Verity Holloway

He's been privatised.

On a background of crumpled vintage paper rests a paperback book: Cheer The Sick. The cover features an early modern plague doctor dropping an oversized posey of flowers. The tagline reads "What ails you?"

For #WomenInHorror month, I'm obliged to share my collection, Cheer The Sick. Tales include:

🗝️ What happens when you snort powdered faun
🗝️ There's a man inside the boiler and he knows you're gay
🗝️ Don't wear the fairy meth helmet
🗝️ Chelsea Flower Show vampires

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I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it went down, yes.

Blackbeard's flag, very useful for hiding crates of crafting materials.

Oh bugger, alt text: A white office wall is decorated with framed prints including a purple-toned poster of Florence from Florence + The Machine emerging from the darkness in a flowing gown, her head obscured and her hands outstretched.

New Florence poster. Gradually making the office a bit more 'me'. (It was formerly a child's bedroom, yellow with Thomas the Tank Engine stickers all over the show.)

Welcome back, Johnny!

Being moved to tears by the homunculi in Small Prophets probably isn't a good sign.

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A powerpoint slide reading: Modern problems require ancient solutions, or ‘How about a pyramid scheme?’

I just did a talk about this, and I'm kind of sad they never built it.

I cannot type the words I'm thinking.

That feeling when the ghouls show up.

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FELICITATIONS 🎂

I remember reading the word 'psychedelic' in the Beano and asking the adults what it meant.

Video game image of a military looking guy in a jacket and black shades from the opening of the video game "Bad Dudes" saying "Are you a psychic enough lesbian to spend the summer in Hill House?"

nobody:

A cold solicitation letter arriving from the mysterious Dr. Montague:

A young female model wearing a brown dress so comically large she looks like a lost child

"I forgot my PE kit."

Screenshot of an ASOS marketing email that says "The Verity edit; shop the new pieces we think you'll love" with two pictures of horrible beige clothes and ugly brown shoes.

ASOS, if you so much as breathe beige in my direction, I will shank you in the exercise yard.

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Ad for costumes for ushers to wear during screenings of the perverse horror classic THE BLACK CAT (1934)

#Caturday

From The Essential W.S. Merwin.

#poem #books #writing

Twin Peaks logo font over the road into town saying April 1805 Napoleon is now master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him: Oceans are now battlefields

Awkward sincere posting: I've been depressed for a long, long time, but I'm noticing now that I'm picking up my old hobbies again. Terrariums, sewing, painting, even a bit of photography. All unthinkable six months ago.

Thank you! It's such a cute gadget.

@llbroadwell.bsky.social I caved and bought a cute little camera like yours. Looking forward to getting out and about with it. Also, if you figured out how to turn off the jingling noise when you turn it on and off, please share! 😅

Stars, sun and moon in chalk on stone steps leading into the river Thames. Above the symbols, a pile of stones with hearts chalked on them

Thames witchery spotted on yesterday’s walk. ‘Magic’ I say, grinning. ‘The Canticle of the creatures!’ He says, pointing at the sun. Everyone gets something.

She was magnificent.

More like Matt Badloss.

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end