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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 12h

The heron is always incongruous in an urban setting, but I’m fascinated to see them that way. This one is from July 2018.
#birds #heron #waterbird #nature #london #surrey

A heron stands on a wall, with a building out of focus in the background.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 13h

Tulip’s coming to get you! This is what I have to put up with, small cats on the rampage. I like it.
#catsofbluesky #cats #rescue #kitten

Tulip, a black and white Siberian cat, stretched out and lying on my stomach, paws reaching towards the camera.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 13h

❤️❤️❤️

Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 17h

The creative life is full of disappointments and frustrations, so we've got to celebrate our successes.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 17h

Not only do I have a horror story about to be published, I have a release organised for my next ambient music album, in early 2026. This comes as good news after the original label I was dealing with shut down in the spring #ambientmusic #electronicmusic

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks :-)

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 20h

I’m happy to say that I’m about to become a published horror writer - I’m very excited, can’t you tell? I’ll post publication details when I get a date, but it should be before halloween. #horror #writer #fiction #writingcommunity

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 21h

I love to write. I love to get paid to write. If I do something for free, it's because it interests me, and I offer to do it. If somebody I don't know asks me to write for free, not happening.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

I paid that for a while, but even at the lower price it felt too expensive. Now I have a very small selection of discs, many I got second hand. What I do like about game pass is being able to play on computer, tablet, quest, etc

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished watching 'No One Gets Out Alive' on Netflix. I confess I hadn't heard of it until tonight, but it's a lovely atmospheric horror with a strong thread about exploitation of immigrant labour. Avoid spoilers if you can! #horror #adamnevill www.imdb.com/title/tt1305...

No One Gets Out Alive (2021) ⭐ 5.4 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

1h 27m | R

www.imdb.com

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

I just re-watched ‘All Hallows Eve’ on Amazon, and I think what I like best about Art is his clear enjoyment in his work; not like so many impassive slashers #horror #arttheclown www.imdb.com/title/tt2900...

All Hallows' Eve (2013) ⭐ 5.2 | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

1h 23m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Gear 4 Music are a great source for all kinds…they’ve had a fair bit of my money along the way!

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Scary-looking heron, taken almost exactly seven years ago, on 5th October 2018.
#birds #heron #waterbird #nature #london #surrey

A heron stands on a branch, in a pond that’s covered with green algae. The heron is looking down into the water, with its beak open.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Walk past any nook or covered area - or bag - and there’s a chance Tulip will spring out and attack! That’s ‘attack’ in the cutest way possible.
#catsofbluesky #cats #rescue #kitten

Tulip, a black and white Siberian cat, half out of a large shopping bag, her front right paw extended.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Battling auto-correct to make that work :-)

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, I've photographed a few birds at that spot :-)

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

She’s right about AI in general, too. Couldn’t say it any better.

Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

What a bunch of idoits ;-)

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for asking :-) she’s getting spayed on 17th. Finished antibiotics and her swelling has gone. Still teething and intermittently mad, but that’s normal kitten business :-)

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

A swan in flight, January 2018.
#birds #swan #birdsinflight #nature #london #surrey

A swan in flight over a pond, wings outstretched, moving from right to left across the image.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

The space aound the window and curtains is one of Tulip’s areas, and anything that ventures there is at risk - which is why this plastic zip tie is getting the treatment. Great opportunity to admire her belly, though.
#catsofbluesky #cats #rescue #floof #kitten

Tulip, a black and white Siberian cat, stands on her hind legs as I dangle a plastic zip tie over her.

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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

I re-watched this a few weeks ago, and liked it much better than the first time, for some reason.

Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

That’s cool!

Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @delaneyplanet.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed 'V/H/S Halloween' on #shudder. Of course it has ups and downs, like all anthologies, but I enjoy the format - sometimes I think horror is at its best with short tales. Maybe that's where I got my habit of writing short stories from. #horror #halloween www.imdb.com/title/tt3767...

V/H/S/Halloween (2025) ⭐ 6.2 | Horror

1h 55m

www.imdb.com

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