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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 4d

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · Jul 15

when there's a mangled body in a ditch

a man and a woman soyfacing with glee surrounded by confetti, from the Patreon of the True Crime Obsessed podcast, I guess. the three membership levels are
non-garbage person
tco after party
no (ads), bitch!

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · 6d

Edited photo of Barack Obama placing a medal around the neck of a second Barack Obama.

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Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 15d

The wait is over! The proof of concept for our new fantasy series, Afar, is OUT NOW! A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kj0...

Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings

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FiveWhoFans @fivewhofans.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW VIDEO OUT NOW🚨
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings

A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary.

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Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings

YouTube video by Afar

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Chris ‘Yonko’ Johnson @officialcdj.bsky.social · 15d

You can watch this amazing short right here, right NOW!: youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No?...

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Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 16d

Introducing the Gremlin! Gremlins are not intelligent enough to cause serious harm, but they will ruin your day in oddly specific ways that are borderline pathological.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube tomorrow! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 16d

Addresses in England are like "Cruikshank's Vinegar Baths, 23-27 Whooping Cough Lane, Quessex"

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 16d

Addresses in the USA are either "20352 Main Street, Bullhorn PA" or "Cheesecorp Head Office, 1 Cheese Plaza"

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17d

What the country needs right now to bring us all together is a disappointing Winter Wonderland.

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Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 17d

Introducing Wilkin! An irritable wizard who's only out for himself, Wilkin just wants a quiet life. The realm has other ideas.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk

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Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 18d

Introducing Archibald Oakheart! Friendly, loyal and psychotically polite, Archibald is an elected knight on a perilous journey.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · 20d

It's imminent! It's finally imminent! Tell your friends! Tell your mum! Get your gran to watch it on her iPad 80 times to game the algorithm!

Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 20d

We’re excited to announce Afar’s proof of concept, a short film titled Gremlins and Grumblings!

The five-minute short, releasing Saturday 27th September, will see a knight and a wizard confront a terrible adversary...

AfarSeries.co.uk

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · 21d

Currently reading. Absolutely all of the chatter I've seen about this is people furious that the series still isn't finished, which seems to be the norm for fantasy tbh. 📚💙

Gollancz 50 edition of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: a yellow paperback with the title in big maroon letters. There is a dinosaur bookmark sticking out of the top.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 24d

One of my favourite Japanese tshirt brands has just released a new Mr Bean range and I’m not sure how I feel about this

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Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · 25d

Here be gremlins. Stayed tuned for further news...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29d

I wrote this in January, about the issues we face when responsibility for covering the irony-poisoned and extremely-online trolls of the far right, falls to journalists who can't rotate a PDF.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The same sturdy media apparatus that so assiduously pores through court documents — or uncovers spending gaps or analyses executive orders — is not well positioned to tackle a movement entirely predicated on bad faith gestures designed to shock and confuse — not least one whose roots are in labyrinthine internet subcultures that modern, professional journalists will have avoided their entire lives. And so, buffering at the sight of the world’s richest man delivering a fascist salute to the cameras of the world, they froze on the spot. Within hours, the sensible and serious moderates everywhere from the BBC to the New York Times caveated their coverage with quote marks or qualifiers; “what looked like”, “what some are calling”, “what many interpreted as”.

It is a deliberate nudge and wink to the far-right ideas you actively hold, bathed in a self-defensive layer of irony from which you can always wriggle, on the grounds that it was just a hilarious joke. “I’m an edgelord, not a Nazi,” you continue to tell yourself even as your every viewpoint calcifies toward the politics of Genghis Khan.

This kidding/not kidding tactic forms the entire story of the last two decades of angry nerds on the internet. We have seen it play out everywhere sad men congregate to complain about their unhappy lives and get told that someone else — someone foreign, different, or weird — is to blame. None of it is mysterious. None of it is innocent. None of it is new.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · Sep 2

The start of every 80s movie:

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Aug 15

We now cross over to MasterChef.

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Common", "rough" and "turbulently jolly" sums up every story I've heard about life in my grandparents' house in the 70s and 80s

Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · Aug 13

Discovered a potential ancestor cameo in HG Wells's autobiography (from what I know of the family history and dynamics this is probable)

From HG Wells's Experiment in Autobiography: "I was never to mix with common children, who might teach me naughty words. The Hoptons, the greengrocer's family over the way, were "rough" she thought; they were really turbulently jolly."

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · Aug 10

You know the economy's in shambles when one of the adverts before the movie is for the agency that monitors advertising

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · Jul 17

[THREAT] you'll get the funko pop you deserve

Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jul 11

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

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Joel Hopton @joelhopton.bsky.social · Jul 8

I may not know what the Beach Boys' deal is, but I do know it's a miracle that this guy lived into his 80s.

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Brian Wilson - SMiLE live

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