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The only thing that stopped me becoming a Warhammer Guy was my parents got me the whimsical fantasy set instead of the grimdark sci-fi set. I tried so hard to enjoy it - cackhandedly painted the figures, made paper mache battlefields - but alas, even at a young age I prized aesthetics over function.

Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · yesterday

I have committed the potential error of informing an autistic 12 year old about the existence of Warhammer

I know most people hate it, but I genuinely love the doting kind of scorn you get in bike shops when you confess to them that you don’t know how to replace a drop-spigot spindle with crodder-clot open-valves or something.

Pitch: Hitchcock's Rear Window but it's just a guy wearing pervert glasses.

Daniel Kennedy@fliglman.bsky.social · yesterday

Imagining a guy disapproved of pervert glasses, not for moral reasons, but because of the lost craft and artistry of hiding in a bush with a telephoto lens

We’re long overdue a hairy Spider-Man.

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

Just Work. An all new comic about the gig economy, platform capitalism, delivery riders, and their battle for worker rights. You can read a responsive phone/desktop/tablet friendly online version of it - for FREE - here: tomhumberstone.com/just-work

Just Work | Tom Humberstone

Just Work

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Just filled out a follow-up survey on a recent companionship AI research panel, and it pushed hard for answers that supported using AI to imitate the dead. Someone in a boardroom clearly thinks there's big bucks to be made by trapping folk within their grief. I don't believe in evil, but this is it.

House clearances undertaken is the usual terminology but ok

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

Thank you, but I read enough Gary Larson as a teen to know what most animals look like with big naturals.

Daniel Kennedy@fliglman.bsky.social · 4d ago

you assume you're not a zoophile but what if you just haven't seen an animal that's sexy enough?

Glasgow Subway are really rolling out the platform barriers fast now and because most stations have single platforms with tracks on both sides the main vibes I’m getting from them are, for some reason, the opening to X-Men: Days of Future Past with the Sentinels herding humans into pens.

Send us off in style at @edbookfest.bsky.social in Aug! 404 Ink: Ten Years of Publishing Loudly Sat 22 | 21:00 - 22:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i... @laurafjones.bsky.social & @heathermmcd.bsky.social: Publisher Not Found Sun 23 | 18:30 - 19:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Trying to come up with a creative storage solution for 1500 books and all my brain can think is BOOK FORT.

is it folk horror or did you get scared by a circle of trees

“The poet’s job is to forget how people do it.”

Andrew Fowler@fowlerism.bsky.social · last wk.

I will never forget these lines, written by a fourth grader, from a similar story: My brother went down to the river and put dirt on. www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...

I respect how many direct references to her own translation Emily Wilson crams into that review of Nolan’s Odyssey, she knows you’re going to go see it or have already done so, so she might as well turn the offer of assessing his version of her magnum opus into a long form promo for her book.

Everyone hurriedly deleting their posts about how The Odyssey film is good

Schrodinger's freelancer: a hypothetical creative practitioner inside a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both in urgent need of work and far too busy while it is unobserved, as a result of its fate being linked to a random email event that may or may not occur.

Look if I’m 88 years old and need significant end of life support and I’m still beasting out durational art using the most accessible tools I can still utilise capturing the last year of my life and then I DIE and one of you fuckers slags off my art then I WILL be haunting you forever.

George Outhwaite@georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · last wk.

boo hoo! maybe if you cry about it some more something will happen

I'm currently available for everything book design, from covers to typesetting to ePubs - with narry a single speck of AI included. Check out the rest of my work and give me a shout over at www.ryanvance.co.uk!

If my father, in his quest to dodge the reaper, rendered me a faceless extension of himself by calling me his Blood Boy, then decided to clone himself an organ-dispenser, and blithely hand my title to the cursed homunculus in a missive as throwaway as a tweet, his death would be *so* Shakespearean?

oh don’t mind that, that’s just my Emotional Support Notification

Hi pals! Doing this great event with Pride House Glasgow next week: I will be talking about Orlando and my adaptation after a screening of Sally Potter’s beautiful film from 1992 - it’s gonna be so much fun! Tickets are available here: leapsportsscotland.beaconforms.com/form/d1ede9ba

Got bored. Sketched a wonky Dalek. Don't @ me if it's not accurate, it's like a new model to sell plushies down that there Forbidden Planet or something.

Sexy reading creates performative men. Performative men create hardbacks. Hardbacks create strong men. Strong men create sexy reading.

Rob Palk@robpalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh good, reading is sexy again, we've not had this conversation in a few weeks

This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.

Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline of area burned in 2025

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

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For some reason we didn’t use the footage of me CAVORTING around all the machines, probably because we would be admitting to a breach of health and safety, but trust and believe I was GIDDY.

Gutter Magazine@gutter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Issue 34 is HERE!