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Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
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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: 🪐📚
2024 publications by Leigh Loveday. Stories listed are Bad Lore in Mobius Blvd magazine; Playthings and The Choosing One in the Wyrms 2 anthology; Testimony co-written with Salena Casha at Icebreakers Lit; Yes, Drain Minister at Silly Goose Press; The Unknown Life of Luíza at Trash Cat Lit; Put the Knife Down at Bullshit Lit; Bell Clapper, c. 2200 BC at Voidspace; Eight Sins at Paragraph Planet
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 43m
And they couldn't be arsed headswapping a Teela to make an unconvincing Sandra Bullock? Savage.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 54m
NICE. Congrats Gemma - jumping right into the hot pink section of my TBR pile with Bear Season and Rakesfall!
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 4h
Spent so much actual pocket change on Magician Lord, and still never got past that frog-filled nonsense-fest, the Anderground Passage of Terror.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 7h
Suddenly I don't feel so bad that absolutely nobody else was in the cinema when I saw Furiosa
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 7h
Got one! Nice tactile paperback of What Comes to Light, a @trashcatlit.bsky.social charity anthology with a story by me and 26 better ones by other writers. But how many of them have taken photos with cats in? Get a copy! All proceeds to the Wildlife Trusts! Save a stoat! mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Two photos of an anthology titled What Comes to Light, one showing the front cover with Arsehole the imperious tabby cat looming behind it, and another one with Oscar the elderly ginger cat pretending to be interested in a story called Threequarter Lane
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 2d
The 'other life' book recs you dropped here brought to mind another one I loved and you might too: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Stunner.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 2d
I just backed They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
www.kickstarter.com
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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 3d
Hello new followers! If you've joined me after my spooky settings task for @cbcreative.bsky.social, you might want to check out my micro-collection of three short horror stories with new twists on old settings. It's a lunch-break steal at 0.99 on kindle or free on Kindle U!
amzn.eu/d/b2ySJKM
Image is of Ally, a white-skinned person with long dark hair, wearing a black Harley jacket on a tube platform and holding up a copy of London Weird by Ally Wilkes.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 5d
Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d
GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 4d
a picture of a man and a cat with treat yoself you deserve it
Alt: TREAT YOSELF YOU DESERVE IT!
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 4d
Totally agree. Penn absolutely owned it, the mad bastard. And that chase scene near the end was one of the most weirdly hypnotic things I've seen in a while.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 5d
Happy #Caturday night from Void Baby, a sweet blameless creature who has never even considered let alone committed a single crime.
Void Baby, a criminal, evading the law by lurking in his bed at the top of a cat tower he has long since outgrown
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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 8d
Our Book Club pick for October is here and it’s a Halloween special – Dark Matter by Michelle Paver is a terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.

Join us! www.hayfestival.com/p-24395-hay-...
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 8d
Just a li'l guy who likes the sound of the new book
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 8d
A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light?
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d
Fingers crossed it stars Terry O'Quinn as a dour police chief whose parents were killed by separate lemon impacts
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d
a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of the words perfection
Alt: Michael Fassbender professes perfection
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 11d
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d
We love to see it ❤️
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10d
A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 11d
Trying to wait till I get my hands on a print copy before reading it cover to cover, but I did jump in to read your story and thought it was beautifully done!
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 11d
Ah nice! Yeah, it's my first non-drabble antho too, very pleased it's this one. And seven is plenty old enough to learn what POS stands for, right? Plus they'll be saving a badger.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 11d
Happy launch week, TOC neighbour 🥳
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 11d
Yes Hercule! What a majestic giant feline detective he grew up to be ❤️
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