The replies section under the Clare/Limerick EuroPride announcement rn:

Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I call for universal basic income and a free fursuit for every citizen.

Masterful shitposting.

Absolutely vile. Not that I want to overload the fine people at @booksupstairs.bsky.social with work at this fraught moment, but consider sending some business their way to show support.

The first season of "Dark Winds" is on Netflix, and it's great. Check it out if you like whodunnits/crime stories; you won't be disappointed. I hope the other seasons are added soon.

That video of the gawky lil' prick going into a lecture hall, shouting 'H*il H*tl*r' and calling everyone slurs, and then shitting himself as the entire class chases him across the campus...

You might not want to hear this but *tepid non-controversial take* and I don't care who hears me say it. You have to speak up about the important things like *nearly universally accepted pop culture phenomenon* I might get shadow-banned for saying it, but *the thing everybody's already said today*

Tickled at the image of Manchán Magan and Hyacinth Bucket arriving in the Aftlerlife on the same train.

CEO: we're all trying to improve this place You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right CEO: You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right CEO: WAFFLES

Love, light and peace to everyone impacted by the synagogue attack in Manchester today.

Some of the reactions to this seem like misreadings to me. This isn't frightening; it's pathetic. It's the performance of a loser who's decided on weirding out his classmates as a coping mechanism. Never forget: by their own admission, Nazi movements specifically recruit losers.

Your Own Dark Shadow is Hodges Figgis' Fiction Book of the Month for spooky season! Check it out here:

RIP Jane Goodall.

Looks like it was ambitious to think I could get four pieces finished today to meet a deadline. Ah well, I'll finish them during the week anyway; they won't go to waste.

Today is International Translation Day. Create connections through literature instead of division through ignorance!

I've noticed RIP/tribute posts popping up on twitter for famous people who've been dead for a while. Yesterday there was one for James Earl Jones (who died last year), and just now I saw one for Graham Greene, "who passed today" (he died this year, but on September 1). New kind of engagement-bait?

It now appears that the joking about Maria Steen's handbag is the worst indignity to befall a wealthy Catholic presidential hopeful since someone tried to assassinate Dana by giving her a flat tyre.

Someone came into my mam's shop the other day and objected to her packing their purchases into a rainbow-coloured bag. She just asked me to explain what 'woke' means, where it came from, and why people are angry about it. Twenty minutes later, neither of us are any the wiser on that last point.

Hermes bag: 20k Documented donations to the Iona Institute from far-right groups like the Novae Terrae Foundation: at least 25k? The grassroots desire for an alternative voice: priceless

The bots are swarming to the gallant defence of Maria Steen over in the other place. And even at this juncture, they still don't understand what the President of Ireland actually does.

"I have no intention of leaving it, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at those ribs until I'm satisfied they're vaporised. Fuck this barbecue!"

Shana tova to everyone celebrating today and tomorrow. Hope you have a lovely couple of days!

Drop some SNAKES 🐍 🖤 As near as I've seen to a perfect match for my Pulp Cthulhu character in the "Two-Headed Serpent" campaign. Art by "Witchy Forest" (government name unknown; goes by WitchyForest on Redbubble and Pinterest)

I hope you've been suitably spooked by my #ghostmonth content, here's a recap, before the finale, a cover reveal. So, lurk around! #horror #books #sff #culture

Fair play to him. It's appalling that Reed's murder didn't receive a fraction of the public grief/anger expended on Saint Little-Face over the past week.

Crossposted to @realdonaldtrump on Truth Social... 😎

Kash Patel forgot his homework and did it in a hurry on the way to school.

This should stay in the past, where it can be reclaimed/reinterpreted/ironically engaged with, not remade for the kind of hyper-online present-day audience who would mistake it for a documentary.

Some lovely news. The audiobook for Bee Speaker (narrators myself, Rod Hallet, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain) is on the shortlist for a British Audio Award. www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

Thank you to whoever set a parody song called "I Stole an F16" to the tune of 'Bully in the Alley,' because it definitely kept me calm when the replacement modem didn't work today.

RIP Robert Redford :(

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

I don't sportsball so I went looking for the origin of that meme only to find many MANY racist generated images. It left me feeling like we should reinvent sports and mock combat in ways that do not enable all the worst elements of necrocapital to exploit primarily Black athletes.

TOS - Bones TAS - the Pink Kzinti TNG - Picard DS9 - Garak VOY - Janeway ENT - Soval DSC - Burnham/Saru LDS - Dr T'Ana PIC - Liam Shaw/Krinn SNW - Erica Ortegas MOV - Borg Queen AOS - Uhura

Thrilled to announce that I have an essay in the latest issue of the Chinese SF/F zine, Zero G Science Fiction! Edited by River Flow, this zine always contains a substantial amount of material on global SF; this issue's World Sci-Fi Talk section looks at Irish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish SF.

Cross posting two bits of advice for a newbie writer: 1. Read like a writer (sometimes). Find out why you like the writing you like, and see if there's anything you can adopt from that writer. This needs a level of intentionality that's not there when you're just reading for pleasure. 1/

Wrestling with a flash fiction piece that's already indicating that it doesn't want to be flash fiction. "Killing your darlings" is one thing, shearing them is quite another.

It would appear that, between the lines, Bertie is blaming his aborted presidential campaign on a bop by @cmatbaby.bsky.social

My surname isn't the most obscure one in the world, but it's uncommon enough that I get jumpscared by mentions of it.

So much of Linehan's comedy writing rests on the premise of "I'm a flawed but basically decent bloke, but I keep getting into fixes because the PC modern world is so confusing!" And then you look closer at it, and you find things like the "She's such a fat lesbian" running joke in 'Hippies.'

The funniest line in War of the Worlds (2025) is when a venerable character actor who specialises in playing authority figures, here playing a Pentagon guy of some stripe, answers his phone and says, "I just got off with the President."