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Mags Campbell

@magscampbell.bsky.social

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Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · Feb 17

Now, available in audio!
Hit the link to hear me read my own story.
Go on, everybody loves a Scottish accent, aye?! R's rolling all over the place!

Reposts massively appreciated.

Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · Nov 15

Please have a read of the weird, creepy little vampire story that woke me up at 3am once and compelled me write it up in a note on my phone.

Then I forgot about it.

For some of us, it's spooky season all year round.

trashcatlit.com/caged/

Caged

Mags Campbell For a time in the beginning, we held the vampire in the strongest cage ever built, one that could contain a minor angel, if ever the need arose. How that creature fought and raged, ev…

trashcatlit.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2h

New It Could Happen Here

@bishonentype.bsky.social talks about how politicians and media figures weaponize public acts of violence through the lens of partisan political ideology.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Writer's Request :-

This is a bit of a weird one but I'm trying to name a character. I need a female name that's a flower, preferably European. BUT it must be a girl's name in two languages.
One flower that's a different word in two languages, both girl's names. Preferably a wildflower.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

These are the same morons who think 20% of Americans are transgender and actively trying to turn five year olds gay.

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 6h

that's right Kash and all we have are Mids

Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 4h

Leo's election looks very purposeful. Feels like he was even more of a political choice than most popes were. Very strategic.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 7h

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine being about 60 years old and still acting like a stuck-up, bitchy mean girl.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 7h

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6h

Trump has put a retired Marine who was relieved of his command for shooting his office floor in charge of the U.S. immigration court system.

Trump Puts Trigger-Happy Marine in Crucial Immigration Job

Daren Margolin was relieved of his command for negligently discharging a firearm.

trib.al

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 7h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 7h

Drop something SKELETAL

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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 9h

MOTABILITY CARS

ARE NOT

FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you need to apply for one, they take a portion of your benefits in return, and most people with one have physical disabilities not just anxiety

Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 13h

Helen Whately said on stage at Tory Conference that "millions" of people with anxiety and ADHD are getting benefits and a free mobility car.

Hands up anyone with ADHD or anxiety who got a free car?

No? No one? Didn't think so. #

Lying Tory bigot.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 9h

Who is crucifying dogs?

Also, what a fucked up verbal tic to pick up from your father. They’ll describe anything that way.

“It was so hot that I drank the Gatorade in one gulp, like a dog.”

“That looks great on you, like a dog.”

“My father didn’t give me enough love and attention, like a dog.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.