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Mags Campbell

@magscampbell.bsky.social

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Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · Feb 17

Now, available in audio!
Hit the link to hear me read my own story.
Go on, everybody loves a Scottish accent, aye?! R's rolling all over the place!

Reposts massively appreciated.

Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · Nov 15

Please have a read of the weird, creepy little vampire story that woke me up at 3am once and compelled me write it up in a note on my phone.

Then I forgot about it.

For some of us, it's spooky season all year round.

trashcatlit.com/caged/

Caged

Mags Campbell For a time in the beginning, we held the vampire in the strongest cage ever built, one that could contain a minor angel, if ever the need arose. How that creature fought and raged, ev…

trashcatlit.com

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

This shouldn't make people care more. You should care about trans people regardless of how it impacts cis people, but that's not the world we live in so this is how trans people have to do things... Beg you to think about other people in the hope you might see what's happening to trans people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 1h

Farage and his cronies aren’t the only ones with questionable connections to Russia…

Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia

Elon Musk is promoting a far-right agitator who has regularly aped Putin’s propaganda.

writesbright.substack.com

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 2h

Trans people have never convened a conference to eradicate terfs.

Also every trans rights march has terfs, every trans event at speakers corner they come and try to cause violence.

So her statement simply isn’t true.

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 3h

No kids from your Genital Obsessed hate-movement have ever been driven to suicide, you evil little troll.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

James Macintosh Patrick’s poster advertising rail travel to Dunnottar Castle, Scotland, 1938

Travel Poster
a castle atop a rocky coastline

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 5h

1. Create a problem out of thin air.
2. Let the problem cause chaos for a while.
3. Sweep in with an immediate solution to the problem.
4. Act like a benevolent ruler, heroically standing up for his people.

Yeah, this is just fascism again. It's fascism all the way down.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 23h

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 18h

For me but not for thee

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 15h

The administration contains parents of special needs kids and kids with severe health issues. They're going to continue to get their needs met but ordinary folks are going to be genocided in a thousand slow and insidious ways.

This is fascism.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 19h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

"‘You run away a lot,’ said one of the voices. ‘That is good. You are a survivor.’

‘Survivor? I’ve nearly been killed dozens of times!’

‘Exactly.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

SIGNED BOOK NEWS!

We'll be getting SIGNED copies of Seven Deadly Thorns by Amber Hamilton.

It's Amber's first YA novel and it's out this month

Order yours HERE!

You'll also get some postcards, die cut bookmarks and temporary tattoos!

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

All the funky stuff you can get when you buy the book from me.

Bookmarks!
Postcards!
Temporary tattoos!

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 16h

The other day they were saying he was going to Israel on Friday but then he got that medical check and took the weekend off.
Suss.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h

With 750,000 federal workers furloughed and dozens of CDC employees laid off overnight, Trump, 79, traveled to his Virginia golf club and arrived just after 10:00 AM, according to reporters at the scene.

Trump, 79, Spends Second Shutdown Weekend Golfing

The president, evidently with a few hours to kill, congratulated himself for a big week with a round of golf.

trib.al

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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 17h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18h

How do regimes do when the soldiers don’t get paid? Does anyone know of any concerning historical precedents that this evokes

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9d

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 17h

Taking nepo babyism to new depths. He's being groomed to take over the empire of shit.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 17h

A hell of a lot of the original European fascists were pedophiles, pedophile-adjacent, and rapists.
It's a movement that cares about the rights of a small protected elite. They need to wield power over others. It's what drives them.

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

Digital doodle of the three people in inflatable frog costumes in the quoted post. One has a sign saying, “frogs together strong”

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 20h

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