S Slottje Author (she/her)
@sslottjeauthor.bsky.social
Author of (primarily speculative fiction) stories and novels, also reader thereof. My flintlock fantasy novel Wayward Wings came out in 2024, and I'm bimbling my way through writing the next one https://sslottje-author.com/
Really, really important for Democrats to understand that if we allow "enforcing the rule of law" to be redefined as "getting even" we are cooked.
MS NOW@ms.now · last wk."The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
When I was a teenager, my dad introduced me to Shakespeare. I introduced him to Star Trek - The Next Generation. Earlier this year, I lost my dad. Now I've lost my captain
Have any of you got tips on how to put your elevator pitch together?
The animated features at the London Film Festival. Happy to fly the flag as the ONLY 🇬🇧 animated feature film in our home film fest, and an indie film to boot! @2000ad.bsky.social
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
Let's #EndtheStigma together 💙 Men's mental health matters. Instead of saying "Man up!" We should be saying "Open up." 🫂 #MentalHealth #itsokaynottobeokay
It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5mo ago"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
The world's largest dedicated space for illustration, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the brainchild of celebrated the British illustrator, is all set to open its doors in London on June 5.
CHELTENHAM TRANS LIBERATION PROTEST - TODAY! We will be reporting on this from 13:00 onwards cc. @nightkristina.bsky.social However, before that @flintywrites.bsky.social will be reporting on Durham Alt pride. Come back at around 11:00 for that.
Oh, good. Let's use the racist tech that everyone knows has a problem with non-white faces.
AI facial recognition to check age of asylum seekers from next year
The Home Office says the tool will make it easier to identify adult migrants "attempting to game the system".
bbc.co.uk
AI is not inevitable…unless we let it. It should be scaled down to a tool that supplies its own sustainable energy and resources. It’s capable of this…yet tech AI bros want you to believe otherwise.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 6mo ago"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Alex Andreou’s podcast, @alexpodyssey.bsky.social, which tracks the way Greek myths have changed and been interpreted across time. It’s really cool to see the shift in folklore and myths across cultures and realise we’re part of a longer, weirder tradition than our 9-5, meal-deal lives suggest 2/2.
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here's North West-based fantasy author Ben S. Eaton, whose best ideas come together while out walking the dog. britishfantasysociety.org/meet-ben-s-e...
It's Friday! For my writers out there, putting down words, hitting various submissions trenches, sending their hopes out into inboxes - quick reminder: rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer! you got this. find your readers. keep going!❤️🔥
I honestly can’t understand why people can look at what’s happening in the USA and cheerfully vote for the UK version of it. I’m fucking terrified.
A Russian influence operation has used a network of X accounts to spread false stories alleging wrongdoing by European politicians, with some videos getting millions of views
Russian Disinformation War’s Most Potent Weapon Is Bending Realities
Storm-1516 campaign uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse.
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I love that in Tasmania you can apparently just have a local monster that you have to orient your whole life around as it destroys every traffic cone that angers it
HAPPY MELANIN MAY ✊🏿✊🏾 ✊🏽@imamewd.bsky.social · 7mo agoI love when humans respect animals
👥 Dual pov 👩🏻 Autistic cis woman MC/LI 👩🏼 Trans woman MC/LI (but w/pink hair) 🤜 Anticapitalist 👍 Making good trouble 😈 Gremlin energy 🍎 Snow White retelling 🩷 Ace, no-heat romance 🏳️🌈 Everybody's queer Universal Book Link: books2read.com/CyberSnow Itchio Link: aebrossbooks.itch.io/cybersnow
So, this happened. Thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for taking a chance on my strange tale of a weird London.
British Science Fiction Association@bsfa.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe award for Best Shorter Fiction goes to… Tade Thompson for The Apologists
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 · 7mo agoSeriously 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
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Quick silly art of a selection of my trans characters for the Trans Day of Visibility. Even this small sampling was a lot to draw.😅
This is indeed a new one and it’s awful.
Melissa Wright@melissawright.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew author scam dropped. Jenny Hickman’s FB profile photo was generated into video on an account attempting to fleece readers. When she started posting about it on other sites, the scammer used the fake profile to negatively rate other books and to accuse other authors of AI use.
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