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Coffee fuelled Senior Media Editor for Nature (Not the comedian). Previously of The Sunday Times. Views my own.
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Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat #otd

An illustration for an unpublished version of Tolkien's "The Hobbit" by Peter Klucik #Tolkien #TheHobbit

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

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Not a headline I was expecting to see this morning

Yooooo @shop.peregrinecoast.press is gonna be at UKGE later this month and we’re gonna need some new stock! If you’ve got a TTRPG book/zine, send me an email to [email protected] and let’s chat 🫡

Hey it’s my birthday and I would love it if y’all gave my Kickstarter pre launch page a follow! I’ve been working on this for two years now and I need all the shares and follows I can get! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.

Submissions are now open for Hellebore: The Mirror Issue. Here’s what I’m looking for: 👉🏼 helleborezine.com/pages/submis...

Small Press Day is a huge event to promote new creators, comics, zines, writers & illustrators. It's an indie-volunteer-run thing with no promotional budget. Since the fall of Twitter, gaining followers on here is crucial to spread the news. So please give it a follow. It's cool.

It is fascinating the way you can take money from hungry children or disabled people without consequence, but try to limit the amount that goes to rich pensioners and everything implodes.

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

Netrunner worlds coming to Edinburgh! www.thenational.scot/news/2513663...

A local gallery had a bunch of concept art by the Troika artists on display as part of a ttrpg exhibit and id forgotten how much the vibe of that game fucks

Copy of The Terror Beneath in Leeds Waterstones if you want it

The winner of this year's Dance Your PhD contest is also a banger about chemesthesis—how nerves in your mouth respond to chemical signals in food. That affects how we experience food ... and how we dance! 🧪

Can you help FT pal Urszula Wolski with her research? If you are a paranormal investigator past or present please take part by scanning the QR code, or if you prefer click on: forms.gle/C9rruSM6iesJ...

If you want to subscribe to @rascalnews.bsky.social and are in the global south (or can't afford a full subscription) this link is for 50% off a full year's membership to Rascal! www.rascal.news/worldwide-an...

Duane Michals. Madame Schrödinger Cat. 1998.

Andrew Clayton, the man behind @foundryvtt.bsky.social, had some choice words for the use of AI in the TTRPG space. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

A May Day recommendation for you: Wicker Man covers by Katy J. Pearson and friends!

Philip Larkin’s (unpublished) poem on the plight of the librarian.

I've teamed up with the synth (trouble) maker Bastl to create SLEW, an experimental TTRPG inspired by their device, the Softpop 2. This is a one(ish) page sci-fantasy game set in a broken, monochromatic land, where players embody scavengers working to piece things back together. Coming 22nd May

A gentle reminder from Mind for those on antidepressants in this heat - not everyone knows this, so please spread the word and stay safe ☀️ @mindcharity.bsky.social

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Applications are now open for the BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship - up to £4000 to research the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

#skystorians alert: wild, wild details about (one of the) Antipopes. Enjoy this great thread

Format for the next print edition of Doomsong @caesar-ink.bsky.social?

New in stock: Raph D’Amico’s The Zone. Take your condemned research party through a journey into the recesses of their minds and don’t let them leave unchanged. If you’re a fan of Annihilation, Stalker, or other new weird fiction, this is one for you! Grab yours at peregrinecoast.press

The Danish version of Cairn comes in a dvd case with a disc you spin to get a random number from the standard dice. The disc also has the pdf on it.

Love this story. Last night Amelia Nierenberg went to the Magic Circle to see Sophie Lloyd finally get back her membership of the club 🪄🐇🎩

The ‘Piracy. It’s a Crime’ campaign used pirated music, *and* as it turns out, also used pirated fonts. Incredible.

So, I'm looking for a publisher who would be interested in my unthemed anthology of weird tales - sixteen in all, the stories are all 150+ years old, have NEVER been reprinted and eight are by female authors, INCLUDING a lost Flora Annie Steel short story, which is very exciting. DM's open!

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Powerful Polish Film Poster by Jakub Zasada for 1987’s Robocop. Poor Officer Murphy …

A softer sky for today. West Wittering, the beach of my childhood. It felt like we could run forever.

Is any of you here an illustrator with Native American background? Or do you know someone? My client is looking for one for a project. (Please share if you can so they can find the right artist)

The best use of 5 minutes I will make today, I finally got rid of Google's AI search results 🙏 youtu.be/555Lc2dwp3E?...

Trump and Musk feature in the latest Beano. D.O.P.E. This sort of satire is wasted on 7 year olds!

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895. More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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just turn the sound on and watch.

Writer alert for awesome character names 🍄