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BFA-winning author, former PhD candidate & narrative designer, toilet ghost enthusiast. 日本語OK
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finished scream jam 2025 yippeee!! that's 6 jams finished with #bevy now :)
Signal Drift by 0xD21F, s-azzles, Lolly
Isolated and alone, tasked with reporting weather, strange signals start to drift in over your radio.
0xd21f.itch.io
helped make another game jam spooktacular with the lads, have a bash at it
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The "I don't have time to read lots of dusty tomes for research, so I just ask a bot for a summary" thing keeps coming up. I just can't relate to anyone who isn't incandescently excited about digging into an archive and spending days deciphering Victorian handwriting. It's like a party drug to me.
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The "I don't have time to read lots of dusty tomes for research, so I just ask a bot for a summary" thing keeps coming up. I just can't relate to anyone who isn't incandescently excited about digging into an archive and spending days deciphering Victorian handwriting. It's like a party drug to me.
October 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The Britons did try to tell the Romans not to bring their stuff here but Claudius really wanted to dump some coins and shit in Colchester
yeah I can't think of a reason roman artifacts would be in britain
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Britons did try to tell the Romans not to bring their stuff here but Claudius really wanted to dump some coins and shit in Colchester
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Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.
Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
helped make another game jam spooktacular with the lads, have a bash at it
finished scream jam 2025 yippeee!! that's 6 jams finished with #bevy now :)
Signal Drift by 0xD21F, s-azzles, Lolly
Isolated and alone, tasked with reporting weather, strange signals start to drift in over your radio.
0xd21f.itch.io
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
helped make another game jam spooktacular with the lads, have a bash at it
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finished scream jam 2025 yippeee!! that's 6 jams finished with #bevy now :)
Signal Drift by 0xD21F, s-azzles, Lolly
Isolated and alone, tasked with reporting weather, strange signals start to drift in over your radio.
0xd21f.itch.io
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
finished scream jam 2025 yippeee!! that's 6 jams finished with #bevy now :)
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yeah I can't think of a reason roman artifacts would be in britain
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
yeah I can't think of a reason roman artifacts would be in britain
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Does the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have advice for those of us who had our work stolen but aren't registered with the US copyright office?
I assume that's all of us in the UK fucked, then?
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Does the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have advice for those of us who had our work stolen but aren't registered with the US copyright office?
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If you don't already subscribe to @vgim.bsky.social then you should; today's edition is a must-read:
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...
A Kushy Deal, 02/10/2025
Selling out democracy one $55bn video games business at a time
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If you don't already subscribe to @vgim.bsky.social then you should; today's edition is a must-read:
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...
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Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!
Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain.
👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!
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#InternationalRabbitDay fashion 🐰🐇:
Meisen Summer #Kimono with #Rabbits and Scouring Rushes Japan, Showa period, c.1930s (1939?)
plain-weave machine-spun silk in unraveled ikat (hogushi-gasuri)
59 7/8 × 47 in. (152.1 × 119.4 cm)
Photographed at the Met’s Kimono Style exhibition (2023).
#JapaneseArt
Meisen Summer #Kimono with #Rabbits and Scouring Rushes Japan, Showa period, c.1930s (1939?)
plain-weave machine-spun silk in unraveled ikat (hogushi-gasuri)
59 7/8 × 47 in. (152.1 × 119.4 cm)
Photographed at the Met’s Kimono Style exhibition (2023).
#JapaneseArt
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#InternationalRabbitDay fashion 🐰🐇:
Meisen Summer #Kimono with #Rabbits and Scouring Rushes Japan, Showa period, c.1930s (1939?)
plain-weave machine-spun silk in unraveled ikat (hogushi-gasuri)
59 7/8 × 47 in. (152.1 × 119.4 cm)
Photographed at the Met’s Kimono Style exhibition (2023).
#JapaneseArt
Meisen Summer #Kimono with #Rabbits and Scouring Rushes Japan, Showa period, c.1930s (1939?)
plain-weave machine-spun silk in unraveled ikat (hogushi-gasuri)
59 7/8 × 47 in. (152.1 × 119.4 cm)
Photographed at the Met’s Kimono Style exhibition (2023).
