OHHHH. HELL. YES. Bitter Karella’s got the best covers in the business. Can’t wait to have this in my hands 💚🖤🔥 (Also the blurb sounds sick and I’m here for it)

As promised, I'm officially open to submissions again - for 1 week or 500 queries, whichever comes first. Because last time when I tried 2 weeks or until 750 queries, I received more than 750 in the first week and had to shut down early. No guarantees it won't happen again.

I ain’t reading this because frankly, now and forever, FUCK ‘AI’. But regardless. REGULATION. NOW. I want this shit labelled. I want to have a choice as a consumer. IDGAF about any ‘quality’ argument. Irrelevant. Make it paramount that a work is labelled as AI. Let me discern accordingly.

Extremophile by @ianthegreen.bsky.social is properly exceptional. Like, imposter syndrome inducingly exceptional. It’s making me depressed about what I’ve written and inspired to write better shit all at once. Read it. As a matter of fucking urgency. Superb.

I’m on the SFF Addicts patreon so I get early access to this and, yeah invaluable listen if you’re authorily inclined. (As is every ep of the pod - Adrian, Greta and MJ are badass and the guests are generally delightful and questions hella useful)

By now, it's no longer surprising to think every aspect of our dystopia was purposely engineered by a cabal of pedophile rapists, but it's still hard to believe that they're also the sort of people who use words like "pum pum" in their business correspondence and never think "do i sound like a baby"

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

1) It looks like absolute shite 2) Who are the SAG scabs taking these jobs?

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

Any chance to sit with and reflect on Ursula K. Le Guin’s words is time worth taking. (Particularly when guided beautifully as we are here)

can I just get clarification on who "we" is in this sentence, because it seems to me that the person who invented the resource-guzzling shit extruder and profits from the resource-guzzling shit extruder is surely the one who needs to come up with a purpose for the resource-guzzling shit extruder.

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

I thought when ETID broke up I was done with discovering new bands in the hardcore punk scene… My GODS, The Barbarians of California fucking slaaaaapppp 🔥

Just closing in on the end of this, and spellbinding is the word. RJ writes battles with an unmatched level of clarity and dread, and his worldbuilding slowly envelops you until you feel fluent in a language you didn’t think possible. The Tide Child trilogy was similarly superb. Read his work!

Can't believe they didn't give the peace prize to the guy who says, "If I don't get a peace prize, than I'm going to start a bunch of wars!"

It’s true, this is an absolute bangerrrr

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

Good morning

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

As a straight, white, cis male who went to his first WFC this year and is also ‘hoping to break into the field of fantasy fiction’ (except no lol, coz wtf does that even mean?) I can anec-totally say this is complete bollocks.

Got a copy of 20th Century Ghosts for Christmas. First time reading any of @joe-hill.bsky.social ‘s work. (Horror’s a relatively recent foray) Just one story in and I am stressed. Heart hammering, head light, definitely forgot to breathe for a minute. This is good shit.

‘You have great comic timing’ my comic timing has been fucked ever since

I heard the Next Thing is Weird Trans Shit, pass it on

Moonflow slithering in to become one of my favourite reads this year. Gloriously fucked up fun filled thrill ride. And the names were just spectacular. Reminded me of the Ridley plays I used to be obsessed with. Whatever @bitterkarella.bsky.social writes next I will be there with bells on.

I don’t say it with love. Give your heads a wobble for crying out loud. “Why has the Japanese Knotweed taken over my whole garden? I gave it it’s own special place to grow 🥺”

When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It’s not Christmas without the Christmas Whale* *He’s definitely a whale shark, like, unequivocally, and I’m trying to keep it together that I didn’t notice that before now. It’s my own personal Mandela effect (…just me being unobservant) Anyway, merry festivities to all those inclined!

Movies you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Marvel

Today you will mostly find me muttering to myself, over and over ‘Columns and rows are not the same. Columns and rows are NOT the same’ 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟩

Hey, want to spend 5-10 minutes in a fantasy world? A tavern, a brawl, and two mildly inappropriate songs? It's your lucky day... 🗡🧙‍♂️ swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/a-new-justic...

… unironically would 100% buy a book that told me to go fuck myself.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Occurs to me that on this date last year, I ran my first marathon. This year, I’m just getting back from WFC. Genuinely hard to say which was more tiring. (And for some mad reason I chose the con to break in brand new DMs. So the state of my feet is *definitely* on a par)

Finally on my way back from World Fantasy Con. First ever con, incredible experience. Lovely to meet so many people! (And I discovered that my social battery badly needs an upgrade, next time I’ll bring a power bank… or pace myself 😅)

Burning the candle at both ends (and the middle) as I take in more panels than my tiny brain can handle at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social but it’s also release day for this lovely anthology featuring my debut short story ‘And In The Firelight I Will Find You’ 🦀🐴🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I won’t be home for Halloween as I’ll be at WFC, but you better believe I still got my (tiny, eensy-weensy) pumpkin carving in. 🎃

✨🎃COMING 31 OCTOBER🎃✨ Chthonic Matter's ‘Harvest The Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror’ 14 killer stories for you to enjoy, including ‘And In The Firelight I Will Find You’ my re-imagining of the myth of Montol that might get me run out of town, but I'm absolutely stoked with how it turned out!

Oof that is one good looking anthology

Quite the Friday night vibe making my @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social spreadsheet planner. Colour coded and everything. It’s like being back at school… except, y’know, with enthusiasm.

The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI. The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs. It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive.

Perhaps spare a thought for the many, many people on Bluesky who are being subjected to unimaginable violence every day in Gaza, begging for help on your platform, only to be systematically silenced and deleted repeatedly by your moderation team.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)