I’ve seen it and that’s a fair summary.

I’ve seen it and that’s the high point of the film.

The Bumper Book of Magic has been in the pipeline that a number of contributors are dead but the novel he is promoting now is the first in a series, we already know the name of the next one.

He effectively retired from writing comics in mid-2019 but signed a book deal with Bloomsbury for his short story collection and the five novel series we are starting to get. At the time he declared himself to be “bursting with fiction”. I’m not aware of anything that suggests he is ready to throw the towel in quite yet. In fact, he seems reinvigorated.

They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

Have you considered it’s because of this?:

My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

I wouldn’t run an instance that didn’t allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn’t seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

Pinning threads is buggy across instances.

Anything that catches your eye and isn’t from the US - if you like films, books, TV, comics, etc then something relevant will cross your radar from time to time.

Find a smaller instance and use the local and subscribed feeds. Then make use of the tools for more fine-grained blocking.

Cheers.

There’s also:

• !britishfilms@feddit.uk

You should post your experience on the squaredcircle community after you go

I definitely will. Should be a blast.

We haven’t had a chance to see it live yet, but someday we will.

I’m old and have been watching wrestling since I was little but this is my first live show, not sure why it has taken so long (although a local promotion opening up in the last year helped).

That’s dedication to the squared circle, I’m off to a suitably horror-themed show on the 30th October.

Solid 8/10 from me.

Samara Weaving has chosen her projects well - Mayhem is also great fun.

Welcome onboard - The Babysitter is great. Not such a slasher fan myself but I’m always up for zombies, comedy horror, cosmic horror, gore and a healthy dose of body horror. If you can mix some of those together then happy days.

Only following your lead. 👍

A fucking spook cut-out trafficking mercenaries from Afghanistan to Ukraine

Or just another one of the oddballs, liars and sociopaths who are the focus of the article.

I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)

This is the route I’d recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you’d be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.

This has been our experience at feddit.uk. Well done to everyone over there. 👍

Worth also noting that:

• We are currently only using about 1/4 of the resources, so people could trim the cost further (although being over specced helps a lot when there are spikes in activity and it will mean we don’t have to upgrade any time soon).
• Our hosting costs are more that fully covered by around 20 people donating and that should scale with growth (although possibly not in a truly linear way). We also have a decent “warchest” which should see us through most temporary problems.

One reason we break the finances down is because we are a medium-sized instance and we want to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to run one supported by donations.

If anyone has any questions they are welcome to message me or they can drop it into the monthly financial report (the new one will be next week).

Your call. I’ll keep an eye out for progress.