It got a little beat up in the post but I'm still very glad to get my copy of this... @datlow.bsky.social
Paul StJohn Mackintosh
@pstjmack.bsky.social
Poet, writer of weird, dark, fantastic, historical and horror fiction, historian, journalist, TTRPG creator, francophile 🏴 🇨🇵
Took a long while for my author copies to arrive, but very glad now they have
Not quite back to full function yet but getting there - complete with improvised pressure bandage cut from an old sock
The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...
I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Best of British bundle today! storybundle.com/bestof w/ @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & more! Just $30 for 15 books! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated!
The end of reading is soon followed by the end of thinking www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Mathematics refutes bogus AI hype. "Language models cannot learn all computable functions. As soon as they are tasked with solving a broad spectrum of issues, they will inevitably hallucinate. There is no training method, no architectural variant, and no amount of data that can shift this limit."
How Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI
Hallucinations of language models are not an engineering problem: they stem from mathematical limits proven since the 1930s.
heise.de
Installed Fedora Linux on my old HP netbook, and the thing's never been faster or more responsive. Linux is rapidly leaving Windows 11 far behind.
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect"; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/30/s... #Pluralistic 1/
I'm definitely on board with this response as regards Runequest
Rob Donoghue@rdonoghue.bsky.social · 2mo agoWell, god dammit, I'm mad that there's nothing to get mad about here! :) More seriously, great follow up, and I'm especially glad that Mark took my response as discussion, not as "DIE IN A FIRE, INFIDEL"
A very iäppy birthday to Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan, one of the absolute best living authors of Lovecraftian fiction and fantastic fiction in general. And many more, because how could we do without them. lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Caitlin...
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (26 May 1964 - present) is an Irish-born American author of weird fiction, much of which includes Lovecraftian themes. They have published over 10 novels in the science fiction...
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It is a scandalous offence, look you! The good Welshman Ruadri Cadwallader, god of the dancefloors of Leith! 🏴
Waters of Leith Season 2 (Act 5): The Fairy Mound (part 1) | Rivers of London Actual Play
YouTube video by Miskatonic Playhouse
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Roland Banks and Trish Scarborough investigate a nautical mystery in Alaska in the first chapter of a new Arkham Horror serial...
The Beginning…of the End?
As promised, my follow up to Shadows of the Drowned City, Call of the Cursed Sea, started last week. The first chapter drops our intrepid duo, Roland Banks and Trish Scarborough, into a nautical mystery in Alaska. What secrets does an abandoned Russian merchantman hold, and what does it have to do with the enigmatic Randall Tillinghast? Read on and find out! And if you enjoy these serials, why not check out my Arkham Horror novels, featuring the exploits of gentlewoman thief and adventuress, Countess Zorzi?
joshuamreynolds.co.uk
British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Magazine or Periodical are: 📚 Ginger Nuts of Horror / @gnofhorror.com 📚 Remains 📚 Phantasmagoria 📚 Strange Horizons / @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚 Mythaxis Magazine / @mythaxis.bsky.social
Been enjoying a terrific stay at the Ultharian Embassy - a.k.a. TL Wiswell's great place in South London. Great food, great books, great hospitality and feline overlords!
A great evening at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, with Ben Adam Sohawon reading "The Haunter of the Dark", then TL Wiswell's poignant and chilling mini-opera "The Dunwich Horror Picture Show". The audience woofed, chirped, and chanted on cue & had a fantastic time. Great work the creators! @Lovecraft
The very remarkable Atlantis Bookshop in Bloomsbury goes Spare - Austin Osman Spare to be exact
NEW: The Starforged Asset Deck Assets are a key component of your Starforged character, and represent your background, skills, traits, companions, vehicles, and resources. Whether playing solo, co-op, or guided, one deck is all you need for everyone at the table. from @shawntomkin.bsky.social
@cymerafestival.co.uk Glad to have got my attendance at Cymera 2026 sorted, and can't wait
Sad news: Julian and I talked over the weekend and decided to withdraw the Lovecraft Investigations RPG stretch goal. Better news: I'll release what I've done so far (with tweaks) as an ashcan at UK Games Expo. The working title is "The Cthulhu Conspiracy: The Dunwich Horror".
Pleasant Green@index.pleasantgreen.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3mo agoYou may have noticed that one of our stretch goals for the Call of Cthulhu campaign, a rules-light TTRPG based on the show, created by Graham Walmsley, has disappeared from the literature. It is not gone forever, but just from this campaign, and the simple reason is that I got a little too […]
Being just a jobbing writer in Canada I'm grateful not to need a GoFundMe to fund my fight with cancer, but if you'd like to buy a book or two anyway... www.williammeikle.com
William Meikle's Official Website
Scottish writer, now in Canada. Over thirty novels in genre presses and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries.
williammeikle.com
Ganes de llegir el llibre de @doctorow.pluralistic.net Si et preocupa Internet i la digitalització bigtech actual, pots recolzar als pensadors que proposen solucions, com el Cory. I just backed The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Disenshittifying the shitty future that the AI bros dream of, with a new DRM-free audiobook, ebook and hardcover!
kickstarter.com
Hope to be at Cymera - all the best to everyone there anyway!
Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson.bsky.social · 3mo agoHeyyyy lovelies I have bunch of events with splendid folks coming up in June & it would be tops if some of you felt like joining us! 🖤 @cymerafestival.co.uk tix: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26 Dundee: www.waterstones.com/events/rafae... Edinbugh: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
It's a great problem to have, I know, but my ebook review inbox is so jammed up with titles, I hardly know where to start...