Good Luck Press is up for 2 CRIT AWARDS! for best solo game, please follow the link and vote for @smolghost.bsky.social's subterranean solitary freakout UNDERNEATH. for best multiplayer ;) game, vote for seb and I's anthology of intimate, sensual games for bodies BETWEEN THE COVERS

Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app

ICYMI: New education guidance will see schools ban Trans+ kids from most single-sex toilets, sports and events like school trips

Best thing I've ever made.

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

Just dropping this here. You might want to bring an umbrella on this delightfully damp St. Swithin's Day. #HorrorWritersChat

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

"...and everybody gets a monologue! It'll be lousy with monologues--that's how you do real character development!"

Death of New Zealand actor in Sydney was 'sudden and unexpected', according to a family statement https://aje.news/34ztg0

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

If you're in the UK, please sign this. AI companies have stolen untold numbers of books for training. All eigher in breach of licensing or stollen using pirate sites. #booksky #horrorbooks #indieauthor #books petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

I genuinely dont know how to properly use commas and I just naturally write in asides and parentheticals 😭 Please let me keep my em-dashes they're all I have left

Dinner with a little extra bite via Ronit Baranga www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/07/dish...

Ministers have one last chance, and a huge responsibility, to make sure the discriminatory draft EHRC Code is withdrawn, and write laws that protect the rights of trans people. So many MPs and leaders like @rachelmillward.bsky.social have stood up as allies to oppose it. #transrightsarehumanrights

It hits all three tendencies, people, if I can't get you to read a piece of weird fiction what are we even doing here

$975 left to 10k Reach the summit. Grab at the gods with our mangled mortal hands. May we be the gods or die trying.

Happy Birthday, Shelley Duvall

Followed mainboard reset instructions and it still takes 3 minutes to start, but now it has to be plugged in at all times or it'll shut down, and even then all it does is play this clip on a loop.

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

The coverage of Exeter's cuts rightly points out that there's no financial need. The coverage of Edinburgh's - for which there is also no financial need - was framed as 'even Edinburgh' being in financial trouble. This is very frustrating. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Hey uuuuh, can someone explain to me why Obsession is such a big deal? It's pretty boring and trash, and if that budget is real it's definitely an incredibly exploitative production as well?

#horrorwriterschat I love the liar who thinks they're the most honest person in the room. Either oblivious to their inner workings or carefully keeping the actual truth siloed and quarantined. They didn't mean to lie so it's never their fault. You can't feel betrayed, that's not fair!

#horrorwriterschat I think the lie is so much more comfortable than the truth. You'll be able to stop the impending threat or survive. Sometimes the lie is that the characters aren't the cause of and solution to everything happening?

#horrorwriterschat I like to give the illusion of solutions, closure, reasons and ways for my characters to make sense of resolve something. But either there never really were, or it's a delusion they've decided to run with.

#horrorwriterschat I'm late I'm late I'm late! I'm Gabby, I'm writing grief horror+ campy little treats ATM. My fave lie would be consequences, if I'm being a pessimist--that bad people & bad choices eventually lead to consequences. If I'm being an optimist? I'd say the idea that it's too late.

Reminder; Andy Burnham is a transphobe.

How we #HEATSWEP @ MoH Drag the sofa under the pear tree Make 20 liters of ice drinks Get all the electrolytes n sunscreen Move slowly Play chess Eat ice lollies Remind people to take their coats off

HRT has saved my sanity, but it's important to note doctors still suck ass when it comes to giving HRT (even to AFAB people) and preparing you for it. EX: During current heatwave I learned about patch dumping. I just thought I was going nuts again. Would have been great to get that intel in advance.

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Bought a USC cable on line and it melted my laptop's power adaptor and completely fucked my motherboard BUT it still works! Takes a solid 2-3 minutes to boot and the bluetooth disappeared, but it works!

The absolute cruelty wrought by the EHRC, Judiciary and the Labour government has set human rights back decades. As bigots celebrate in FWS those of us on the frontlines are left to ponder our next steps in a country becoming increasingly as hostile as Mother Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FUCK

National Rail say only travel if absolutely essential tomorrow and Thursday. Please cancel all plans and be sensible www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disr...

"Look at what we've achieved in two years" Yeah, genocide, race riots, trans people afraid to leave their homes, a massive increase in foodbanks and people being jailed for crimes they haven't even been charged with. What a legacy, you rabid cunt.

Pervert glasses wearers need to know they're the AI of people

What in the everloving sensory overload is this BS? It's 10 PM AT NIGHT! ROLL ON, SOLSTICE.

@marywyrd.bsky.social thank you for good one ❤️ have been away for a while and it was good to come home to my fellow creeps and geeks #horrorwriterschat

girl there are like 100k writers out of work right now you do not have to go to reddit. get your ass over to zip recruiter my man

VERNON LEE (aka Violet Paget). Do you like MR James? Do you like creepy gothic? You will love Vernon Lee! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_... #horrorwriterschat

#horrorwriterschat ooooh...I'd bring back Joan Sampson, gone too soon and would definitely want to ride the coattails of the woman who was like "you know what's scary? trusting a capitalist instead of our community" and whipped out The Auctioneer.

#HorrorWritersChat I love a good forced journey tale? I think I write stories of people leaving a home that no longer feels homely. Children who wander into the garden at night and find long dead histories in the flesh or people leaving home at the end of the world to build something new, etc.

#horrorwriterschat Hello treasured community <3 I'm Gabby, I write weird fiction and unsettling stories under the name GT Huot. Terrible memory, but a more recent "came back wrong" face is Our Wives Under the Sea ("tour de france! tour de france!")

Horror Writers of BlueSky. Come share your thoughts, your faves, and your work while chatting with fellow horror writers at #HorrorWritersChat The theme: Resurrection. Vampires. Revivals. Zombies. The Dearly Departed. Reboots. #AmWriting #HorrorSky #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor 🩸📚 💙📚

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Really insightful interview with Shady Lewis, who, as some of you may have seen, won the James Tait Black Prize this year - in somewhat complicated circumstances that he reflects on generously in the piece. Loved the discussion of comedy and power. Thanks to @pastachips.bsky.social for the heads-up!