I'll be offering a workshop on Found Footage Stories this Saturday (Sign up in advance below!) as well as speaking on two panels on Sunday! Hope to see some of you there! 🐙

Octocon@octocon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Coming to Octocon in Cork? Sign-ups are now open for workshops, a TTRPG, and Meet the Author sessions (your chance for an informal chat with our guests). Sign up online by 10pm the night before, or check at the info desk on the day. Full programme including sign-up links at prog.octocon.com

We had some incredible panels last weekend, and they're still available for another month!

Flights of Foundry@flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Missed it? It was cool. We've got you covered. There's still time to register and gain access to alllllll the videos for the next 30 days! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...

happy bi visibility day from the nobody believes you hand sofa

MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME

What a great start to the convention!

Catherine Tavares@cjtavares.bsky.social · 2w ago

Y'all, the Mixed Media panel at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social was SO MUCH FUN!!! I had such a great time chatting with @kaidelmas.bsky.social @gtkorbin.bsky.social and @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social Thank you everyone! If you missed it, the recording is up for registered attendees right now!

Science isn't a statistical gachapon. The contempt these clowns have for the bedrock processes underlying knowledge production & scholarship truly knows no limit. It was bad enough when—as a scholar in an interdisciplinary field—I had to deal w/ quants reviewing qualitative/humanistic papers badly.

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm in Flights of Foundry this year! We'll talk about Mixed Media and Experimental Formats, Greek mythology today and balancing romance arcs with plot! I'll also be moderating a panel about horror across mediums! There's still time to register and watch the panels live, or rewatch them later!

Flights of Foundry@flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 3w ago

This year you can replay non-reading sessions! You can replay whether you missed it the first time around or just want to grab those cool recommendations you didn't have time to write down. Access lasts for 30 days. This is only for registered attendees though: flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

Folklore Horror from Flame Tree Press is out today! In it you can find an incredible collection of stories, including my own short "For Limited Appearances", inspired by Northern Greek traditions and the home you've spent a lifetime trying to outgrow. www.flametreepublishing.com/folklore-hor...

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.

Just watched Coyote vs Acme and both I'm delighted at how fun it was and absolutely furious at the fact that people wanted to keep it in the vault forever because all that mattered was the money. Animation is art. Art has value. Please go support this movie!

I need you all to know I put an alarm on to wake up before the sunrise to see the planets, walked out half-asleep and remembered I live in Ireland. ☁️☁️ pray we'll actually be able to see the eclipse/meteor showers later 😂

From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for.

Proofreader: this sentence will work better if you do XYZ Me: DELETE SENTENCE Proofreader: I think you need to tie this back in. Me: DELETE PARAGRAPH Proofreader: It's been sixteen chapters and you've not actually introduced this character, he just pops in and out Me: DELETE ALL

Me when the spellcheck in Word keeps giving me wrong suggestions:

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

Ten years today since @adapalmer.bsky.social's Too Like the Lightning came out! Still my favourite series of the twenty-first century so far.

The most preposterous part about this to me is that I (and I imagine most of ESL writers/readers) specifically IMPROVED their language skills through looking up words they didn't recognize. My teacher granted me access to her library because she knew it was the best way to learn!

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · 3mo ago

I've been getting direct correspondence from readers telling me I should not use unfamiliar-to-them words since my first novel came out in 2018. They usually act like they're doing me a favour by letting me know I've screwed up (by forcing a reader to the dictionary) so I can do better next time.

For a fiction author there can be no glory so great, no award so gleaming, no praise that so warms the heart, as unsolicited fan art

After seven weeks of working on my newest project and 81k worth of words, I have a finished first draft. 😭 Personal record broken. Now what do I do with my life?

not sure how to end your novel? just stop writing

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

I'm watching the new Young Sherlock series and I haven't seen such blatant homoeroticism between two leads that weren't in an actual gay show since BBC's Merlin. 😂 I'm having a great time.

🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀 (oldie but goldie)

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

Thrilled to announce that my short story "For Limited Appearances" will appear in Flame Tree Press' new Folklore Horror anthology! Loosely based on Northern Greece's carnival traditions, I'm so excited to share modern folklore for a change, especially with a story so close to my heart.

Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Folklore Horror

Our next Gothic Fantasy anthology is focused on all things Folklore Horror, and we're delighted to announce the list of authors included in the book! Available from August 2026 and featuring a forewor...

blog.flametreepublishing.com

The most depressing part about job-hunting currently is having to keep removing all the AI training jobs that keep popping up in my searches.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 7mo ago

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.