Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

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Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Come see my hit Edinburgh Fringe show The Britpop Hour on tour around the UK this Spring! It's a stand up comedy celebration of Britpop. How did it happen, why did it end and how did it come back! Dance like Jarvis! Flirt like Damon! Tweet like Liam! Details: www.marcburrows.co.uk/live-dates

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Look what showed up today.

Oh no, not the mind PROBE

Review of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sparks’ book by Jason Arnopp - www.andrulian.com Overview It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcis...

Was reminded this week by @jasonarnopp.bsky.social that it’s ten years since The Last Days of Jack Sparks was published.

Where did that go?

#horror #fiction #DoNotReadTheEbookWithTheLightOff

Here’s my review - www.andrulian.com/review-of-th...

A sumptuous slice of rainbow cake on a cafe table, with a cup of tea.

Would you just LOOK at the quality of this.

Which colour would you eat first?

Thanks Mr H! 👊

I am now in remission from cancer. My brain knows this is great news, but my nervous system is taking a while to catch up.

Anyone need a quirky rubber head and display stand? 🤔

Check out my link in bio for my YouTube unboxing video of Doctor Who The Collection Season 13!

Magazine in 'published in past' shock

As I reluctantly destroyed this web with a long stick, I said, "Sorry, yes, I know, I know, but look, this is too much - you're just taking the piss." (2/2)

When I came out of the house today, quite a big spider had decided to block the front path by spreading a web across it and sitting smack in the middle like some terrible arachnoid Gandalf. (1/2)

Chase them through a labyrinth made out of toilet rolls and bees

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

This feels like the 2025 version of proclaiming you don't have a TV.

I decided to have toast for breakfast.

This is only controversial when, like me, you're in your fourth week of radiotherapy and your mouth is inflamed and ulcerated.

I am slowly munching through the toast. It doesn't taste 100% like toast, but it is toast nonetheless.

I have requested that my cancer radiotherapy team play @judaspriestof.bsky.social's Breaking The Law while I'm having my 19th zap tomorrow. Watch this space ⚡️🤘

"What we're creating here is a wound."

Lovely stuff.

Still, the more it hurts me, the more it hurts cancer.

If you'd like to help me get through this nonsense, the GoFundMe link is in my bio. Of course it is. 👊

I can barely speak now - or at least not without feeling a fair deal of pain.

I'm also very much in the realm of eating soft food only. (Hello ice cream and custard - it's not all bad.)

Basically I'm voluntarily turning up each day to be punched in the head.

As my consultant told me... (2/3)

Today was my 13th day of cancer radiotherapy - and it was unlucky in some ways.

The machine was playing up and my session almost had to be postponed.

My cab driver quacked about how aggrieved he was with how the hospital had booked him, until he finally got the message from my silence. (1/3)

Admittedly, it could also lead to an evil AI mirror overlord of myself running rampant 🤔

When this whole cancer nonsense began, I 'banked' my voice by recording various voice samples.

Now that radiotherapy has started to bring the joy of mouth ulcers, it's become harder to speak. So I'm gonna turn those samples into an AI model of my speech. Could be very handy.

If you've had radiotherapy, would love to hear if your experience has differed from any of the above.

💥 I got into debt to help pay for this super-precise radiotherapy, to have the best chance of sticking around for my 6-year-old twins

👀 Want to help me claw my way back out? Link in bio. ❤️👊
(5/5)

5) A big button on the nearby wall is marked LAST MAN OUT. Before treatment, the last staffer to leave the room hits this button, so the machine knows there's only one human left in the room and it's safe to commence the zapping.

(4/5)

4) The treatment itself lasts 2-3 minutes. It doesn't hurt and the vast majority of people feel no side effects in week 1. Turns out I am one of those people. 🥳

(3/5)

2) During treatment, your head and shoulders are tightly clamped to a rack, courtesy of a custom moulded thermoplastic mask (which you can see in the pic) so as to stop you moving...

3) ... which is helpful, because otherwise the intense beam of radiation might hit and cook healthy tissue.

(2/5)

5 things I learned during my first week of cancer radiotherapy:

1) Radiotherapy is delivered by an enormous machine that, as some onlookers noted earlier in the week, looks a bit like the robot Drathro from #DoctorWho.

(1/5)