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Ceinwen Langley

@feedthewriter.bsky.social

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✍️ Australian Author & Scriptwriter 📚 Watches, reads, plays, makes stuff 🔨 Luddite

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Absolutely chuffed to announce that I have a story in this month's Aurealis magazine!

It's an Australian gothic historical horror that begins with something that has always scared the shit out of me: a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

aurealis.com.au

Aurealis — Science Fiction & Fantasy

aurealis.com.au

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 6h

Common misunderstanding, it actually means sobbing on the beach to Mother because Agamemnon took your stuff in front of all the other boys.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 6h

I am one (1) sleeve closer to my second hand-knitted jumper 😮‍💨

A mustard coloured cable knit jumper/swearer is laid out on a dark red footstool. It has one sleeve.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 7h

You know that was exactly the directive some exec gave to try to get the kids back into TV.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 8h

I escaped into the search bar after about ten seconds after it updated.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 12h

I complained about it in my discord and some other people had gotten it too, so it wasn’t even a blip!

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 13h

I attempted the first two episodes of Succession and I fear I am not Prestige enough for this.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 13h

Hey @netflix.com, perhaps reconsider having anyone's homepage autoplay promo be a clip of "Ed Gain" wearing someone's face.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 17h

This is why I've really stopped watching short-form video content in the past few months. I find myself studying every video for tells. Feels like I'm losing my damn mind.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I finished The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna today, and this is the passive aggressive Christmas gift of 2025, folks. But also, it’s short and actually a really great intro to how LLM’s actually work and why they’re both an ethical nightmare on every level and a giant fucking scam.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I need everyone to know that if I ever compare you to Miss Piggy in aesthetic and/or spirit, it is the highest compliment I am capable of giving.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds haunted.

Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never known any Australian government to show something like an ethical backbone in my lifetime, but watching this one actively crawl inside the sphincter of a US president leading the Western march to fascism is really something.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Were you cancelled, or did a significant number of people on the internet just agree you're a twat?

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 2d

If you tap your nails on a box in a video that requires you to open a box, please know that I am not wishing you well.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Sep 12

-Hawthorn-
A study gone wild.
#sciart #birdart #birds #illustration

A digital illustration of a loggerhead shrike in a late-fall common hawthorn tree with the hint of dark grey storm clouds in the background.

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 3d

“Bring back the editors” has become a recurring chant in the book-focused discord I’m in. A staggering amount of trad pub books have become functionally unreadable in the past few years.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 4d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 4d

A few years ago I was sat on a train knitting while the old man next to me played Candy Crush. We shared a chuckle.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 4d

I am mailing eight people their stickers tomorrow.

I still have 50 more of these.

💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you're the impulsive type, you can PREORDER this sticker for delivery a month from now using this link.

square.link/u/BFQkzE6U

(postage included)

stop forcing AI Into every fucking thing

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