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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner

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Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Horrible Histories & Horrible Science! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1h

Oooooooooh

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2h

Did a farm animal write this?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · Oct 27

Here is a v sharable and relatable poem that I wrote about how Thing Were Better In The Old Days

Sceenshot of a poem. It reads

You kids today, with 'net and games I fought in World War 2 You're not content with airfix planes, I fought in World War 2 In my day (nineteen ninety three), We didn't have what's yours Things were simpler, much less woke, I fought in both World Wars. School lunches, Oh! Pink custard too, Four channels on TV Not like the iphones you have now, Was simpler then, you see? "Image Macros" were all the rage, There was no twitch tv I fought in World War 2, respect The man who's forty three

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote a lovely poem about the good old days, to go with the nice pink one off Facebook that's quoted below.

The Good Old Days

Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog
He kicked the wife for five days
On weekends kicked the dog
The choir boys were fiddled with
The priest put round the plate
And then those lads went off to war
And mental health was great.
My gran made broth with only bone
She couldn't afford cheese
And several of her kids died
From preventable disease
Wasn't allowed a bank account
Couldn't get a job
Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3h

Yum yum yum

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

Or, OR, we all get together, convince the Too Rich Men to make us their Court Alchemists, say that we've found the spring of eternal life, we just need money for a big expedition to get it and then disappear forever, possibly living the good life in Japan

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

Memento Mori, or if that doesn't work, Memento Rotting Fish Cart

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

Suppose the powerful have been doing this since Being Very Powerful was a thing, so maybe they need to be constantly reminded of Qin Shi Huang trying this & ending up dead in a litter surrounded by rotting fish to hide the smell, having given loads of money to a con man who just fucked off to Japan

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4h

(Which, to be honest, I find entirely understandable and relatable, except for the part where they do a fascism and a climate-destruction in order to increase their chance of becoming personally immortal by 0.0000000000001%)

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

We need to bring back Memento Mori. Most of our problems keep boiling down to our wealthy elite massively failing to memento that they are mori.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

No 'women were happy'. No, wives put up with the shitty hands society dealt them. Such a magical thing to remember.

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

It's still incredibly misogynistic, at least!

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 8h

My nam is fishe
And normily
I swimm in rivere
Lek or see
butte somtime i
swimm up to farre
i fal from skeye
an smashe yor carre

Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 8h

Meanwhile, in Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Scared the heck out of me': Falling fish smashes Sask. woman's windshield | CBC News

Of all the things that could smash a car’s windshield in Saskatchewan, a fish that fell from the sky is pretty low on the list of likely suspects. But that’s what happened to Marie Ahlstrom when she w...

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 9h

It really is. They all have different means of being incredibly descriptive in the canon too (Magnus: Reading out written witness statements, Silt Verses: Inner voices of characters describing their experiences as prayers, Malevolent: blind protagonist has a voice in his head doing his 'seeing')

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 9h

Hi kev me old mucker! thank you pal! Hope you & the family are all well xx

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 9h

I've very much got into audio horror the past few years. Magnus Archives, Malevolent & Silt Verses are an incredible trifecta of spooky woo cosmic horror that's very careful with not sexualising body horror etc

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 10h

Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

EXACTLY.

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

It's not that. So sorry. I assumed that, too. It's a load of convoluted bollocks.

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 10h

lol if you search for "Making Tax Digital" (to try and recall what it even is, remembering only "everyone thought it meant they'll stop accepting paper submissions from oldies but actually it's something completely incomprehensible") all you find is people going "all I can do is pray they scrap it"

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

No problem!

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, Horrible Science definitely isn't, but the useless gibberish OP posted definitely is.

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is GOLD. In Cursed Under London, alchemists abound, even though they're a bit pathetic since they're still banned from making gold after that one time Mansa Musa accidentally crashed the Egyptian economy. Buy here farragobooks.com/book/cursed-... #BookQW

A quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: ‘Excuse me, officer?’
Lazare elbowed Fang in the rib to alert him. The guards were still trying to keep an eye on the group, but the man was loudly distraught and doing a commendable accidental job of distracting both guards, as well as a considerable number of passers- by. Lazare noticed the man was wearing the particularly shiny cloak of an alchemist. Maybe they weren’t quite so useless after all, even if this one’s usefulness was by no means deliberate.
‘It’s my purse, it’s been stolen,’ wailed the man.
Lazare nudged Amber with his foot to turn her back towards New Cross tube. Nell was already walking quickly, quietly and purposefully, straight at the tube entrance.
‘Can’t you just make some more gold?’ asked one of the guards.
‘I’m not allowed, you know we’re not allowed to make gold, do you mock me, Officer?’
‘I do not mock you, Master Alchemist.’
‘Alchemists accidentally crash one regional economy one time and we never hear the end of it!’

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 11h

UK BASED TEACHERS (& maybe elsewhere in the world, not sure how it works worldwide) if you need a fun way to help with KS2 science/geography lessons that isn't This Awful Slop, there is a whole series of Horrible Science here! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Ep7 has a Taylor Swift Water Cycle song!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 11h

It is, for all its violence, an incredibly gentle, slow game. You're encouraged to spend WEEKS, MONTHS with this one man who, like the game, has an immense gentleness to him - go on fishing trips with him, have him go on dates, mourn, live with a slow, degenerative illness. And then you lose him.

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