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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 4h

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 8h

Great and wide-ranging info about WT and pulp fantasy/horror in this thread!

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 12h

The bad brain day has begun. Let's play a game to distract me from my own self-recrimination.

1 like = 1 factoid about WEIRD TALES (1923-1954)

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 12h

The bad brain day has begun. Let's play a game to distract me from my own self-recrimination.

1 like = 1 factoid about WEIRD TALES (1923-1954)

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 21h

Going live! Remember on bluesky that reposts boost the people you like, there’s no algorithm so likes don’t help!

Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 21h

No AI, no betting lines, no rumours, just quality analysis and conversation about your Montreal Canadiens.

Join me on Game Over Montreal to talk about your 3-1-0 #Habs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbE...

Brought to you by @inchoobijoux.bsky.social on @thegameovernetwork.com

Canadiens vs Kraken Postgame | Live Reaction & Analysis | October 14, 2025

YouTube video by Game Over Montreal

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 3d

(Actually, on second thought, I realise it was 1991 when I joined the APA. Time, what is time, etc.)

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 3d

If you know the word _retcon_, how long have you known it? Was it already in circulation in the 1980s? (I'm writing a historical fantasy set in that now-distant period and I want to get the details right.)

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 3d

I joined a comics APA in 1993, and I'm reasonably sure I learned the word there; it was new to me, but IIRC other people in the APA were using it freely.

(That was also, come to think of, where I first ran into acronyms like LOL and DNR.)

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 3d

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 4d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 5d

Oh shit Antifa is suiting up!

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 6d

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 6d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social · 6d

The difference in the game, to me, was that the Canadiens had a shift in which both defencemen broke sticks at the same time; Leafs take advantage, and that's the winning goal. Otherwise, Bolduc looked good, Slaf looked excellent, PK was great, generally a lot of positives.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 7d

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 7d

Habsburgs in space!

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 8d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 8d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 10d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 11d

A Halloween themed Gasoline Alley Sunday strip by Frank King from 1931.

In this nine panel strip, Skeezix tells his younger brother about the creatures that supposedly come out on Halloween. Each panel focuses on a different one, so as he speaks we see black cats, then ghosts, witches, elves, fairies, goblins, and ogres, until Walt carries them into the house. “I’m always suspicious of small boys out on Halloween. You come in where I can keep my eye on you.”

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