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Holly Gramazio
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
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Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.

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Aaaaa new local bookshop over on Wood Street. AND it’s the sort that does a mix of new and second-hand, my absolute favourite sort of shop
Little bookshop with piles of boxes and books, second-hand, with a view through a window to some bright white shelves Three books - “Forgive The language” “The Blue Diamond” and “The National Telepathy” - and a bookmark reading BOOKS FROM BOXES
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Lovely time at @smallpublishers.bsky.social yesterday, definitely ended up with more books than I intended (but many fewer than I wanted)
Folded book reading SHEEP’S SNOUT and CABBAGE STALK in front of a blurry crowd Four books laid flat: Rule Book, The Unreliable Nature Writer, A Zoo And Two O’s, and one with no visible title but lots of crowded images of other books
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Oh this is really charmingly done (via @dayofthemutants.bsky.social ) - little popup explanations of a bunch of the proverbs in Bruegel's big painting-of-proverbs
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Section of the painting showing a roof tiled with tarts, and the popup "to have the roof tiled with tarts" meaning "to be very wealthy" Another clip from the painting, showing a man balancing a globe on his thumb, and the explanation "To have the world spinning on one's thumb" meaning "To have every advantage"
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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That’s not even the most settled in she’s been this morning
October 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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the cats have settled into autumn
Gelato, a robust short-haired ginger cat, sits in dappled sunlight on top of a barbecue in front of a crabapple tree Madeleine, effectively a pile of fur with eyes, sits pooled in a flowerbed with ferns around her
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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oh yeah that makes sense, thx
Screenshot result for a Google search reading: These are results for why.do so.many people.have silksong achievements Search instead for why.do so.many people.have silksong achievwmwnts • Al Overview It is likely a misunderstanding, as Hollow Knight: Silksong has not yet been released, so no one has any achievements for it. While Silksong was the most wishlisted game on Steam for a long time and highly anticipated, it did not launch in September 2025 as suggested by the current date; rather, it was delayed indefinitely. There are achievements for the first Hollow Knight game, but these are not related to Silksong. What happened with Hollow Knight: Silksong? • High Anticipation: Hollow Knight: Silksong was one of the most anticipated games, especially after the immense popularity of the first Hollow Knight game. • The Delay: The game was delayed indefinitely by developer Team Cherry, who
September 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This seems needlessly complicated
Screenshot reading “The word "equinox" is derived from Latin and literally translates to "equal night". On the equinox, day and night are roughly 12 hours long - although not exactly. For example, on 22 September in London, the day length will be 12 hours and 11 minutes and in Shetland 12 hours and 14 minutes. So where does this extra length of day come from? At both sunrise and sunset, light from the Sun is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere. Although we can see the Sun, in reality its position is actually below the horizon. This means we get a few extra minutes of daylight because of this light-bending trick of our atmosphere. Additionally the equinox is measured at the centre of the Sun's disc, not at its leading or trailing edge which are used as the measure of a sunrise or sunset. It is not until a few days after the autumn equinox that we get to the point where days and nights are 12 hours long. This is known as the equilux and will occur on 25 September”
September 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Game design on this is complicated and so good! Here’s the “don’t spill water” task - you can just see the bowl strapped to the front - and the bowling task, two of the eight, my photos are terrible but I’ll write it up properly tomorrow
Bowl of water just visible on the front of a tram A tram has just driven into a large ball, propelling it towards some inflatable skittles
September 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Currently in the merch queue if anyone wants anything
Stall labelled WIENER LINIEN FANSHOP with a medium queue
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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We are at the World Tram Driving Championships
Sign for the championships Stage in front of a huge old building Sign on the tram sign saying LET’S GO TRAM-WM Giant inflatable skittles and balls sitting near a tram track
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Had such a nice time on a panel with @tomfaber91.bsky.social @jon.inkle.co @jmechner.bsky.social at the Financial Times festival, did find it very funny to walk in and be immediately faced with this tent
A large white canvas event tent with a sign over it reading MONEY - MONEY - MONEY
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I didn't realise E. Nesbit (of "Five Children and It", "The Railway Children" etc) also wrote a bunch of adult books! I found this recent reissue of "The Lark" (1922) in a second-hand shop the other day and it's pretty charming, maybe a little forgettable
A pink paperback book with an abstract swirl: "The Lark, E Nesbit, with an introduction by Penelope Lively" The back of the book, reading: "'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel . . . shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction *When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no...' 'No present income or future prospects' said Lucilla. It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures - cutting flowers from their front garden and selling them to passers-by, inviting paying guests who disappear without paying - all the while endeavouring to stave off the attentions of male admirers, in a bid to secure their independence.
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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When it's not sending out postcards, @publicdomainrev.bsky.social does what its name suggests - publishes and contextualises stuff that's in the public domain. Fancy ways to peel oranges publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... , what Victorian cats ate publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ca...
An orange peeled so that its skin lies in long jagged lines around and above it, supposedly representing "a serpent" (???)
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The £30 I spend to be a "friend" of the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is, in terms of purely selfish pleasure, the best £30 I spend a year, because every six months - just when I've forgotten it's going to happen again - they send me a pack of weird little postcards publicdomainreview.org/support/
Some postcards on a table - a lovely painting of fruit and ice-cream; a black and white picture of someone poking a huge stick at the moon, subtitled "I want! I want!"; a man in a tutu and a mask holding a glass of something fancy; and a statue of a woman being stared at by a huge crowd who have single large eyes for heads
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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nice pub quiz round in it, surely, like:
THESE words are all onomatopoeia for what sound
table with فحيح (fahih), zi-zi, phnosh, ccc (sss), sss, hss and 嘶嘶 (sī sī)
July 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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very good wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-l...
from the onomatopoeia page, the section "engine back-firing while freewheeling" from the onomatopoeia page, the section "strikes" subdivided into "dull strike", "falling strike", "sharp strike" and "wet strike"
July 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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some nice animal illustrations from 1658 pdimagearchive.org/galleries/so... Lots of earnest attempts at animals that turned out not to exist but I think my favourite is the bear (gorgeous) or the beaver (startled)
beautifully drawn bear of great dignity 1658 etching of a beaver shown from above. Its tail is fringed, its expression is aghast and its balls are very visible, nestled spherical at the top of each back leg
July 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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the article also introduced me to the idea of "inconspicuous ladybirds" which are just... ladybirds that aren't red and spotty, great commonbynature.com/inconspicuou...
look it looks like a ladybird but it's a very nondescript brown all over, no spots, cute little antennae, big black eyes
July 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Enjoyed this little article on harlequin ladybirds www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why... via the Today Things newsletter (todaythings.substack.com), which correctly identifies the best single sentence in it, re whether humans are at risk from a ladybird STD:
Screenshot reading: "'That is ridiculous,' laments Max. 'It is a fungus that grows on the exoskeleton and we don't have one of these, and we don't have sex with ladybirds.'"
July 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Incredible article about a bunch of children - now in their 50s and 60s - who were taught to read using a doomed alternate alphabet invented by a Tory MP www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A Ladybird easy-reading book but it's all spelled very weird, eg the easy of "easy-reeding" is two strange E letters, a backwards Z, then a y.
July 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Books on the Wall in Chester is LOVELY, great books, really solid board game selection to play in the shop, and also: ONE POUND for a chocolate brownie (!!)
Exterior shot of a small bookshop, lovely flowerpots Interior: rows of books, nice bright window Another window, stools, teas, table
July 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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@stfj.net I mean I get why bongo doesn't give its "not a weird wordgame word" points for swears but I will say this particular arrangement of bonus squares and letter availability is really rubbing it in
wordgame screenshot showing that "fuck" would be worth a whole bunch of points except it doesn't count as an ordinary word
June 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Bookshop cat!
Light brown smooth cat on a similar coloured floor, bookshelves behind
June 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Enjoying the Tim Tam international push - US keeping the “there is no substitute” messaging but calling them dark cookies, Canada going for 3 irresistible layers / couches irresistibles, and a glowing light
Us tim tam packaging Canada packaging
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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just looked it up, what a magazine
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM