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Remco van Straten (he/him)
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
I wrote a poem.
I'm not Humpty Dumpty anymore I am starting to misplace words Yesterday it took me four hours To remember ‘exonerate’. So if I still have to write I must learn to be precise With fewer words. How will this work? Will economy improve me? Or will writing become a game of Russian roulette? Just now I remembered the word ‘Constraint’. 18112024
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
remcovans.bsky.social
I love this kind of thing!
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief
A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev I...
phys.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
Hi why not listen to my doom band Djinn And Miskatonic's 2024 EP, Paleo? I'm only the bassist but I compose most of the music and some of the lyrics (I mention this because I'm proud of it)

djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Paleo EP, by Djinn and Miskatonic
3 track album
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
I'll be one of a rotating roster of musicians here, and perform songs of wintery weirdness from 1:30-2:00!
#CSLewis #ghosts #folklore
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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breadsonja.bsky.social
Catch this trans awareness
breadsonja.bsky.social June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello, new followers. I'm an author with a current focus on queer and trans sword & sorcery fiction. You can learn more about my work and where to find it at breadsonja.wordpress.com 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚔️ 🤼‍♀️
Cover of Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker. Varika, a barbarian woman in leather pro wrestling gear, grabs a kneeling, green skeleton from behind by the lower jaw and raises her fist to punch this foe. Behind her you can see ring ropes, a masked chorus, the seats of a Greek theatre and a black-clad Sorcerer with green magic burning around his hands. Title page for "How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?" Astartha, a trans woman with a labrys and wearing Ancient Greek-style clothing, sits slumped against a wall next to a hallway. She is covered in blood. A woman in the hallway behind her clasps her hand to her mouth, having dropped a clay vessel of wine in shock. June Orchid Parker. White with dark brown hair, she wears glasses, a necklace of black beads and curved white teeth, a pleather corset top, black fingerless gloves and black pants. She has her hands planted on her hips.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Really nice landscape paintings here, which are going for a fraction of what they should go for...
These are originals, not prints.
I've got my eye on one (with my other eye on my own blank canvasses, gathering dust).
louisemclaughlin.bsky.social Louise McLaughlin author artist she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social · 19h
Still loads of original paintings available for only 0.99 no reserve.
Just a few more days left for the auction.
louisemclaughlin.bsky.social Louise McLaughlin author artist she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social · 6d
As you know, I paint little landscapes and some abstract artworks. I'm having a studio clear-out. All Auctions start at just 0.99. might make a nice wee Christmas present for someone.
🎨🧑‍🎨
#art #artwork

ebay.us/m/l0MrAR
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Today's 10K was an absolute grind. Then I tacked on another 2K to get me to the city centre where I'd a parcel to collect. Waiting for the bus then was very cold.
Hot shower when home, and now on the sofa with a hot water bottle 'neath my legs.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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louisemclaughlin.bsky.social
Does my Book look wide in this?

Available everywhere now at 0.99
Apple, Google, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords and many many more...
Link for apple / Kobo /smashwords etc books2read.com/u/4DGqje
Amazon UK: amzn.eu/d/cf615Ec
Amazon US: a.co/d/7pyikd6
Google Play: play.google.com/store/books/...

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Book cover. The colour pallet is purple. At the top of the cover is a skyline of Glasgow, and Tower Bridge in London. In the centre top there are two tankards in light blue. The words underneath the tankards say "What if it was all just a distraction, keeping everyone busy until 'They' returned". Then the book's title is in large white lettering. The title is "Discovery." Around the words are symbols in light purple, including witch hats, bombs, Big Ben, the All-seeing eye, a lock and key, teapots, and a sand timer.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
remcovans.bsky.social
Second outing of the day: a piano + harp concert (Scott Flanigan & Grainne Meyer) in Sailortown's St Joseph church. It was really special, and I was in company of excellent friends!
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The first part of said interview can be read here:
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Fun (though blustery) afternoon in Carrickfergus.
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Why he first wanted the Epstein Files to be public and now no longer? Because, as a megalomaniac he thought he had a very special relationship, but now he found out he was just another sucker.

(I dreamed of Trump abdicating last night - why cannot I dream of Manderley like normal people?)
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Yeh... You might learn something from someone who is not like you.
jayaprakash777.bsky.social Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 3d
Another woke opinion of mine is that queer visibility is also good for us cishet people. Because no one's really that straight and once you're comfortable with that, and with all the different ways people find themselves, there actually is a bit less misery in the collective human condition.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Happy caturday!
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
remcovans.bsky.social
This is one of my favourite mugs (not in daily use)...
It's a satyr - I fancy it's been modelled after Vincent Price, though...
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Below 10 °C - definitely getting too nippy to be running in shorts (the stiff wind didn't help). Still, that's another 6k on the counter!
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
So the guy who hosts the fb page of my birth village has taken to 'enhancing'/colouring the photos with AI.
My critique of this was NOT appreciated.
But man, what are you doing to my people!...
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
remcovans.bsky.social
I'm a FIEND for Wuthering Heights, and I like a fair few of the adaptations. I don't want to be that guy, but this one seems to completely miss the point on several counts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLC...
"Wuthering Heights" | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Good grief!

'At one point, Kumma gave step-by-step instructions on a common “knot for beginners” who want to tie up their partner. At another, the AI explored the idea of introducing spanking into a sexually charged teacher-student dynamic'
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Finally downloaded Strava, as it tracks runs by GPS...
But I'm not sure whether the granular info, including time/km is going to make it too competitive for me, and take the fun out...
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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minillajovovich.bsky.social
Yeah for realsies we need female/queer s&s so bad oh no what did I drop here???

uWu *notices short stories*

luanawrites.carrd.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Easy. Manchurian Global technology.
"Bond. James Bond. James Secretan Bond."
corabuhlert.bsky.social Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d
James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon radaronline.com/p/james-bond... They could reboot as a period piece and refilm all the books again, perhaps accurately this time.
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon
Bond writers are now racking their brain, trying to move forward with the franchise after the last film's wild twist.
radaronline.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Okay, I am intrigued!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAOE...
THE CARPENTER'S SON | OFFICIAL TRAILER | IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 21 | Altitude Films
YouTube video by Altitude Films
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
Today is Saint Martin's Day, and I've got my lantern out.
My dad made it from a biscuit tin when I was very little, and it has withstood some very foul Dutch weather in its days.
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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louisemclaughlin.bsky.social
As you know, I paint little landscapes and some abstract artworks. I'm having a studio clear-out. All Auctions start at just 0.99. might make a nice wee Christmas present for someone.
🎨🧑‍🎨
#art #artwork

ebay.us/m/l0MrAR
A painting of a landscape. It is in yellow, orange and brown. In the background is the Scottish Munro, Schiehallion. There is a river in the centre of the painting, and in the foreground are trees with orange leaves. The view is called Queen's View, it is in Perthshire, Scotland.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM