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Helen McCarthy

@glider.bsky.social

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Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer. All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm a writer, scholar, speaker, poet and frequent ranter. This is my personal account, so it features stuff outside my work. @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social is where you can find posts on my anime, manga, daily poems, talks and writing. Feel free to follow both. Website helenmccarthy.net

Introduction - Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy, writer, author, journalist, speaker, scholar, Manga, Anime, Japanese animation, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, haiku, UK - introduction

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1h

"Trickle down economics" are actually piss-on-the-peasants economics.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4h

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 5h

Peel off the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 barely covering the uglies following Yaxley Lennon & ilk and you'll soon find the 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺. Coming to a roundabout near you soon 👇

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 5h

"That a UK politician, a member of the party currently leading the polls (and news agenda) has been revealed to have taken bribes to make statements in favour of Russia – when Russia had illegally annexed chunks of Ukraine and was killing and attempting to kill people on British soil – is alarming."

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 4h

Yep

Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 4h

If Christian's really want to covert others, they should be like #DollyParton - leave judgement to God, give to the poor, support education, encourage reading and learning, and let their actions and treatment of others do the preaching.

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DocBuglove @docbuglove.smokefleet.net · 12h

Everyone on the fence about A.I., there's something you don't realize.

It's purpose is to eliminate human jobs and human skills.

That's it. That's its single purpose. For companies to no longer pay people or train them in skills.

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 8h

Thrilled and can't wait to read the seventh story in one of the best and most beautifully illustrated adventure series for just about anyone!
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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · 8h

'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
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@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Cover with Pedro, Fledermaus & Ptiny the Pterodactyl

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 8h

the rose called Peace
has buds streaked red as blood
yet transmutes to gold

#haiku #poetry #hope #GivePeaceAChance

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 8h

the ageing year is
now more greying than golden
but still well-dressed
in a riot of colour
not yet time for monotone

#tanka #poetry #changingseasons #enduringbeauty

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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 9h

Up on my website now: a post on #transgenerationality and its impact on anime. (And not just anime - every aspect of Japan's media mix will be affected by it.)
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Transgenerationality - the ageing up (and ageing out) of Japan's animation industry - Helen McCarthy

At the beginning of July I was privileged to speak at a symposium on Transnational Perspectives in Anime. It was held on the Lancaster University campus, co-hosted by Dr. Zoe Crombie and Japan Foundat...

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

When #DollyParton leaves this world it will be a devastating blow to #literacy and #education - though I suspect this caring, giving, loving, truly Christian woman has provided for her work to continue.

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

Americans, please stop kidding yourselves it was monarchy that got you into this tragic state. Don't confuse metaphor with fact. It was the gerontocracy you built, with its collegiality and trust in the status quo and insistence on "wait and see." Your President and political system caused this.

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

You missed the #AI techbro with his mouth bloody from swallowing all those creators' incomes to feed his insatiable and all-polluting hunger.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

Out for launch day date night. Pub loo graffiti says "Fuck the Tories (NOT SEXUALLY)" which is an important clarification I guess.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

Harder to argue with this now that my #Government is about to give away creatives' property and income to polluting broligarchy on the off-chance that #Ai might make money and a tiny little bit of it might trickle down to British people - provided we don't tax them of course.

5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · Apr 29

evergreen

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 1d

For the slow ones at the back: Stop. Funding. Fascism. 👇

#everylittleparcelhurts

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

Handing over artists' property to the #AI industry, OTOH, could work very well for former politicians looking to maintain good relationships and big incomes from brotech outfits.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 1d

“Transgender issues are not the hill to die on” is an easy thing to say if you’re a person apparently happy for trans people to die, on a hill or otherwise.

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that there's a world full of beautiful artists & craftspeople you can buy from direct. 👇

#boycottAmazon

Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 1d

Hello friends, it's raining outside and I'm working, the new bracelet will soon go to its owner.💙💛
Thank you very much for sharing and ordering my products, your support is very important to me and my family.🫂❤️
More of my work here:
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...

I'm waiting for you on Etsy or in DM📩

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

A lovey and well deserved tribute to a movie I still enjoy. Wet weekend afternoon, hot chocolate, comfy slippers, snuggly throw, The Mummy on BluRay.

Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 1d

"From Oded Fehr as a desert warrior to an oily-pecced Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep, every character on screen – regardless of gender or narrative affiliation – exudes sweaty sexual energy. What’s more, there is unfakeable chemistry between the romantic leads."

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 1d

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 1d

Not absolutely all violence is male, but the overwhelming majority is male. And sadly we are at the stage where any response except speaking out against it every time is condoning it.