If you're a creative small business owner AND THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO YOU*, it might be time to look around for alternative platforms... *hugely important, this. Many creators don't have other sales options - & shouldn't be penalised for our diseased, technofeudalist digital ecosystem

Keep things spooky this winter with my upcoming four-week course on WRITING GHOST STORIES! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #ghoststory #ghoststories #writing #writers #authors #fiction #course #courses #writingcourse #writingcourses

My early years were spent in a 2.5 bed semi with 5 other people & no central heating, sharing a room with my mum & auntie And I'm not a TERF Seems like it's mostly the rich here, not the actual poor, linking material deprivation to a far-right disposition...

I would like to take every dudebro who ever uttered the phrase "abundance mindset" and dump them, shirtless and impoverished, in the middle of Leicester city centre, like Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places Good luck Manifesting yourself that bus fare, Mike!

Thank you @peoplemag.bsky.social for allowing me & @raforall.bsky.social to talk about our favorite topic: horror people.com/why-is-horro...

It’s me and @almakatsu.bsky.social in @peoplemag.bsky.social taking about Horror: people.com/why-is-horro...

I hadn't heard this, but it's bloody brilliant

To paraphrase Margaret Atwood: Tech bros are afraid we'll laugh at them. Everyone else is afraid they'll kill us all in a ball of entirely avoidable fire

Completely agree. It teaches a poor work-life balance, a bad and blurred separation between the two, and an inability to completely switch off from work as a positive rather than damaging trait. It also increased stress and anxiety and negative attitudes towards going to school.

It's Saturday night and I really should know better, but I've been messing around with book promo videos again...

"Not everyone who votes fascist is a fascist. Some of us are just scared, desperate people looking for something to blame for the state of our lives" Dear god, do I think I care about that wafer-thin distinction WHEN YOU & YOUR FRIENDS ARE THROWING BRICKS AT MY HEAD? Into the sun, all of you

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

Today's "moderate" is roughly analogous to mid-80s "Thatcherite" - on immigration, on difference and social inclusion, on the welfare state, and on the unimpeachably godlike status of the free market If you have a leftwing bone in your body: do not aspire to "moderate"

Folks, we are well over a million. We can beat this thing. #PapersPlease

Dear me; many ‘new spooky books for fall’ skipped FIEND entirely! Which makes me all the more grateful for reviews like this

Hello #FridayReads! I haven’t done a reading in forever, sharing a bite of La Strega Ragna online at Strong Women Strange Worlds 🕷️🖤 9am PST October 3rd #swsqqr free & full of sci-fi, horror and fantasy tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n Thanks Gabino! My horror collections can be found here linktr.ee/kdbwrites

Only $1.99! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for Halloween. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop!  Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

It’s #FridayReads time and Hispanic/Latine Heritage month! Let’s boost all signals. This month is great, but I write with an accent every month. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of sazón and magic, waves and monsters, storms and revenge, crime and friendship. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Capitalists cannot predict audience trends, they can only repeat past successes, except they don't even understand what made those successes work.

Genuine question for UK friends: Do you know, or even know of, any Reform supporters who *aren't* racists and bigots? Because I don't. And I've always sort of assumed I never would, given half the Reform proposition IS racism and bigotry

I think some people are also scared to explore outside mainstream art because they might encounter something they fall in love with, but no one they know likes it. They don't want to be embarrassed or cringe or whatever by being the outsider.

Last day to grab a free copy of HUMAN TENDERLOIN on kindle for free. #booksky

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The absolute, visceral shudder I experience when seeing someone use "PhD (Cantab)" as a self-descriptor

Hey! Did you know that Little Horn: Stories (from Shortwave) is almost here? I'm hugely proud of this book, and you can order it thusly: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

If anyone was ever in doubt about the absolute, tone-deaf entitlement of a certain type of white, UK/US techbro... One I've never spoken to before just leapt into my comments - *on LinkedIn* - to call my 9 year old child "misguided" for thinking LLM slop was bullshit They're not well

Disgustingly earnest moment, consider yourselves warned: The best part of my job is getting to work with the funniest autistic people, nay, the funniest people, full stop, in the world all the time. I get to write with them & make them say silly things & be edited by them & it’s WONDERFUL.

