Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy

@glider.bsky.social

Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer. All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.

3,361 Followers 1,128 Following 7,691 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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The Crusade - Psychedelic Woman [Alaska, USA , Garage Rock] (1967)

The Crusade - Psychedelic Woman [Alaska, USA , Garage Rock] (1967)
https://redd.it/mas85t
https://youtu.be/GiaaIYEAE64

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I stopped gambling (mostly) last year and the way the books hound you with notifications/emails to Get Back In The Game should 100% be illegal
like if Coors could text drinkers "15 days since your last beer ... sounds like you need an ice cold Coors Light" and also their phone could give them a beer

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Good translation shows respect to your devs, writers, and players around the world—and it boosts your profit and brand image, too.

AI slop translations make your brand and game look cheap and uncaring, and is a spit in the face of all the devs that worked hard to make your game.

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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (1873 – 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. #CelebratingWomen

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"Some details were fudged. For example, the functions of several dozen JCVI-syn3A genes still aren’t known, so Thornburg’s team modelled them as inert spheres."

Love that for them. Inscrutable.

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Characters featured in this image are:

Sonic and Tails.
Max from Shining Force.
Red from Gunstar Heroes.
Arle Nadja from Puyo Puyo.
Jacky Bryant from Virtua Fighter.
Nei from Phantasy Star II.
Hiro and Lucia from Lunar 2.

Image source: https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File%3ASSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf&page=172

This is a cute illustration bidding farewell to the Mega Drive, featuring many of Sega's most iconic characters on the console and its many add-ons. Taken from the September 1995 issue of Sega Saturn Magazine.

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Picture of a python smiling. Caption says "What do you call a 3.14 meter long snake?" A  Pi thon
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Beckoning Cats Get Makeover to Fit Modern Lifestyles with Sleek Designs to Match with Any Kind of Space <p>SETO, Aichi — Sleek, streamlined manekineko beckoning cats made by Chugai Toen Co. in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, are likely to fit in anywhere with their stylish appearance.</p>

Move over manekineko, setomaneki are the new cats on the block - cool, whimsical, edgy and novel.
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/...

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flatly: everyone who works in tech is in danger and sooner than you think

LLMs are going to eat the software industry alive

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Anime revival screenings are having a moment With anime fans flocking to theaters to revisit classics like “Tekkonkinkreet,” “Jin-roh” and “Macross Plus,” nostalgia is proving good business.

Matt Schley on the wave of 80s and 90s anime enjoying cinema revival.
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

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Extract from an interview with Peter Brook, by Michael Billington, in The Guardian, 2 Oct 2017: "... All very well in the long term, but in the meantime, how do we survive? "We swim against the tide," says Brook, "and achieve whatever we can in our chosen field. Fate dictated that mine was theatre and, within that, I have a responsibility to be as positive and as creative as I can. To give way to despair is the ultimate copout."

This is a line from theatre director Peter Brook that I sometimes find quite helpful - you might too ...

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Kazi Aniruddha - Dur Dweepobasini [India, Steel Guitar, Hawaiian, Lounge] (1968)

Kazi Aniruddha - Dur Dweepobasini [India, Steel Guitar, Hawaiian, Lounge] (1968)
https://redd.it/fltb0e
https://youtu.be/kk7snDRJ6ag

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Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

✍️ "In creative and media-adjacent careers, the ladder often starts with free labour."

Many young people in this country simply cannot afford to work free, but many industries still normalise free labour as a route into a career.

This must be tackled.

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Martin - Surfing [Germany, Space Age/Psychedelic/Library] (1970s) Space rocking moog - surfing the tropical seas of cosmic library music.

Martin - Surfing [Germany, Space Age/Psychedelic/Library] (1970s) Space rocking moog - surfing the tropical seas of cosmic library music.
https://redd.it/sgxixw
https://youtu.be/RmT2rlbatOE

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Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’ Homeless influencers, fantasy boyfriends and bubble-era bars — Kabukicho seems to have it all.

