Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
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If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Yeah there's probably something to the malingering cultural legacy of women usually being married off & therefore not a resource waiting to be extracted, whereas an (unmarried) girl represents a societal commodity. Which is a truly vile framing isn't it 🤮
February 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Yeah there's probably something to the malingering cultural legacy of women usually being married off & therefore not a resource waiting to be extracted, whereas an (unmarried) girl represents a societal commodity. Which is a truly vile framing isn't it 🤮
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
For someone who once resigned from a company partly because the misogynistic manager persisted in calling me, a qualified management accountant with seven years of training and a decade of experience behind me, the "accounts girl", why yes, this resonates with me.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
For someone who once resigned from a company partly because the misogynistic manager persisted in calling me, a qualified management accountant with seven years of training and a decade of experience behind me, the "accounts girl", why yes, this resonates with me.
I'm so glad I'm not alone!
February 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I'm so glad I'm not alone!
Lemme get my crochet hook, sounds like there's some eyes need poking
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Lemme get my crochet hook, sounds like there's some eyes need poking
We are an army of two 💪🏽😂
February 14, 2026 at 11:52 AM
We are an army of two 💪🏽😂
I put my cranky pants on today 😂
February 14, 2026 at 11:49 AM
I put my cranky pants on today 😂
Congratsss!! 🤩
February 14, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Congratsss!! 🤩
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Wait. So my elderly uncle *shouldn't* have been arrested for peacefully protesting genocide?
Le fucking gasp.
#FreePalestine
Le fucking gasp.
#FreePalestine
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
February 13, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Wait. So my elderly uncle *shouldn't* have been arrested for peacefully protesting genocide?
Le fucking gasp.
#FreePalestine
Le fucking gasp.
#FreePalestine
Iconic behaviour
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Iconic behaviour
I am languid and bedeviled
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I am languid and bedeviled
Right? My people.
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Right? My people.
Is it any wonder this man is my hero?
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Is it any wonder this man is my hero?
I am firmly Team UBI For Everyone, so I am delighted to see the Irish scheme made permanent.
BUT the points in this short thread resonate strongly with me.
UBI for the workers holding up a hugely profitable industry proves that extractive capitalism is rotten to its core
BUT the points in this short thread resonate strongly with me.
UBI for the workers holding up a hugely profitable industry proves that extractive capitalism is rotten to its core
This is wonderful.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Ireland: a proper country.
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I am firmly Team UBI For Everyone, so I am delighted to see the Irish scheme made permanent.
BUT the points in this short thread resonate strongly with me.
UBI for the workers holding up a hugely profitable industry proves that extractive capitalism is rotten to its core
BUT the points in this short thread resonate strongly with me.
UBI for the workers holding up a hugely profitable industry proves that extractive capitalism is rotten to its core
Second chance & a ridiculous amount of *understated yearning* sound like your thing?
Writing romance is HARD please appreciate my noble efforts to make my characters suck at dealing with their feelings
Writing romance is HARD please appreciate my noble efforts to make my characters suck at dealing with their feelings
With #ValentinesDay fast approaching Tis the season for love! ❤️
From regency romance to Scifi Shenanigans, demonically attractive bosses, to creepily alluring housekeepers, there's a #RomaticRead for everyone to fall in love with at Solaris!
Hop downthread to see whose included in our selection!
From regency romance to Scifi Shenanigans, demonically attractive bosses, to creepily alluring housekeepers, there's a #RomaticRead for everyone to fall in love with at Solaris!
Hop downthread to see whose included in our selection!
February 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Second chance & a ridiculous amount of *understated yearning* sound like your thing?
Writing romance is HARD please appreciate my noble efforts to make my characters suck at dealing with their feelings
Writing romance is HARD please appreciate my noble efforts to make my characters suck at dealing with their feelings
That Big Issue review by the wonderful @dougjohnstone.bsky.social still warms me to think about. So thoughtful and understanding of what I was trying to do with this book 🖤
"Thought provoking and quietly profound." @bigissue.com
Dive into @rainewilson.bsky.social 's WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST, where the internet has collapsed, leaving digital ghosts to wander the world, infecting books, people and nature itself...
Buy https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
Dive into @rainewilson.bsky.social 's WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST, where the internet has collapsed, leaving digital ghosts to wander the world, infecting books, people and nature itself...
Buy https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
That Big Issue review by the wonderful @dougjohnstone.bsky.social still warms me to think about. So thoughtful and understanding of what I was trying to do with this book 🖤
I love your threads, they're always such a joyous read 🤗
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
I love your threads, they're always such a joyous read 🤗
Love this.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
Mornington Crescent: a rant.
Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.
Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.
1/18
Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.
Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.
1/18
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Love this.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 PM
He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
I am connipting
February 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
I am connipting
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Thrilled to see Shadow Jack (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) included on @wtalabi.com's list!
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
reactormag.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Thrilled to see Shadow Jack (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) included on @wtalabi.com's list!
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
Ughhh The Fear™️ is so real. But you've got this. Go kick that last 40k's arse 💪🏽
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Ughhh The Fear™️ is so real. But you've got this. Go kick that last 40k's arse 💪🏽
Ha I love that strategy!
February 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Ha I love that strategy!
Have tea, need to find a die!
February 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Have tea, need to find a die!