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Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. SFF Author. Poet. 🦉 Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022) They/Them. rachelahandley.com

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · Aug 15

My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...

'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'

Gingerbread House - 365tomorrows

Author: Rachel Handley “This is a terrible idea” I said. My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain. I was now almost fully formed and, with nothing else to do, I told the wit...

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 1d

I'm delighted to say that I will be running an online Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for @octocon.bsky.social on 11th October, 4 pm.

Get ready for some philosophical fiction!

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Poster showing a pink/red octopus with a cute face. The background is a white and blue water cartoon-like graphic. The text reads: Would you walk away from Omelas? An Ursula Le Guin Themed Creative Writing Workshop, 11th October, 4 pm, online. In this workshop, led by science fiction writer, poet, and philosophy lecturer Dr Rachel Handley, you will be invited to explore Le Guin's short stories and related themes. There will be opportunities to respond to writing prompts based on Le Guin's and other's work throughout the workshop. The workshop will be very interactive, and writers at all levels are very welcome to attend. You'll also have the chance to read out what you've written during the workshop.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 20h

Agreed! It's wonderful!

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 1d

Yes and sometimes. I am known to switch allegiance to green on occasion.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 1d

The workshop is online only. The convention has both online and in-person options.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 1d

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 1d

Going to the shop around the corner now to beat the lunch time rush for average sandwhiches 💪

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 2d

Glad everyone is safe and that the damage was only minimal!

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 2d

I also feel this way about space. Being in space looking down on the earth sounds terrifying. Presumably it is also quite a beautiful sight. But I think I'd mostly feel terror.

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 2d

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 2d

Caves are one of those types of spaces which would be cool to explore but absolutely not by me because I would immediately perish.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 2d

It really does

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 6d

Bless past Rachel for buying biscuits for their office*

*mcvities dark chocolate digestives - no messing around here

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 6d

Congratulations!

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 6d

Hahaha excellent addition!

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 6d

That's me in the corner
That's me in the park, I'm
Several thousand pigeons
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've coo'd too much
I haven't coo'd enough

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 23d

*slides Possible Worlds towards you like a cat trying to knock something off a counter top*

rachelahandley.com/books/

#booksky

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 13d

I briefly popped into the Post Grad room to print something and met someone who I taught when she was in her first year UG whislt I was doing my PhD. She is now doing her PhD 🙂

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 13d

Excellent! Here are some owls: 🦉🦉🦉

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 13d

I deserve a treat, probably

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 13d

First lecture of the year complete!

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 19d

Yesterday I attended the induction for our first year philosophy students and realised that it was 18 years, almost to the day, when I was a Liverpool philosophy student attending my induction. Possibly in the very same room. It was both a delightful and surreal realisation.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 23d

*slides Possible Worlds towards you like a cat trying to knock something off a counter top*

rachelahandley.com/books/

#booksky

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 23d

As always, today is a good day to support a writer, an artist, a creator. If you have the means, commission an art piece, leave a tip, buy a book. Or you can always signal boost their work or write them a nice comment.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 23d

Agreed. Giant moth friend 💔

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 23d

NOOOO