DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME? If so, follow this thread and I will post one horror related question every day starting tomorrow! If not, then best mute the hashtag #30DaysOfFright otherwise I'll get on your tits x

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

This is brilliant. I tend to put things into SF metaphors & now I see the trolley prob. as another parallel with Omelas, The Cold Equations & indeed, Kobayashi Maru. All of which I think tell us to go and rewrite the story/ world because we lose if we even allow these scenarios to arise. Thank you.

labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.

it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.

Thank you for sharing @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social @runalongwomble.bsky.social @sarahmatthews.bsky.social @alifeinbooks.bsky.social @inthebookgarden.bsky.social @noveldeelights.bsky.social

Heads up for a rare London appearance for Marisa and myself. We'll be taking part in the St Andrew's Book Festival on November 29th, alongisde Allan Gaw, and we'll be chaired by none other than the incomparable @damedenisemina.bsky.social.
Details at the link:
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Hello Lunchtime Crowd - a magician’s home can be a dangerous place

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Just finished The Winter Job and preparing to review. But really, it’s so ridiculously good, what do I say? Getting distinct Ealing Comedy vibes.

Our fabulous @liljawriter.bsky.social and Antti Tuomainen are coming to Aye Write on Sunday 9th November – 12.45pm – chatting to Neil McKay!

They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob

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Woke up to the news that Publisher’s Weekly, the main American weekly trade news magazine, included my new novel from Lethe Press in their Editors’ Pick for the best new books!
Can’t stop smiling!

“Full of vivid dream sequences, sapphic longing, and insightful philosophizing”

Luke Arnold’s Sunder City books?

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

New review by David today

“Red sauce or brown?”

Perfect

But if the Party told you that two plus two was five, then two plus two was five.

Is that your guitar?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man possessed of a wife must be in need of a flitch of bacon.

He’s thinking, baconbaconbacon. She’s thinking, where is the handsome, slim young man I married.

ICYMI…

RISQUE GALORE

The origin of presenting a flitch of bacon to any man who can swear that for a year and a day he never has had a quarrel with his wife, nor wished himself unmarried since his wedding-day, dates back to the year 1211.