Emma Osborne 🇵🇸
@redscribe.bsky.social
Horror/fantasy writer. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts etc. GRIEF EATER forth. at Interstellar Flight Press. CW16. SFWA. Queer. They/them 🏳️🌈👻
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Thrilled that my novella THE BEAST YOU’VE MADE OF ME is being published by @interstellarflight.bsky.social!! I can’t wait for you to read my queer zombie revenge story! 🖤✨
https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/acquisitions-from-the-2022-horror-novella-submissions-call-681162f2308f
https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/acquisitions-from-the-2022-horror-novella-submissions-call-681162f2308f
Ok so as there is another book coming out with this title we have updated mine to GRIEF EATER 🖤
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As part of his bold new vision for Canada, Avi Lewis, the progressive vying to lead the New Democratic Party, has proposed a series of "public options" for everything from groceries to telecoms to banking to address the nation's cost-of-living crisis.
NDP Candidate Avi Lewis Calls for 'Public Options' to Fight High Costs of Groceries, Housing, and Telecoms in Canada
“When people are being gouged at the checkout aisle, on their phone bills, and in their rents, it’s clear that the market is failing,” Lewis said.
www.commondreams.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
As part of his bold new vision for Canada, Avi Lewis, the progressive vying to lead the New Democratic Party, has proposed a series of "public options" for everything from groceries to telecoms to banking to address the nation's cost-of-living crisis.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
I finally watched Bring Her Back last night and fuck me, what a movie. Deeply upsetting, but brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I finally watched Bring Her Back last night and fuck me, what a movie. Deeply upsetting, but brilliant.
Who is up for poisoning pirate book sites somehow. Come on, someone should know how to do this
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Who is up for poisoning pirate book sites somehow. Come on, someone should know how to do this
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Monologues/ dialogues that went hard thread
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Monologues/ dialogues that went hard thread
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Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published.
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
Barb is getting the hang of her new magical ability, but she's discovering that when magic is involved, nothing is easy. Not work, not neighbours, & definitely not family.
Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published.
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
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Don't worry about me, but maybe share Skyla's direct buy store b/c that's where she makes the absolute most money - and she has vet bills. I cannot imagine seeing an author post "I have two cats nearing the end" and go oh, I should steal from her.
payhip.com/skyladawncam...
payhip.com/skyladawncam...
Skyla Dawn Cameron
Writer of horror, thrillers, mysteries, and urban fantasy. Fifth-generation crazy cat lady. Lover of coarse language. Proud supporter of Unlikable Female Characters™. My characters kill people so I do...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Don't worry about me, but maybe share Skyla's direct buy store b/c that's where she makes the absolute most money - and she has vet bills. I cannot imagine seeing an author post "I have two cats nearing the end" and go oh, I should steal from her.
payhip.com/skyladawncam...
payhip.com/skyladawncam...
Anna’s Archive contains at least four of my pirated short stories, including one that as far as I know is only in print in this particular collection: The Best Australian Horror and Fantasy 2014. Like, that wasn’t even on the Anthropic list.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Anna’s Archive contains at least four of my pirated short stories, including one that as far as I know is only in print in this particular collection: The Best Australian Horror and Fantasy 2014. Like, that wasn’t even on the Anthropic list.
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Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
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Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Hey look POTUS calling for military tribunals
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
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As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
hyperallergic.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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Ea-nasir lives rent free in all our hearts.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ea-nasir lives rent free in all our hearts.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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Shot - chaser - finisher
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Shot - chaser - finisher
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
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This is what modern slavery looks like
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is what modern slavery looks like
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By my count there will only be one (1) trans character on all of the major networks and streaming services as of January 2026.
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
By my count there will only be one (1) trans character on all of the major networks and streaming services as of January 2026.
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I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The Submission Grinder
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
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Speaking of, I'm $8,089 away from calling it quits on my fundraiser.
PACIFICALLY, to avoid getting stranded at clinic/births like yesterday due to my bank account, I need a car to keep this sacrifice from being all for naught.
If you got it like that it would be an immense relief.
PACIFICALLY, to avoid getting stranded at clinic/births like yesterday due to my bank account, I need a car to keep this sacrifice from being all for naught.
If you got it like that it would be an immense relief.
Oh Hai 👋🏿
If I can keep these gig contracts steady, the last 15% of this campaign (that I started in October 2022) will go to the bigger ticket items that I still need like neonate appropriate pulse oximeters, for ex., and my licensure exam fees.
This is what I came for.
If I can keep these gig contracts steady, the last 15% of this campaign (that I started in October 2022) will go to the bigger ticket items that I still need like neonate appropriate pulse oximeters, for ex., and my licensure exam fees.
This is what I came for.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Speaking of, I'm $8,089 away from calling it quits on my fundraiser.
PACIFICALLY, to avoid getting stranded at clinic/births like yesterday due to my bank account, I need a car to keep this sacrifice from being all for naught.
If you got it like that it would be an immense relief.
PACIFICALLY, to avoid getting stranded at clinic/births like yesterday due to my bank account, I need a car to keep this sacrifice from being all for naught.
If you got it like that it would be an immense relief.
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Also once again ARCHIVE YOUR WORK!!
The internet is not as permanent as you think, especially when it comes to your writing. PrintFriendlyPDF is a free Chrome extension that makes archiving super easy!
The internet is not as permanent as you think, especially when it comes to your writing. PrintFriendlyPDF is a free Chrome extension that makes archiving super easy!
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Also once again ARCHIVE YOUR WORK!!
The internet is not as permanent as you think, especially when it comes to your writing. PrintFriendlyPDF is a free Chrome extension that makes archiving super easy!
The internet is not as permanent as you think, especially when it comes to your writing. PrintFriendlyPDF is a free Chrome extension that makes archiving super easy!
After seeing that “do you believe in ghosts” post I would LOVE to hear your ghost stories!!
I have a friend who used to work in a bar that was haunted. Chairs would fly around, knives would spin in the kitchens. Spooked them out real good.
I have a friend who used to work in a bar that was haunted. Chairs would fly around, knives would spin in the kitchens. Spooked them out real good.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
After seeing that “do you believe in ghosts” post I would LOVE to hear your ghost stories!!
I have a friend who used to work in a bar that was haunted. Chairs would fly around, knives would spin in the kitchens. Spooked them out real good.
I have a friend who used to work in a bar that was haunted. Chairs would fly around, knives would spin in the kitchens. Spooked them out real good.
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL