Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
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Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
· Dec 31
2024 publications round-up time! Settle in, you love it, I did an image and everything. Listed from long to short and then slapped on top of a photo taken from my back door, with links and word counts further down the thread: 🪐📚
Heading out to see Predator: Badlands and I'm excited because they can no longer in good conscience show me the goddamn Running Man trailer 🙏
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Heading out to see Predator: Badlands and I'm excited because they can no longer in good conscience show me the goddamn Running Man trailer 🙏
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All of our previous issues are available to purchase or read on our website! Pictured here are the first six issues, published between 2022 and 2024. The best way to support an indie magazine like ours is by reading, sharing, and talking about the work we put out. 🤎
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All of our previous issues are available to purchase or read on our website! Pictured here are the first six issues, published between 2022 and 2024. The best way to support an indie magazine like ours is by reading, sharing, and talking about the work we put out. 🤎
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
One Spanish cultural discovery I forgot about until going through photos again just now is that your McDonalds drink options include a beer or a bottle of gazpacho. Absolute untameable mavericks
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One Spanish cultural discovery I forgot about until going through photos again just now is that your McDonalds drink options include a beer or a bottle of gazpacho. Absolute untameable mavericks
These are all rejected Street Fighter II win quotes and you cannot convince me otherwise
I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
These are all rejected Street Fighter II win quotes and you cannot convince me otherwise
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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
Bookmail! Belated b'day extra from a work pal (with cover by the unmistakable @egallagher.bsky.social). Recruited Oscar and his wonky whiskers to add gravitas.
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Bookmail! Belated b'day extra from a work pal (with cover by the unmistakable @egallagher.bsky.social). Recruited Oscar and his wonky whiskers to add gravitas.
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
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In these busiest shopping weeks of the year, with everyone under horrible pressure over money, job security etc, try to be nice to retail staff (who likely have unreasonable sales targets from HQ to make up for a lousy retail year). Far too many stressed customers will behave appallingly right now.
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
In these busiest shopping weeks of the year, with everyone under horrible pressure over money, job security etc, try to be nice to retail staff (who likely have unreasonable sales targets from HQ to make up for a lousy retail year). Far too many stressed customers will behave appallingly right now.
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Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!
So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale
Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
1/6
So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale
Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
1/6
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!
So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale
Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
1/6
So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale
Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
1/6
A real bargain and a total of *counts carefully* an absolute spaffload of stories. Dark Stars, Wyrms 2 and The Book of Drabbles contain stories by me but I'm afraid it's not possible to have those removed before purchase.
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payhip.com/b/QYb3u
Drabble Bundle
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A real bargain and a total of *counts carefully* an absolute spaffload of stories. Dark Stars, Wyrms 2 and The Book of Drabbles contain stories by me but I'm afraid it's not possible to have those removed before purchase.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Final teases for our charity print anthology!
It has to be post-apocalypse time (a favourite genre for our Ed).
These three writers truly nailed the end of the world; brutal and beautiful writing 🦝
Grab a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@thejokelark.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
It has to be post-apocalypse time (a favourite genre for our Ed).
These three writers truly nailed the end of the world; brutal and beautiful writing 🦝
Grab a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@thejokelark.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Final teases for our charity print anthology!
It has to be post-apocalypse time (a favourite genre for our Ed).
These three writers truly nailed the end of the world; brutal and beautiful writing 🦝
Grab a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@thejokelark.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
It has to be post-apocalypse time (a favourite genre for our Ed).
These three writers truly nailed the end of the world; brutal and beautiful writing 🦝
Grab a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@thejokelark.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
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Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
Okay, I'm in (but not specifically for Sam Rockwell's hobo juice).
Imagine the minimum wage worker who has to clean up Sam Rockwell's juices all over the diner floor:
Sam Rockwell Saves Us From AI in Trailer for Gore Verbinski's Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Reactor
Go with him if you want to live!!!
reactormag.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Okay, I'm in (but not specifically for Sam Rockwell's hobo juice).
Bookmail! October sale pickups! From Influx Press! They arrived over a week ago but the cats liked sitting on the parcel and it is illegal to move them!
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Bookmail! October sale pickups! From Influx Press! They arrived over a week ago but the cats liked sitting on the parcel and it is illegal to move them!
Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
Cheeky lad in the back garden tonight who is this arsed about being observed: not remotely arsed
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Cheeky lad in the back garden tonight who is this arsed about being observed: not remotely arsed
I can't wait for The Running Man to be in cinemas! Not because I want to see it but because it feels like the trailer has played before EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN FILM I'VE BEEN TO SEE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS and once it's out they have to stop
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I can't wait for The Running Man to be in cinemas! Not because I want to see it but because it feels like the trailer has played before EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN FILM I'VE BEEN TO SEE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS and once it's out they have to stop
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
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I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them