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David Thomas Moore
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World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. he/him
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kemi badenoch has just discovered [checks notes] population density
January 12, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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absolutely sent by "the opinion pages of the Daily Telegraph," "neighbourhood Facebook groups" and "the speeches of MPs such as Nigel Farage" being presented as a "broad cross-section of public discussion"
Screenshot from the linked column, saying "What remains a rallying cry for the extreme right can now be found across a far broader cross-section of public discussion, appearing everywhere from the opinion pages of the Daily Telegraph to neighbourhood Facebook groups and the speeches of MPs such as Nigel Farage."
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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we bought new hangers and now my laundry is a clumsy early-eighties TV metaphor for racial harmony
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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So this has proven to be my wife's very favourite Christmas present. She has been pecking people and snickering in genuine, childlike glee.
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Now, Sorayama has a rather fun trademark for his art - because his images are of robots and cyborgs, he incorporates his name into the art as though it were engraved into the subject's surface, like a make or model.

Here it is (rather blurrily, sorry) in the image from the Shadowrun adventure.
A small segment of the Sorayama piece used on the cover of the Mercurial adventure, with Sorayama's (sadly blurry and illegible) signature apparently engraved into the subject's cyberleg, circled here in red.
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It's by legendary illustrator Hajime Sorayama, who among other things has been known for his "sexy robot/cyborg ladies" art for decades.
The artist Hajime Sorayama, wearing a T-shirt and jeans, posing next to a 2024 sculpture of a robotic woman in the style of his digital art.
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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The front cover art incorporates a high-quality digital image of Mercurial herself, a naked woman with silvery cyberarms and -legs. It's a stunning piece, and definitely not the sort of thing that RPG companies can normally afford to commission.
High quality digital illustration of a naked blonde woman with silvery cyberarms and -legs clutching a silver blanket to herself for modesty.
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Just been reminded of Maria Mercurial, in the early eponymous Shadowrun adventure.

If you're not familiar, it's a classic story in which the players act as bodyguards to a cybernetically-augmented rock star, and discover that she has been maliciously addicted to immersive stims by her shitty agent.
The original cover of the Shadowrun RPG adventure "Mercurial in Concert at Underworld '93", featuring a high-quality digital illustration of a naked blonde woman with silvery cyberarms and -legs, clutching a silvery blanket to herself for modesty.
December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I'm just a bit baffled by this; this was happening like six years ago? It's not news??
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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This is from a thread from six months ago, that got a bunch of response then and was revived a few days ago (for rather sad reasons). It's done well for me, by Bluesky standards, but it's still a little strange seeing just 1500 likes on a post with around 800 reposts.
A screencap of the reposts and likes on a recent Bluesky post, showing 798 reposts and 1.5k likes.
December 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Fascinated by how The Ratio manifests on this site.

Back on the Cursed Site, the replies:retweets:likes ratio was pretty reliably somewhere between 1:5:20 and 1:10:100 (reliably enough that tweets whose engagement fell well outside those ratios were highlighted as examples of Bad Tweets).
A screencap of the reposts and likes on a recent Bluesky post, showing 798 reposts and 1.5k likes.
December 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Lots of people reposting/quoting the top tweet, but the shot definitely needs the chaser. Obviously Harlequin knows AI can't translate, but they'll use it to force translators to cut their fees.
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I am m walking distance from home. G
good luck my frens
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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plus side, the gates do not require ticket
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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ONE ESCALATOR

it is very late and i am too drunk for this
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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if i had a pound for every comedy glam-rock musical that came to movie theatres in the mid-70s based on classic gothic horror stories but making a serious point about social issues i'd have two pounds, which isn't a lot but etc. etc.
Movie poster for Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), showing Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter reclining on a pair of human lips. Movie poster for Phantom of the Paradise (1974), showing the three leads (Swan, Phoenix and the Phantom) framed in a neon lightning bolt.
December 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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But from the written description, it should be a small person who appears both old and childlike, and from the crown of whose head light shines:
An 1868 illustration of the Ghost of Christmas Past greeting Scrooge in his bed by Sol Eytinge Jr., depicting a small humanlike figure with long hair and a dress, with a bright line shining from its head.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Because of the way the whole figure seems to flicker and shift, and the candle snuffer it carries under one arm, it's often depicted as a literal animated candle:
The Ghost of Christmas Past as depicted in Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009), a translucent, ghostlike figure resembling a candle with arms, whose face appears on the flame about the wick.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Yes and no. It has a "clear jet of light" springing from its head:
A quote from A Christmas Carol: "It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare... But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm."
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I found this while processing some photos in my phone. Not sure if I already sent it.
The rear page of the "Toytown Gazette," continuing the story of the fearless tiger detective recovering a purse full of gold coins. Below the story, the weather report is "The same weather as always - we live indoors" and the joke of the day is "Why do you have to pay to cross the Toytown Bridge? Because it's a doll bridge!" Front page of the "Toytown Gazette," a joke newspaper by, for and about stuffed toys. The headline story is "Hero Cop Saves The Day," about a stuffed tiger called Sally, pictured, who recovered a purse full of coins.
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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anyway, I'm definitely not the first person to make the comparison, but I think I've figured out how the heptapod language first came about
A selection of eighteen glyphs from the Heptapod Language from the film Arrival, which consist of broken inky black rings with branching splashes at significant locations on their circumference.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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so I've just seen this ad for a new, jokey package for Overleaf (a free-licence LaTeX editor), which adds a coffee stain to your scientific document, sparing you the need to add it "manually," and it reminded me of a shower thought a while back:
A one-page document introducing and giving usage instructions for "LaTeX Coffee Stains," which is a package for adding a coffee mug ring to a technical document created via the LaTeX markup language. The instructions demonstrate the package by including a stain on the page.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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a clinical trial is something you conduct to see if a drug is safe, not something you conduct to "build evidence" that a drug should be banned.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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"Wo-oa-o-oa-oah...

"I...

"Don't want a lot for Christmas...

"There is just one thing I nee-eed..."
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"1-2, 1-2-1-2-3. I'm the emcee called Ice-T. That's DJ Evil E, Islam creates the beats.

"You girls look so sexy; I wish you all were up here with me. You drive me crazy with those big ole butts...

"Girl, let's. Get. Butt naked. And fuck."
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM