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kieranfurie.bsky.social
@kieranfurie.bsky.social
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Creaking, grumpy old gamer. Crafted beer snob. Beard wearer.
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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scalzi.com
The fuck I will, CNN
"Your big, cushy bed could be ruining your sleep. Time to rethink the floor"
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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gnofhorror.com
Chilling & ambitious. Alex Hunter's debut, 'The Harvest, ' unleashes an ancient evil from a forgotten orphanage. A terrifying, moving nightmare that lingers. A compelling new voice in horror.

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The Harvest By Alex Hunter, A Chilling And Ambitious Debut - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Alex Hunter's debut horror novel, "The Harvest," is a sprawling and intensely creepy tale that instantly pulls you into its shadowy world. This book builds an
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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united24media.com
“U Are the Universe” is a Ukrainian sci-fi tragicomedy made over ten hard years, now in theaters, showing how dreams survive even in dark times.

🧵 1/11 ⬇️
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
Looks happy to be back in out of the rain.
A black and white Boston terrier with a slightly damp head sleeps curled up in a load of blankets.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
Had to try it. Herbal and floral. Quite a bitter finish.

Definitely get the dill.

Perfectly drinkable.

#BskyBeer
A can of Dillsner from Donzoko. A pilsner with citra and dill at 5%.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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tokyosexwhale.bsky.social
And now…the gallery.

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November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
Some recentish book deliveries. Kept forgetting to post about them.

Thoroughly looking forward to both.

#booksky
A picture of The Broken Binding edition of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes with matching book mark. The cover has a dark blue background. The title in red sits in the centre. It's encircled by a pale yellow millipede like I sect. The cover is framed by vegetation in greens, yellos, browns and reds. The authors name is at the bottom. A hard back copy of The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson sits on a desk. The cover features a background made up of dark blue and black wavy lines which fill the top three quarters. The bottom much lighter blue lines broken up with black creating an angry sea. Killer whales can be seen amongst the waves. The head of a woman breaks through the sea filling the centre of the cover in yellowish brown made of the same sort of line art broken up by black Her long hair blows in the wind from left to right. There are fishing lines with hooks attached and the skeletons of a fish and a bird tangled in her hair.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Powderhouse Lane where every door is bolted against possible intrusion by the Children-Made-of-Thorns. Goodnight from Faith Loker wondering whether to summon an ambulance before Tom’s belladonna hallucinations get any stronger. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
why can they not just fix it
[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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2000ad.bsky.social
Unlike other services that try to remove access to books you’ve bought from them, 2000 AD allows you to download your purchases – so you’ll never go offline with your favourite comics! https://bit.ly/4h2csdj
Keep what you buy...forever! Download copies of your digital comics from 2000 AD, DRM-free! | 2000 AD
Dive into the thrilling worlds of 2000 AD -- anytime and anywhere -- with digital downloads you get to keep forever! When you buy digital comics from 2000 AD you can download and keep your files, with no ‘DRM‘ software or restrictions. Unlike other serv...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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dominictarason.com
I'm updating my Big Spreadsheet Of Cool Free PC Games again!

I merged in all the incomplete entries, which I'm working on chipping away at and filling in the details of, which has bulked the list up to 324 items. But some of them are for entire series' or platforms, so probably ~400 games here.
Free PC Games - The Best For The Broke
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November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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crateandcrowbar.bsky.social
Pod! @matronboy.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social throw themselves into the depths of Ball x Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from exploding balconies in Battlefield 6.
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Thumbnail for episode 453, titled, "A Formula One Car with Fists", and featuring images from the games Ball X Pit, Bloodlines 2 and Battlefield 6.
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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premeemohamed.com
Reminder! @solarisbooks.bsky.social has a bunch of horror and horror-adjacent ebooks for sale, including four of mine, for several more days! :D

Remember, horror is in your HEART, not a CALENDAR 💀

geni.us/Solarissale
solaris' still spooky 0.99 ebook sale, showing covers of BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT, and THESE LIFELESS THINGS by premee mohamed. below, text reads 'titles available vary by country of origin. website exclusive. ends 24/11 23:59 GMT'
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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elusivebrewing.com
There’s only one week to go until #Collabageddon!

