you ever think about how cosmically fucked up it is that your one and probably only shot at consciousness is wasted living through ***THIS***

"Turn travel time into productivity" OH, FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFF

we're better off for having 'Weird Horny Stuff' treated holistically as part of a work than rather something that the author/artist just 'Snuck In There'. even if it's just "they wanted it in there" that's still interesting... desire is interesting

Hey, @emptywrites.bsky.social, I'm only 40 pages in but have finally started The Winnowing Draw. Been on my TBR for a while and my eye caught it in the stacks yesterday and I'm so glad this is the book they fell on. I can tell it won't be an easy journey, but loving it so far!

No big media means look to the small media! It's out there existing now!

What this ignores is how incredibly difficult it is to be awarded anything by the government, so if 250 people a day meet those thresholds then they bloody well deserve it.

If you see this, share a #randomshelfie (or two) #booksky

Wonderful, mind-bending poetry from @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social, as always

Yeah, mine had been turned off. It's under Accessibility in Settings.

Nicked this from someone who doesn't alt text

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I feel very seen.

Hope they do the decent thing and give back whatever bungs they received to push it through.

#FilmSky, who needs this?

Babe. You’re not lazy. You’re disabled. It’s not because you don’t want to do it that you don’t do it. It’s literally beyond your current ability. You don’t have the executive function for it sweetie.

Hope you'll join us for our 15th anniversary month.

It is my view Nokes that half the things we end up having to investigate wouldn’t come to pass if people had a bit more tolerance and some small part of kindness in their bloody hearts. - #DICallaghan

This is glib (if heartfelt) but I really do have a limitless well of anger about this. The billions being spent on this could fund free education across the globe, but obviously that suits neither these eminently punchable technofascists, nor collaborating governments wanting a compliant populace 💀

I cannot safely describe the future I hope to see regarding Sam Altman and every other soulless grifting AI cunt across the world. Fingers crossed though, eh?

Evergreen, sadly.

@miseryvulture.bsky.social, I can confirm that Black Flame did indeed knock my socks off. My GOODNESS 😳

SCOOP: The writing software Grammarly will discontinue its AI “Expert Review” feature, which used the names of authors without their permission to suggest edits. But parent company Superhuman is still facing a class-action lawsuit over it, brought by journalist @juliaangwin.com.

Never ever bloody anything ever

Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity (both versions).

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Managed to write just over a thousand words today (so far?), a huge amount for me recently. Something I was unhappy with seems to have turned a corner and I can see more potential for the story working now. Fingers crossed, anyway, because I need this one to work.

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Submissions for the next issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge open soon. From March 15-21 is reserved for writers of color; from March 22 until April 15 is general submissions for everybody. We are looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

it's Women in Horror Month! Please enjoy my short story "A Country of Eternal Light" www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Why does this artist not have a million and seven followers?!

I've written: 2 collections of short stories 1 collection and several chapbooks of poetry 1 novella that has been published in English and in French translation I usually make money as a content writer but that stream of work has dried up. I'm offering editing services again.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

Just a reminder. They seem pretty cheap for the moment...

Do not speak to anyone wearing smart glasses until they remove them. Even if the wearer doesn't intend to capture the conversation, everything they see is being recorded - and in a lot of cases annotated - by human operators. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

morning warmup minicomic ☕ enjoy your coffee & your day! #art #darkart #comics #fantasy #morningminicomic #morningcoffee

as a writer, it's hard for me to talk about my work. I already wrote it, after all! It's like that David Lynch interview. The novel is the thing. So, what's up with Burn Up in Victory? I keep saying it's a romantasy, but also that I thought I was writing a sword fighting book. 1/?

UK chums, this is a full five-alarm fire. Write your MP, call them, whatever. The government’s own survey showed 97% of us wanted copyright strengthened, and those abject fucks are weakening it anyway to appease snake-oil grifters and thieves

Fucking fuck every last one of these useless, venal, bought-for-a-fucking-pittance cunts.

Van Gogh and a cat, from 2022

If you give a shit about: * Books * Art * Fresh water * Food * Breathing an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag. This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake. Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

The new book is brewing up nicely. In the meantime, do buy these. 👇

Are you a filmmaker who would like to screen something at VOIDCON4? Get in touch with us.

Help an artist pay his bills, take a look at my shop! ✨👁️ i got prints, stickers and original art! #artsky #blueskynightmarket #art ko-fi.com/scarycircus/...

Trans rights are human rights and if one of is ain’t free then none of us are.

New Review - a brilliant dark tale of siblings, growing up and consequences I strongly recommend Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

"Featuring some of the best ecological horror writing to date, The Writhing, Verdant End spotlights three indie authors at the absolute top of their game." We love to hear it! Thank you, Sam Reader!

So here’s the thing.

Genuinely one of my favorite modern poems. Incredibly moving. I have to reread it every time it comes across my timeline