The autistic experience of scrolling back through your photos: every now and then, a photo that is fully and entirely just a texture you liked

The Death of Robin Hood is not a great film, I don't think, and could reductively be described as "Geralt and Merida star in The Northman", but it is kind of haunting me nonetheless. It has that same hypnotic, dreamy pacing as The Northman, or The Green Knight, and the soundtrack is stunning.

oh man, had gotten all excited about Audacity 4 and how pretty it was, only to discover play-at-speed isn't implemented yet. Like I have the patience to edit at 1x!

One of the inherent contradictions at the heart of my current existence is that I abhor the reductive stereotype of ADHD as just shouting "Squirrel!" mid-sentence whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one

@meactnet.bsky.social A must-listen story from @podcastle.org as well as @mattdovey.com’s delicious rant at the end! podcastle.org Episode 944, Mail Order Magic. Thanks to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, author!

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

I just read Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E.M. Faulds for the first time and fuck does it hit home about disability and mental health and wanting to tear the system down. Excellent writing and a well deserved win!

Neil Williamson@neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is such a well deserved award for a writer who combines gorgeous prose, clear sight of our futures and a heartbreaking degree of empathy in her wonderful stories. You can hear/read it here (and you really should!): podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...

Had a dream about a dream about my late father-in-law last night, wherein his spirit visited to tell me where to find some things in the attic, and it all feels weirdly meaningful given that neither he nor the meta dream have ever figured for me before. Weirdly discombobulated as a result.

I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'Susan Smith, one of the three directors of FWS, also called for some of Scotland’s equality organisations to be defunded.....she singled out organisations such as Rape Crisis Scotland' Feminism! www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Alan Moore on now.

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Duolingo has many flaws, I'm sure, but it sure does know its audience when it teaches you "I want to quit" as the first sentence in a module on discussing work

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.

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I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily

what a story to go out on!! we are so grateful to all of you for reading for sending in your stories and poems and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈

Fantasy Magazine@fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 9mo ago

the time has come the final GLORIOUS story ✨ "When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea." Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.

Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.

Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It’s a sci-fi Friday release! We have a brand new story from Matt Dovey, titled “Reflexive Benevolence Imperative,” in which a fish-ship and its human pilot contemplate the emotional toll of being first responders. #flashfiction #scifi @mattdovey.com www.flashfictiononline.com/article/refl...

Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning

Matt Dovey@mattdovey.com · 10mo ago

Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!

Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!

Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. * the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers

Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office

Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...

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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post. It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial. I won't make any further comment here.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people? growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.

Diana Dima@dianadima.com · 11mo ago

New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...

New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...

Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing

People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site

Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?

Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain. Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.