grotesque and irreligious
@abf1994.bsky.social
Theatre, opera, figure skating
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late to the party, but The People's Joker is SO funny and clever and original. idk the international streaming situation, but in the UK you can rent it straight from the the distributor's website. watch.eventive.org/matchboxcine
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watch.eventive.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
late to the party, but The People's Joker is SO funny and clever and original. idk the international streaming situation, but in the UK you can rent it straight from the the distributor's website. watch.eventive.org/matchboxcine
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All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Best Books of 2025 – KJ Charles
kjcharleswriter.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.
tomlehrersongs.com
tomlehrersongs.com
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I'm glad Tom Lehrer got to spend over a year in a world without Henry Kissinger
July 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm glad Tom Lehrer got to spend over a year in a world without Henry Kissinger
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I've never seen *anything* like this, either.
Joint statement from BBC, Reuters, AFP, AP about their journalists literally starving.
Joint statement from BBC, Reuters, AFP, AP about their journalists literally starving.
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
www.bbc.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I've never seen *anything* like this, either.
Joint statement from BBC, Reuters, AFP, AP about their journalists literally starving.
Joint statement from BBC, Reuters, AFP, AP about their journalists literally starving.
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
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One of the most extraordinary live performers I've ever seen - generous, electric, scalding, tender. Thank you, Andrea Gibson. 49 is far too young: coloradosun.com/2025/07/14/a...
July 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
One of the most extraordinary live performers I've ever seen - generous, electric, scalding, tender. Thank you, Andrea Gibson. 49 is far too young: coloradosun.com/2025/07/14/a...
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It's true. One of the reasons I'm an author is because I read a trad-pubbed fantasy novel from the 80s when I was a teenager which was so mediocre that I went "Shit, if this can get printed..." and never quite gave up on that, even though it took me a while to make a proper go of it.
Second favourite @tkingfisher.com quote this evening: "Things done badly are an enormous inspiration."
July 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's true. One of the reasons I'm an author is because I read a trad-pubbed fantasy novel from the 80s when I was a teenager which was so mediocre that I went "Shit, if this can get printed..." and never quite gave up on that, even though it took me a while to make a proper go of it.
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Second favourite @tkingfisher.com quote this evening: "Things done badly are an enormous inspiration."
July 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Second favourite @tkingfisher.com quote this evening: "Things done badly are an enormous inspiration."
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"it is honestly shocking how rarely the single most important fact has been stated: at some point, senior figures in Unbound’s management structure decided they had the authority to take money raised by authors [ ] and money owed to authors [ ] and spend it".
Yes. Absolute press fail.
Yes. Absolute press fail.
What Unbound’s demise has shown, to a quite alarming degree, is how little tangible, active advocacy is available to authors in this situation, say the authors affected by the collapse of Unbound in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
Opinion: The Unbound authors' view
ebx.sh
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"it is honestly shocking how rarely the single most important fact has been stated: at some point, senior figures in Unbound’s management structure decided they had the authority to take money raised by authors [ ] and money owed to authors [ ] and spend it".
Yes. Absolute press fail.
Yes. Absolute press fail.
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Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-
-tle.
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-
-tle.
We were talking to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and @heykellyjensen.bsky.social about book bans and they had not heard "Smut" by Tom Lehrer.
This must be remedied: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHD...
This must be remedied: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHD...
Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-
-tle.
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut
And unsubt-
-tle.
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I’ve said it before and will say it again: this is the best mystery novel I’ve ever read
SALE TIME!
DEATH IN THE SPIRES ebook is on 99p / 99c in Nook/Kobo/Apple/Amazon. Get it while it's cheap!
🔪Edwardian murder mystery
🔪Intense pining
🔪Golden past gone horribly wrong
🔪Anglo-Saxon poetry
books2read.com/u/bwEBN0
DEATH IN THE SPIRES ebook is on 99p / 99c in Nook/Kobo/Apple/Amazon. Get it while it's cheap!
🔪Edwardian murder mystery
🔪Intense pining
🔪Golden past gone horribly wrong
🔪Anglo-Saxon poetry
books2read.com/u/bwEBN0
June 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’ve said it before and will say it again: this is the best mystery novel I’ve ever read
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Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
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Drumroll please...
I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!
I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!
May 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Drumroll please...
I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!
I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!
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I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...
Low-Risk Flier
On bureaucracy, and confronting my inner fascist
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...
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May 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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feeling optimistic about the future prospects of “the primordial scream” in music. thinking it will be a great era for “the primordial scream”
May 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
feeling optimistic about the future prospects of “the primordial scream” in music. thinking it will be a great era for “the primordial scream”
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And here it is: the gorgeous cover of #AStockingFullofSpies! Illustrated by @janbiel.bsky.social and published by @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social on 11th September this year! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social now … www.waterstones.com/book/the-min...
May 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
And here it is: the gorgeous cover of #AStockingFullofSpies! Illustrated by @janbiel.bsky.social and published by @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social on 11th September this year! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social now … www.waterstones.com/book/the-min...
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Young priest!
there's no need to feel down
there's a
Country!
That's inside of a town
you can
Go there!
Now ol Frank's underground
and you
choose
a
new
guy
(bom bom bom bom bom)
It's fun to vote for a
P O P E
there's no need to feel down
there's a
Country!
That's inside of a town
you can
Go there!
Now ol Frank's underground
and you
choose
a
new
guy
(bom bom bom bom bom)
It's fun to vote for a
P O P E
May 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Young priest!
there's no need to feel down
there's a
Country!
That's inside of a town
you can
Go there!
Now ol Frank's underground
and you
choose
a
new
guy
(bom bom bom bom bom)
It's fun to vote for a
P O P E
there's no need to feel down
there's a
Country!
That's inside of a town
you can
Go there!
Now ol Frank's underground
and you
choose
a
new
guy
(bom bom bom bom bom)
It's fun to vote for a
P O P E
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A reminder that COPPER SCRIPT comes out on 29th May, which is less than three weeks. Get your stroppy graphologist ❤️ uptight policeman 1920s romantic suspense here! (Will be coming in print and audio too, audio a bit later.)
books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
May 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A reminder that COPPER SCRIPT comes out on 29th May, which is less than three weeks. Get your stroppy graphologist ❤️ uptight policeman 1920s romantic suspense here! (Will be coming in print and audio too, audio a bit later.)
books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
All that waiting until the very end only for us to find out Chee Soon Juan is *not* going to be an NCMP after all?? 😭😭😭
May 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
All that waiting until the very end only for us to find out Chee Soon Juan is *not* going to be an NCMP after all?? 😭😭😭
This cafe I'm in in Jakarta is playing only the finest 2000s pop punk hits such as Jump by Simple Plan and Six Candles by FM Static
May 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This cafe I'm in in Jakarta is playing only the finest 2000s pop punk hits such as Jump by Simple Plan and Six Candles by FM Static