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Mata Haggis-Burridge
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Writer of video games, horror, and more. Professor of video games, bi/pan, they/he, visibility still matters.
App idea: something that turns clickbait headlines into old fashioned informative headlines so I can decide if I actually want to read more before I click.
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Absolutely loved #PlayingGracieDarling on Netflix. Brilliant combination of spookiness, sleuthing, and repressed emotions in an Australian town. Great cast, atmosphere, and balance of scares without being formulaic Hollywood. Great work by everyone involved.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…

In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Another fine thread from Tom's wanderings.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Settings> Accessiblity
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Writers, filmmakers, artists, musicians...sometimes all of the above. Some of you are so wonderfully, maddeningly talented. Keep doing what you're doing. It's what makes this big, round place worth being on.
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Maybe the uncanny unease of Hookland's lore is only considered 'cosy' because of the very visceral and visible terror of our everyday climate crisis political omnishambles Jackpot lives. Compared that, Miss Goodwin's dread about the tin sprites requiring payment in bread or teeth appears wholesome.
Just for any academics, let me be clear, Hookland is anti-nostalgic. It's an exploration and exorcism of my childhood, not a celebration of falsely remembered sunshine. Nostalgia is a warping gravity.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was.

I'm kindof emotional about it.

50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.

It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I say we give the carnivorous death ball a go.
Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.

It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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🎃 happy spooky time 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM