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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 8h

Rating: Fucking banger.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

Since the article itself is paywalled... my new novel is called THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS, which @losbennett.bsky.social sold to @titanbooks.bsky.social earlier this year. It's a fantasy adventure in a queer-normative world featuring fractured futures, sapphic romance, and giant wasps.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

That means a LOT coming from the author of The Tiger's Daughter! ❤️

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

Not exactly what I said, but I won't turn down a sale!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

The God-King Chronicles was a fairly serious epic fantasy trilogy. This is... less serious. Sort of.

Some of you know I write for IPs. Some of you know the faction with which I am most often connected.

Basically, I engaged that part of my brain and used it to write a fantasy novel, and I had FUN.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 8h

Since the article itself is paywalled... my new novel is called THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS, which @losbennett.bsky.social sold to @titanbooks.bsky.social earlier this year. It's a fantasy adventure in a queer-normative world featuring fractured futures, sapphic romance, and giant wasps.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

Titan snags ‘refreshingly original’ fantasy adventure from Mike Brooks

Titan Books has acquired a new fantasy adventure novel from The God-King Chronicles author Mike Brooks.

www.thebookseller.com

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

Hah! Yes, I can see how that would flag your specific interests…

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

Hell, it was paywalled for *me*…

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

(anyone who replies to this with "but when are you writing [x]" will get blocked. Yes, even if you're joking, because a) I won't know, and b) I won't care.

Let people be glad about things without being offended it's not the specific thing you wanted)

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRWf...

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 9h

www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

Titan snags ‘refreshingly original’ fantasy adventure from Mike Brooks

Titan Books has acquired a new fantasy adventure novel from The God-King Chronicles author Mike Brooks.

www.thebookseller.com

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Ryan "The dog ate Dan Scott's transplant" Hart @profounddemon.bsky.social · 14h

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 15h

First I think, but they all work.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 15h

“COCKNEYS, dammit”, is in fact my response when people ask me what Orks sound like.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 15h

In “obviously AI email scams” I have just been emailed by MICHELLE OBAMA, who is looking to connect with fellow authors, yes this is definitely 100% genuine, how could I have any doubt.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 1d

The global far right are slowly working through:

1. We want to deport all minorities
2. But without them demographics will implode the economy
3. What if we brought them all back but this time without rights

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Russell Smith @rswings.bsky.social · 16h

Never take advice on an English degree from someone who won't spell check their own merch.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

this made me actually laugh out actual loud

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 1d

The beauty of twilight, night touched by day, light fading into dark, a world barely visible, glowing, a world we never imagined.....

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #outdoors #sunset #sunrise #adventure

The magnificent dead trees of Deadvlei contrast against a towering red dune, clothed in warm twilight that is so special in Namibia. A surreal, uniquely beautiful scene, so typical of this amazing country!

The deeply contorted lands of Namibia give rise to some truly unusual and otherworldly landscapes. This particular evening, fierce winds were blowing, and the combination of twilight and windblown dust blessed us with exceptional light, transforming these strange lands into the surreal.

The dunes in Namibia's Sossusvlei are all sand, except this one, and the beautiful interplay of the protruding rocks and textured sand comes to its full expression when clothed in dusk's soft, warm twilight.

The quality of light in Namibia is like none I have encountered anywhere else. It transforms Namibia's unique, at times surreal, landscapes into a world of dreams. A world of layers, punctuated by beautiful acacia trees, is painted in magical light which brings out the hidden, rich colors and textures of distant mountains.⁠

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19h

if nothing else it's very funny to say you want to get rid of english degrees two days after you give everyone chocolate with "britian" written on it

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 18h

And everyone knows that you can’t win a GE unless The Sun says you should, so parties start chasing The Sun’s approval.

Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 18h

I’d like to say no. I suspect a part of it is that the traditional holders of racist views in politics also hold views that are convenient to billionaires who own media franchises. So you stoke racism to keep the right wing in power, in order to ensure you don’t get taxed too heavily.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 23h

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 23h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 19h

A crisp £5 note to the first journalist to ask Kemi Badenoch if she has a humiliation kink

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 21h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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