Just got an email from the kids' school titled "No Nut Reminder" Should... somebody tell them? (Not me, obviously. I'd never live it down at parents' evening)

It would be a hell of a lot easier to eradicate billionaires* than autistic, trans and queer people. Bet it'd be a vote-winner, too *through progressive wealth tax and, where applicable, lengthy prison sentences, obviously

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Today I received more sad and beautiful and inspiring messages from people who had found some of themselves in Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal - thank you all for your candour - so many people out there who need and deserve to be heard

End of an era. Tomorrow is the day. Tell your moms! Tell her friends! #BookSky #bishopriderbooks www.bishopriderbooks.com

Oh, so much this I LIKE being autistic, in the same way I LIKE being queer. I like myself, and the way my brain works The myriad structural and infrastructural pressures brought to bear on me by cultures hostile to both queer people and neurodivergence aren't my fault, and shouldn't be my problem

“When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren’t guided by strategy but by ‘Fomo’,” said Haritha Khandabattu, senior director analyst at consultancy Gartner. www.ft.com/content/e93e...

Another day, another world leader with dubious political baggage weighing in on the validity of my family and existence... For the love of god, get a hobby. Obsessing about the ontological status of queer, trans and/or autistic people can't be good for you

Much as Thatcher made me embarrassed to be from the East Midlands... so Streeting makes me embarrassed to be queer

The collaboration and subsequent release of Never Leaving by @elfordalley.bsky.social has been positive throughout. Professionalism matters and that's why we didn't hesitate in getting another novella in contract. There's a strange cryptid mystery developing over in Wildcat Thicket 🐀🐾🐁

We’ve already received some killer blurbs for this one, you’re gonna love it!

My latest piece of art for @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social, featuring a little scene from Ep. 03, in which Tom introduces Dracula to his new private quarters.

Share your favourite black and white movie I want to say Sunset Boulevard or All About Eve, or even Caligari, because I know logically they're by far the better films... But really, it's Hitchock's Spellbound. That Dali sequence! The eyes in the curtains!

The ebook is free this week, but, man this cover. 🔥🔥 💙📚

Finished my 5th consecutive, astounding read by a female author. WHAT A TIME! Includes: - Her Wicked Roots @tanyapell.bsky.social - Broken Dolls @allymalinenko.bsky.social - Itch! @manylittlewords.bsky.social - Scream with Me by Eleanor Johnson - House of Idyll @delilahsdawson.bsky.social

BOOK MAIL!!! Finally. Very exited to read me some @haileypiperfights.bsky.social short stories with a bonus Cannibal King novella 🖤🖤🖤

When media and policy push narratives that portray autism as a burden or a danger, Black autistic people pay a high price. We already live at the intersection of racism & ableism. These narratives increase violence, misdiagnosis, and invisibility.

BEHOLD!! And notice that intro by @johnlangan.bsky.social. SOON!!

Looking to get raptured but want a last-minute read? Staying behind and need a way to celebrate while your most racist relatives float away? I got ya covered with some spooky reads! Mad Days bit.ly/4lZImtq Never Leaving bit.ly/3Xu1HJz

I'm not seeing the funny side at all. The actual American president undermining early years vaccination is nothing else but pure evil. Vaccinations work. Please don't listen to this man. Your children are too precious.

These times are showing us who people really are at their heart. The people speaking up and fighting even though it’s dangerous vs the grifters who tripped over themselves to sell out their friends at the first sign of trouble.

There's never been a time in my lifetime when the question "what causes [autism/transness/homosexuality/other scapegoated identity du jour]?" has been asked by a politician in good faith It's always, always about finding ways to justify getting rid of us