Mags Campbell
@magscampbell.bsky.social
Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
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Mags Campbell
@magscampbell.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Please have a read of the weird, creepy little vampire story that woke me up at 3am once and compelled me write it up in a note on my phone.
Then I forgot about it.
For some of us, it's spooky season all year round.
trashcatlit.com/caged/
Then I forgot about it.
For some of us, it's spooky season all year round.
trashcatlit.com/caged/
Caged
Mags Campbell For a time in the beginning, we held the vampire in the strongest cage ever built, one that could contain a minor angel, if ever the need arose. How that creature fought and raged, ev…
trashcatlit.com
Now, available in audio!
Hit the link to hear me read my own story.
Go on, everybody loves a Scottish accent, aye?! R's rolling all over the place!
Reposts massively appreciated.
Hit the link to hear me read my own story.
Go on, everybody loves a Scottish accent, aye?! R's rolling all over the place!
Reposts massively appreciated.
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Sign and share our petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Read in full:
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Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...
petition.parliament.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sign and share our petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Read in full:
inews.co.uk/news/68-diab...
2/
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Read in full:
inews.co.uk/news/68-diab...
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Part 206 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
The"Veiled Woman" is a marble sculpture made by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1869 CE
The"Veiled Woman" is a marble sculpture made by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1869 CE
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Part 206 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
The"Veiled Woman" is a marble sculpture made by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1869 CE
The"Veiled Woman" is a marble sculpture made by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1869 CE
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Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
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Guess who was ready to feed a starving infant?
The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.
The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Guess who was ready to feed a starving infant?
The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.
The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.
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A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment:
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
Woman’s Church ‘Baby Formula Test’ Goes Viral, Exposing Compassion Gap
A Kentucky woman who was turned down by dozens of churches of various denominations and sizes in the Bible Belt in donating formula to her hungry baby has created a TikTok sensation. Fortunately, a fe...
religionunplugged.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment:
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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Coinbase donated to Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event today.
Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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Last chance to buy one of these.
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
It was a new idea.
I didn't know if i'd sell any.
I've sold 21!
This is beyond amazing.
Thanks! (I can cope with 22 btw)
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
It was a new idea.
I didn't know if i'd sell any.
I've sold 21!
This is beyond amazing.
Thanks! (I can cope with 22 btw)
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Last chance to buy one of these.
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
It was a new idea.
I didn't know if i'd sell any.
I've sold 21!
This is beyond amazing.
Thanks! (I can cope with 22 btw)
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
It was a new idea.
I didn't know if i'd sell any.
I've sold 21!
This is beyond amazing.
Thanks! (I can cope with 22 btw)
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
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Have 24 seconds of a blissed-out duck, you deserve it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have 24 seconds of a blissed-out duck, you deserve it.
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Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
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Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.
It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.
It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.
Billionaire greed is out of control.
Slow clap for the UK Home Secretary, please. All the political instincts of a house brick.
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Slow clap for the UK Home Secretary, please. All the political instincts of a house brick.
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Anthropic will pay Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Microsoft and Nvidia can pay Anthropic
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure capacity in new deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anthropic will pay Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Microsoft and Nvidia can pay Anthropic
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/a...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Never found a rich criminal he won’t support.
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over killing of journalist as they hold talks in Washington - live
The crown prince also tells reporters in the Oval Office that Saudi Arabia will invest $1tn in the United States.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Never found a rich criminal he won’t support.
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Imagine if a Democratic politician said “a lot of people didn’t like him” with respect to that assassinated podcaster. Seriously.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Imagine if a Democratic politician said “a lot of people didn’t like him” with respect to that assassinated podcaster. Seriously.
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Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
I've been trying to see if there's snow on the hills across the water all day but it was too cloudy. The clouds just lifted long enough to see that yes, there's snow. And it's getting colder tomorrow. Very grateful to the person who invented electric throws.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've been trying to see if there's snow on the hills across the water all day but it was too cloudy. The clouds just lifted long enough to see that yes, there's snow. And it's getting colder tomorrow. Very grateful to the person who invented electric throws.
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I am shocked at claims that the guy who has a history of singing pro-Nazi songs, was described by his teachers as a neo-fascist, and has made an entire (lucrative) career out of drumming up hatred of foreigners is ... brace yourself Dierdre ... actually racist.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am shocked at claims that the guy who has a history of singing pro-Nazi songs, was described by his teachers as a neo-fascist, and has made an entire (lucrative) career out of drumming up hatred of foreigners is ... brace yourself Dierdre ... actually racist.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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My abstract, colourful take on one of Scotland's most unique and inspiring sights: Skye's Old Man of Storr 🏴
“STORR“ - 100x80cm / 39x31 inches, acrylic on canvas
Available for purchase here for anyone looking for something truly special this Christmas: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...
“STORR“ - 100x80cm / 39x31 inches, acrylic on canvas
Available for purchase here for anyone looking for something truly special this Christmas: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My abstract, colourful take on one of Scotland's most unique and inspiring sights: Skye's Old Man of Storr 🏴
“STORR“ - 100x80cm / 39x31 inches, acrylic on canvas
Available for purchase here for anyone looking for something truly special this Christmas: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...
“STORR“ - 100x80cm / 39x31 inches, acrylic on canvas
Available for purchase here for anyone looking for something truly special this Christmas: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one