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EC Hallewell

@echallewell.bsky.social

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Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on... I like shiny things 🌟 @em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thought I'd best do an intro, since people seem to do that...

I'm Em (they/them), probably mostly here as a writer of sad, slightly strange, queer and genderqueer sff. I also heard there's some great DS9 chat around...

Here's a picture of me looking somewhat hungover and in an awful mood 😄

Close-up photo of a 30-something year old white person with brown hair that's catching the sunlight from the sundries behind them. They're wearing rainbow sunglasses and a navy shirt with burnt orange and yellow and red geometric patterns. And they're wearing a tired, humourless smile. Reflected in one eye of the sunglasses is a hotel breakfast on a small, round table.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 16h

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

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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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 16h

Sitting in the coffee shop feeling my teeth, for research purposes

#AmWriting

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm... I would accept that alternative...

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 1d

Just a little nibble...?

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 1d

So pretty and tasty looking :)

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 1d

I often realise the same about myself. I think it's mostly okay...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool and awesome! :)

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be an old grump, but who tf is setting off a whole bunch of fireworks at half ten on a Monday night?

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh sat down to edit a dirty little thing about obsession and teeth with a *sprinkling* of body horror and I think it's nearly ready for feedback...

I love writing so very much

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Haha, yes, earplugs are your friends

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Meant to write before tea, got distracted by old photos on a long-lost hard drive... And now it's time to go out...

Ah well, there's always next life 🙃

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

So gorgeous

Jenni Coutts (she/her) @jennicoutts.bsky.social · 2d

Sketching again

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

oh lord, much luck to you...

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Well, Norah does at least...

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Of course you should!

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ABS @abs.ventures · 2d

Extraordinary. 'the BBC scrapped their interview with Polanski ... citing the need to cover last week’s Manchester synagogue terror attack.

Polanski, who is both Jewish, and from Manchester, was bumped by the show just days prior to airing, say the party.'

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 2d

Mwahaha, all for me ;p

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 3d

Haha a master criminal at work

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmm... Perhaps I am biased because I knew the truth all along...

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 3d

What kind of coke do you buy that looks all thick and has bits floating in it...?

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 3d

😁

EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 3d

That's fair