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Hivemind, anyone know any Leeds/Yorkshire based comic writers? It's for a fantastic project that the British Library has been working on with care experienced and looked after children in Leeds, making a comic about their experiences. I would love to get some people down to support the launch.
Noted and accepted 🙂
That is hardly an argument against Die Hard being a Christmas movie. And I move that The Addams Family should be accepted as a standard Christmas watch asap
I have just realised how bad my grammar was then. Sorry. I have red penned and will try to do better...
Like someone whose been sat too long but is heading to the toilet as fast as they can manage before they cack themsleves
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?
Autistic students tend to get flagged as AI when instructors use AI-detecting software. Our word usage tends to be more exact than other people.
OK, I need some help. I write to my MP a lot but the BBC is the next port of call to discuss the amplification of racism in public life. I think writing repeatedly to the BBC, contacting them to complain about an editorial policy that basically regards brown people are dangerous should be
Derby has a unique place in the story of Dracula, and we'll be exploring those connections, and the enduring popularity of The Count, at this special event on the 19th September at QUAD! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/legac... #dracula #vampire #vampires #horror #derby #derbyshire
So my daughter has created a series of short documentaries "History On Your Doorstep" - looking at archaeology/history research in St Albans. If you have some spare time, give them a watch here: www.youtube.com/@HistoryOnYo... And maybe help her out with feedback docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Yorkshire friends! I will be speaking at @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social on October 5th!! Get your tickets now! www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/15-em...
The truth about asylum hotels
You're on a roll, aren't you? :)
Sit down and space out?
Ta. Titles noted and I will add things to watchlists
I'm going to need some title suggestions so I can see / hear for myself
Can we offer them a compromise? Say, a rainbow cross on a white background if they feel a pride flag background is just too loud?
Y'know, it's odd you can't get a St Georges Cross Flag with a pride flag background. I mean that's one way to say 'Hey I like this thing but also I'm against hate'. Though you can get Union Flag in Pride Colours.
@cherylmorgan.bsky.social and I will be at Carmarthen #Pride this Saturday with copies of The Sea-Stone Sword and other #LGBTQ+ friendly books - come and say hello!
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is our Christopher Caldwell's debut collection - and if you want persuading, check out this glowing review from Publishers Weekly in the embed! Then bag yours direct from Neon Hemlock here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a... @seraph76.bsky.social
Important petition! Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content
Happy book birthday to Joel Cornah's The Sea-Stone Sword, now available at all the usual venues: wizardstowerpress.co...
Might interest SFF people to see that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social& @modernistudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms conference (July 1-4, 2026, Loughborough) prominently mentions the New Weird. Topics/areas include 'Genre fiction: sci-fi, cli-fi, horror, weird fiction'. Modernism = SFF
You may like this: www.etymonline.com/search?q=gri... (I am enjoying the idea of it being, basically, "they don't speak Spanish very well".)
The cost of "make a walrus that looks like Melania"
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
My daughter, who's an ivy leaguer who's well aware of the phenomenon of ivy leaguers spouting BS & who seriously studied computer science made the following observation. (Basically for ChatGPT hallucinations are a major feature, not a bug:
I was with you until "subpar sci-fi franchise". How very dare you!?
New Medieval Books: Black Knights, by @rachelschine.bsky.social published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/08/new-... #medievalliterature #newbooks
Morning, Womble. I have just finished Lynda E Rucker's collection, You'll Know When You Get There, from Swan River Press (@swanriverpress.bsky.social). Thoroughly recommend if you're into ghostly stories
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and highly enjoying the intelligent fantasy novel Tideborn by Eliza Chan. What are you reading at the moment?
I figured out why I hate the word "employable". We don't use it to describe employers, only (would be) employees. To be employable is to conform to a shifting set of expectations about your core competencies. More importantly, can you "fit" into arbitrary work cultures? Employable means malleable.
You have my sympathies on the perimenopause. I am fortunate to be hitting the milestones at around the same age as my older sister did. It's still... a bit of a rollercoaster
That just makes it come on faster... And no, perimenopause is no fun, so not expecting the main event to be great, either
Well, not 100% true. You get the idea
The argument of that previous RT is factually incorrect but it comes to the same place: LLMs aren't actually all that intelligent and will not save the world just by being LLMs.
