Heartbreak Welkin
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Artist, writer, game designer, doctor of horror. www.umabreakdown.com
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For new follower: I'm an artist/researcher/writer/game designer based in north east England. My interests are mostly between ludology, horror studies, and ecriture feminine. Long term foci are trans readings of Cixous, + TTRPG manuals as experimental literature and model for audience agency in art.
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CHOAM for the holidays
11 months ago
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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flyingrodent
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This doesn’t even pass the laugh test, let alone the smell one. If you’re taken in by this, then you’re the type of person whose work colleagues regularly sends you to the shop for a tin of tartan paint and a long stand.
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Your party conf should have ended with Things Can only Get Better.
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The last 69 to Chingford, by Mark Roberts
From "Mad Pride: a celebration of mad culture"
https://open.substack.com/pub/doggang/p/the-last-69-to-chingford-l-by-mark?r=ktkxj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Stonkers
2 days ago
fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought
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I've seen this in at least two biennales
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Grabbing the mic BURT REYNOLDS
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2 days ago
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
2 days ago
The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
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Zoe Tunnell
2 days ago
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Watching the Cronenberg naked lunch for the
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Listening to Bolt Thrower in the bath, drinking Dubr and eating unsalted pistachios
3 days ago
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Blocked someone for having too many post graduate qualifications
3 days ago
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Wierdly specific dream last night so I need to confirm with that know east London: Was there ever a framing shop, with a bunch of really ugly gold and white frame sections in the windows on Cambridge health, couple doors south of the station entrance?
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The thread o’ tweets
9 months ago
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Introduce yourself w 5 concerts you've seen - Fantomas - Bjork - Earth - Swans - einstürzende neubauten
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4 days ago
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Just found out only full size Waitrose in Newcastle has closed. Absolutely cooked.
4 days ago
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youtu.be/iyj_D2ivwS4?...
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4 days ago
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Art Of Coop
4 days ago
TFW you just fucked the turkey
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
5 days ago
Current obsession: photos of Siouxsie Sioux and Pam Hogg over the years getting absolutely munted together
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Miami DSA
6 days ago
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Dave Andress
6 days ago
This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*. Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers. & yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Am I just not paying attention, or two months on has the Charlie Kirk wrenching of garments finished? Like a mixture of insincere opportunism and a right wing shooter, has resulted in a cultural vanishing similar to Game of Thrones?
6 days ago
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violet allen
6 days ago
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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axolotl "small press humiliation" lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴☠️
6 days ago
piracy is a completely aspirational problem for any author in america to have and i think anyone trying to stake out an anti-piracy position is a demon full stop
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My thing on piracy is, it's good. If something costs nothing to duplicate, then anyone who wants it should have a copy. This includes scanning OOP publications. As a rule I never pirate other people's work from small presses, but I've created bootlegs of my own work for people who couldn't afford it
6 days ago
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E.M. Faulds / Beth
7 days ago
Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
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Huge fan of the nasty girl simulator
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8 days ago
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Imo, the femmeboy owned private gender clinic is predatory and is likely gonna result in kids dying.
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This film goes so hard.
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8 days ago
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Movie that takes place where you from
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8 days ago
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Darach Ó Séaghdha
9 days ago
A "red beret in Waterford" moment.
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hucksgiving
10 days ago
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New old story. Drugs, blood, mass transit.
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As Plain as it's Meaningless Name
short story. key words: gateshead gothic, drugs, artaud
https://open.substack.com/pub/doggang/p/as-plain-as-its-meaningless-name?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ktkxj
9 days ago
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metal flesh express
10 days ago
i wrote about Malice, the mediocre 2004 platformer Gwen Stefani was meant to be in, and its beach of souls mechanic, memento mori of ps2
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Malice’s resurrection mechanic. grey world of spirits.
the game of Malice (2004, ps2) is a game of collecting the keys and gears. you do this to kill god. once you kill god, you end the game. DOG GOD along the way you deliver girl power type dialogue i…
https://glitchout.blog/2025/11/22/malices-resurrection-mechanic-grey-world-of-spirits/
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This has got to be the funniest hill to die on. The NHS, gruan, and starmers labour you say?
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10 days ago
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I've been indulging in a little "millennial sundowning" (listening to we were wrong so we drowned, apols to Queen Mary, and Frances the Mute) and honestly this lineup has made me feel so much less shame for that.
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10 days ago
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Close enough, welcome back conor oberst
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Robert Yang
10 days ago
if you like how AI uses probability, then of course gambling is the purest super intelligence, the electrons are made of money
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Gav Maclean
11 days ago
Judith Butler in 2021
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the Mountain Goats
11 days ago
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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Reading an art review by Ian Sinclair from the 90s and whoooo nelly they used to let some very fruity language into Modern Painters
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Micah
11 days ago
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
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"the conceptualists id met at the Royal College were all people that sat on balconies with typewriters and then didn't use them"
12 days ago
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Snowmanning Krullstmas ⛄🎄
12 days ago
So... *bats eyelashes* ...is there a Mrs Dobalina Mrs Bob Dobalina?
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Uncle Duke
13 days ago
squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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Matthew Hodson
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Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
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Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3epyl4pddwo?app-referrer=deep-link
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