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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 1d
@tanaudel.bsky.social is always worth reading and following...
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Brisbane in 28 @brisbanein28.bsky.social · 3d
Aussie Author Highlights: Kathleen Jennings
How do you describe your work? Fairy-tale/Gothic fiction and illustration.
Where can we find you? tanaudel.wordpress.com, tanaudel @ Bsky, Insta, and Tumblr; girlfleeshouse on Bsky and Tumblr
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 1d
One of my favourite places in Canberra! Always enchanting.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
SO PROUD.
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Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social · 1d
In exciting news my Murderbot essay 'Nice Safe Emotions' from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social won the William Atheling Jr Award over the weekend! So unexpected and exciting!
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay looks at how imperial control can be maintained through various versions of violence, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social's new (free!) essay discusses living under imperial subjugation, and approaches to resistance, as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection ... timely perhaps?

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the fact that the stories in One Message Remains are written as a series of vignettes and not as a neat progression towards the fall of the Treotan Empire is a strength of the collection's writing. Each story follows a protagonist who, regardless of their initial orientation towards the Empire, is forced to reckon with the role in the regime. "Lives Under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 6d
Subscribing would be an awfully nice birthday present to me... 🤣
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 7d
Subscribing to Speculative Insight costs AUD30/yr (about GBP15, or USD19). You get an extra essay a month, plus the compilations twice a year - which always include an extra essay (sometimes two!).

OR you could subscribe for AUD200, and NEVER have to renew again!

www.speculativeinsight.com
Speculative Insight
A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.
www.speculativeinsight.com
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · 4d
Coode Street 686: Ken Liu, Technothrillers and AI Dreaming

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Episode 686: Ken Liu, Technothrillers and AI Dreaming | The Coode Street Podcast
This week we have a lively conversation with the remarkable Ken Liu, whose new thriller All That We See or Seem introduces a new protagonist, the gifted hacker Julia Z, in a tale that explores the gro...
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 4d
Times are hard. Perhaps not quite hard enough for Arthur to awaken from his long sleep, but other characters from mythology and history may still be here to lend a hand.

Let’s back it so they can be commissioned and we can find out!
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 4d
We've reached 50 backers. Thank you, everyone: www.kickstarter.com/...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 4d
Watching Prime Suspect is a wonderful historical record of changing communications technology and attitudes towards smoking.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Grant Watson @fictionmachine.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sure there are people out there that will defend Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, but honestly you don't want those kinds of opinions in your life. fictionmachine.com/2025/10/04/r...
REVIEW: Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
By 1990 New Line Cinema’s A Nightmare on Elm Street had seen the profitable release of five feature films and an anthology TV series, not to mention a wave of lucrative merchandising. Interna…
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 5d
Don’t wanna piggyback someone’s perfectly good post with book promo, but lrp:

Might I suggest The Woods All Black, an historical Appalachian gothic set in the late ‘20s that explores gender, sexuality, and trans/queer bodily autonomy? It’s also (1) horny (2) spooky and (3) a bash-back revenge story
A photo of me holding a copy of The Woods All Black, partly obscuring my face, in front of a brick wall and window
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 5d
heh heh queue aaaaallll the Empire jokes.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
I didn't do it deliberately, but it's an empire double-header this month!

www.speculativeinsight.com
Screenshot of the Speculative Insight webpage, showing the current and coming essays: one called Lives Under Empire, by Eric de Roulet, the other called The Empire of the Ranch and the Injustice of "Justice," by Moth Paulson.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 5d
Our Kickstarter campaign is closing in on 30% funded. Not bad for our second day. Check out what all the excitement is about: www.kickstarter.com/...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 6d
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 6d
It's honestly hard to express how exciting it was to hear "Just a Girl" for the first time as a certain subset of adolescent girl.
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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks Charles!! It’s looking like a good weekend!
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 6d
www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

We're hopefully doing a Welsh folklore anthology - gyffrous iawn! Please back and/or share widely!
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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Grant Watson @fictionmachine.bsky.social · 7d
By 1988, the Elm Street franchise has shifted about as far away as it can get from its bleak, gory slasher origins. Which do you prefer? Violent slasher Freddy, or self-aware comedy Freddy?
REVIEW: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
High schoolers Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) and Dan Jordan (Danny Hassel) race in a pickup truck to the house of their friend, exercise junkie Debbie Stevens (Brooke Theiss). They are trapped in a t…
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 7d
and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 8d
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 7d
With the launch of the Kickstarter, Apex is open again to short fiction submissions! We're looking for dark speculative fiction stories up to 9,000 words long. Pay is $0.08 per word. You can submit your stories here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 7d
WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.
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