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Dan McNeil
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A STREAMLINED DOOMSDAY MACHINE ➡️ Writer of weird surrealistic words ➡️ My Exhibition Of Post-Agrarian Psychopathy is at https://linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and https://www.dan-mcneil.com/
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Dan McNeil @themcvariations.bsky.social · Nov 29
You can find a selection of my fiction, reviews and art at linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and www.dan-mcneil.com
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️

Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃

Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.

📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Southern Angels
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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“Above, just out of sight, Andromeda burned.”

[‘The Arcachon Continuum’, Dan McNeil, 2022, Plutonics Journal, Volume XV].
plutonicsjournal.com/volume-xv/
Available on Lulu or as free PDF download.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Century!
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Berberian Sound Studio
[dir. Peter Strickland, 2012]
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Indifference
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The Principles of Decay
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Subterranean Light
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Underwater is not Underwater
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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The Antipope
[Max Ernst, 1941-42]
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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SONDER BEACH
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Excerpt from
‘The Arcachon Continuum’
[Dan McNeil, 2022]
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“a glittering beautification of cold silence”
[from ‘The Gallery Trap’, Dan McNeil, 2024]
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November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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‘Colour is the Sound; the Sound is Red’
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
#surrealism #shortstories
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July 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The Atrocity Exhibition
[JG Ballard, first edition, 1970]
#JGBallard #Surrealism
August 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The Gallery Trap
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
donotsubmit.net/the-gallery-...
August 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Except from ‘The Gallery Trap’
[Dan McNeil, 2024]
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August 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
[Niels Bohr]
August 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
[JG Ballard]
August 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The Entropy Lounge
[Dan McNeil, 2022]
August 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM