Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
aaaaand we're off! The Trashcan Generator is ready for your Trashie selections and deliver prompts back to you 🦝 We have a handful of new prompts in among those bins. Get prompted before 8pm on 6th August. Look out for Swapsies Day on the 4th. trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... #submissioncalls
Good morning! Very foggy on Outer Cape Cod this morning, but personally, I love the foggy ones! Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion
Always a cracking day, whatever you see as you pinball between panels and workshops and interviews. Who's going?
Alex Davis@alexdavis1981.bsky.social · last wk.ICYMI, here's our full schedule of events for Edge-Lit 12 at QUAD - Derby this September - as always, we've got a lively and loaded day of events for readers and writers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg...
We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
I just don't think I should have to put up with this level of disrespect
I just don't think I should have to put up with this level of disrespect
The Bulb folks are a fine bunch if you have a story fit for a second turn in the spotlight. Quick responses too! Grateful to them for reprinting my sulky Gorgon story late last year: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/under-a...
Under Aegis - Leigh Loveday — Bulb Culture Collective
In return, I lacerate their hearts with flint.
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Bulb Culture Collective@bulbculture.bsky.social · 2w agoHi, everyone! Just a reminder that we are OPEN for your previously published writing! We want to read your fiction, your poetry, your CNF—anything! 💡 We’ll be temporarily closing our general subs in September, but we’re still open now!
Only thing worse than having the same earworm for a week is when it's a shite one. E=MC² by Big Audio Dynamite. Deeply irritating. AND IT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ask OpenAI if you are fishing correctly and it will tell you that you're the best fisherman in the world and you may have discovered a new way of fishing that will change the way people fish forever and also yes, dogs are fish
Can we also talk about the absolute batshitness of having to do workarounds for embedded generative AI because it makes so many errors and yet the *de facto* position of these major corporations seems to be that it is logical and sensible to inflict *incorrect functioning* on the world?
In the absence of new #Caturday material here's a picture I took at the zoo last week of an Arctic fox doing a blep
We've got an awesome array of panellists all lined up for Edge-Lit 12 here in Derby on the 19th September, and here's just some of the speakers you'll be able to see... www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #scifi #fantasy #horror #derby #derbyshire #events #convention #conference
When Amnesty International voices concerns and your first response isn't any degree of introspection but immediate lawsuit threats against a human rights organisation, you're accepting your role as the villain, right? You are unequivocally the villain and we should be entitled to regard you as such?
emily sunshine@threnody.northsky.social · 3w agothis is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.
Shouting about my short story collection "These Broken Little Worlds" once more! A tasting menu of stories incoming... 🧵 (Publisher buying options: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as... or Amazon if that's your thing: www.amazon.co.uk/These-Broken... ) /1
Many thanks to Trash Cat Lit and its tireless staff for choosing my story and helping me polish it to an apple-y shine! While you're there, have a truffle through Trash Cat Lit's other treasures - there are plenty of wonderful words to choose from 🌟
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 3w agoToday's spotlight is a flash by Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social🦝 We loved the two voices in this piece, how the MC compares herself to the fruit, and her fabulous transition. Reader Kathy: "I love the circularity, the movement to joyful description" trashcatlit.com/the-apple-tr...
6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
Hand-fed a wallaby (and a deer). They're such weird little guys (not the deer).
If you’re a writer who uses generative AI, you can stop. You can just stop. You can quit scraping together excuses for why it’s fine actually and start creating work in a way that requires no excusing. You can just stop. You should stop
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Today's summer spotlight is from @nastasyaparker.bsky.social and her storyful triptych. We loved the settings, the raw coming of age story, and love for lesser plantlife. Leigh: "Moving and deeply satisfying as it wraps itself around a full life" Read and listen: trashcatlit.com/the-flora-of...
Got mine. Ready to sit out in the garden this weekend with some bridge-based reading material and without, hopefully, heatstroke-related hospitalisation.
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you have enjoyed NFFD please consider buying our anthology ‘Mudlarking’ to support us. Full of fab stories on the theme of BRIDGES & micros by our micro comp winners it is available as a paperback or thrifty e book! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...
Our first spotlight from the summer issue is Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social🦝 We loved this dark, fungal tale. Reader @leighloveday.bsky.social said it has an "arresting opening paragraphs and some wonderfully uncomfortable lines throughout" Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/waxcap/
