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Matt Neil Hill

@mattneilhill.bsky.social

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Dad/Husband/Writer/Tsundoku practitioner. He/him. Words in Stories of the Eye, The Mad Butterfly's Ball, Vastarien, Children of the New Flesh, and others (links in 📌). Trans rights are human rights. Fuck the Labour Party. Fuck TERFS. Fuck Nazis. Fuck A.I.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · Nov 21

A few of my stories that are online, should anyone fancy a read:

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The Vigil by Matt Neil Hill

Suzanna wears her central nervous system like an exoskeleton now, shrieking the glass shards of bloody murder whenever I even think about touching her. I bring us back suspect materials wrapped in …

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Michael Harris Cohen @fictionaut.bsky.social · 3d

Disease of Finitude is the inaugural issue of antilogos press, curated by @sasharavitch.bsky.social. These Cronenberg riffs will peel off your skin and bend you into new shapes. Chuffed to have my game instructions, “Conjoinment Manual,” in it. Long live the new flesh.🔥

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 13h

ALL HAIL THE BLACK FLAME this book made me fall in love with novels again @scumbelievable.bsky.social

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 15h

It's an obscenity, and a situation that deserves to become extinct. And yet there will always be a subsection of English society that will wave those flags and tug those forelocks, genuinely believing that the super-rich would spare them a few precious drops of piss if they were on fire. Delusional.

Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 16h

You know another thing that also might drive this? Families having to work two or three jobs to put food on the table and having to spend all their money on shelter and heat and childcare while upper class parasites live the high life on public money. Just a thought.

Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 16h

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Kate
https://news.sky.com/story/phones-creating-epidemic-of-disconnection-in-families-says-princess-of-wales-13447487?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Princess of Wales

"Our undivided attention is the most precious gift we can give another person. Yet, increasingly, it's the most difficult gift to offer," Kate writes in a joint essay.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 18h

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, thank you! If you remember which one, please shout about it!

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 19h

I'm the same. And I know that there are people who pearl clutch at us expressing this but I feel both vindicated and absolved: me wishing harm on these people is orders of magnitude less awful than making a career out of writing and implementing policies that actually and demonstrably harm people.

Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 19h

I love these *so* much! Is there a book or archive anywhere of all this artwork?

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 19h

I believe you, and obviously hope this never happens. They have no idea of what people go through, and wouldn't care even if they did. Soulless little pen-pushers, unaware of their own privilege, high on sniffing the farts of their own power. I fucking hate them, and very definitely wish them ill.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 19h

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 23h

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 21h

Me too. An utterly unique artist, and a real touchstone for my own creativity.

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 1d

laura palmer / everybody scream

a black abstract line art illustration of Laura palmer from David lynch’s twin peaks, screaming. she has white eyes and inside her eyeballs the words “fire walk with me” are written. the background is bright red.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 1d

Good. It should die. It should die screaming.

Fuck AI, and fuck Nick Clegg. Fucking prick.

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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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Cuck's Cross Flag Shaggers of all kinds can fuck off.

Progressive patriotism is a myth, because patriotism felt for the world's most brutal colonisers is inherently from a place of white supremacy.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha, "overthrowing our tolerant society" ?!!!

Keep going, Zack. Keep going.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know how to make this simple enough for our government.

Best way make economy go Brrrrrmmmm is give $$ to poors cause they spend it.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, thanks, good to know! Are any bookshops likely to have signed copies at some point?

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, Stu - where to order so you get the biggest cut? Direct from publisher?

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 4

A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2d

Every single one of the illustrations is a brilliant brooding exercise in evoking dread & doom.
I’d never seen his art before I picked up this book, but after an Earl E. Mayan internet odyssey I’m completely smitten

A collage painting with black and white cut out photos of human faces and a snarling Alsatian dog surrounding a white painted sheet ghost, all against a black and purple background made of paint drips suggesting a spooky wood, above which door shapes are scratched in black ink

A collage painting in which a phot of two white men, one standing wearing a cowboy hat and crumpled shirt and trousers, the other squatting wearing preppy clothes and a sailor hat, are surrounded by an ominous purple painted background, above them a black and white painted skull, to their left a black white and grey painted area which is fairly abstract but suggests tv static intermixed with shadowy branches

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 2d

it's a good time for horror and caring about people

MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 2d

Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...

A promo image for my blog post on substack, showing the cover of my Silent Screams anthology, with a word cloud, and the post title: "Silent Screams for Halloween"

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