Jack Fraser
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Jack Fraser
@muninnherself.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I write books. They might not be your sort of thing but maybe you know someone who’d like them. They’re about middle-aged people falling in love.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
This always makes me laugh, and also makes me think of you, @badmachinery.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This always makes me laugh, and also makes me think of you, @badmachinery.com
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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CHRISTMAS RAFFLE LAUNCH!
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
CHRISTMAS RAFFLE LAUNCH!
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
This is sad news. (I was supposed to do an event with SK once and I was very excited about meeting her, but she wasn't well enough to do it.)
Author Sophie Kinsella, the pen name used by novellist Madeleine Wickham, has died aged 55 after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022
Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55
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December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is sad news. (I was supposed to do an event with SK once and I was very excited about meeting her, but she wasn't well enough to do it.)
This is a great book, and a bargain at this price, treat yourself.
Fancy a bit of Greek sunshine in your life this December?
Cheaper than flying to Crete, the e-book of my novel Mr Wilder and Me is currently 99p on both Amazon and @bookshop.org.
Here's the Bookshop link (buying from them gives support to indie booksellers.).
Cheaper than flying to Crete, the e-book of my novel Mr Wilder and Me is currently 99p on both Amazon and @bookshop.org.
Here's the Bookshop link (buying from them gives support to indie booksellers.).
Mr Wilder and Me: A sun-soaked historical coming-of-age set behind the scenes of a Hollywood film production
A sun-soaked historical coming-of-age set behind the scenes of a Hollywood film production
uk.bookshop.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a great book, and a bargain at this price, treat yourself.
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There are dozens of people "watching" these sgt pepper print auctions but only a couple of actual bids. Is this just how it's going to be or are there actually going to be some more bids? Or am I just not going to be able to sleep for a week?
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i...
chrisbarkerprints.co.uk
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i...
chrisbarkerprints.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
There are dozens of people "watching" these sgt pepper print auctions but only a couple of actual bids. Is this just how it's going to be or are there actually going to be some more bids? Or am I just not going to be able to sleep for a week?
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i...
chrisbarkerprints.co.uk
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i...
chrisbarkerprints.co.uk
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More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name.
You can join us and help keep the momentum growing…
✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk
🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters
You can join us and help keep the momentum growing…
✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk
🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name.
You can join us and help keep the momentum growing…
✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk
🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters
You can join us and help keep the momentum growing…
✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk
🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters
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#PentreIfan, our local #Neolithic #burialchamber, looking even more otherworldly than usual last week. What a privilege it was to see it like this, with not even a single footprint in the #snow.
#stunday #fsprintmonday #StandingStoneSunday #photography #thephotohour #pembrokeshire #megalith #dolmen
#stunday #fsprintmonday #StandingStoneSunday #photography #thephotohour #pembrokeshire #megalith #dolmen
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#PentreIfan, our local #Neolithic #burialchamber, looking even more otherworldly than usual last week. What a privilege it was to see it like this, with not even a single footprint in the #snow.
#stunday #fsprintmonday #StandingStoneSunday #photography #thephotohour #pembrokeshire #megalith #dolmen
#stunday #fsprintmonday #StandingStoneSunday #photography #thephotohour #pembrokeshire #megalith #dolmen
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Callanish in the snow #StandingStoneSunday
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Callanish in the snow #StandingStoneSunday
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Just putting it out there into the universe bc you never know: if any of you happen to own a copy of this Robyn tour poster from 2019 (specifically THIS one, with the Hollywood Palladium date, not the second poster released later on in the tour), I will make you a very generous offer.
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just putting it out there into the universe bc you never know: if any of you happen to own a copy of this Robyn tour poster from 2019 (specifically THIS one, with the Hollywood Palladium date, not the second poster released later on in the tour), I will make you a very generous offer.
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All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
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Small 🧵
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
You may know that in 2014 I had a rare type of #cancer - Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in my windpipe. The amazing #NHS team in Nottm & Derby saved my life. Later I met other patients through SalivaryGlandCancer.uk and I am proud to say I am now a trustee of that charity...
OH so there are TWO Wicked films? I'd missed this and wondered why everyone was talking about it again.
What's that you say? Finger on the pulse of popular culture? Moi?
What's that you say? Finger on the pulse of popular culture? Moi?
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
OH so there are TWO Wicked films? I'd missed this and wondered why everyone was talking about it again.
What's that you say? Finger on the pulse of popular culture? Moi?
What's that you say? Finger on the pulse of popular culture? Moi?
I enjoyed this sauce-based thread, you might also enjoy it, but I am forced to mention that there's only one 'd' in Fanny Cradock.
I'm going to reproduce a saucy thread I did some years ago in the other place. It is divisive and produces many odd statements and flushes out parochial opinions.
🧵 (1 of many)
🧵 (1 of many)
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I enjoyed this sauce-based thread, you might also enjoy it, but I am forced to mention that there's only one 'd' in Fanny Cradock.
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![[Scene is a JOB INTERVIEW. The bosses taking the interview are FATHER and MOTHER CHRISTMAS. In the chair across the desk from is the interviewee: RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER, sitting legs crossed. Rudolph is effusive and expressive with his hands / hooves.]
RUDOLPH:
...and in addition to my sleigh-pulling experience, l just genuinely love working with other reindeer. I mean I'm a real 'reindeer reindeer' you know? Haha!
FATHER CHRISTMAS [Looking delighted]:
Wonderful! Well, I think we've found our candidate...
So, uh...
Rudolph with your nose so bright...
...won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
[A chilly pause. We focus on Rudolph, who folds his arms, looks away in silent fury, his nose casting light about the room as he does so. He drags his eyes back to Father Christmas, his expression now of pure, cold contempt.]
RUDOLPH:
So this is about my nose.
FATHER CHRISTMAS:
One of my bulbs has gone.
RUDOLPH:
Go to Halfords!
FATHER CHRISTMAS:
It's closed till Tuesday.
RUDOLPH:
No, right, OK... I get it... this is like a narrative thing for you, isn't it?
[Rolling his eyes, gesticulating, getting more angry as he begins to rant]:
Like...powerful white male saves the shunned outsider by making a gimmick of their difference?
[We see Father and Mother Christmas looking awkward, a bit scared, askance at each other]
RUDOLPH:
So in your head, what, like, the other reindeer who've bullied me my whole life will suddenly start respecting Mr Fog Lamp up front?
[Rudolph is waving his hooves now]
I mean, I notice you haven't interviewed my AUNTY for this job. Rita the Red-Arsed Reindeer? She applied!
Her nose is even brighter than mine, but because the disease has spread to her ARSE she's not the right KIND of diversity mascot...
[Finally Rudolph stands up, knocking his chair backwards. Father Christmas looks shocked, Mother Christmas looks terrified.]
RUDOLPH:
This is BULLSHIT!
FATHER CHRISTMAS:
SECURITY...!
[A little Elf enters to tackle Rudolph]
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreie3mb32pphq6abkfu4w62sikexg3dtwyw3qgcrfdcwhoi3o7gbleu@jpeg)
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The Labyrinths of Troy - a piece from me written for @dailygrail.com on Arthur Machen, Folklore, Archaeology, and Magic
www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/the-...
www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/the-...
The Labyrinths of Troy
THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS I remembered that it was on that hill that nurse taught me to play an old game called ‘Troy Town,’ in which one had to dance, and wind in and out on a pattern...
www.dailygrail.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Labyrinths of Troy - a piece from me written for @dailygrail.com on Arthur Machen, Folklore, Archaeology, and Magic
www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/the-...
www.dailygrail.com/2017/07/the-...
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Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)
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Ok hive mind I need some advice. Have we got any eBay experts in the house? Or people who know a lot about mailing framed prints? Make yourself known if you might be able to help me work out how I need to list these framed prints and what to do about collection or delivery. I’m a bit stumped!
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Ok hive mind I need some advice. Have we got any eBay experts in the house? Or people who know a lot about mailing framed prints? Make yourself known if you might be able to help me work out how I need to list these framed prints and what to do about collection or delivery. I’m a bit stumped!
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Writer friends! Who are you using to print off Bookplates?
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Writer friends! Who are you using to print off Bookplates?
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Next time you are at a Xmas market and they are selling the Erzgebirge wooden animals - take a closer look. Cause this is the amazing way they are made.
youtu.be/NWNg2Ns8JJE?...
youtu.be/NWNg2Ns8JJE?...
Manufaktur Werner Reifentiere
YouTube video by So geht sächsisch.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Next time you are at a Xmas market and they are selling the Erzgebirge wooden animals - take a closer look. Cause this is the amazing way they are made.
youtu.be/NWNg2Ns8JJE?...
youtu.be/NWNg2Ns8JJE?...
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Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
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3/12/25 - nocturn
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
3/12/25 - nocturn
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.