have been times you have strayed from that ideal: made a few enemies, been chased from one port or another, your name cursed by those you left behind, but you have never been a bas man. Driven, sometimes even ruthless, but always with reason.

As the days pass, it is getting harder for you to argue that you have stayed true to that. You once swore you would stay out of the politics of nations, no matter how desperate things become.

Yet, for what the Isians are offering you, you will break your vow a thousand times if you must, despite knowing what will come of your actions here.

Personal photograph of bands of northern lights (aurora borealis) in faint purple in the ceentre and green at the outside. In the centre is one thick band of night sky.

In the world of 'Lies we tell ourselves' there is a link between the auroraes and the realm of the dead

Personal photograph of a moody Scapa Flow, in Orkney. Heavy, dark blue, clouds in the upper part of the photo smother a faint orange sunset, reflecting on calm waters. Shillouetted rig parts and islands break the line between sea and sky.

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Now that the last one has been deciphered, here's our explainer on all the runic inscriptions from the Galloway Hoard. Huge thanks to Dr David Parsons for lending us his expertise www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

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A runic revelation: Who owned the Galloway hoard? | National Museums Scotland

With any hoard, some of the most common questions are about who buried it, and why. Usually, Viking-age hoards of silver are a mix of anonymous ornaments,

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here’s some Sarah Kiser art to make your Wednesday a little better.

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Charlotte Platt @chazzaroo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Woop woop, the pre-order is live! Come have the worst stay of your life with The Basker! #horror #novella #indie #horrorwriters #Scottish

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today i got to pet two dogs and three cats (one is my own), including a norwegian forest cat! He's so fluffy! Genuine perfect ideal of floof. And not a single braincell has clearly ever bothered him. I adore him

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Lize meddings @sadghostclub.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Maybe the right time is now x

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

the fun thing about hypermobility is wondering which joint that *should not pop* is going to pop next. brought to you tonight by "I didn't know the palms of the hands could do that"

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Tonight is a 'bundled under blankets with a book and a cat' kinda night. Have a purring boy comfy on my knees and The Haunting Season to dip into. Keen to see how other people do a good haunting

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"I've got to be careful doing this, else I might electroshock your nipples. Again. It's an occupational hazard this time of year" And other things I say to my cat before I actually hear myself. (he wanted bellyrubs. He did get shocked.)

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Arina @readingrogue.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

GIVEAWAY I accidentally bought 2 copies of this Luna Press novella (never thought that'd happen to me, but it did lol!), and would love to give it away to another reader/reviewer/author! Reply with a favorite read and I'll pop you into a random generator. Open worldwide.

Cover for The Lies We Tell Ourselves by LK Kitney, number 17 of the Luna Novella series. A round circle stark against a white background, highlighting its title inside.

Back cover for The Lies We Tell Ourselves by LK Kitney, number 17 of the Luna Novella series. It contains the synopsis, which reads:

"In a world still bearing the scars from an ancient magical conflict, those who wield magic - or are changed by it - are condemned as abominations, their lives forfeit.

Raised at sea under the tyrannical rule of his father, there is nothing the young Captain Fiaer Dradorn won't do for the knowledge of a lost treasure that drove his father's obsession. Even start a war.

Betrayed to the mercy - and consequences - of catastrophic, uncontrolled, magic, Fiaer is left with nothing but the belief in his own monstrosity and the overwhelming desire for revenge.

As his plans take form, he realises that true monstrosity is less what someone is, and more who they chose to be. A choice he must make before others make it for him."

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year! Violently strong red aurora where i live, visible to the naked eye even in my light-polluted town. With the sounds of people yelling through their new-year traditional sport and the red, red sky, it was pretty eerie.

A slightly grainy picture of a very red aurora cloud and light curtains against a dark sky, and some telephone wires

A dark, less well defined image of red and green aurora clouds with a dark storm cloud in front of them, and a telephone pole

A grainy photo of red/pink aurora clouds surrounding a green aurorae gap in the centre. A shed roof and some telephone wires are in the foreground

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Sorry to steal from Tumblr but this is so accurate it actually made me cry. The "paralysis of will" described here is the most painful symptom of my ADHD.

Some individuals with AD/HD, especially without hyperactivity, have an activation problem as described by Thomas Brown, Ph.D. in his article AD/HD without Hyperactivity (1993). Rather than a deficit of attention, this means that individuals can’t deploy attention, direct it, or put it in the right place at the right time. He explains that adults who do not have hyperactivity often have severe difficulty activating enough to start a task and sustaining the energy to complete it. This is especially true for low-interest activities. Often it means that they can’t think of what to do so they might not be able to act at all, or, as Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo say in You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!, they might experience a “paralysis of will” (pg. 65). “The clothes from my trip—a month ago—are just still lying in a heap in the suitcase.” “I spend a lot of time in bed watching TV but my mind isn’t watching TV. I’m thinking about what I should be doing, but I don’t have the energy to do it.”

- Sari Solden, Women With Attention-Deficit Disorder

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

At a time when we, as a world, should be pushing hard for UBI everywhere, governments are doing the reverse, taking away even the tiny safety net we have now, all in the name of unchecked profit growth. The day it's realised that capitalism doesn't work, can't work, it's a cancer, will be a good day

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I am fond of happy ghosts. Spirits continuing to do what they enjoyed when living. How can one not like the phantom gardener who tidies up and occasionally pots up plants in grand greenhouse of 12 Royal Terrace in Brighthaven? No clanking chains, only a shifting of terracotta. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 14/12/2024

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

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LK Kitney @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

At my first book fayre, #orkneybookfayre, bringing the dark fantasy chaos with @chazzaroo.bsky.social and a plethora of other fabulous authors. Hoping to make lots of new friends today