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Verity Holloway

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Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Nov 10

I write stories about art, history, folklore, and bad medicine.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 17h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 18h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 11h

"Sorry the dead children temporarily inconvenienced you. Have some porn."

This man is never seeing the light of Heaven.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 12h

Farewell to Drew Struzan. His dreamy, romantic poster for A New Hope hung on my bedroom wall for years.

A romantic Drew Struzan poster for Star Wars: A New Hope. Dreamy golden headshots of the main cast float above blue star fields and X-wings.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 13h

This is going to be so, so good. I've seen some sneaky peeks.

Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 12d

Are you ready for HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology?

👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21h

You can always tell when an author plays more video games than they read books.

Not a bad thing, but it's easy to spot.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Ha!

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

I did wonder about that.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea how this ended up in East Anglia, but what a curio!

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for informing us. Much love to your family.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Guppy will be missed.

guppy @crimefish.bsky.social · 1d

[death] Guppy passed away last night at around 11PM. They spent the day with family at their side, and the last thing we did before they drifted off to sleep was settle in for a big group hug and tell each other how much we love each other.

They were so, so loved.

-J

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, this is definitely going in my strange religious tat collection.

eu.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Answer Man: Pennies with a cross cut into them? Island problem?

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal:

eu.citizen-times.com

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Found this American coin today. I've seen them stamped with symbols, but never cut out.

On a purple fabric background rests a US cent with a cross cut out in the middle.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Sheer banality of evil stuff here

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

Noticing when people here try to pass off well-known Tumblr posts as their own is a special kind of second-hand embarrassment. Something something the devil's sacrament.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, they were lumped together as the same person 😄

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

The Max Schreck version, of course. Hilariously, Google lists him - the actor - as a fictional character.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

Back from a happy little trip away, and I'm fired up with desire to— make a little Count Orlok doll out of knockoff doll parts and Sculpey.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 3d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 4d

The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 3d

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 3d

The first British Professional Boxing Association was formed in London in 1885 at the Blue Anchor, Shoreditch. Its founding members numbered around 60. I believe Hezekiah Moscow to be the first Black man to be elected, but the digitised Sporting Life in which they're all named is too faded to read!

Two photos of a nine and a half stone Black or Black mixed heritage Chinese man in his late 20s. On the left he is posing shirtless in white tights, fists raised against a painted backdrop of tropical plants in a studio portrait. On the right in the same studio he is wearing a typical late-Victorian working man's outfit, a dark velvet looking jacket, waistcoat, shirt, trousers.

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 5d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 3d

The stilt walking raven/bat people were SO cool. I can't talk too much about it without giving spoilers, but I've been thinking about it ever since I saw it.