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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17h

Gets harder still if we add live-action as a proviso, in that I think you probably could get eight episodes of c75 minutes of cosy and slow but good TV out of Wind in the Willows but in live action, no.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20h

why do you look so sinister with your little toy

orange cat lounging on his scratcher with a small stuffed cat in his paws

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21h

Marvin stared at the painting of his great grandfather, who had survived two wars, worked three jobs to support his fourteen children, and eventually died saving a box full of kittens from a fire, and thought to himself, "You know, if I knocked that over, I could sleep on it."

A cat stares at a large framed oval painting of a similar-looking cat in military dress.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He was lucky, he just wasted that luck. An important lesson for Burnham there perhaps.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jonathon Porritt! E F Schumacher— can you hear me, E F Schumacher! Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jamie Cullum @ Blue Note London You can tell this man has been performing a long time. Absolute masterpiece of a live performance. Energy and soul. Banger after banger.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Man, I wish we had gotten one more from him before he died. Children of the Sky just didn't end it well enough.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also object to the idea that AI has reshaped life "drastically for the worse". I am not sure I have had any interactions with AI except at work, where it is a generally useful tool.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the banter timeline, ITV Studios wins the tender to make Doctor Who.

HTM is one of several production outfits bidding for Doctor Who. Line of Duty producer World Productions has submitted separate plans to reimagine the Time Lord after CEO Simon Heath recently mooted his interest in the Doctor Who tender. Sources said that World is effectively spearheading ITV Studios' efforts to land the contract. World Productions declined comment.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Need a podcast hosted by Emily Watson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Carson called IT'S CLOBBERING TIME in which the three of them pick a specific artist or work of art and then eviscerate it for 45 minutes

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 08/10/2026

The ebook and combo deals for the 85th Black Archive - FRONTIOS by Paul Driscoll is now available! obversebooks.co.uk/product/85-f...

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85. Frontios – Obverse Books

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Earth @earthin24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🌏 2026 🗓 6th - 7th October 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Himawari8

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what *is* a competitive salary for a porn librarian

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the series started in 1973, the average age of the trio of retired elderly men in The Last of The Summer Wine was 53 years old.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 07/10/2026

I’m an ultrafinitist but for tiny numbers. This is fake. There is no 2^{-182}

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Nick @11th-earl-of-blah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ironically, "Archer's Ghost" sounds like pretty decent title for an SFF novel...

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'Given the private nature of the working environment, complete discretion and confidentiality are essential.' I was already going 'hmm, set-up for horror novel', and at that point was 'cue in the spooky music'!

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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is less a job advert and more the plot of a Barbara Pym novel.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mr. Zig contemplates the infinite, wondering about his place in the vastness and... oh wait. That's a bug.

An orange cat sitting in the sun looks skyward.

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Turns out that Herman Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game, about a monastic sect of European intellectuals, has inspired various people to try and make their own version of the eponymous game. Which is left deliberately vague in the book because, you know, how it works isn't really the point. Ah well.

Four men, whom an unkind observer might describe as a "bunch of old hippies", playing a Glass Bead Game of, presumably, their own devising.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the UN posting will continue until morale improves

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy #Caturday 🐾 Sleeping Tabby by Harry Wysocki (1970)

Orange vacuform space age relief sculpture of a curled up sleeping cat

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/10/2026

Oh God, I've just realised there's a non-zero chance I'll live to 2066 (I'd be 87/88, so unlikely but far from impossible) and get to see all the infuriating takes about 1000 years since the conquest. If I do, I bet that's what finishes me off.

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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 03/10/2026

Yeah I agree with this. An ongoing frustration Cheap out for philosophy to consider the inscrutable The ineffable is important to think about because it shines a light on the effable. But philosophy really needs to think hard about whether it wants to be logical, or prose poetry

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Given that we haven’t even figured out the answer to that for our fellow humans, despite millennia of trying, it seems a bit of a reach to get one for artificial entities.

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's zero time needed for these guys to know what to do, that's how often they've had to do this..

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Mark Ashton @arkmashton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a ridiculously good deal. My local library is light on Gene Wolfe, and now I have enough Wolfe to last me for the rest of my life for $25. Includes the wonderfully named short story collection The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026

one reason it will still be good to learn and teach math no matter how good AI gets at math is that familiarity with math helps one identify pseudomath

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Dr Cinnamon Remote @cinnamonremote.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once loaned someone a book and several years later he claimed it was his while trying to sell it to me during a declutter.

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Ian Rapley @irapley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was a point in time when everyone was going on about The Killing. Haven't heard of that in a while.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ally McBeal was huge but seems to have been memoryholed unlike, say SATC.

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the 90s, the posthumous Dennis Potter series "Karaoke" and "Cold Lazarus" were a colossal TV event, brought to the screen by a groundbreaking collaboration between the BBC and C4 - now slipped into obscurity (deservedly in my view, they were quite bad)

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Earth @earthin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌎 2026 🗓 30th September - 1st October 🕤 21:30Z 🛰 GOES18

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Double-sided ivory comb with scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket, 1200-1210.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our Father Dagon

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I queried this. It's an alphabetical list of authors, interspersed with unrelated section titles.

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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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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had an idea years ago to do a podcast about the biggest Broadway hits of the 19th Century that have been completely forgotten, but then it turned out that most of them are insanely racist.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Contents
Why Are Good Authors Forgotten?
Margery Allingham
Virginia Andrews
Charlotte Armstrong
Frank Baker
R.M. Ballantyne
Alexander Baron
Peter Barnes
Lesley Blanch
Kyril Bonfiglioli
The Forgotten Disney Connection
Ernest Bornemann
Pierre Boulle
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Caryl Brahms
Pamela Branch
Brigid Brophy
Thomas Burke
Dino Buzzati
Patricia Carlon
Barbara Comyns Carr
The Forgotten (pre-Tarantino) Pulp Fiction
John Dickson Carr
14 mins left in book
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a very good one by the late Christopher Fowler, who, ironically… (I have a soft spot for his late Thatcher/early 90s London urban horrors www.sffworld.com/2023/03/the-...

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The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler – SFFWorld

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Peter Robins @petrobins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

E.S. Turner's "Boys Will Be Boys" is very entertaining on British story magazines, if you haven't come across it. (But it is written for a 1960s audience assumed to share both Turner's affectionate contempt for those magazines and his contemptuous incomprehension of comics.)

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cyclepath.bsky.social @cyclepath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The thing I always forget about the NFL is the amount of commercial breaks. It feels like it is >50% ads. The idea of just sitting around and watching a game without something else to do seems almost impossible.

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cyclepath.bsky.social @cyclepath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They are still present in Seattle at roughly the same rates, though I haven't seen a wrapped one in a while.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Makes me wonder if somebody has statted one out for Car Wars 6th Edition. Same Austin, after all.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EXTRAORDINARY WORLD RECORD AGAIN We are witnessing something crazy with thousands of records smashed allover Asia every day of the month. 47C again in KJWAIT today MINIMUM 34C Kuwait City Port LATEST 34C MINIMUM EVER RECORDED IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Worse tomorrow !

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This poster has been referred to the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France for using the term "Lady Hitler" instead of "Madame Hitler." The gendarmes will be at your door presently. Please do not resist.

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