David Maloney

Definitely turtles

It's all numbers if you look closely enough, ones and zeroes, ones and zeroes, all the way down. Even the phrase "telephone numbers are not numbers" is in itself made of numbers.

Bog People (New) | Hollie Starling | 9781784745820 | Awesome Books 'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE'An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark…

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This is great if you're looking for an anthology of short folk horror (and, deep down, we all are, right?)

YouTube video by BJ the Simpson Collector Simpsons - Conjecture and Hearsay (from "The Day The Violence Died")

"kinds of evidence"

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YouTube video by The Bluetones Official The Bluetones - Autophilia (or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car)

Tonally a little different but these superb motoring innuendos reminded me of the lyrics to this song by The Bluetones

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Thanks to @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social @dandraper.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @marxtafford.bsky.social and all the other writers who I can't find here on Bluesky.

Bog People (New) | Hollie Starling | 9781784745820 | Awesome Books 'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE'An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark…

Picked up Bog People from my local library on Friday and powered through it over the weekend. Superb anthology of #folkhorror - no filler, all great tales. Highly recommended.

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Christ. How long until the "fist to the wrist" truthers emerge?

I often think about doubling ground rents and wonder if freelancers could get clients to agree to doubling late fees. 28 days after invoicing the whole fee doubles, then again after another fortnight, and so on. Fanciful and improbable, I know.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Presumably it's the Michaela connection?

Misread this and genuinely thought this was a call for an episode where Bandit walks out on his family while they are watching TV. Dark.

As well as the relative proximity of the 60s, there is also the proximity of our relatives to the 60s - rebellion narratives mean more for our parents and grandparents who were closer to it

I had to go there for an emergency passport for my daughter at the backend of COVID during the long passport backlogs. Coincided with a train strike and few coach tickets available, so I was stuck there for 48 hours. Worst weekend of my life. Chartists exhibition in the museum aside.

I bet very few people skip the opening titles of Gummi Bears on Disney plus. That theme tune is so good.

This would be a much more useful button to have on my remote than the pre-programmed Rakuten TV one

The character names used in [kids TV show] are secretly about some kind of sexual practice (Roger the Cabin Boy etc)

If you play [song] backwards, it contains a secret message telling you [some creepy shit]

Fluoridation of the water supply leads to [whatever health condition]

Dinosaurs in comics? Now there's an idea that's going places

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Sounds like this

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Thanks for this article Jonn, really enjoyed reading it.

I heard Zooropa the other day, and even though I know all of the lyrics at the start are slogans from adverts, I could only place a couple of them. The cultural context has shifted and there's a certain poetry in the naked words, stripped of their contemporary meaning. Your Frank Muir gag one day?

The gypsies, the travellers and the thieves, The good, the bad, the average and unique, The grebos the crusties and the goths

And Ozymandias, who did NOT die, thereafter wandered around the lone and level sands himself, personally inviting any passing Mighty to look upon his Works and despair

"A curse on bakers and their loathsome confections!"

Trying to convince my kids that the pronunciation, based on the original German, is The Grink