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Verity Holloway

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Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Nov 10

I write stories about art, history, folklore, and bad medicine.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2h

Comrade Frog, we salute you.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

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 unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21h

Nick Clegg wakes up in the morning, makes himself a nice cup of thin gruel, and then throws a dart at a sheet of paper to decide who he's going to screw over today. Students? Disabled people? The entire UK creative industry? If only there were more hours in the day!

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21h

Joke image of Lenin enjoying a cup of tea and grinning in delight at a computer screen

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 23h

Hahahahaha! Oh God. HA.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh, are they those matcha silly strings they sell in cones in Japan? I really want to try them.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Britons! Know your place.

Screenshot of a news article reading "Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects."

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Please, fashion marketing writers, stop using the phrase "chunky knits". All I see is a hefty headlouse.

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Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · Sep 17

On an evening bus out of Worcester. A stoned passenger is sitting on the back seat, playing a flute. The driver just audibly muttered "When the fuck is Tom Bombadil getting off my bus".

We journey on, into the darkness. With musical accompaniment.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting Duchess the pig as a child gave me a lifelong fear of them. She was like a very wide dinosaur full of rage.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Maddening. I will probably fork out for one from the pharmacy, but we shouldn't have to!

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Love how this manages to be in the bi flag colours, too.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Really puts the UK disability benefit system in stark relief. "Oh yeah, we can't afford to spare you £300 a month because... let me just check my notes. Yeah, it says here that we just want you to die. Cheerio."

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."

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d

Someone with a thermal printer has been putting up stickers urging the people of [county] to rise up against the Illuminati. Somewhat optimistic. People here can’t even be bothered to vote in the local elections.

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful deck

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my God this.

You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg releases a video describing the conditions faced by Palestinian adults and children in Israeli custody after her release.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

£750 for a 5-day early career writing retreat, minus travel and living costs, is pretty steep, considering you can book into the Premier Inn down the road for £190. I know everyone wants to swan around in a pretty cottage, but £750...

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

I never had the formative experience of reading Jilly Cooper at too young an age, but I gather she's the straight girls' Anne Rice in that regard, so I salute her. 🫡

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

Oops! Haha. Thanks for letting me know!

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Astro Chris @astrochris.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine going home afterwards and having to tell your family that you had to retreat because The Frog jostled aggressively at you. "The armor and guns did nothing to stop The Frog's magic!"

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 4d

Just pop some training wheels on them, and they'll be fine.