'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

I like it when you complete a level in Sonic Chaos and it sounds like he died peacefully in his sleep.

Blue skies and sunshine? On a bank holiday? In this economy?

Absolutely horrifying. Must play. And I assume the bloke doing the VO isn't Gerard Butler but they should definitely tap him up for the adaptation.

Celebratory #Caturday pic of returning wanderer Void Baby. I don't even mind that he's gone straight back to cacking under the bed as long as he doesn't despawn in the middle of the night and traumatise us all over again.

A week since my first wee publication of 2026: 100 words about a creepy whirlpool in the #SciFanSat 'Spiral' issue. Loads of good stuff in here. Give it a whirl! Take it for a spin! Go round and have a look! Etc.

Off out to mow the back lawn, see you all on the other side

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Whatever AI offers you, it took from someone else. That alone is a disqualification. But if you go ahead and use it, you have no idea of the extent of the lift and if it's uncovered, you'll be liable

It has begun! The Prompt Generator is now on until 6th April. Get your prompts and start percolating story ideas. Subs open on the 21st April. That's Trash Cat's prompted stories challenge - have a go! 🦝 Get prompted here: trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls #litsubmissions

12 days after going missing, 10 days after a traumatic failed rescue attempt from a railway embankment, Void Baby has finally made it back home to us (and his largely unimpressed mum). I have felt All The Emotions. Hug your pets, folks. Came within a hair's breadth of never seeing this lad again.

AVAILABLE NOW: Take a spin with our stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More whorled up by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow! The March issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!

Aftermath making an irrefutable point that should be relentlessly blasted at companies who (supposedly) make products for consumers to enjoy: Three years in, what can you really say that AI has added to your products that consumers actually like? At what point is it time to audit the magic beans?

If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

MASINT #384 from GPS III-SV05 (CONFIDENTIAL) 1. Archive of WWII Banshees 2. School of Lost Reflections 3. Excess Elk

Edge-Lit will be back for its 12th running in 2026, bringing another loaded day of fantasy horror and science-fiction - tickets will be on sale soon, but for now save the date...

It wasn't me, Your Honour, it was the inexorable compulsion of the stars

Important questions being addressed.

Forgot to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my cheery train-in-a-geological-hellscape story appearing in @unchartedmag.bsky.social but let's do it now instead, what's a couple of weeks between hellscape enjoyers: www.unchartedmag.com/stories/by-t...

Leave the ironing board out and you invite Void Baby in. #Caturday

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Today's story is "St. Cloud Man Fastest God Catcher on Record" by Meagan Kane. @spocksbrain.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros ratbaglit.substack.com/p/st-cloud-m...

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Top 5 GameCube game. Get out of here with your Beyond Good and Evil and your Four Swords and your Pikmin, I'm doing cartwheels and shooting lasers out of my hands

Sorry to all affected, but Cleopatra has decreed no more work today

@trashcatlit.bsky.social fam have each other's backs, especially when a mag doesn't step up to promote a story that's a blast. If a Weird West technofable sounds like a good time to you, immerse yourself in this one: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/american...

If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms. Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law. www.dontstealthisbook.com/about

Halfway through the submission period for Agita 1: Bad Science. You still have a week to finish that story (or dig it out of the trunk) and send it in before March 14. And there's an extended period for marginalized authors, March 15-21. Details at agitamag.com/submissions

Got a micro hanging about looking for a home? Unpublished, 50-175 words, any genre? Try lobbing it at us before 10pm (GMT) on Tuesday! Trash Cat loves great story and a compelling voice🦝 Details and submit link here: trashcatlit.com/microfiction... #submissioncalls #litsubmissioncalls

A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so. But they are wrong, for three reasons. 🧵 1/6

Arsehole the cat presents her best side on #Caturday

Don't know why they held a craft market inside a chuffing great cathedral today but I'm into it. No stealing! Jesus is watching!

Well that was highly entertaining. And being squeezed out of cinemas by a million screenings of Scream bloody 7.

Happy St David's Day/ Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant hapus!

UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 done, or at least the chunk of it I could get to this year. Another banger from the inexhaustible @alexdavis1981.bsky.social and crew.

Random thing I enjoyed today: hardback Polish copy of Mort at Eagle Books in Derby. Many will try to top the classic Kirby cover, many will fail.

you, specifically, could have prevented this

Went to Stafford, stumbled upon That Little Bookshop, had no choice but to make my TBR pile even less surmountable. @jamesbluecat.bsky.social

Couldn't make it to Malta but my family brought me back a gift of the national soft drink. Apparently they're very proud of it. Does it taste exotic and delightful? God, no. It tastes like Tizer seeping through an asbestos garage roof.

There was some proper club shite around in the late '90s, but if you can't appreciate the drop in Encore Une Fois then who even are you www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmZ...

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

I don't remember acquiring that experience but if LinkedIn says I have it, what the hell, let's do it

A week in sunny Malta cancelled at the last minute to deal with water spurting out of a pipe in the kitchen and hours on the phone trying to file a home insurance claim. The vibes are atrocious. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY here's a picture of a holiday destination I hope other people are enjoying

My. Novelette. Is. Live. Which means I'm freaking out because people might read it and I might die of embarrassment but also, I'm freaking out because a person might actually read it. Huge thank you to @emergejournal.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Order your copy here: a.co/d/0b5BfkX4.

Danger lurks in the tunnels on #Caturday

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

If you like books, maybe check out one of mine?

Doing a bit of website housekeeping, came across an old blog post on responses to questions in an AI study

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...