Marigolds are in bloom! They are loving the endless days of sunshine and heat we’re having here in Scotland! #flowers #bloomscrolling #garden #gardening

With less than three days left, Strange Horizons is just $40 away from 9c/word, and another $5000 from keeping their current 10c/word pay rate. Let's help real writers get paid more for their work.

Once Uncanny Magazine reaches Fully Funded, WE WILL ANNOUNCE WHEN WE REOPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!!!

Nature in urban spaces. #photography #butterflies #bloomscrolling #flowers

The @edmorgantrust.bsky.social has recordings of Edwin Morgan online, including a reading of “Cinquevalli”. Morgan had found the postcard &, “struck by the fact that [Cinquevalli] had been almost forgotten, after once enjoying world fame”, began writing the #poem edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/06/02/e...

Uncanny Magazine Is Kickstarting Year Thirteen file770.com/uncanny-maga...

We reached our fundraising goal!❤️‍🔥🎉 Thank you all for your support & making it possible for us to continue another year of creating human art, meaningful stories, & publishing speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers. Your support & being part of our community has made this possible! 🧡

The Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter is LIVE! Please help support us if you can.

The Solicited Writers for Uncanny Magazine Issue 75 include Aliette de Bodard, John Chu, R.S.A Garcia, Naomi Kritzer, Samantha Mills, Sarah Pinsker, Emma Törz, Tananarive Due, and Tansy Rayner Roberts! Please make this happen! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

Okay, as a wrestling AND @uncannymagazine.bsky.social fan this really made me smile today! Watch the promo video right to the end to see @mrmightyink.bsky.social !! 🤼😀 And check out the kickstarter while you're there!!

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

Give me your flyer with lettering and stickmen drawn in microsoft paint!!

When something just sparks in your mind and you’re writing the words as fast as you can to try to keep up with your creative brain!! AKA a first draft of a poem for me!

I have written about Mr Benn for the Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9f43ae5...

I read this poem last week and it’s still on my mind - incredibly beautiful and moving. Her English by Jose Oseguera From the Fall 2025 issue of Blue Mesa Review (literary magazine of the University of New Mexico MFA Program in Creative Writing)

Excellent deliveries in today’s post!! Have been really looking forward to reading both @samtasticbooks.com and @seraph76.bsky.social ‘s books!!

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Ahhhh…nasturtiums have just started blooming in the garden and THAT COLOUR!!! 😍🔥

Just a reminder that Pictcon2 is in October - a friendly one day Scottish genre festival in Perth - and this year the Guest of Honour is all round excellent human @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Grab a ticket and come join us pictcon.com

Flower of Scotland, looking glorious in the sun today! #photography #scotland #bloomscrolling #nature #flowers #countryside

Out for a countryside walk in the summer sunshine…being amongst nature is a salve for my mind. And Scotland is beautiful!

I've an essay in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine! Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop, 1969 AD. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/doct...

Hot town, summer with Uncanny! Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/621EVvi

What's this, Space Unicorns? 😁 🦄 buff.ly/Gab1zWu

Since it’s disability pride month… I took this photo yesterday because this is what being disabled with bipolar 1 looks like sometimes. I’m stable, not in an episode but still have debilitating pain and exhaustion because of a busy few days. Today has been a little better, thankfully.

We have lift off! The first Pufflings are now leaving the Isle of May as birds are now independent. This is a big moment as they’ve never flown and not seen the sea before! Good luck :)

🎵On the fifth day of Disability Pride Month my bipolar brought to me…whole body pain 🎵

Possibly the best book review ever! (I hope the rest is found to be as air punchy!!!) Re: @lizbethmyles.bsky.social ‘s new book!!

Hey there. Here's a favorite SFFH magazine of mine focused on immigrant and diaspora stories. They're doing interesting work and in the midst of a fundraiser. 11 days left and still a ways to go. What better way to support creators from across the globe, especially now.

Today’s view is uninspiring…so here is an escape into Scotland’s magical fairy realm!

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications. If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use. ✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications greens.scot/datacentres

Me yesterday - Aghhh...I have lost all creative thought! My brain last night, just as I'm falling asleep - quick, grab that pen before all these poem concepts I'm flinging at you vanish from your mind!!

That's my hubby!! He's super passionate about his work at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and putting amazing writing and stories and poetry out in the world...he's kinda awesome!!! @michaeldthomas.bsky.social

Some actual wildflowers have decided to join the dandelions (and grass that shouldn't be growing there!) in the wildflower patch of the garden!!

New tiers at the Fund Drive including - a signed copy of Yoke of Stars by RB Lemberg - a crocheted Pikachu dumpling by Regalli, a friend of Strange Horizons You can also sponsor a work directly! Become a patron of poetry, reviews, fiction and art today! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

July is Disability Pride Month...to celebrate I will try to keep writing more poetry and creating more art in the face of bipolar 1. June was a very hard illness episode month, hoping July might be an easier ride.

Listening to these stories is a great way to start Disability Pride Month!

Nothing encapsulates those dreich Glasgow days, for me, better than the opening line from "King Billy" by Edwin Morgan - a poem that gives us a gritty scene of tragedy, poverty, violence and sectarianism. He is one of my absolute favourite poets. "Grey rain over Riddrie the clouds piled up,"

Writing rejections...did not anticipate my brain to be doing so much processing in the inner monologue part of my mind. Happily, it's all about creating more art, working hard to improve and knowing that folks have all different tastes and preferences. 😊

We have hit 20% of our fundraising goal and there is only two weeks left to donate! Help support the next year of khōréō here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Alpine strawberries have appeared in the garden - thriving since require zero gardening skill or attention! The birds are enjoying them!!

Struggling with this poem redraft, then discovered notes on it in one of my MANY notebooks that I'd forgotten about! And they are GOOD and HELPFUL notes - yey past me!!!

The new Summer issue of Kaleidotrope launches on July 1. Would you like to know what's in it?

Art in our current room. I have named it: Portrait of an Angry Woman in Neo-Traditional Garb Offering up a Rage Flower, While Holding a Murder Flower in her Other Hand in Case Rage is Refused.

As a kickstarter supporter from last year, I already got the magazine in my inbox and OMG - “A Hundred Ways the Story Ends” by Tara Sim @tarasimauthor.bsky.social is one of the best stories I’ve read this year!!!

I've got an essay coming up in July's gorgeous issue of Uncanny: "Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop, 1969 AD." file770.com/uncanny-maga...

It's out! Where We Stand, Where We Fall! Alive in the world! Available to order from Herne Books (www.hernebooks.com/product-page...)

Carnations are well and truly blooming! Success story of my garden so far this year! Meanwhile, indestructible mint and lemon balm have finally been repotted. Also - Scottish summer means I can do gardening at 10:30pm in late evening daylight!! 😁

Oh WOW!!! This cover art is GORGEOUS!!! 💖