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Marc G

@gravesnailyard.bsky.social

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World Fantasy Award-winning publisher/editor/designer/author, previously “responsible” for the Black Library, Solaris, Angry Robot, Aconyte, now helping with other folks’ projects. I like new music and old books and clever movies and you.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

getting a lot of haters talking shit about my set at the epstein island comedy festival, as if those young women don’t deserve to see me do stand up

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Styptic

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RIP John Lodge (on the bass) youtu.be/eRQ3MwA4Nws?...

NEW 📀 Ride My See Saw - Moody Blues {Stereo} 1968

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT's guide to Winning At Work
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Climbing the corporate greasy pole, ChatGPT style: the Stephen Collins cartoon

If I tell you what you want to hear then you’ll think I’m a god!

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · 2d

Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline 👇🏽

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 3d

NEW #DoctorWho postcard pack on sale next week. 15 Doctors, 15 debut stories. Artwork based on #DavidPelham’s #PenguinBook covers from the 1970s. Here are the first four —

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 3d

FFFFFFFS

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"Any other comments - fill in below" ... "Right. Get yourself a cup of tea. NSFW from here..."

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 4d

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 4d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 4d

Hee hee. Let an old man have his fun

Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that’s from a parody we did in Black Sun, the GW mail order fanzine, rather than Battlecars itself…

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone and anyone needs to read this from @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's utterly, properly brilliant.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 5d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 5d

So the AI is a tabletop rpg player?

Cover of the steampunk-esque tabletop rpg SPACE 1889

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 5d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 5d

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

YouTube video by Elen Nas

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 5d

You’re too old to remember, but for a while the “Louise Brooks bob” was a v fashionable cut for trendy, arty young ladies. See Corinne the singer of Swing Out Sister for example, or Melanie Griffith’s wig in Something Wild (both 1986)

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Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely pairing.

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