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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h

John Atkinson Grimshaw‘s Moonlight Wharfedale

www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

exapnsive landscape. two people leaning on a fence in a hedgrow as a river in the distance threads its way across the land

Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 17h

Agent called this afternoon: Got 2 self-tapes for you that need to be done today. Sorry, sorry sorry, I know it's a pain.

Me: But.. but what if I miss Celebrity Traitors?

Agent: GET THE FUCKING SELF-TAPES DONE!

Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 2d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

God, imagine the torrent of spiteful opinion columns that would greet this if they tried this in Britain.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 2d

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

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Mia Fae | Voice Actress | Content Creator @miafaeva.bsky.social · 3d

VOICE ACTING SCAM ALERT

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh, check this out, it's lovely! And I'm in it too!! (Blowing stuff up, no doubt)

Relatively Painless Games @relativelypainlessgames.com · 5d

Happy #PointNClickFriday!

Still working on Uncle Lee's cookbook this month—if all goes well we'll have news to share soon 👀

In the meantime, enjoy our first fully voiced cutscene, featuring the talent of @magandamarie.bsky.social and @nicholascamm.bsky.social!

store.steampowered.com/app/3777930/

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh, check this out, it's lovely! And I'm in it too!! (Blowing stuff up, no doubt)

Relatively Painless Games @relativelypainlessgames.com · 5d

Happy #PointNClickFriday!

Still working on Uncle Lee's cookbook this month—if all goes well we'll have news to share soon 👀

In the meantime, enjoy our first fully voiced cutscene, featuring the talent of @magandamarie.bsky.social and @nicholascamm.bsky.social!

store.steampowered.com/app/3777930/

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Matt - Solo Game Dev @pmrd.net · 6d

Almost 300 wishlists! 🥰 Find out more about my game and help me reach 300 by wishlisting it at www.darkroomsgame.com

#indiegame #gamedev #darkrooms

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 6d

This is released today. It's the most difficult audiobook I've ever narrated, but also one of the bravest.

Face to Face

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. When his identical twin brother Simon was kicked to death, all Nick Dawson felt for the killers was hatred. Struggling in a world where his mirror image had...

www.audible.com

Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, this has been reposted a squillion times, you've seen it already. But it's funny. AND VERY BLOODY PERTINENT.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently Google is "applying AI to science and the environment". "Applying to" is an interestingly value-free little linguistic flourish. One can apply a hammer to the side of someone's head, for example.

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 8d

Well, bugger me, I started reading Titan by Stephen Baxter (1997) a couple of days ago, where life is discovered around Saturn. I suppose it's a bit too much to ask that he got the right moon as well. 10/10 for effort, though.

Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances

Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life

www.theguardian.com

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 8d

The 2025 SciFiScavenger Viewer Survey is now OPEN!

NEW this year, I'm also asking for your Top 5 SF series.

I'll leave the survey open for the whole of October so there's plenty of time to have a think and get your responses in,

Here is the link for the survey:

forms.gle/4Z5Sjx1sJAgb...

2025 Sci Fi Scavenger Survey - Your Top 10 Science Fiction Books! AND Your Top 5 SF Series!

Just tell me your ALL TIME favourite science fiction books, recent, vintage, any era, any size, novel/collection/anthology, whatever. No whole series, pick single books (which could be from a series)...

forms.gle

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 9d

My narration of book 3 of the English Mercenary Series (Lion of the North) begins. As does my ongoing battle to pronounce Colonel Dodo Freiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen correctly.

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 9d

Desolation Road!

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12d

"Your attention has become a commodity."

Our labor is no longer the most valuable commodity we command. It's our attention.

We can't control a lot of things in this world, but we can choose where we focus our attention.

And what we focus on is everything

www.positive.news/society/how-...

How your attention guides your reality

To begin with, let’s just talk about the mechanics of attention. Your brain is presented with 11 million bits of information per second. But you can only consciously process about 40. That means that the vast majority of reality is filtered out – you never even notice it.

At the heart of this filtering system is a part of your brain called the reticular activating system (RAS). Think of it as your personal search engine, constantly editing reality. And it is not random, it automatically filters reality to allow in what aligns with your beliefs, your identity and your goals.

For this reason, your attention is not just passively noticing reality, it is actively creating it. What you focus on expands. If you focus on problems, your RAS will filter the world so that problems are all you see. If you focus on possibilities, it will just as eagerly reveal opportunities.

Your attention is the director of your experience. It shapes how you feel, what you believe, and how you behave. And those three things together determine the quality of your life.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

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Alex Kane | Wishlist AETHUS on Steam! 👩‍🚀⛏ @beacondev.bsky.social · 13d

The AETHUS September Development Diary is now live!

This month:
📺 - New Gameplay Trailer
🔥 - The Magma Rifts
✅ - Steam Achievements

Check out the September update below! 👇

store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...

#GameDev #IndieDev #SurvivalGame #IndieGame #IndieGaming

AETHUS - September 2025 Development Diary - Steam News

Hello again, Pioneers! Welcome to the September Development Diary for AETHUS! This month, we have an updated Gameplay Trailer to showcase, we get our first introduction to the final biome of the game ...

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 14d

Well that's me out of the running then.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14d

Details on the upcoming ‘James Bond’ film

• Denis Villeneuve will start casting next year

• Will be a ‘fresh faced’ British actor likely in his late 20s or early 30s

• It could be an origin story about how he got recruited to MI6 and attained 007 status

• Aiming to release in 2028

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Zeljko Kos - Making Pompeii: The Legacy @zzeljkokos.bsky.social · 14d

So happy to share that Pompeii: The Legacy has reached 90% positive reviews on Steam! 🏛️🔥

Couldn’t have done this without you. Thank you! ❤️

store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/...

#indiegames #citybuilder #Steam

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Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 15d

Had to burp for an audio drama audition. Gave quite a few burps. Deciding which burp was a satisfactory burp was a very strange thing indeed.

Nicholas Camm @nicholascamm.bsky.social · 15d

The paperback is equivalent to an hour at the gym...so they tell me.

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