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Cats, cake and kpop
Teacher, student, artist
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sillysyntax.bsky.social
I have said the drama class kids, and art weirdos along with the band kids and writing club are on the front lines here.
jamesbluecat.bsky.social James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 6h
Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Just Taeminning the feed up a bit
Taemin in t-pose, wearing a tight long sleeved black top, a blue light shining from above and the background with abstract pink shapes forming a halo around him
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Released 33 years ago

Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name

Live at Pinkpop 1993

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Did anyone enjoy the stories I wrote for the AScareADay challenge in October? If so I rewrote the 4-part necromancy one a bit, and it's now a Ko-Fi exclusive short story.

#QueerAdultSFF #Fantasy #BookSky 🌈📚💙

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Bone Puppets - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop
Dark Fantasy Short Story. Two amateur necromancers decide to raise the most powerful necromancer of their world's history to defend their lands from...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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24hrs left for this sale!!
Get the eBook at £1.99 until Sunday night, 23/Nov (UK time).
Then it goes back to £4.99.
Audiobook is £6.99, on Ko-Fi only.
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cmrosens.com C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 11d
SALE ON NOW!

Get #Gothic Dark #Fantasy YELEN & YELENA for £1.99 only on my Ko-Fi < ko-fi.com/s/ba50309fc2 > (DRM-free ePub and PDF files).

Queer, aro, bi, and sapphic rep.
Monster fuckery.
Lush, dark worldbuilding.

Listen free on Eldritch Girl Podcast S04.
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Yelen & Yelena - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop
Dark Gothic Fantasy novel - aromantic, queer, Beauty and the Beast retelling with a sapphic Orpheus and Eurydice subplot. ONCE UPON A TIME... In a ru...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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mjpcuervo.bsky.social
I just know that some of my best pals and I would have had an amazing time had we lived together in a Medieval monastery: singing Dies Irae, translating philosophers, preparing illuminated manuscripts, growing a herb garden, reading about demons.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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happy mens day to dudes
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Eric at 6.30am today when I switched on the light
A large orange cat sitting on my chest on bed, looking at me in disgust
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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surlaw.bsky.social
The five genres are Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Cat, Human
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.

🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.

It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.

My letter to my MP.

#asylum #Mahmood

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Dear [my MP’s name], As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.  That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest. I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights. Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming. A manufactured crisis As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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rosezhanzhan.bsky.social
forever obsessed with this version of 'heaven'
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
get to know ur mutuals! list 10 random things you like 💕

♡ cats
♡ reading horror/sci-fi/queer
♡ Japanese (the language)
♡ Taemin
♡ not having to get up early
♡ massive cups of tea
♡ Korean zombies
♡ kitchen disco 🪩
♡ sore muscles from lifting
♡ time alone
nerdwol.bsky.social curious Nerd @nerdwol.bsky.social · 9d
get to know ur mutuals! list 10 random things you like 💕

♡ stargazing
♡ cooking
♡ listening to music (eclectic)
♡ a well-crafted paragraph
♡ cooking
♡ academic lectures (good ones)
♡ hiking
♡ cats
♡ tea
♡ city vacations
taeminified.bsky.social Ginny in Arcadia @taeminified.bsky.social · 9d
get to know ur mutuals! list 10 random things you like 💕

♡ pole dance
♡ music/concerts
♡ traveling
♡ summer
♡ mountains
♡ beaches
♡ spaßgetränke
♡ plushies
♡ the color blue
♡ Pokémon
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
This week's Romancing the Gothic's blast from the past is from the distant realm of 2023!

We were joined by Javaria Farroqi for a talk on Jinns, Muhabbat & Mithai: Code-Switching for Horror in Ayesha Muzaffar's work

youtu.be/FNmX4I8Fk_g
Jinns, Muhabbat & Mithai: Code-Switching for Horror in Ayesha Muzaffar's work w. Dr Javaria Farooqi
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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In the middle of an unassuming new-build housing estate in Prestonpans, just outside Edinburgh, you can find this imposing statue. The work of Andy Scott’s, who also designed the Kelpies, it is a memorial to the 81 men and women who, throughout the 17thC, were executed in the town for witchcraft.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious." - Hester Steel, author of The Faceless Thing We Adore

Queer horror with tentacles, bad men, angry girls.

#Horror #BookSky 🌈📚😱

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Lovecraftian horror meets kitchen sink drama in this dry, darkly funny tale of toxic families, killers and cannibals, eldritch body horror and antihero female rage.
Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious. The world said, "You shouldn't go around making people feel ...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Universal basic income

Allow people to be creative and take risks doing things they love, rather than spending every hour working (multiple) jobs just to make ends meet

So what if some people will choose not to work? Nowt wrong with that, just like there's nowt wrong with working cos you love it
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 9d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Watching old mummy movies with Ernie. He particularly likes the more murdery ones
A ginger cat watches a black and white mummy movie on a tablet
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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garius.bsky.social
And you'd be amazed what's in mostly-forgotten tunnels beneath France.

When I was down there with some RE, a few De Beers peeps were with us (don't ask). They asked what to do if they kicked a live shell.

ROYAL ENGINEER: Jump 50ft up. Burst through the surface. Scatter yourself over about 20 yards
a stack of old, rusted shells in a ww1 tunnel beneath the western front.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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gianttourtiere.bsky.social
This is grand advice and perhaps more relevant than ever before when society seems to be so desperately trying to have people stop doing art.
michaelwarburton.bsky.social Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12d
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
He's just as baffled as the rest of us
A large ginger cat lying in a knot with his legs and tail in random order
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM