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Nigel Quinlan
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Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
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My short story - you know, for kids - The Hungry Giant is up on Ember Journal if anyone wants something a bit odd and scary and sad but also hopeful to read....

#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
The Hungry Giant | Ember
There was no safe place in the entire world from the rain of stars. The fox fled to the one place he knew, the one place he remembered, where he had felt safe and secure and happy. He ran to the…
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Oct 1962: an amateur taking a family shot in a field by Hatfield’s DeHavilland Airport catches the terrifying sight of a crashing Lightning fighter. Escaping with just 150 feet to go, the pilot’s parachute just opened & he landed in a greenhouse, where he fortunately/unfortunately broke his legs.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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this, all day right now

(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Diana — Arthur Rackham, 1921
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Ray Morimura (Japanese Artist, born 1948)
"House in Tamugimata", 1999.
Japanese Woodblock Print, 45 × 30 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
August 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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As Hollywood stars paraded down the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, Kevin Spacey posed for photos alongside his producer, a woman in a shimmering silver gown, before settling in to watch the trailer for “Holiguards Saga — The Portal of Force.” www.icij.org/investigatio...
The Russian crypto guru’s Hollywood gambit
How the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar crypto scam teamed up with a globe-trotting influencer and a disgraced Oscar winner as he pushed his latest dubious project.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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As with everything: make these programs universally free. If you are deeply concerned that rich people are getting access to universal government programs, then tax their incomes or assets.
A family where both parents earn 99k get 30 “free” childcare hours a week and a family where one parent is on minimum wage and one earns 100k get no “free” childcare hours at all. It’s a dumb system and I imagine most high earners game it in some way.
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Walter King Stone
(American Artist and Illustrator, 1875–1949)
"Night Owl on a Winter Eve Flight", 1925.
Charcoal and Watercolor, 11 × 17 inches.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I saw the beaver on its evening swim
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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My kid loves this so much I had to download it
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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If you liked Snow, you're going to love Locomotion.

16 hypnotic minutes of accelerating visuals with a matching Steeleye Span soundtrack.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
YOU'RE THE BACON NOW, TWO-LEGS
So we're planning to publish this one as one of our new Paperbacks from Hell. Only the book is so scarce that we can't find a copy to scan for our text. If anyone has one to lend us, send us a message. We'll swap you some free Valancourt books for your trouble!
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I'll have more to say about this on the blog tomorrow but the reason I was looking for hieroglyphics that spelled the name Nyarlathotep was so I could finish this piece for the Haunter of the Dark book.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Coillte & Bord Na Móna can deliver Nature Restoartion at scale if they are mandated & empowered to do so

Coillte have delivered habitat restoration at Aghrane Bog SAC. Tree removal & drain blocking under an EU LIFE project has increased the area of active bog by 20% #PublicLand #NatureRestoration
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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At risk of sounding desperate (also, WHY ARE ALL THE JOURNOS STILL ON X) - if you're a TV / history writer or podcaster and fancy doing something on Season II of #AThousandBlows and the true history of 1880s boxing and boxers, get in touch. Disney PR aren't likely to put me forward for things again.
'New Threats. New Era. New Season.'

(New Poster)

Season II of A Thousand Blows streams 9 Jan 2026.

The completely unaffiliated, unconnected, in no way endorsed by Disney, book with the true stories of Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson - THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - is published in Oct 😅👊🏻
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Meanwhile when the Sisters of Our Lady Of Charity kindly handed the former Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St back to the State, they hung on to the car park, so they will financially benefit from whatever memorial is eventually put there to the women they enslaved.
'“This is the first land rematriation by Catholic sisters in the history of the country,” Koteles said. “They're setting a precedent for the largest private landowner in the world—the Catholic Church—and that's a huge invitation to healing...”'

#ShareGoodNewsToo
Historic land return: Catholic sisters transfer Marywood property to Lac du Flambeau Tribe
The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA), based in La Crosse, have transferred their Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center property on Trout Lake back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of
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November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Kuda and Sky I, Zimbabwe — Nick Brandt, 2020
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The 1st pic looks like Dennis Waterman and George Cole, a whole other version of Salem's Lot. Sell 'Em Lots. 'Arfur the bloke in the box bit me in the neck!' 'Calm down, Ter, that's how they say hello!' 'Vampires?' 'Nah, antiques dealers. A vampire'd have the good manners to mesmerise you first.'
The 🇺🇸 American two-part vampire miniseries "SALEM'S LOT" based on the 1975 horror novel by Stephen King, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Reggie Nalder & Geoffrey Lewis premiered #OnThisDay in 1979 on the CBS Network

📺 Warner Bros.
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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‘In the 1980s, waste became a national export across much of the global North. Since then, firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s waste to the global South.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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West of Zanzibar (1928, dir Tod Browning) is a wildly inappropriate, grotesque, lurid Lon Chaney exploitation flick (all compliments). Magician Phroso follows the man who ruined his life down to Africa and executes a slow, ruthless revenge. Chaney is phenomenal, the entire thing deeply suspect fun.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM