Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏

What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!

"the moon was waxing gi--... uh... the moon was packing it on these days"

Meanwhile I just went to Create Event from a cinema ticket email and *still* had to put the date and time in myself. How was that not solved 15 years ago!

They're trying to sell us AI as the future, meanwhile I ask my phone out loud to "set an alarm for ten to four" and it goes ahead and puts one in for 16:50 💀

Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks

Has just occurred to me that the Social Model of Disability is basically the Double Empathy Problem writ large on a societal scale. Just meet people halfway, in communication and in environments & opportunities.

Another day, another form rejection from Uncanny. 21 in a row! I'm on a streak!

(c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)

Old phone numbers you can still remember turn out to make great longer PINs for systems that require numerical strings only. (I, too, can still remember my old home number, drilled into me in case anything happened while I was out unsupervised)

Oh, this looks very cool--I too am in love with markdown for all purposes, and am at a point in my life where I just want things the way I want them, not the way someone else thinks I should, so the flexibility (tweakability?) here looks right up my street. Thanks for sharing!

It's a small thing, but I really appreciate @theignyteawards.bsky.social's use of "Outstanding" in the awards names. Not "best", not an implied ranking that sets us all in competition with a false authority of objective worth, but instead a recognition of who is doing work that deserves recognition.

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

srsly tho, we all work so hard to do the best we can for these stories, and it means so much to know that it's seen like this, so thank you <3

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

We have been on the shortlist for the Ignytes every year since they started and I did not think we would ever actually win an Ignyte but we just won an Ignyte??? Huge if true!!!

OH SHIT YOU GUYS

😭😭😭

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

One of the many teatime quiz shows this week asked someone the band for Seven Nation Army and they just had no idea at all, at which point I crumbled into dust. It's just a bassline to borrow, or a song for sports stadiums now

Submissions are open until 15 October!

What a shame for them that the autotrader app relies on caching so much that I can still see yesterday's price in certain spots

Gosh, what a coincidence that the car I was looking to buy has suddenly gone up £400 as soon as I booked a test drive for it 🤔🤔🤔

UK peeps! Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a UK Kindle Deal for just 99p! Dark cozy fantasy by @wiswell.bsky.social.

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

She who steals the leaves from the trees