You can wishlist the game here, if you want to help the devs out: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

Right pals, I need to get some bookings into @aat-transcribes.bsky.social sharpish or we won’t be here by the end of the summer. We need just 3-5 projects with 10+ hours of qualitative data requiring transcription, or 5+ hours for captioning, to turn around our fortunes. Let’s go! #AcademicSky

AAT is a social enterprise. Every project creates fairly paid work for our majority disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill team. Book with us and support the businesses you want to see in the world.

This is so close to it's goal and there are still a few hours left to give! Please consider donating in the next couple of hours to get your donation TRIPLED! (if only vibe-coded Bluesky wasn't constantly down today of all days!)

There are still a few hours to donate to the incredible academic mental health charity Dragonfly. If you donate in the next five and a half hours your donation will be tripled!

If anyone has a few extra dollars and is in a position to donate today, Dragonfly is doing amazing things to help reduce the stigma around mental health challenges in academia, and propagate tools to address them. And they really need our support. www.givingchallenge.org/p2p/663313/m...

As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.

lol. Just got two pieces of feedback on a story, one saying it made them cry at the end [complimentary], and another that said it lacked emotional impact. Y'all, I think art might be subjective!

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

I have also done a light update to the sign-up page for the forthcoming EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE, OPPRESSION & IGNORANCE short course starting in May. It is frankly a fucking steal at just £47 for a whole six week course with weekly support and bonuses from me, a published expert on these topics.

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

Finally, my favourite indie video game of all time, @inkle.co's Heaven's Vault, is in the Indieventure Vault where it belongs! Now I know the original treatment was for a Dr Who game, I want to start a petition to make @jon.inkle.co the new Dr Who showrunner!

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

I am three months into my year long short fiction reading challenge! Day 91! I read The Tell-Tale Tail be @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social published in @trashcatlit.bsky.social. A twist literally in the tail. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/s...

Mini of the month - Synth When? Entry 22 by @kalos.bsky.social M41 Arcade #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

The way I see it, the problem with modern society is that there are too many buttons on the sides of phones, and not enough buttons on the front.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I know it's a very minor complaint compared to what a lot of people are suffering right now, but I am really sick to death of not being able to fuel my car because of the whims of a handful of psychopaths in a world of eight billion people.

I know I've seen it before, but the Golden Sisters of Battle still spark joy.

TRANS PEOPLE STEAM LETS YOU UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT NAME Okay. So. For over 20 years, i've had a Steam account name that was embarrassingly bad. It had my deadname in it, and worse, it ended with "daddy". A joke from high school that stuck. I hated it before I even came out. 🧵

I actually dont judge someone's entire moral character on the media they consume. So I don't think you are a 'bad' person if you are watching all this muggleslop, but I do think you are being morally lazy. So I will side-eye, I will question the depth of your integrity.

Introducing: FATALE A new femme-centric Blood on the Clocktower stream every Saturday @ 6pm PT | 9pm ET! I’m the lead storyteller & tonight we’re doing some Bad Moon Rising & #botc customs Love #BloodontheClocktower? Want to support femme creators? We hope to see you there!💖 🔗 twitch.tv/RadiantG

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Old man yells at Claude. Smh. Just embarrassing.

People are scared of the spread of fascism, rightly so. We have 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 elections in May and it’s essential to keep Reform out. The far right thrive on apathy and hopelessness. Good turn out almost always beats them. Register to vote. Why wait? Do it today www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Pals! I'm on a mission to make more bookings at AAT to enable us to keep doing all the fab things we do, with all the people we do them for. I'm looking for 5 research projects with 10-12+ hours of interviews, focus groups or workshops, in need of transcription support. Get in touch for a quote!

Today, we launch I AM HORROR. A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre across disciplines and continents. The work exists. The archive should, too. 👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎 Submissions are now open: nighttidemag.com/iamhorrorjoin/

Tons of queer books are 99 cents today! 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚💙 queeryourbookshelf.com

AI toys for young children should be tossed into a deep pit and immolated.

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

The funniest thing about WUTHERING HEIGHTS is that its unreliable narrator Mr Lockwood begins by mistaking Heathcliff for a Byronic 'misanthrope' and thinks that's cool and deep. ...To which Heathcliff responds, 'Who is this tit? Set the dogs on him!' 1/17

MORE LGBTQ+ EVENTS IN BIRMINGHAM: Birmingham has some amazing queer clubs & bars, but there’s also plenty to do away from the nightlife. Whether you’re new to the city, or just looking to make friends, here’s a list of queer clubs, events and socials in Birmingham.

just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore

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Them: we're just playing devil's advocate. Us: have you tried playing devil's prosecution? Them: that would be BIASED!

Every day this year I am reading one piece of contemporary short fiction. Today is day 60! I read This Book Holds Us by @regwaltney.bsky.social published in @folkloricmag.bsky.social. The book is mightier than the fire. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/s...

I don't want to read a book written by AI. I don't want to read a book half written by AI. I don't want to read a book narrated by AI. I don't want to read a book with an AI cover. I don't want to read a book written by somebody who supports AI.

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle." "OK," you say. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

If anyone knows any great small indie speculative fiction pubs I should be checking out so I don't accidentally double up again, do let me know! #booksky

We need to stop using industry-friendly PR terms like “age verification” and call it what it is: Digital ID

They're hoping we'll forget about this in a few months and that we'll resubscribe to Nitro so they can get back their funding for this nonsense. Cancel yours and do not forget about this.

Radon Journal's fiction pay rate is increasing to 2.5¢/word! We are also implementing a $15 minimum for fiction to ensure micro-fiction authors are taken care of. Cheers to the authors who refuse to remain quiet or complicit.

Sigh. Rejections, rejections, rejections. It's hard not to feel like I'm just not good at this. :/

I'd rather eat glass.

Pssst: we’re open to submissions of horror fiction, interior art, and full color cover art AND WE’RE PAYING MORE NOW. Guidelines here: fraidycatpress.com/submission-g... #horrorlit #cosmic #horror #indie #shortstory #novelette #magazine #art #illustration

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

My conference paper was accepted! 🎉 Has reading or writing speculative fiction supported your mental health in any way? If it has, please please take 10 mins to tell me about it here: www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1... Thank you! ❤️ #SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic

Searches if your local NHS Trust is using Palantir and emails them on your behalf, please take a minute to do this because we must fight this evil company getting a hold >> notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

NEW EPISODE! The Indieventure trio chat about indies they've been playing this winter. Including: 📀 TR-49 🗻 Cairn 🔮 Strange Antiquities and more! Listen wherever you get your podcasts! indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...