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Alastor Stuart
@alasdairstuart.bsky.social
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Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite. https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 30m
Immense congratulations to every finalist and winner and OH MY GOD TEAM @podcastle.org ! Amazing work!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h
Oh, hello
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 2h
SCREAMING!!!!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2h
The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast goes to @podcastle.org
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2025 Winner Outstanding Fiction Podcast: Podcastle (featuring PodCastle.org's logo of a castle and dragon)
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 4h
OOOOF that one for SURE
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 5h
This is the coolest thing I have ever heard
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 4h
9 - NINE people away from being 200 people! It COULD BE YOU! (No prize and no cash alternative to the no prize)
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 7h
Here's the landing page, if you spot any idiotic mistakes (or have an idea that might help make it better!) please let me know!

www.patreon.com/posts/141041...
Welcome Welcome! | PJ Holden
Get more from PJ Holden on Patreon
www.patreon.com
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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 5h
oh HEY, I've never seen this e-book discounted before! My first published book! A novelization of the multimillion-downloaded doomed-romance-scifi-noir-heist audiodrama (a true classic of the DooRoSciNoist genre) by brilliant audioscribe, @macrogers.bsky.social.
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Of Gods and Gamemasters (Jack, he/him) @jackgogsbane.bsky.social · 5d
Support your friendly neighborhood artificer!
#ttrpg
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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 5d
If you'd like to do me a birthday solid this week, join my Patreon or Ko-fi!

Helping me do what I love is an amazing gift. 💙🤘💙

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 5h
Amazing. Where are they now?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 7h
Here's the landing page, if you spot any idiotic mistakes (or have an idea that might help make it better!) please let me know!

www.patreon.com/posts/141041...
Welcome Welcome! | PJ Holden
Get more from PJ Holden on Patreon
www.patreon.com
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 7h
Thanks buddy! Much better now:)
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 7h
Oh and a universal one

'Just a quick word'
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 7h
Mandatory mid roll advert
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 7h
You know that laugh that sometimes arrives because the other option is kind of a howl because you've had that exact conversation?

I just did that:)
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 7h
This essay might be the best thing I write this year. It's certainly top five.
mailchi.mp/0896fd78ab1b...
The Full Lid - 1st August 2025
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 9h
American based Transformers chums! Do you happen to know if this chap is out yet? And if so, do you have a favoured retailer?

www.target.com/p/transforme...
Transformers EarthSpark Deluxe Class Autobot Cosmos
Read reviews and buy Transformers EarthSpark Deluxe Class Autobot Cosmos at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.
www.target.com
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 12h
How lovely to find out that Saturn gets 'ring rain'.
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 3d
400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings

Saturn's rings have been a mystery for a long time.

We now know they're under 200 million years old, and an idea from 2022 just might explain their origin, and a whole lot more.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#saturn #space #astro
400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn's rings
Since the time of Galileo, Saturn's rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 13h
Comics related courses for aspiring creators are thin on the ground in the UK, but they run in Europe. Here’s one spotted by Simon Belmont, taught Italian in Cagliari, Sardinia: www.accademiadartedicagliari.com/corsi-trienn...
Accademia d'arte Cagliari
www.accademiadartedicagliari.com
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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 3d
This is EXACTLY why we've been protesting age verification!
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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d
Love the new issue of Wyrd Science for covering Castle Rat!

It’s a great issue and you should grab it. Also because it has good coverage Possum Creek Games x Steve Jackson union.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d
Because games don’t exist in isolation we’ve introduced Sidequests, the new section of the magazine where you’ll find writing on everything from bands like Castle Rat through to fantasy inspired art exhibitions by artists like Jean Jullien…
A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to an interview with the band Castle Rat A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to an interview with the band Castle Rat A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on French artist Jean Jullien’s exhibition Juju’s Castle A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on French artist Jean Jullien’s exhibition Juju’s Castle
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d
Hurray!:)
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Zack Quaintance -> NYCC @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 1d
With just 4 days left in our campaign, we’re less than $2K (and 29 backers) from our next stretch goal, a mini print of this STUNNER by Stipan Morian

Back the book now while you still can: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...
Werewolf priest by Stipan Morian
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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 1d
Still looking for work, it's looking like full-time work may not happen for awhile so I am open to taking on Freelance work if anyone happens to need some 3D Assets. I'm available as soon as possible. Thanks❤️
nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com
Natalie Spitzel
Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work
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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d
This entire project and cast are so damn good. I've had the privilege of working with Bonnie a couple of times and it's always a blast and I always learn so much. Incredible performer. Focused, wickedly emotional intelligent, funny as hell and a great scene partner.
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Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social · 1d
We're so pleased to have @bonthemightybon.bsky.social as our Irish Person and @catblackard.bsky.social as our Magistrate! Shelley did not give us a lot to work with for these character names, but Bonnie and Cat ARE giving us a lot to work with for their acting!

Support us at igg.me/at/refrank
Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Irish Person Cat Blackard as Magistrate
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