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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 13h

I finished Angel Down and I need a cigarette.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 16h

That new illustrated hardback of Carmilla is £550. Sad vampire noises.

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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 16h

Frantically googling "is the Battle of the Somme still going on?"

A polo shirt design with poppies and a flag, and the slogan "The Somme 1916-2026"

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21h

My little dog is coming home from kennels today (just a brief stay) and I'm going to bury my face in his stinky fur and blow a big raspberry.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

will you people shut the fuck up

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22h

Mind you, Dowding was anti-fascist. So Kemi would probably have declared him anti-British and too woke to listen to.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22h

Zombie Hugh Dowding taking one look at what Kemi Badenoch thinks Britain's air defence needs are, and having another mental breakdown.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wasn't allowed PG media for an absurdly long time, but I was allowed any amount of non-fiction, so that's why I ended up memorising a colour photograph of Charles I's execution shirt complete with fear-vomit.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/10/2026

The real question here is why someone in 2026 died of Y. pestis, which is highly fatal *without treatment* but responds VERY well to your most basic antibiotics. We can treat the plague these days! So why didn’t they.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is every company now called some variation of “Folderol and Shite”?

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Always humbling to hear of Ghosts of the British Museum being read it a single sitting 🥺🙏 One thing I didn't say in the book bc it's speculative & the lawyers were already on me about the suicides...

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I zoomed through Ghosts of The British Museum in nearly a single sitting - absolutely riveting and very moving. I’m just staggered by the number of people who’ve killed themselves in that building. It’s not even that old. Just SO many suicides.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really tempted by the thought of having a doll's house, and that feels like a bad sign.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.

A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Freddie in The Others of Edenwell, my WW1 horror, is autistic. I didn't set out to write an autistic character, but as he emerged, it became obvious. He was partly based on a handful of historic outsider artists who I think nowadays would be understood as neurodivergent. #SpoonieAuthorChat

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a piece in this about medieval martyrs, pub lore, and Victorian yearning. I am giving the people what they want.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hungover. Wracked with sublime horror by the night's strange rituals. Covered in cheese crumbs, probably.

Screenshot from an AI book promotion scam email. Kathy K asks, "Where will your book be on Christmas morning?"

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power

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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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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Curse the surveillance bot's sudden yet inevitable betrayal

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd never seen any of these before, but they're quite good. I like how they're all narrated so they've got that short story feel. Also the synth soundtrack is banging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9lv...

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WESTCOUNTRY TALES S1E2 - The Poacher

YouTube video by 5PY Heritage

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh good, the former editor of That's Life magazine has opinions on neuroscience.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 25/09/2026

Doji Morita [森田童子] - Sanatorium (サナトリウム) [Japan, psychedelic folk] (1982) redd.it/e18vsi youtu.be/uSZ-DM4y2QI

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Doji Morita [森田童子] - Sanatorium (サナトリウム) [Japan, psychedelic folk] (1982)

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The haunted car. The incongruous brass band. The Kier Starmer lookalike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIr9...

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Tales of Unease (1970) - Episode 7 - "The Old Banger"

YouTube video by SteveFBS

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Where is The Young Pope, you anaemic philistines?

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Back in the mists of time, when I was conducting interviews, my boss asked a candidate where she saw herself in five years time, and she looked him dead in the eye and said, "As George Clooney's sex slave." The coffee is fine.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whenever AI CEOs say anything this is all I can think about

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 25/09/2026

Not entirely the same thing, but we do have evidence from Cladh Hallan in the Outer Hebrides not only of mummified bodies, but also bodies that have been disarticulated and then re-articulated but with bones coming from different individuals. scarf.scot/national/sca...

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Case Study: Cladh Hallan | The Scottish Archaeological Research Framework

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Didn't some teenage script kiddie get jailed for doing precisely this?

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cackling at the mad but somehow accurate animated representation of Georgian London here. 36:46 - ten seconds of unholy screaming and a pneumatic drill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfH...

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We Walked Through 300,000 Years of London's Secret History

YouTube video by Paul And Sanja

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