Often think about as a young man I found a pristine copy of Mediations by Marcus Aurelius in the middle of the road, brought it home, read it and took in absolutely none of its messages.
Cethan Leahy
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Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie. Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Benjamin talking to Boxer in Animal Farm
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2h agoGood try. You love that ketamine using pig. 
We are delighted to share the new cover of Alan Nolan’s ‘Conor’s Caveman’ – a brand-new edition illustrated by the winner of this year’s Design a Cover Competition, Hadeel Al Kateb! Thank you to @childrensbooksireland.ie for partnering up with us again. Out this September! @alnolan.bsky.social
Fair dues, the final needle drop in The Bride! Is very funny.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 18h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
Terry Pratchett discourse? Oh boy, this place will be posting for days!
alright let's do real discourse: five books *by people* that are still books
Access to music, movies and books! I miss discovering stuff in shops like everyone else but there is something wild about being able to watch say aAndrei Tarkovsky movie at a moment's notice.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Eli Roth's new movie is a derivative piece of trash, you say? That can't be right...
If I discovered the backrooms, I think I would mostly just throw my rubbish in there.
The new Emily Wilson piece on the Odyssey is interesting and thoughtful but I do think it would be a good time culturally to move on to some different mythologies for a while.
Watching X-Men '97 and I had forgotten what a diva Apocalypse is.
Watching Stewart Lee's Rod Liddle bit and it is an oddly relaxing experience, the ebb and flow.
Steven Seagal hitting impossible levels of Alan Partridge with this choice of thumbnail.
It's amazing how bad this company has been for the image of "Outer Space"
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterdayI read the whole thing twice and still don't know if it's supposed to do that or not I feel like it's not
research has actually become a lot harder now that google doesn't really recognize booleans anymore
A pretty spotty franchise but this does sound like a lot of fun!
‘V/H/S/MIXTAPE’ Set at Shudder; Ninth Chapter of Horror Anthology Features RZA, Ernest Dickerson, Flying Lotus and More (EXCLUSIVE)
'V/H/S/MIXTAPE' is the ninth chapter in the 'V/H/S' horror anthology series, and features segments from Flying Lotus, RZA and more directors.
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I'm never not fascinated by the Featured Death Notices column on RIP(dot)ie. How do they decide? Is there a metric or a gut instinct of "you're not going to want to miss this one"?
Martha's Vineyard and Widow's Bay are competing over tourist numbers so they send each others ghosts and sharks.
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
People complain about the MCU and Star Wars but no property has wring more money out of it than Trainspotting.
Rolling Stone UK@rollingstoneuk.bsky.social · yesterday“The current economic climate has resulted in lower than expected ticket sales” www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/trains...
Someone should write a book about this!
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · yesterdayhonestly Monday takes so much flak when the real enemy is Tuesday
It's pretty funny that in the full interview the other groups of people he is referring to are Sports fans so the angry reposts makes it sound like everyone was mad to hear about the World Cup.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake." Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day! www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
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Here's a weird, horrory short story I wrote for issue 8 of the excellent @bansheepress.bsky.social, which they've just put online: bansheepress.org/read/the-red... (It's quite different from Experts in a Dying Field)
‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne — Banshee Press
My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the t...
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