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Siân Pearce

@sianp.bsky.social
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Public law solicitor, horror researcher. "Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023) linktr.ee/SianP

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 2h
Genuinely disturbing that violent racism has become so normalised that a leading politician can threaten to have refugees murdered in the water 1984-style and almost no-one in the media thinks it’s worthy of comment
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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk · 7h
New guest @sianp.bsky.social joined us to talk about French arthouse classic THE NUDE VAMPIRE by Jean Rollin. Listen now! pod.fo/e/6aab35
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h
This seems like IMMENSE fun.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 8h
The BBC has announced a season of television, radio and online programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, remembering the 144 people who died and the lasting impact on the village and communities across Wales
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BBC announces special programmes to mark 60th anniversary of Aberfan disaster
Nation.Cymru staff The BBC has announced a season of television, radio and online programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, remembering the 144 people who died and the lasting i...
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 9h
New: Government legal team blasted with both barrels (and indemnity costs) — by Colin Yeo
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Government legal team blasted with both barrels (and indemnity costs) - Free Movement
Ouch. Chamberlain J in FRY & Ors v Secretary of State for Defence EWHC 2571 (Admin):
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 11h
An entire country given over to the obsessive hunting down of migrants, what could go wrong
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hanna @happiestfunrock.bsky.social · 14h
A screenshot of a Tumblr post by user mundane-theron-sca-etienne featuring a meme titled "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU". The image displays two rows of historical manuscript crops showing archaic letters: Thorn (þ), Eth (ð), Wynn (Ƿ), Yogh (ȝ), Ash (Æ), Insular G (ᵹ), and Long S (ſ). Underneath every single letter, the punchline identically reads "You are a nerd" in pink text.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 11h
TV rather than books, but my own close reading of In The NIght Garden led to "The ninky nonk does not have a soul."
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 11h
Stupid Welsh druid sheep people 🙄
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11h
King Hedgehog would conquer the world.
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 13h
I was just ranting about this in the pub. Labelling it as folklore not only ignores the class element and where these stories were told and who by, but introduces a cutesy, almost trivialising and provincialising element whereby everything from medieval Wales is described as a kind of folksy wisdom
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 16h
A) cool, B) really not sure about calling Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig "folklore"...
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Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real
Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality
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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk · 17h
Season XVI resumes with Jean Rollin’s surreal 1970 film THE NUDE VAMPIRE, with new guest @sianp.bsky.social joining us to talk cults and mutants! Ooh la la! 🇫🇷 pod.fo/e/6aab35
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20h
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 18h
www.vampirevideos.co.uk Had a lovely time chatting about The Nude Vampire with Vampire Videos
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Vampire Videos
Join Dan Owen and Hugh McStay as they embark on a thrilling journey through a century of blood-soaked vampire cinema to celebrate the centenary of Nosferatu in 1922…
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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For those who’ve been asking if there’s a standalone way to contribute to our Maxa fund, the answer can be found at The Severin Webstore where you’ll find a separate page to help Severin fund a new headstone for ‘The Most Assassinated Woman In World’: severinfilms.com/community/gi...
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"
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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Errrrrrr this is racist bullshit
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is gonna be the first November where the poppyshaggers have full, unrestricted access to Gen AI. It's going to be horrific.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Safe routes are actually pretty complex. There isn't a single "silver bullet". It requires a range of different policies and measures. What a safe route isn't though is what Labour keeps claiming them to be, highly restrictive, exclusionary, soundbites. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK accused of giving people of Gaza false hope over new refugee safe route
Only ‘very small number’ of people already in Lebanon or Jordan will be referred, says organisation running scheme
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I can’t stop laughing
Frances Weetman: my 23 and me stages that my lack of sense of direction is due to a variant on a gene that stems from the Neanderthal genome. Only some groups descend from that hominid subtype. Do you want me to go on?
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Prepare to ship out — Rogue Trooper is coming to the big screen next year and you can get 25% off classic comic collections 👉 bit.ly/45DVqwI
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In every conceivable way it isn't. 🚨Already shown to lead to people sent to Rwanda being trafficked, predominantly into Europe. 🚨People seeking asylum aren't put off by it as they just won't seek asylum and will instead become undocumented. 🚨Costs a metric fuck tonne for no benefits whatsoever.
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Rishi Sunak: Admit it, Rwanda is the only way to stop the boats

Critics said it was fantasy that we could leave the ECHR and secure our border. The real fantasy is thinking there's an alternative
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Weird, in the circumstances, that he didn’t like being publicly identified.
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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Grant Morrison is seemingly on a mission to write comics starring every single one of my favourite fictional characters. I'm very much looking forward to one day reading Grant Morrison's Popeye.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Next on the list of things the far right oppose, after the RNLI, the National Trust and wildlife: cats tea Olivia Coleman The Beatles biscuits pubs curry Jennifer Saunders
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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Next week, Season XVI resumes with THE NUDE VAMPIRE - oooh! You have the weekend to watch it! www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the... 💀 Also, RECRYPTED is back on Wednesdays to cover TALES FROM THE CRYPT Season 3! Watch on Shudder or FREE on Tubi now! tubitv.com/series/30002...
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love Paris
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Creeper were excellent
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I so much want to see this, but can’t see how or when.
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Ben Andac @thesakediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
<visibly panics in British> Um...Okay, fine, go on then.
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Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also quite misleading to say children will be exempt from the refugee tax. Yes a 5 year old won't be expected to pay but their parents will and that will still keep that child at destitution levels, taking vital earnings and benefits income from families.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cymru am byth
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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk · 07/10/2026
🩸Our Bloodletter closes the book on Season 3 of BUFFY and our four bonuses, with a complete ranking of every episode by @angryscotsman81.bsky.social. It also previews the next batch of films we’re covering. vampirevideos.substack.com/p/buffy-the-...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3 with Lindsay Drysdale, Will Salmon, Sophie Cadden, James Duffy, Lauren McAllister, Sarah Williams & Maria Latilla
School is finally out.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
John Barnes debuted for England in 1983. Sitting MP Norman Tebbit talked about his “cricket test” for Afro Caribbean and South Asian people in 1990.
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gotta give it to Niger, criminalising asexuality is fucking hilarious. How the fuck you gonna prosecute that? Fuck once a week at least or die? Are they gonna start arresting losers with no game?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Blue sky
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Alucard Approves
Alt: Alucard Approves
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, dodgy immigration practitioners exist and some people do lie on asylum claims. Based on BBC reporting though, people"d think it was far more widespread than it is, and completely fail to grasp how hard it can be to get asylum based on being LGBTQIA+ alone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Three arrested after raid on gang accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to get asylum
Those targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers are accused of charging migrants up to £4,500 for fabricated evidence.
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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Putting out a call (on behalf of the resident teenager) for good sources for an essay about the benefits of reading, please. articles, research results, or similarly cite-able things a teen could use to claim that reading increases vocab, empathy, general understanding, etc
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're all used to seeing (and mocking) the endless queues waiting to summit Yr Wyddfa but reading George Borrows' Wild Wales and he records that the mountain's tourism was well enough established in the mid-18thC that there was a permanently inhabited cabin dispensing refreshments located at the top
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Games Workshop is also an East Midlands (Nottingham) business So... exactly the sort of non-London commercial success story the King of the North ostensibly champions But it's a creative industry success story. So clearly newfangled, unmanly and unBritish
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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👻 FREE Ghosts and Folklore of Wales talks in Swansea this Halloween! 🎃 I'm very pleased to be returning to Swansea Libraries this spooky season, with three chances to catch the Nos Calan Gaeaf talk at three different venues. See you there... if you dare!
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