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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 22h

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

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 · 1d

My new online poetry course starts in two weeks!

✅ Six-week course, two-hour sessions

✅ Imaginative exercises

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✅ Feedback from a professional published poet

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

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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...

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t work out what it’s for?

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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

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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 5d

We loved chatting about The Craft (1996) with @junodawson on our latest episode. We have complicated feelings about it, but what a cast!

Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

You can rent The People’s Joker here if you live in the UK, and you absolutely should because it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in the last few years, hands down

Rob Stanley @rjstanley.bsky.social · 11d

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The People's Joker |

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

I can't wait for her divorce album.

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

I don't think Farage is the inevitability a lot of people do - I don't think they're as popular as they seem, and I'm confident in his ability to really fuck things up - but I'm massively and deeply concerned by what a party like his would do with digital ID cards if they got into power.

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

I wouldn't trust this government to water my plants will I was away on holiday - I do not trust them with my data, not at this level.

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

I know the government petitions are always bollocks but the response to this one about digital ID cards is particularly galling first thing in the morning. Just, no, we're doing it, don't ruin this, shut up.

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

It’s October 3rd.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

In my 'not chasing just checking in' era when I want to be in my 'delighted to announce' era.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

I hate it when people ask me to explain why I’ve made the changes I’ve made as an editor, I edit the way Lyra reads the aletheometer, my editing is purely vibes based.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

It's banger after banger at the minute - and NEXT WEEK? Oh, you're never fully dressed without a wig, bitch!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

And tomorrow we're calling the four corners and summoning the Sunday Times best-selling author of THEE witch series on everybody's lips, Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson joins us for THE CRAFT!!

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