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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · Nov 9

I'd appreciate it if anyone notes any glaring typos in this to nudge me.

Otherwise, this will do for now.

I am a poet. My first publication was in 2018. I’ve been consistently published ever since, but am yet to find a publisher who wants to give me a contract. Also, I am a digital native and have been posting online since the days when Usenet was where all the Internet Drama took place. We’re coming up for thirty years online.

I am here, thinking on a daily basis from now on. I have committed to this space as mine going forward, until some idiot billionaire fucks this up too... It's a place for talking, as I appreciate that many people do not want to have my work in their Inbox. So, I will share my work here and you have the option to consume as you wish.

A few caveats:

no meme accounts
no repost only accounts
engage with me first
respect my caveats

This has been a long time coming: I am 58, have two adult children and am a happily married bisexual. If you’re still reading at this point, you deserve all the plaudits for doing so. #transrightsarehumanrights

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

I will keep sending tickets (and we'll see how many times I get sent the same answer) until it's fixed. I thought I'd share, because I'd expected better from Blizzard...

This is the future AI will give us, and frankly it is complete and utter bollocks.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

Yes, I know there are bigger issues in the world right now, but I now can't play my main because of this. I've spent weeks getting myself to a point in Shadowlands where I could start the Protoform Synthesis grind. Now, I'm screwed :(

I know, it's not the *right* old expansion content.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

I sense, because of the significant and highly personal issues that Remix has caused on my server, I'm being intentionally stonewalled. It's depressing and could be so easily solved by an actual person talking to me.

Does this even happen any more?

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

None of the three in-game tickets I sent are identical. All these responses are, and I'm sorry but this stinks of AI. I'd just like to speak to an actual person, as someone who really struggles in game with certain accessibility aspects. I've been very honest in my GM surveys too :P

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

Can someone tell me how I can get to talk to an actual human being at @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com in the UK with a game related issue? I've sent three tickets today and ALL of them have sent me the exact same response. None of them solve a highly specific issue. This is #1.

The first of 3 emails to EU Customer Support, which are all EXACTLY the same, none of which in fact solve an issue, but are a copy paste of a 2020 forum post where a similar (and unrelated) issue is referenced...

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 22h

@samatlounge.bsky.social ^^

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 1d

Not had a migraine this bad for some years.

I will be back when I am capable agaoin

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

If you wish to remain undisturbed in Stormwind, being a Paladin is a sound disguise.

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#Warcraft #FanFic

Seven Seconds ][ panel 5

If you wish to remain undisturbed in Stormwind, being a Paladin is a sound disguise. Liadrin has not considered the Light as camouflage before: it has been a shield on many occasions, occasionally …

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

Fanfic incoming and then I am having a snack.

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Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social · 2d

Hurray, on this magnificent longlist. (A couple of the submitted poems are to be published by @dreich.bsky.social I think, so double hurray.) Please please cross fingers for me, I really like Dithering Chaps (and any excuse to travel to the south coast). #Poetry #BookSky 📚 💙

Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social · 2d

We’re pleased to announce our longlist of poets under consideration for publication in May 2026!
The full list of longlisted poets is on our website: www.ditheringchaps.com/news
Our shortlist will be announced on 15th October.
Thank you to everyone who submitted - your work matters!

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

Just keep swimming, AMIRITE?

#551: Salad Bar

We're going to keep doing this for a while... … and by this I mean turning up every day and writing something, ANYTHING, to keep the wheels greased and my brain in a sensible spot. That meant yesterday re-writing the fanfic that I got stuck in a hole with last week, one of three poems that has now gone to the National Poetry Contest (don't hold your breath) and six poems for a sub I have no chance at all of getting.

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

I have had a really, REALLY good day. Nothing important happened. I just got my head in a better place than it was, and I am ready to do some different stuff. Some things will be ignored.

We will move forward.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

While I wait, high time we had a cuppa.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

Am kindof hoping that the reckoning that is inevitably approaching at a reasonably high speed now is strong enough to sweep away a lot of the electronic twattery I've seen in the last year.

I can but hope.

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Dr ICE Scream Maker: Slasher of Fash 🔪 @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 2d

omg!!

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

As you can see in this screenshot, not only are AJ Link's post and profile still available elsewhere, he is still posting (though seemingly less happily) freedom of speech unimpeded
This app Red Dwarf by @whey.party skips the bookstore and goes straight to the author. blacksky.community doesn't 5/11

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

Tell me you're using AI without telling me you're using AI, #28451:

The three Trending topics on Substack, all about different subject matters (Jane Goodall, Pam Bondi, NVIDIA) all of which 'spark' a reaction. This is not poetry, fellas, repetition is bad in conversational English. It makes the human who wrote this look like a tool... except, this wasn't written by a human, was it?

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

If AI succeeds, we all fail.

If AI fails, America goes bang.

That's a speculative fiction idea and a half right there.

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

You know, if I was writing This Time as fiction... this would be the moment when the foreshadowing would become extremely important indeed. It would become so important that I'd be the person writing my characters desperately getting the hell out of the way of a potentially game-changing event...

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 2d

Burglar's respond with 'duh!'

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2d

NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...

Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Crashes come when the gap between the real economy & predatory speculative, fantastical & madly futuristic markets widens unsustainably. But when the inflated market valuations are of assets & products that are themselves predatory, speculative, fantastical & madly futuristic the hazard is magnified

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

#Poetry, Submissions and the terror of Silence :D

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Writing the Perfect Beast #2

The absolute terror of continuous silence...

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 2d

When spaces are made in the future, I really hope smart people are listened to, and they create moderation rules that treat EVERYONE as equal, because that has not happened here since Day 1 either.

It’s not hard.

We need the Global Majority in charge.

It’s as simple as that.