Here’s the government’s current anti-extremism expert. I urge you to note that his definition of “extremism” includes Scottish nationalism, gender recognition and talking about history in ways he doesn’t like. Do we think these clowns swarmed into government and media about two weeks ago?

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When I was collecting vampire lore in Croatia and Serbia on my days off from reporting the Wars of Dissolution, I was once told by a village shaman: Ime znači prizivanje. Govor znači osnaživanje. Često govoriti znači izazivati/To name is to summon. To talk is to empower. To talk often is to provoke.

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also those who tell me they're gonna watch it but pirate it who want me to absolve them of some hp sin bc i'm trans, pls do 10 hail marys and deposit £1k into my tip tea cup

💥TDOV bundle thread💥 For $15 you get 15 trans books & an audiobook! This bundle has the good shit. Shit you haven’t seen bundled before. Lotta sci-fi, some fantasy, a bit of horror, plenty of romance. Bundle ends on March 31 so don’t put this off. Here’s why 🧵 itch.io/b/3594/tdov-...

Please sign and share this EU citizens initiative — demanding the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s continued rights violations. The initiative has already reached the first threshold across member states. It now needs signatures ✍️ to reach the 1 million mark.

Comic book artist search post: Looking for a Black British artist, preferably from the West Midlands (not essential but would be a big plus), who has a naturalistic style and comfortable with slice of life drama/comedy. If they're familiar with the 1980s and 90s, that's a big plus, too.

It begins: she was arrested for an instagram post by some ICE-looking cops. This is the UK, NOT the US. Paying attention yet? www.thenational.scot/news/2598005...

So excited to reveal to everyone the absolutely incredible 2026 poster created by @mortiscausa.bsky.social 😍 We can't wait to welcome you all back to the DoubleTree this August to celebrate everything sequential and small press!

Your pop punk ingenues have been touring for 40 years and it shows.

We're Here To Steal Your KitKats & Other Stories #AndOtherStories

Hey, hey!!! I did a variant Cover for Exquisite Corpses #12! The wild horror-action-thriller world created by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @michaelwalsh.bsky.social , and published by @imagecomics.com  and @readtinyonion.bsky.social Pre-order it by 3/30 On-sale 4/22 Lunar Code: 0226IM0432

Issue 1 was a good read, great art. Looking forward to more!

The guardian

Portrait using very old pastel oil crayons.

It's Monday again and today I'm reading "One Dark Window" by Rachel Gillig What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Free online gig by Einsturzende Neubauten on April 1st. Celebrating 46 years of the band, and introducing new bassist. This screenshot is from their Instagram - it says what this says, and indicates gig will be on their website (neubauten.org) along with Instagram/Facebook and YouTube.

Calling Glasgow horror fans 🪓 @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and I will be at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social on July 14th to chat about HOME SICK and THE PACKET. It's still a way off, but tickets are available now for all you early birds -> www.waterstones.com/events/chill...

Some hold to the misguided belief farmland does not sing to the witch. They fetishize ferality to the point they exclude the truth that every place has it songs. Fields sing of what is buried below, sing of libation thirst. Their tangled borders are spirit trap. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

I keep seeing half of this quote… "Information wants to be free - because it is now so easy to copy and distribute casually - and information wants to be expensive - because in an Information Age, nothing is so valuable as the right information at the right time". www.rogerclarke.com/II/IWtbF.html

At the scribbling notes on paper while I find a shape stage of a new story. Over two thousand words typed spontaneously on Saturday and then trying to shape it, make it something that isn't just thrown down. #writing

Listening to The Humble Bee's "Morning Music", a collection of fuzzy, understated ambient music, perfect for this time of night. #bandcamp #ambient #sleep thehumblebee.bandcamp.com/album/mornin...

If you see this, post a concert photo that you took. Threshold House Boy's Choir. May 2009. Stereo.

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

To think they just advertise the dark arts on the streets, and i missed it!

I quite like this tribute to Oor Wullie. Legal spray area in subway tunnel. Glad I took a picture, because when I passed the other way a few hours later it was gone. Some kids spraying football shite: knuckle dragging fuck wit ultras. Or something graceless and ugly. #postcard #glasgow

A young Muslim girl sits with her headscarf and rain coat, come in from the rain. She waits till her mum goes to get drinks to fish her prize from the shopping bag. I've no idea what it is, colourful box. She opens it carefully but enthusiastically. #postcard #glasgow

#GSFWC40 COMING SOON

Yeah. I don't like this light. Like the sky is about to come crashing down. Again.

Project Hail Mary – I feel two contradictory feelings about this film I saw Project Hail Mary the week before Andy Weir told the world on a far right podcast how he doesn't do politics or even symbolism (thereby letting us know quite a lot about his politics and the symbols he thinks are normative…

Everything you value is being defunded, devalued, defauded. Please remember to join the queue for abundant misery. Vote for hope, get misery.

Press Release. The Prime Minister has been taken away for essential repairs. In his absence, a fully functioning replica will run the country.

Ooft, best sign yet that Gaiman has been absolutely unpersoned - this is from Postscript Books which is super normie. Used to charge about 30 or 35 quid for these sets.

Peanuts Daily Comic Strip (Jan20th1955) Original Art Art by Charles Schulz United Feature Syndicate This comic inspired a song in the 1967 musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The song is titled "Little Known Facts" and was a running gag of Lucy educating Linus with little known "facts".

went into "stupidity good as new" by ayrtbh with no real expectations, but finding i'm really enjoying it, the mix of rhythms and textures, remind me of somene, and is it builds i'm engaged by it. #bandcamp #experimental #shanghai #electronic ayrtbh.bandcamp.com/album/stupid...

Read the book, watch the film, read the book again to make interesting notes on adaptation choices, watch the film again for the same, read the book again just to make sure your observations were right… and we’re in the death spiral, might as well watch the film again… Aka how I learned to write…

From the Archives — 2023 03 22-28 — Cherub: helveticablanc.com/20230323-che... Blessing 5: helveticablanc.com/20230328-ble...

This arovane album, polymer, is just so good. #bandcamp #arovane #ambient #electronic 🎧🎶 quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/polymer

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

like omg #imscared

Should the Irish govt fund a hate group & the ‘athletes’ who take part in it? Trans ppl pay tax too, why should they fund their own exclusion from sport? Why is the Olympic Council in breach of the European Court of Human Rights? Who will they ban next?

News | ‘City of closure’: Former CCA staff raise alarm about Glasgow’s culture sector Loss of cultural venue is part of a wider pattern in the city, says group

I read this and it was fabulous, definitely recommend you pick up this collection of gorgeously dark tales

New release from @haikusalut.bsky.social with Meg Morley I see. I'll be giving that a listen. #bandcamp 🎧🎶 #HaikuSalut haikusalut.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

Gentle Observation 416 - HELP! I have been taken prisoner. patreon.com/kochalka