#JapaneseArt
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September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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These days how free your speech is really does just get measured in how openly you can be a fascist
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
These days how free your speech is really does just get measured in how openly you can be a fascist
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Hey US Peeps, @barnesandnoble.com are offering a discount on Preorders until the end of the 5th using the PREORDER25 code. Go get a copy now. #sciencefiction #sff #writing #BNPreorder
September 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hey US Peeps, @barnesandnoble.com are offering a discount on Preorders until the end of the 5th using the PREORDER25 code. Go get a copy now. #sciencefiction #sff #writing #BNPreorder
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol... super interesting looking kickstarter here for TTRPG enjoyers
Zairoo: The Pan-African Fantasy Role Playing Game
A Steampunk Fantasy TTRPG set in a world forged by North/South/East/West/Central & New Afrikan Myths, By African & New Afrikan creators
www.kickstarter.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol... super interesting looking kickstarter here for TTRPG enjoyers
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BBC News seem suicidally bent on ignoring political parties with many more MPs, more rational policies and more supporters than Reform. Suicidal because one of the first things Reform would do should they ever get near real power is defund and throttle the BBC, founded to be impartial and unbiased.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
BBC News seem suicidally bent on ignoring political parties with many more MPs, more rational policies and more supporters than Reform. Suicidal because one of the first things Reform would do should they ever get near real power is defund and throttle the BBC, founded to be impartial and unbiased.
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By insisting that Brexit is a roaring success for the past 8 years, the UK Government has painted itself into a corner.
Nigel Farage, a grifting bigot who hugely influenced the Leave vote, can now call Brexit a "disaster" and put himself on the road to Number 10.
What a joke.
Nigel Farage, a grifting bigot who hugely influenced the Leave vote, can now call Brexit a "disaster" and put himself on the road to Number 10.
What a joke.
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
By insisting that Brexit is a roaring success for the past 8 years, the UK Government has painted itself into a corner.
Nigel Farage, a grifting bigot who hugely influenced the Leave vote, can now call Brexit a "disaster" and put himself on the road to Number 10.
What a joke.
Nigel Farage, a grifting bigot who hugely influenced the Leave vote, can now call Brexit a "disaster" and put himself on the road to Number 10.
What a joke.
i know trying to educate racists on facebook is a sisyphean act of insanity but good god i can't help myself
August 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
i know trying to educate racists on facebook is a sisyphean act of insanity but good god i can't help myself
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For those of you who knew David Gullen, the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social has shared a post with thoughts and memories from the community. I was able to share our memories too. His presence, his contribution to the craft and to the genre will not be forgotten. britishfantasysociety.org/in-memoriam-...
In Memoriam – David Gullen – The British Fantasy Society
britishfantasysociety.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For those of you who knew David Gullen, the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social has shared a post with thoughts and memories from the community. I was able to share our memories too. His presence, his contribution to the craft and to the genre will not be forgotten. britishfantasysociety.org/in-memoriam-...
paused today when a Scottish woman stopped a child on a bike in town & asked him where he lived...child told her, so she replied "have you always lived there? you don't sound British" When the kid confirmed a little sheepishly that he had, she laughed and said oh, must be all those American cartoons
August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
paused today when a Scottish woman stopped a child on a bike in town & asked him where he lived...child told her, so she replied "have you always lived there? you don't sound British" When the kid confirmed a little sheepishly that he had, she laughed and said oh, must be all those American cartoons
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A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now:
1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights
1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights
TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now:
1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights
1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights
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Every single mainstream media outlet LIED and LIED and LIED about almost every aspect of the Marks & Spencer non-story.
Organised transphobia is basically a lie machine, it cannot engage in its campaign against trans people’s lives without systematic dishonesty.
Organised transphobia is basically a lie machine, it cannot engage in its campaign against trans people’s lives without systematic dishonesty.
Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Every single mainstream media outlet LIED and LIED and LIED about almost every aspect of the Marks & Spencer non-story.
Organised transphobia is basically a lie machine, it cannot engage in its campaign against trans people’s lives without systematic dishonesty.
Organised transphobia is basically a lie machine, it cannot engage in its campaign against trans people’s lives without systematic dishonesty.
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the entire british political and media establishment has targeted a minority to restrict their access to medical care, drive them out of public life and torture children, and if you as a politician cannot say with your loudest voice that this is wrong and you will fight it, you are a FUCKING COWARD
August 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
the entire british political and media establishment has targeted a minority to restrict their access to medical care, drive them out of public life and torture children, and if you as a politician cannot say with your loudest voice that this is wrong and you will fight it, you are a FUCKING COWARD
thanks to everyone who came along to my workshop this afternoon! I always love an opportunity to talk hauntology and share sultry photos of French philosophers
August 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
thanks to everyone who came along to my workshop this afternoon! I always love an opportunity to talk hauntology and share sultry photos of French philosophers