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Writes things and teaches things. Chronically bendy. Cats are good. she/her.
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Dinah Rose KC
5 days ago
OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?
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Dreadnought Holiday
9 days ago
Was told by a vet that you can 'probably' perform CPR on a snake, and all I could think was...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
12 days ago
So here's something shitty: Apparently when they moved to Disney, all the Netflix Marvel shows got their subtitles redone, & so now, when you have English captions on, there are No English-Translated Subtitles for non-English dialogue. Like… What the actual fuck is the good of that???
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Why no subtitles for foreign language scenes?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Defenders/comments/327rqo/comment/miqacsf/
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Holly Brockwell
20 days ago
5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London. I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!
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Cai Ross
20 days ago
A star is extinguished, and the entire world is suddenly less bright, less interesting and less fun. Miserable news.
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Alex de Campi
21 days ago
begging you to look at the QTs on the matcha turkey post, I am ded
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inkle
29 days ago
We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in
@godotengine.org
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TR-49 on Steam
Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/TR49/
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I think my version of a grief spike/wave is really, *really* needing to talk to Dad. Grief sucks. Missing the most important person in the world sucks. I do at least have a cat on my lap.
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Holly Brockwell
23 days ago
I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
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Moggies looking for homes
After hearing 50,000 times that we should put the available cats on the website, we’ve made a page! Hooray! However, it is still just me doing most of the work in the shelter. So there’…
https://hollysmerrymoggies.com/available-cats/
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
27 days ago
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
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Naomi Alderman
27 days ago
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
https://open.substack.com/pub/naomialderman/p/going-through-hell-keeping-going?r=lw58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Best afternoon for many reasons 😍
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27 days ago
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The horrors persist: we're out of cheese.
28 days ago
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Simon Pegg
about 1 month ago
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no. This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/we-invited-a-homeless-man-dinner-stayed-45-years-24710455/?ito=article.mweb.share.top.native
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Had an idea for, wrote, edited, proofed and submitted a story in about ten days. I'm pleased with it, and I love it, and it's utterly, deliciously horrid. A nice break, too, from editing The Big Thing ❤️🕷️
about 1 month ago
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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io
2 months ago
I made a game a couple of weeks ago! For the very first time! Nearly 5000 people have played it! It's on the international games database! That's mad! PLUS it's about attempting to strangle a horse and dying in many, many ways! What's not to like!? AND it's free!
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i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE
A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job
https://brainmage.itch.io/i-will-strangle-a-horse
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I got to listen to Steve read this story at World FantasyCon and it's one of those ones that keeps floating around your head for a while. Fwaaaaah.
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Fred Coppersmith
about 1 month ago
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. "You find the dead man waiting for you right where you left him, leaning against the old wooden fence at the side of the road." “Where the Prayers Run Like Weeds Along the Road” in
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social
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WeRateDogs
about 1 month ago
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
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Coates is Odd This Day
about 1 month ago
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
about 1 month ago
Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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That sort of grief dream when you don't exactly wake up utterly miserable, but you need a quieter morning and at least two cups of good tea before getting back on the world again. (Trying to get the perfect photo with my parents before time ran out. Sigh.)
about 1 month ago
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
about 1 month ago
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Lev Parikian
about 1 month ago
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated.
gofund.me/9b5b74984
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Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone, Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
https://gofund.me/9b5b74984
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Oliver Darkshire
about 2 months ago
ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
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Nicholas Jackson
about 2 months ago
I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone, My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown, The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things, My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
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Beating the inspiration addiction as per
@drrachelknightley.bsky.social
's Writers' Gym means, to me at least, getting down the first thousand words of a short story this morning and knowing I'll come back to it tomorrow (and tomorrow, until it's ready for the world). It's a good feeling :)
about 2 months ago
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Matthew Holness
about 2 months ago
‘Garth Marenghi’s Skull Flusher’ ep 1 is now LIVE. Horror Master GARTH MARENGHI flushes the creative skull of Fellow Horror Master MIKE FLANAGAN.
m.youtube.com/@TheGarthMar...
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WholesomeMemes
2 months ago
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Laura
2 months ago
et le Premier Officier, Martin du Creff
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Argh.
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Eli
2 months ago
This is just the plastic straw hysteria all over again, and it's ableism at its finest: Blame disabled people instead of the corporations that are actually wrecking our environment, that way to poor widdle CEOs won't have to deal with people telling them to fucking STOP KILLING THE PLANET.
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Starting the week with editing my pastiche of Old English poetry. It's a fun start 😁
#AmWriting
3 months ago
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Drew Scanlon
3 months ago
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at
blinkingguy.com
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❄️mari-lwyd odent❄️
3 months ago
approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up
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Bought 'One Yellow Eye' at EdgeLit after hearing about it at the panel on scaring your audience, and then going up to Leigh and saying hello. She very kindly signed my copy and was just lovely💛 And then I started reading and couldn't put it down. Finished it yesterday, in floods of tears. Loved it.
3 months ago
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Hnnnngh that whole thing about EDS and local anaesthetics sure is an Actual Thing isn't it. (Ow.)
3 months ago
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Sunday bath with The Kitchen Cabinet. Perfect, especially given I'm going to have a go at making kedgeree in a bit 💙
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Jemaine Clement
3 months ago
New list of medieval dog names just dropped.
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Cats of Yore
3 months ago
Out of curiosity I did a google trends search for "are orange cats dumb". As you can see, there was nothing for 17 years and then a distinct change in late 2021 which is when
@jortsthecat.bsky.social
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Had a great day at Edge-Lit, learning lots, hanging out with lovely people (and a dog!) & buying books. And then I looked up the puppet from
@mrholness.bsky.social
's film Possum and well now I am deeply unhappy. Looking forward to watching it in the comfort of my own home and hiding behind my cat.
3 months ago
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Christopher Marcatili
3 months ago
Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series? HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity. 🪐📚💙📚🪐
#books
#booksky
#scifi
#specfic
#sff
#booksale
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_marthawellsmurderbotandmoretor_bookbundle
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Hetan Shah
3 months ago
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
3 months ago
I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪
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Dinah Rose KC
4 months ago
Desk-loaf paperweight
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The Royal Society
4 months ago
Born
#OnThisDay
in 1797 was author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the Gothic novel 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The book is considered by some to be one of the first sci-fi novels, with protagonist Victor Frankenstein using both science and alchemy to create a living creature from dead bodies.
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Patrick Vallely
4 months ago
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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David Slack
4 months ago
Even more obviously, if you use ChatGPT or other LLM/GAI systems, please stop. They are bad for our society. Bad for our environment. And bad for you, with studies already showing they amplify mental illness and diminish cognitive abilities.
publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/
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Hazel Southwell
4 months ago
Urgent: me and him and the cats need somewhere to live within the next two weeks, I've just been (I think very unfairly) fired and need to move somewhere ASAP
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