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Paul Stephenson

@hollowstone.press

Writes horror and science fiction, made by hand to be read by lamplight: Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, Darkness Rises. ATProto enthusiast. Trans rights are human rights. Fuck AI 'art'.

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Nate Bethea@inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 4h ago

a little while back @hkesvani.bsky.social floated the idea of doing a newsletter for @trashfuture.bsky.social in which he'd write / edit / commission pieces, and also share stories of the situations that only he himself could get into. the first issue of that is here, and I also wrote for it

MONSTERS: A Trashfuture Newsletter | Trashfuture

For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to figure out how to begin the inaugural issue of Monsters. One version goes as follows: It’s bee

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Paul Stephenson@hollowstone.press · 6h ago

Been on a mission these last few months to listen to all my physically owned albums (not helped by me constantly buying more) and I've got one hell of a day's listening ahead of me.

Screenshot of my Plex library showing 18 album covers released between June 1994 and October 1995. Each cover is labelled with the artist and album title, as well as the release date. Albums are Kyuss, Welcome to Sky Valley; Machine Head, Burn My Eyes; Portishead, Dummy; R.E.M., Monster; Suede, Dog Man Star; The Black Crowes, Amorica; Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York; Pearl Jam, Vitalogy; Radiohead, The Bends; Monster Magnet, Dopes to Infinity; Tricky, Maxinquaye; Faith No More, King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime; White Zombie, Astro-Creep: 2000; Reef, Replenish; The Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust; Kyuss, ...And the Circus Leaves Town; Skunk Anansie, Paranoid & Sunburnt; Deftones, Adrenaline. Fuck yeah.
Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 5d ago

Ok here's a gentle reminder while I'm talking about cover artists--literary translation is also a human activity that requires expertise, and please don't feed books through ai to get them translated (In France the translator gets royalties as they should)

Paul Stephenson@hollowstone.press · 6d ago

Just looking at the @atgfestival.bsky.social lineup after letting it sit for a day. Bonkers good. Neurosis, Elder, Russian Circles, Brutus, Slift, The Ocean, Conjurer, Psychonaut, Sub Rosa, Hippotraktor, Mur, Ronker. That's not even all the bands I want to see, that's just the ‘holy crap’ bands.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last wk.

The reaction to Shabana Mahmood's immigration 'reforms' shows exactly why this is such a dead-end for a Labour government. Lambasted by the right-wing press, hated by the left and ruinous for all those people actually affected by them. Pleasing nobody, whilst making everything worse

Sherif EA@sherif.mu.social · last wk.

We’re asking @ec.europa.eu to mandate social platforms to hold users' data, connections and interactions in a personal data server that follows one common, enforced standard. We believe the current rules, as enforced, stifle citizen’s online freedom and do not enable competition.

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · last wk.

As long as switching means starting over, challenger social apps can't compete with the dominant platforms. We joined Europe's builders to ask Brussels for one structural change: let people take their identity, content and network with them, by giving every account a personal data server dfom.eu

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · last wk.

As long as switching means starting over, challenger social apps can't compete with the dominant platforms. We joined Europe's builders to ask Brussels for one structural change: let people take their identity, content and network with them, by giving every account a personal data server dfom.eu

Freedom of movement in digital Europe

Leaving a platform should not mean losing your network. Builders' joint position paper on opening the social internet up to competition. Read it and sign on.

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Paul Stephenson@hollowstone.press · 2w ago

To say that I was nervous about this weekend would be a bit of an understatement, but Bristolcon was brilliant, and made me feel like I've not been wasting the last decade of my life with this writing nonsense. It may have given me enough hope to tackle the next one, too. #bristolcon

Me sat at my table at Bristolcon, with all my books laid out and a stupid grin on my face.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Paul Stephenson@hollowstone.press · 4w ago

I once left a really good job as a newspaper editor to go to a new job at a magazine, when I turned up everyone was shooting daggers at me, turned out they’d not been paid for a month and were livid that they were hiring people. By the end of the second day customs and excise shuttered the business.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 4w ago

In honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t give a fuck about what the public ‘reckon’ about diagnoses, especially when the reckoning is in large part due to a concerted media campaign over recent years.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 4w ago

With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...