Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

Warms my frosty heart to be part of this. 27 gloriously snackable stories! Out now for nine quid! For The Wildlife Trusts! Even if you hate my story, you can't possibly hate all 27 AND animals AND the concept of charity!

Spending the day in Liverpool tomorrow. Mostly mooching, might do some skulking. Bookish people, what's good to do in Liverpool during the day that has bugger all to do with either The Beatles or football?

Can't believe I'd never seen the mesmerising Michel Gondry video for this before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo...

Have a sniff of a li'l story in this charity anthology involving a weird road, a wooden rook, themes of sacrifice and redemption and unusually for me, no horrible murders:

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

CANCEL a streaming service, SUBSCRIBE to a print zine. Doooooooo itttttttttttt.

Have a sniff of a li'l story in this charity anthology involving a weird road, a wooden rook, themes of sacrifice and redemption and unusually for me, no horrible murders:

Great fun. Yes, it's about grief and futility and mangled car crash ghosts, but somehow also incredibly charming.

There's lovely, it's about bloody time mun

Another tremendous Edge-Lit. Banger panels, talks and launches, the traditional chaotic raffle, a screening of @mrholness.bsky.social's Possum, putting the world to rights from the cafe with Teika, @julietemckenna.bsky.social and @aknighton.bsky.social, and a hug from @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social 🥹

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A big weekend of horror, fantasy and sci-fi ahead here in Derby, kicking off with THE LEGACY OF DRACULA tomorrow night and then our main event of EDGE-LIT 11 on Saturday! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/legac... www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

I have good availability within quite restrictive fox/cat-based criteria

@unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Doing my best to bring you the content to which you are accustomed. And on #NationalFoxDay too (apparently) 🦊

[Edge-Lit 2025 reading prep intensifies] @alexdavis1981.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Went back to the motherland and topped up on summer's-end coastline vibes. That'll have to do me for a while up here in the atrociously beachless Midlands.

Frankly outrageous how hard this still goes.

Excited for this, especially with all proceeds going to the Wildlife Trusts. I do have a story in there but you can easily read around it IF THAT'S YOUR ATTITUDE.

Pssst... can I interest you in a tasty little micro-collection of three of my short stories for 99p / 99c or FREE on Kindle Unlimited? amzn.eu/d/5M3NUlh

Sir why are you on my lawn at 1:30 in the afternoon

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Excited for this, especially with all proceeds going to the Wildlife Trusts. I do have a story in there but you can easily read around it IF THAT'S YOUR ATTITUDE.

Happy #Caturday from this character I just met rolling around on the street in the middle of town, revelling in fusses from strangers

Finally remembered to get tickets instead of just talking about getting tickets, always useful 🙌

Went to see Together at the weekend and Weapons the weekend before, and my personal room-temperature take on cinema in 2025 is that Together is the better film

I know it's Amazon but if you a) want to get a copy of my From Coin-Ops to Table-Tops book and b) want it for 62%(!) off, now is your time. Never seen it that cheap. I'm biased, obvs, but it's a wonderful thing that covers a usually neglected part of gaming history. www.amazon.co.uk/Coin-Ops-Tab...

The depthless danger eyes of Void Baby on #Caturday

My collection of 27 dark flash and short fiction, Sick Ink is now available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from: @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...

Spent an evening sorting through cupboards and learning things about myself, like I'm a goddamn hoarder who's never thrown out a cinema ticket in his life. Here's me keeping the Swansea Odeon and UCI in business throughout the mid-'90s...

Schlocky remake of '80s rubbish I still own on VHS, now starring a man from the Mortal Kombat TV series? SIGN ME UP

Spent an evening sorting through cupboards and learning things about myself, like I'm a goddamn hoarder who's never thrown out a cinema ticket in his life. Here's me keeping the Swansea Odeon and UCI in business throughout the mid-'90s...

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

Not quite so cute mid-yawn though when he looks like some hinge-jawed devil creature

The latest hole in my lawn and the little sod I just caught in the act (who will once again get away with it due to cuteness)

#Caturday with elderly, mild-mannered Oscar and his unlikely, ungovernable best pal Void Baby

Four weeks on the nose to go - check out our awesome line-up and schedule for Edge-Lit 11, a big day out for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and sci-fi here in Derby! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

Somehow hadn't seen Interstellar so took the afternoon off to get involved in Christopher Nolan season at the local Odeon. Proper bit of Event Cinema, possibly even pretty enough to be worth their bumhole-tightening seat prices

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Good morning! It’s a wild one! 😍 Here are your 3 minutes of peace, calm, and vibrancy. #OceanDevotion

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Arsehole is simply exhausted from her many responsibilities by the time #Caturday comes around again

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Ummmmmmmmmm 😬😬😬 Fun fact, Leigh is based on my very alive and lovely friend @redlagoe.bsky.social

Got welcomed into a new short story collection by a character called Leigh showing up in the first story. Nothing bleak and traumatic will happen to Leigh, right @manylittlewords.bsky.social? Right?

Went through months of chemo way back with just a Game Gear and two (2) games, so now hospital visits make my brain twitch in apprehension of being subjected to tiny pixelly Lion King or Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for the 5000th time

If you'd like to read my World Fantasy Award shortlisted story Godskin, then amble on over to @strangehorizons.bsky.social ... strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...