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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 11h

The lads!

Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 16h

It‘s all just… pseudo-insightful ChatGPT gubbins. Just promote your thing and show off about how well you’re doing so everyone is jealous of you like a normal person!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 17h

There's no bollocks like the specific sort of bollocks you see on Screenwriting LinkedIn.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow Ozians! Our October offerings are out now - TWO Patreon only episodes of @onceuponavhs.bsky.social about The Wiz (1978) and the OG, the urtext, the great American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz (1939) - there’s no place like home, bitch!
www.patreon.com/onceuponavhs

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

They’re up!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Have been looking forward to this one!

lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 5d

Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Currently editing the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon bonus episode on The Wiz (1978) and, baby, baby, baby - Jack Halberstam name drop in the first 15 minutes? Yes.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

My Avengers Endgame would be some museum doing an exhibition of all the iterations of the ruby slippers/silver shoes from cinematic history

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

Wonder how they're getting on in the parallel world where Liza Minelli played the Grand High Witch.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 3d

Revolting children! Vee are talking about The Vitches this veek with our good Judy @robwillb.bsky.social - available verever you get your podcasts

Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 4d

New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes it’s hard being the number one fan of history’s least moored superhero team, but someone’s gotta do it (it took them 20 YEARS to get to 100 issues).

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 4d

Nico and Karolina from Runaways turning up in this new Doctor Strange title as Glinda and Elphaba 🩷💚

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 5d

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 5d

The Tories talking about English degrees is just them playing the hits for a right wing press that will lap it up. Kemi Badenoch is a flop politician in charge of a failing party. This should be the Tories time to shine, but all I ever hear from them is her doing a voxpop. Student newspaper stuff.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 5d

My new online poetry course starts in two weeks!

✅ Six-week course, two-hour sessions

✅ Imaginative exercises

✅ Creative strategies

✅ Supportive, informal environment

✅ Feedback from a professional published poet

✅ Weds evenings, 6-8pm GMT, starting Oct 22nd

www.stefmo.co.uk/service-page...

Poetry and Play - Online Course | Stefan Mohamed

It's important to take your writing craft seriously - but it's all too easy to forget that it should be fun too. 'Poetry and Play' invites you to stretch your creative muscles, experiment and have fu...

www.stefmo.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t work out what it’s for?

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

The ChatGPT book review emails are getting really fucking cursed you guys

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

A spell that everyone who owes me an email responds before noon (I am going insane).

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 7d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 8d

During lockdown Callum and I watched YouTube videos recapping every season of Charmed, some of which were 2 and a half hours long, and I often think if there’s an afterlife that’s what I’ll be questioned on the most? Like, this is what you did with your time on earth?

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 8d

I've never heard of this show but nothing has compelled me to watch something so quickly?

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 9d

Getting a wet bum after sitting on a bench that appeared to be dry. That’s real Britain.

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