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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1h

Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 5h

The editing work was different. That’d more along the lines of

You can’t change anything.

🏰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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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 5h

Make my child ‘normal’.
or
Nothing really matters anymore.

🏰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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

'Wheelbarrow washing' by Pamela Grace, hand coloured etching by contemporary printmaker living and working in Galloway, southwestern Scotland #womensart

Print of a garden scene with washing drying on a line and a green wheelbarrow in the foreground

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 6h

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

Alt: a cartoon of a chef with a long moustache is kissing his fingers and flinging it into the air at such perfection

media.tenor.com

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 7h

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

worldfantasy2025.co.uk

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

This is good and you should watch it.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 10h

One month to go 😱 Keep those eyes peeled: we’ll be announcing more films throughout the week before unveiling the full festival line-up very soon…!

For now, why not remind yourself of what we've already got in store...

abertoir.co.uk/news/boswell...

Boswell, Lowry, The Keep + more at abertoir 2025! - Abertoir

With passes for the 20th edition of the festival going on sale today, we’re unveiling a mammoth slate of programme announcements.

abertoir.co.uk

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 11h

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Chris Lackey @chrislackey.bsky.social · 9h

#inktober2025

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 12h

A disrupted night’s sleep, but lovely dreams of barn owls and fox cubs to make up for it.

a barn owl is flying over a tree stump at night

Alt: GIF of a barn owl flying over to a tree stump at night. It looks to camera.

media.tenor.com

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Enna [email protected] @annealais.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning
Happy Sunday

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bruce wayne desmemoriado @batjully.bsky.social · 1d

Ilustrando o blueet acima

Tim Drake como Robin no Batman #2, de Matt Fraction. Usa traje vermelho com detalhes em preto e amarelo, e capa preta com o lado de dentro amarelo.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Louise Stebbing, contemporary Norfolk based (UK) printmaker working mostly in lino printing & etching #WomensArt

Print featuring a sun rise over a river in dawn light with the silhouette of a church tower to the left bank

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 22h

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 23h

Enjoy xxx

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Clover @cswinton.bsky.social · 1d

Something serene for today’s Inktober offerings.

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 1d

Thread of Mr Globals. It’s a wide, wide world out there.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 1d

A thoughtful and nuanced piece on the privilege of unmasking and the need for a wider societal shift.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

On autistic masking: "people can reflect & develop a deep self-awareness and understanding of your own needs, but without society being a safer place for autistic people, the onus on autistic people to unmask is cruel at best & incredibly dangerous at worst."

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/11/beyo...

Beyond Masking and Towards Supporting Autistic Authenticity — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

Dr. Amy Pearson on why the ability to express one’s authentic autistic self is much more complicated than an individual choice to unmask.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

A quick reminder for everyone in the UK (and mainland Europe, too!) that Wooing the Witch Queen's British edition is currently on sale in ebook for 99p!

Snap it up: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...

#romancelandia

An open e-reader shows the gorgeous UK cover of Wooing the Witch Queen in color on its screen. The e-reader is set on a rustic wooden table beside candles and a pine cone and a cup of hot chocolate with marshallows. A bubble reads: 99p!

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Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social · 1d

Scary but exciting times when the fledglings start hopping onto the edge of the nest. Hope it all goes well.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The World Fantasy Convention will be meeting in Brighton at the end of the month and I hope they’ll be considering Trump’s health report released after his six-monthly annual examination yesterday.

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