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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 2h

Found an 80s pulp horror paperback in a free book exchange (The Wraith by David Robbins). Such a rarity these days that I'm going to be delighted even when the book inevitably sucks.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 11h

Most trilogies should have been a novel. Most novels should have been a novella. Most novellas should have been a short story. Most short stories should have been a limerick.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 14h

It’s clear that the primary purpose of the NYT’s puzzles section is to give millions of people something to be angry about every morning that isn’t their editorial standards.

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Gordon Cole's hearing aid @dayglo-owl.bsky.social · Nov 25

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably just a reminder to take more gentle exercise instead of sitting in a chair for months and then walking for four hours. I miss being able to treat my body like shit.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

Proper fucked my hip walking home from the pub last night. Maybe in my middle 40s I shouldn't walk for two hours with multiple pints on board. Maybe I should just get a taxi next time.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

I'd go with left but right is also very nice.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 5d

There is a playbook for what they're doing:

"Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism"

About the book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Free download: d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 3d

Jared Leto is not a place of honour.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 3d

I am closing in on finally finishing the original 300 issue run of Hellblazer comics. A tiresome and aggravating endeavour that literally no one is making me do. In the current storyline John's coat is the main baddie.

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 4d

Some highly significant analysis of the adventure gamebook scene in the early nineties. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

A rather sinister-looking scarecrow, from the cover of Fighting Fantasy #44 'Legend of the Shadow Warriors'.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

In this case one that makes me feel like I'm vitamin deficient but also that lard is a critical vitamin.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

At the mildly delirious stage of feeling ill where I'm idly wondering whether you could serve a battered sausage roll inside a giant Yorkshire pudding.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

My eyes feel like someone rubbed cocoa pops into them and for once it wasn't me.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 4d

i hope the nobel committee have quietly told trump that he’s a shoo-in for the 2028 peace prize provided the ceasefire holds and he doesn’t invade any american cities and/or other countries and he stops murdering people in international waters

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

Look everyone! The lizardman is capable of basic empathy! A millionaire experiencing the bare minimum you would expect from a functioning human is somehow news!

Picture of William Windsor looking sad on the BBC website. The headline reads: William visibly moved as widow tells of husband's suicide

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

Smitten by some minor lurgy and the cat is delighted by my plan of being hot and stationary.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 5d

So sorry. Caring is hard.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 5d

Watching Smallville and I'm both delighted and amazed to discover that the use of music is somehow even worse than The Bronze in Buffy.

Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 5d

There's a pub round the the corner from me and every time I walk past I look in the window. I don't think I've ever seen a single woman in there. If there's ever an atrocity in Northampton it'll have been planned in that pub.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 5d

Almost immediately finding out one of the Bad Dr Who Cosplay Young Tories whose clothes we were making fun of wants to legalise sisterfucking is like a really quick Milkshake Duck if instead of drinking milkshake, the duck had been filmed masturbating into a neighbour's wheelie bin

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 5d

Tired and colicky like a big, haggard baby. I look forward to waking my husband in the middle of the night with a sound like a disaster in a whoopie cushion factory.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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