To mark the launch of GPT-5, and the fresh wave of people talking about this technology as if it's capable of thinking like human and even if it's not, it will be soon and it's inevitable and it's not actually stealing people's work, it's just learning like a human. Here's why it's none of that.
Speculative Insight is opening for pitches in September, for authors of Indigenous, Asian, Maori, Pacific Islander, Latinx and Black heritage. Check out www.speculativeinsight.com/about and existing free essays to see if you might fit our vibe.
Maybe more of a jersey colour...
Edge-Lit 11 will be presenting great Guest of Honour interviews, informative panels, exciting book launches, insightful workshops and more on the 20th September - an ideal day out for authors and lovers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...
🚨NEW EVENT🚨 We are thrilled to announce a free in-person event at Urmston Books on 11th September! Come and hear some of our fantastic literary authors from the northwest discuss how class and identity have shaped their writing! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-ic-l...
NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages. #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 📷 Lilian Ladle
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
There’s so much that’s awful in here and it barely touches the tip of the iceberg.
hello bluesky! i am nora and i have a jewelry shop specializing in fused glass. here are some of my blobs, my dichroic, my ovals and my circles. nora.jewelry shares appreciated! sales have been very slow lately and i could use the help. #bsnm
Something new for the blog today - an experiment - the reviews, articles and more I caught that found interesting this week and hopefully you will too - the first Wombling Along This Week www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/8/...
oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!
Support for Windows 10 ends in October and many will be forced to buy a new computer… I’m putting on an event next weekend to help people save money by switching to Linux: linux-cafe.eventbrite.co.uk Please share with relatives/friends who use Windows 10 and would appreciate support in upgrading
My novella, Bring Me Home, is about women making terrible decisions, but also it has a BUNCH of SF questions in it. - Who deserves to live on Earth? - How would you act if anti-ageing made you forever young? - What if you got a superpower & it SUCKED? 🧵1/4 wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...
Book introductions, day by day. My current contemporary fantasy series is inspired by British myth & folklore. Dan Mackmain is mostly human, but he's a dryad's son, so the Green Man sends him to solve problems when the mundane and the uncanny collide. The Green Man's Heir is the first book. #Booksky
Would you help our friends at Paivapo Publishing fund the translation of three books? $5, $10 help so much - and there's also an Art Shop with many names you'll recognize! Please help spread the word. Time is running out for book 2, but the author is excited, and I know we can *do* this:
I write futures, what ifs. Enjoy this sff novella with first contact and romance. ko-fi.com/s/2d8ba3dcd8
A sff novella with war, identity and trying to survive in the midst of war. annorlundaenterprises.com/books/water-...
And to celebrate Singapore's 60th birthday, I also spearheaded werewolves in Singapore. :P www.foxspirit.co.uk/books/young-...
It's #buyastrangerabook day! @hierath77.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £20! That's right, any book! So, if there's a particular title you're after, let us know! UK only.
Can I get that in black market kidneys?
Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now. I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such. #Introduction #PinnedPost
OPPORTUNITY Senior Narrative Designer - Hybrid onsite- Barcelona Not affiliated. Shares welcome job-boards.greenhouse.io/scopely/jobs...
As fictionalised in my tale "A Strange & Terrible Wonder" over at The Dark magazine. www.thedarkmagazine.com/a-strange-te... 📚💙
Hey, just thought I'd prove I still exist. I've done no reading this work but my own work (going through some suggestions from sensitivity reader, Helen Gould, who's done an awesome job) but even that's a good sign as I've been too caught up in house stuff recently
Good Morning 8.45 where I am! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and enjoying hugely The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. What are you reading at the moment?
think in retrospect the backlash against trigger warnings really was a sign of things to come, had these people saying "hey, some traumatic things have happened to me, I'd like to know they're going to come up if I'm going to watch or read something", and they got roundly told to fuck off
On the blog this week I really enjoy Fiyah’s issue on portal worlds and transformation www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/...
A gorgeous gothic fantasy awaits in The Needfire by M K Hardy www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/...
And really impressed by the latest Parsec www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/8/...