The Japan Times' Deep Dive podcast goes deep into Kabukicho. Shaun McKenna hosts.
www.japantimes.co.jp/podcast/2024...

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Hands Of Time - This Love For Real [USA, Soul] (1973)

Hands Of Time - This Love For Real [USA, Soul] (1973)
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https://youtu.be/u9vPBCg8Y9M

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The staggeringly fabulous cover for CE Murphy's BONE & BLOOD, a retelling of "Snow White, Rose Red" features two women standing back to back: one is garbed all in blood red, with dark red hair and a black mask; the other wears flowing white, with wheat-pale hair and a glittering mask. Cover art & design by Ravven.

#Booksky! Today is RELEASE DAY for BONE & BLOOD!

There is a story of a widow & her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, the most perfect & darling little girls who had ever lived.

This is not—quite—that story.

I'm so proud of this one, guys! Please RT! :)

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...

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Pluto - Naoki Urasawa

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The Fabulous Playboys - Cheater Stomp [USA ; Surf] (1962)

The Fabulous Playboys - Cheater Stomp [USA ; Surf] (1962)
https://redd.it/12nzvkt
https://youtu.be/-nYPUCwEX7Y

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Erm I’m not sure how you’re doing this so fast, but we asked our incredible community to help us raise these funds today - and we’re now only £3,795 away from the total goal 😮😮😮

Click here to donate - can we really do this?! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whos-makin...

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Photo of Joanne Harris in store, seated at a table with stacks of the new paperback edition of Vianne which Joanne had just been signing. Books in four stacks on the table, with Joanne coincidentally wearing a slightly darker orange jumper than the book cover.

Thank you to @joannechocolat.bsky.social for visiting earlier, to sign copies of the paperback edition of Vianne which was released yesterday. An excellent book! I read an advance when the hardback was released last year.

Copies in store, we can mail out in the UK, DM for details.

#booksky

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Exclusive Peter Purves Interview

On Wednesday, 11th March 26, Peter Purves walked into Leicester’s Phoenix Arts Cinema and Art Centre. What happened next took the great man’s breath away. Film is Fabulous! had, in fact, recovered two missing episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan, in which he starred

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Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

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Your turn 😆 #timotheechalamet TikTok video by Afonso Coelho

I look forward to Timothée Chalamet's response - but sometimes being a great artist, technically superb and absolutely drop dead gorgeous is simply unanswerable, even by a Hollywood darling.

www.tiktok.com/@afonsocoelh...

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Fossils of sea lilies (crinoids) on a block of pale limestone

#FossilFriday Assorted crinoids on display at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center

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Ernie Graham - For A Little While [UK, pub rock / roots rock / folk rock / blooze] (1971)

Ernie Graham - For A Little While [UK, pub rock / roots rock / folk rock / blooze] (1971)
https://redd.it/hp0rcv
https://youtu.be/2HH0wBe0w-4

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Back at home with a new bionic shoulder and an #NHS swag bag of drugs to keep me going until bone and muscle stop resenting being reshaped around the implants. Thanks to the brilliant surgical, anaesthetic and ward teams who took such care of me amid constant pressure. #BestOfBritish

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With both a story about curious kids and practical projects to try, real life scientist @shanedbergin.bsky.social's The Experimenters is a delight! Illustrated by @sayanikoyelartist.bsky.social
#KidsBooksFriday #KidLit #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

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Ukraine accuses IPC of ‘systemic pressure’ and pro-Russian bias at Winter Paralympics Team Ukraine have launched a stinging attack on the International Paralympic Committee and Winter Paralympics organisers, claiming they have been under ‘systemic pressure’ to reduce their presence at ...

Speaking of enablers of fascism: the IOC continues to harass Ukrainian athletes.

I'm not watching Paralympics (or any Olympic events) while shameless IOC continues to make Games part of the propaganda arm of 🇷🇺 genocide war. If viewing plummets, less TV cash to these fascist-licking Blokes 👇

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