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Leigh Loveday

@leighloveday.bsky.social

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Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · Dec 31

2024 publications round-up time! Settle in, you love it, I did an image and everything. Listed from long to short and then slapped on top of a photo taken from my back door, with links and word counts further down the thread: 🪐📚

2024 publications by Leigh Loveday. Stories listed are Bad Lore in Mobius Blvd magazine; Playthings and The Choosing One in the Wyrms 2 anthology; Testimony co-written with Salena Casha at Icebreakers Lit; Yes, Drain Minister at Silly Goose Press; The Unknown Life of Luíza at Trash Cat Lit; Put the Knife Down at Bullshit Lit; Bell Clapper, c. 2200 BC at Voidspace; Eight Sins at Paragraph Planet

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 1d

The 'other life' book recs you dropped here brought to mind another one I loved and you might too: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Stunner.

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 2d

Hello new followers! If you've joined me after my spooky settings task for @cbcreative.bsky.social, you might want to check out my micro-collection of three short horror stories with new twists on old settings. It's a lunch-break steal at 0.99 on kindle or free on Kindle U!
amzn.eu/d/b2ySJKM

Image is of Ally, a white-skinned person with long dark hair, wearing a black Harley jacket on a tube platform and holding up a copy of London Weird by Ally Wilkes.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 3d

a picture of a man and a cat with treat yoself you deserve it

Alt: TREAT YOSELF YOU DESERVE IT!

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 3d

Totally agree. Penn absolutely owned it, the mad bastard. And that chase scene near the end was one of the most weirdly hypnotic things I've seen in a while.

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday night from Void Baby, a sweet blameless creature who has never even considered let alone committed a single crime.

Void Baby, a criminal, evading the law by lurking in his bed at the top of a cat tower he has long since outgrown

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 7d

Our Book Club pick for October is here and it’s a Halloween special – Dark Matter by Michelle Paver is a terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.

Join us! www.hayfestival.com/p-24395-hay-...

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 6d

Just a li'l guy who likes the sound of the new book

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 7d

A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light?
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 9d

Fingers crossed it stars Terry O'Quinn as a dour police chief whose parents were killed by separate lemon impacts

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 9d

a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of the words perfection

Alt: Michael Fassbender professes perfection

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 9d

We love to see it ❤️

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 9d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Trying to wait till I get my hands on a print copy before reading it cover to cover, but I did jump in to read your story and thought it was beautifully done!

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Ah nice! Yeah, it's my first non-drabble antho too, very pleased it's this one. And seven is plenty old enough to learn what POS stands for, right? Plus they'll be saving a badger.

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Happy launch week, TOC neighbour 🥳

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Yes Hercule! What a majestic giant feline detective he grew up to be ❤️

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Warms my frosty heart to be part of this. 27 gloriously snackable stories! Out now for nine quid! For The Wildlife Trusts! Even if you hate my story, you can't possibly hate all 27 AND animals AND the concept of charity!

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10d

We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Squeezed a lot in! Cathedral and gardens, World Museum, Bold Street, Albert Dock - got a bloody galleon as well now haven't they 💀

Galeón Andalucía anchored at Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock, next to a London double decker bus refitted as a diner, just to ensure all photos of the ship look extra weird

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Did the thing!

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 10d

Got up on the roof of Liverpool Cathedral, opened up a new area of the map to explore, basically completed Far Cry: Liverpool

Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 11d

I know Nightmare Magazine isn't the first place you might think to look for joy, but this knockabout Thai ghost story is great: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...

Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine

Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...