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Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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I can't sign this because not in the uk but if you are please consider? Again it's not about whether he plagiarized or not, it's about the hounding: and the double standards, the press hasn't been even half as vicious towards professors that are not Black

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 6d ago

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

Lots of goodies here on the newly launched Film is Fabulous Patreon scheme : with pledged money going directly to the recovery and preservation of TV and film at risk of being lost forever.

filmisfabulous!@filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 3w ago

Preserving Film Treasures Film is Fabulous! is delighted to launch our new supporter scheme on Patreon. Providing an opportunity for those who wish to forge closer links with the team, receiving greater insight into the work to preserve film collections www.patreon.com/cw/FilmisFab...

An invaluable guide to deleting AI from your regularly used apps.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 3w ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Become A Supporter On Friday 31st July, Film is Fabulous! supporter scheme will go ‘live’ on Patreon. The new scheme will offer supporters the chance to forge a closer relationship with the team. Supporters will also receive a host of exclusive benefits www.patreon.com/cw/FilmisFab...

Reminder - the record heatwaves, record fires, record floods are all happening in the 'safe' degrees of climate change. We are on track to double where we are now. There is no time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

Some sensible soul has started a petition on banning the sale of disposable BBQs. Given the number of wildfires we've had in the UK and have seen over in Europe, this is an absolutely obvious thing to do.

Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs

We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...

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(Department of "It's a small galaxy") I learned today that, several decades ago, Douglas Adams lived about three minutes' walk from my house.

I have now enabled US/CA purchases on PayHip, so I've extended the 90% discount sale on the e-books until 31 July. Those We Leave Behind: payhip.com/b/Vm34n (use coupon: 1EMJ3452OZ) Moondust Memories - payhip.com/b/uTJbR (use coupon: F8JUPC1BAP) £0.20 (or equivalent) buys a lot of short stories... 😀

Those We Leave Behind and other stories

This collection brings together seventeen of Vaughan Stanger’s innovative, imaginative, and thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy stories, also his first ever published poem. Here you will lea...

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I’m delighted to announce that my drabble "Face to Face" has been accepted for publication in issue 2 of 100 Word Fiction. Text and audio versions are already online at 100wordfiction.com/story.php?sl..., and it will be included in a book edition in due course.

Life-threatening heatwaves in the UK are causing chaos and claiming lives. Our homes, schools, and workplaces aren’t built for this, but the government is completely underprepared. It takes 30 seconds to add your name and protect our communities. greenpeace.movement-action.org/p/extreme-he...

SIGN to demand protection from deadly heatwaves.

The UK is dangerously unprepared for worsening extreme heat. It only takes two minutes.

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I’m delighted to announce that my horror flash piece "Beyond Is Beneath" will be published in a forthcoming anthology from Red Raven Books (www.redravenbooks.com). This is my 65th story to find a home. I’ll post more news when I have it.

The Resistance.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public.

New petition: "Expand the Great British Energy-funding for solar schools to every school" Deadline 10 October 2026, created by Isla Hamilton Hay #NewPetition

New petition: Expand the Great British Energy-funding for solar schools to every school

We want the government to invest in solar schools. From the existing scheme, 100 schools have installed solar and 250 schools are expected to save £200 million in energy bills. We want every school to have this opportunity.

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I'm delighted to announce that my SF short story "On This Day" will be reprinted in Wired Hearts, an anthology forthcoming from Shacklebound Books. "On This Day" originally appeared in Nature Futures.

Hottest June day in UK (35.7C, Surrey) according to the BBC.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz9lj5nyzwvt

Some Wednesday laughter for you.

Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Now on sale at Amazon. (Includes my short story, Sleepless.) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068721634

Fission #6: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association: 3

Fission #6: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association: 3 : Rowe, Gene, Danforth, Rick: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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There's nothing quite like receiving a contributor's copy... Needless to say, I'm delighted to see my name on the cover. "Sleepless" is my 64th published short story. Big thanks go to editors Gene Rowe and Rick Danforth for selecting it for publication.

Earth getting its first trillionaire seems quite the appropriate tipping point for a major change in how much more shit the other eight billion of us are going to take.

Enough is enough. Elon Musk's latest attempt to whip up violence and disorder in the UK cannot go ignored. The UK Government should immediately remove all it's accounts from X and stop using Musk's platforms. Agree? Sign the petition now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

The UK Government should withdraw from X (formally Twitter)

Enough is enough. Elon Musk's latest attempt to whip up violence and disorder in the UK cannot go ignored. The UK Government should immediately remove all it's accounts from X and stop using Musk's pl...

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If you're a BSFA member and would like to hear me talk about my story 'Sleepless', which will appear in issue 6 of Fission, then please join the 3PM Zoom session of the one-day BSFA event on Sunday 14 June. (If you're a BSFA member, you'll find the full-line-up and Zoom link in the May newsletter.)

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

🇳🇿 NEW EPISODE! 🇳🇿 Neil Lambess joins Tim to discuss finding 🦁 The Lion 🦁 in 1999, memories of missing episodes on broadcast, and a school screening of The Macra Terror. But what happened to those films? 🦀 🎞️ A fascinating discussion! Shares much appreciated. Link ⬇️

I attended a showing of the national emergency briefing film. The film is presented by Chris Packham and includes excerpts from presentations to MPs and others in late 2025, given by experts in a wide range of fields, including climate, energy, food production, the NHS, even the military. See it!

National Emergency Briefing

Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.

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Back in fashion.

chelsea cruz@chelccruzy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing time to be a furniture store right now.

Ghana's Parliament just passed its anti-LGBT+ bill – rushing it through before a foreign-funded anti-rights conference. But the President can still stop it. Sign now: a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

Ghana: Reject The Anti-Lgbt+ Bill!

Ghana's Parliament just passed its anti-LGBT+ bill – rushing it through before a foreign-funded anti-rights conference. But the President can still stop it. Sign now:

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A recommendation for ‘Moondust Memories’ here too - a very entertaining collection of stories, embracing a great variety of themes.

I'm trialling Payhip as a site for selling my short story collections. Interested? Click the links and apply the 90% discount coupons shown below: Those We Leave Behind and other stories - payhip.com/b/Vm34n (1EMJ3452OZ) Moondust Memories - payhip.com/b/uTJbR (F8JUPC1BAP) Limited time offer!

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This collection brings together seventeen of Vaughan Stanger’s innovative, imaginative, and thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy stories, also his first ever published poem. Here you will lea...

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