I get earache if I eat [some of the] things I'm allergic to. You have my sympathies
You should do a 1 like = 1 unfavourite phrase 😉
Boundless is going under, it’ll cease trading by end of day. Archna has emailed Neem Tree Press authors about this but not Unbound ones :/ Authors, a couple staff members are working hard to get reversions, subcontracts, and files to us—if you need them email NOW before the lights go off
"Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday" (But I'll accept half-days and / or four days a week and such being normalised, instead. Happy workers work more efficiently and get more done in less time.)
Also possibly POETS, in the name of morale
Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.
All the hugs and be the best human-duvet burrito for as long as you need
I sell some of my stories on my Kofi. Dragon Physician, YA, trans, kicking the regime, dragon racing. ko-fi.com/s/d3c5a11209
It clearly happens in all sorts of areas and it's usually the "lower levels" that get the brunt. Higher ups know how much their time is worth I mean, we all know sys admins don't like devs but even I get upset when users assume it'll take moments to add some code to make a new feature possible
I suspect there is an element of the "if it takes five minutes to think of, it should take five minutes to do" thing I've run into a lot - as someone whose done ecological surveys, environmental monitoring, systems administration, gardening, DIY, writing...
If you think it’s disgraceful that companies getting rich off making plastic are allowed to interfere with vital talks to solve plastic pollution - now is your time to take action before it’s too late. Sign the petition to get them banned from the Global Plastics Treaty talks: act.gp/40IASmK
The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab. Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls. If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
Call for Mone to be expelled: 38d.gs/MM_bsky
Morning Bluesky, I’ve got 5 copies (I think) of my extragalactic SF the Immeasurable Heaven to give away on Goodreads- details below. “An absolutely wild ride through a formidably original universe” says @aptshadow.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Guis this 1 star review lists all the reasons you should get my book. I think it also accuses me of being bipolar, so it has that in common with Tumblr! 💀 I especially like how he timed my "erotic" (lol, no) scenes. Anyway, off to spread my bpd non-binary agenda ;)
Have you heard about our new Wiz Duo series? Two novellas for the price of a novel. Book 2 contains 'Song, Stone, Sail, Bone' by Juliet Kemp and 'Bring Me Home' by E M Faulds. wizardstowerpress.co...
Keep up with the latest news from Wizard's Tower. Sign up for our newsletter: wizardstowerpress.co...
In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)
ALSO, if you look along the top of the home page you will see a line of languages. Click the 🔽 and you'll see 3.5 lines of languages! Click on any of those to read our coverage in those languages.
I've received a quite fascinating email. This person claims they've singlehandedly blocked 33 sales of my books. Any chance I can get 34 books sold off this to annoy them? Please RT! UK: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=sophia+m... or US: www.amazon.com/s?k=sophia+m...
Wehey! Buy your own Dave Cook digital comics today. Killtopia is stunning! 💜
It's #BookQW and Eilert is showing Garnas a whole new world. #BookQuoteWednesday tinyurl.com/WizDuos1
If that sounds corrupt, don't worry. The council is the one paying McDonalds, so if McDonalds recommend some food the council don't want to pay for, they can send the report back and McDonalds will rewrite it to remove that item.
Did you know the council has a company it hires to tell you what food you should eat? The company assesses you, recommends what you should eat, and then that is the food that will be available to you from now on. The company is McDonalds. This has been a post about how LEAs provide support for SEND
We are just finalising the next Paper Trails update and have a little space left, so if you happen to have some writing lying around that you'd like people to read, drop me a line (deadline: end of July)! 🗃️ This thread will be a reminder of the remit of this UCL Press Open Access 'living book' ...
Just take a minute to enjoy this juxtaposition... (Thanks to @diane.dianeduane.com, @scalzi.com, @newyorker.com and @deathbybadger.bsky.social for making it happen.)
Here it is! The big news! I've started a publishing company, and this is our first title, working together with @comixology.bsky.social ! @aptshadow.bsky.social @mikecollins99.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social @pippabowland.bsky.social www.ign.com/articles/sal...
occasional reminder that we at DIS/MEMBER want to talk up your stuff! magazines & small presses publishing horror🩸📚 hit us up on this form. catalog spotlights, advance reviews, editor or author Q&As, maybe something else--pitch an idea if you want! docs.google.com/forms/d/1W_J...
Explore all our current and forthcoming books on our site: starsandsabers.com/books
Also for the Smashwords summer sale. Wolf's Path is 3.99. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...