You’ll find all the info on beer releases and participating venues over on our blog: bit.ly/Collabageddon2025
Elusive Brewing - COLLABAGEDDON 2025: The Beers and Venues
The beers and venues for Collabageddon 2025 on FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
There are some exceptionally good books on sale here

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solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 13d
Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!

So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale

Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED Alex de Campi GOTHIKANA Runyx BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS Lindy Ryan THE HACIENDA, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE and THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ Isabel Canas IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL and THE DEATH I GAVE HIM Em X. Liu SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD C. S. E. Cooney THE IMMORTALITY THIEF Taran Hunt WANDERERS Chuck Wendig SINOPHAGIA edited Xueting C. Ni GORSE and RAGWORT Sam K. Horton WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE Lorraine Wilson THE NEEDFORE MK Hardy RED RABBIT Alex Grecian THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and A THEORY OF HAUNTING Katherine Addison THE LIAR OF RED VALLEY Walter Goodwater THE VENGEANCE Emma Newman SIGN HERE Claudia Lux BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT and THESE LIFELESS THINGS Premee Mohamed NORDIC VISION ed. by Margret THE RITUAL CRIME UNIT THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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xkcd.com
Big and Little Spoons

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4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the big spoon. (2) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the little spoon. (3) [two sets of spoons that don’t lay flat against each other, one arranged with the little one on top of the big one, the other with the big spoon on top of the little spoon] PERSON 1: And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right *either* way. You nest *same*-sized spoons. (4) PERSON: ...And apparently *we* sleep on the couch. PERSON 2 off-screen: Why are you *still* going on about the spoon thing? PERSON 1: Because I’m *right!*
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
Ah yes that's the stuff right there

#BskyBeer
Bottle of The Kernel Eggers Special Pale Ale at 5.2% No nonsense Kernel branding on the bottle. Brown glass bottle. Light brown label. Brewery name at the top Beer name in the middle ABV at the bottom.l All in plain black text
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
As you can see from the graph, it began to be "a time to be alive" during the interwar period. And then again in the 90s, presumably due to britpop. But the 2020s are easily the most "what a time to be alive" era of all time.
A Google Ngrams graph showing the prevalence of the phrase "what a time to be alive" in the English corpus from 1900-2020.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
Supposed to be off this week but seems to have spent a lot of time at work.

It's dead to me till Monday now. Time to relax.

#BskyBeer
A glass of Full Moon Harvest sits next to the can it came from in front of a window on a dark night The cans dark in the centre is a blood moon with the the brewery name across the middle. The beers name is below. Around the outside the various phases of the moon. New Zealand IPA at 6.8%
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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pcgamer.com
Big news from Valve today as it announces the Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller. Details here: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/val...
Valve announces three new products: here's what you need to know
Good things come in threes?
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November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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miguelpeck.bsky.social
I think this is now the most beautiful book I own. Yes, it’s Adrian’s text (as good as ever) and Anderida did amazing work here, from typography to binding, etc. but my lord, Ian McQue’s art goes f-ing hard.

@aptshadow.bsky.social @ianmcque.bsky.social #BookMail #BookSky
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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damianbarr.bsky.social
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.

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BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
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November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
kieranfurie.bsky.social
We were out last night specifically for the Beamish. Never had the pleasure before. It's recently returned to the UK

The plan was a Beamish, a Murphy's and a Guinness to compare and contrast. But the plan didn't survive. We didn't even make it to the Murphy's stage of the plan

Next time

#BskyBeer
3 creamy pints of Beamish Irish Stout on the bar. The third pint is just being placed down on the bar. It's incredibly red in this bar.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM