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Finbarr O'Reilly
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Irish science fiction writer (possibly the world's slowest). Squid, spaceships, síntí fada -- what's not to like? https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/author/finbarr-oreilly/
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
He should call it And Another Thing
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5d
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'

"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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damnedrobot.bsky.social
He beat the wrap.

I'm so sorry. I'll get my coat.
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
finoreilly.bsky.social
Such a fab story. Easily one of my favourite books and overdue a re-read.
hutchinsondave.bsky.social Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 7d
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
The cover of Europe at Midnight, by me. It’s blue and black and features two male profiles looking left and right either side of a railway line down which a train is approaching
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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hutchinsondave.bsky.social
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
The cover of Europe at Midnight, by me. It’s blue and black and features two male profiles looking left and right either side of a railway line down which a train is approaching
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unfortunate juxtaposition…
A defibrillator machine, positioned just over a box marked “Express checkout.”
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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adamroberts.bsky.social
Inconceivable!
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 9d
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
finoreilly.bsky.social
Russian money links at the heart of Brexit, UKIP and 'Reform'? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a fence
Alt: a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a fence
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November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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nickharkaway.com
‘when history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.

It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered‘

This hit hard.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Colin Sheridan: Ireland is moving so fast, it's forgotten its people
We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer
www.irishexaminer.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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dtdiscworld.bsky.social
In the Here Be Dragons panel at WFC @aknighton.bsky.social declared Errol from Guards! Guards! as his favourite fictional dragon. We do love that weird little guy and his triumph at the end.
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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abraham.bsky.social
The AI-response "Everything can be faked" discourse interests me partly by how much it leaves out of "everything."

AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.

Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
finoreilly.bsky.social
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Have you eaten with us before?
hutchinsondave.bsky.social Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 12d
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and childrens’ parties. Balloon animals a speciality.
disappoptimism.bsky.social Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 13d
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon this one simple trick and the results will surprise you.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that.
Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. clarkesworldmagazine.com Includes our robot mascot's head looking up and over at the cover of a recent issue that has a building on a hill with red tubes bursting through the walls and into the sky. A small robot and some people approach the woods in front of the building. Ok, so maybe that place has problems too, but at least it's pretty to look at. I won't say that won't happen in the real world because you never know who will decide to invest in the BuildingDestroyer(tm) after seeing that picture instead of buying a subscription and supporting real human artists and authors. Those people probably wouldn't support us anyway because we hate their so-called "AI" and mock their little toys when we have the opportunity to. But yes, visit our world. The stories are good. Really. At least we think so. Can't hurt to try, can it? Stay as long as you like. There's nineteen years of stories, many in audio too. Just don't forget to stop to eat and drink and sleep and take care of yourself. And when you're ready, go back to the real world and fight your monsters or just breathe. You can come back any time. I suppose I should stop rambling now. I apologize for the lack of a screaming possum in this ad, but trust that it is there in spirit.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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tgannawade.bsky.social
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
1980s Weetabix advert
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
finoreilly.bsky.social
Nicely done.
Today's New York Times Connections game: Four beige squares, each containing one of these words: only connect olive branch
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Worst. President. EVER.
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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hutchinsondave.bsky.social
Discarded working titles for Peaky Blinders.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18d
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
A map of all the different names for woodlice in the United Kingdom
October 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
finoreilly.bsky.social
I managed to name nine of the 10 Commandments in the pub tonight. Guess which one I forgot? Jesus Christ!
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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simonpegg.bsky.social
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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adamroberts.bsky.social
The New Midas.
profadamroberts.substack.com/p/money
Money
... it’s a Gas/Grab That Cash With Both Hands and Make a Stash
profadamroberts.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
“Phillip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many in tech, I draw in completely misunderstanding the authors.”
October 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
finoreilly.bsky.social
Wow. This is almost a hometown con for me. So it would be rude not to go, right?
October 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM