Come join us at LA Worldcon! With stellar programmes online and in-person across timezones, there's plenty to enjoy this year -- especially if you're a fan of our Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds or Neil Williamson! guide.lacon.org Here comes the GSFWC schedule... (1/6)

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Ed Jefferson@edjefferson.com · 23h ago

Oh so having hobbies is illegal now is it

What price an extended lunch break? Explore this and the importance of a rabbit called Beans in the new E.N. Auslender tale, 'Feed Them on Your Dreams', out now in Clarkesworld. clarkesworldmagazine.com/auslender_08... @enauslender.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Feed Them on Your Dreams by E.N. Auslender

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Fewer than 30 people need to pick up this absolute ✨bargain✨ bundle of stellar work by Scottish #comics creators for us to hit our target. There is so much good stuff in here. please do consider picking it up if you've got the means 🙏 itch.io/b/3727/scott... #indiecomics #noai

My newest story, Feed Them on Your Dreams, is now available to read for free at @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Check it out. clarkesworldmagazine.com/auslender_08...

Feed Them on Your Dreams by E.N. Auslender

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Your regular reminder that you can't appease a bully. You show them your belly, they'll just bully you even more. Seriously, @amnestyuk.bsky.social, on behalf of all of us, stand up to this spoiled, schoolyard beehutch, will you? Give her the bloody nose she deserves. You're letting everyone down.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

As a child of an age gap relationship, I'm having to point this out again. It's the age gap *in the context of* clear grooming by one partner of the other. Yes, the clarification is important.

This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.

Looking forward to the next few decades in writing and journalism.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

This is your regular reminder that the reason you've been tired and discombobulated all day is you forgot your meds. It's okay, I forgot too.

also obsessed with this and, as someone who just spent almost all of a "free day to write in" doing necessary errands and life admin, EQUALLY obsessed with the amount of books I could potentially write if I had the luxury of not doing my own groceries & cooking

Tansy Gardam@tansyg.bsky.social · last wk.

obsessed with Ian Flemming's daily schedule - swim - brunch - write 1500 words no edits just freestyle - lobster hunting - pink gin - lunch - siesta - sit in garden - another swim - 500 more words - "a couple of powerful drinks" - dinner - scrabble with wife - sleep

Uh deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...

AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel

That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.

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Otherwise Award will run a fundraising auction at @laworldcon.bsky.social next month! Register now www.lacon.org/register/ so you can watch and laugh on Sat., August 30th, 6-7pm PDT (in UTC: Mon. 31 August, 01:00-0:200). Details: otherwiseaward.org/2026/07/join... #Worldcon #WorldCon2026 #LAConV

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Andy Burnham: Kick Palantir out of our NHS!

I just signed the campaign calling on the Prime Minister to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police, can you ad your name now?

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Save the CCA petition. c.org/KB92Pg5qx6

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Save the CCA: Keep 350 Sauchiehall Street as a Public Cultural Asset

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Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

Huel ads boasting about this guy not eating any solid fuel and just drinking huel shakes. Is that not a really bad idea in the long term?

"For all you might care," said Dougal, acidly, "this wine might be my blood." "Time for bed," spake the Lord.

Jack Harrison@jlharrison.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ve found out that if you google Zebedee the AI overview will pull through a description of the biblical Zebedee and an image of Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout.

Looking forward to this event in Aberdeen on September 9th! www.waterstones.com/events/scott...

Scottish Fantasy Panel | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Scottish Fantasy Panel today.

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Happy UK Book Birthday to our alumna Eliza Chan! See you in #Glasgow next month. @littlebrown.bsky.social

Eliza Chan@elizachanwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

I am back from my very sporadic use of Blue Sky to let you know I'm doing a bunch of Harbour of Hungry Ghosts events in July and August. Would love to see you there if you can! All links in my bio and the thread below.

Time for a long overdue update on Long Story Short, hosted by our Robin C.M. Duncan and David Green! Right now, they've got interviews with Wole Talabi, Joe Abercrombie, Katalina Watt, and an 11th anniversary special on Black Shuck Books. Listen at the link below: @britfantasysoc.bsky.social (1/2)

FYI Sooz Kempner is pivoting to analog horror.

Sooz Kempner@soozuk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Watched an ep of the Hurricane Katrina dox on Netflix last night and then dreamt us and tons of horses were evacuated because of an "unspecified attack" and the attack turned out to be...a 100ft double-helix with the head of a red prehistoric elephant. It DEVOURED livestock. Artists impression:

We put this one up last Monday :(

CEEFAUX@ceefaux.bsky.social · 2w ago

New week, new CEEFAUX, old story

How much fucking harder could it get?

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last wk.

#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"

When I die, I want bits of me to go to nature like this.

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · last wk.

When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.

Wherefore art the Junior Positions? I was asked this question, so here's a post. It's a complicated issue and this is a subjective answer. My thoughts, offered as an explanation of the industry, not a personal perspective of how things should work. Thread -

For Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week, I'm gonna toot my own horn a little and talk about @blog.readindiefantasy.com! This little indie blog I run with @nils.readindiefantasy.com has now hit 500 articles! We've reviewed 190 indie and self-published SFFH books! #SPAAW

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Because holding life-ruining obligation over people's heads is only beautiful to vindictive arseholes.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?

News just in: Thomas Aquinas is now a Servo Skull. #Warhammer40k #HeadCanonAccepted

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 8mo ago

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE