“Among the most corrupt acts in American political history” “A stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket” “Part of a pattern where Trump is violating the basic separation of powers"

They have another prize that's straight-up reputation laundering: Paying authors to write that AI is gonna make everything better. More concerning: One of their partners is @locusmag.bsky.social.

AI, AI, and more AI! Oh, and blockchain. Avoid this contest. Don't take their AI blood money.

If the homeowners won't make a deal to sell their land to Georgia Power, then the company can use eminent domain to force the sale. The price we pay with Georgia being a mecca for data centers. www.ajc.com/business/202...

I’m so enjoying these.

My novel The Wilder Path, published 2025 by @aurorametro.bsky.social, was shortlisted this year for The Encore Award. @societyofauthors.bsky.social In paperback and digital. Climate, nature, family, love, grief, and Cornwall. Available online and from any bookstore. #Booksky

My novel The Wilder Path, published 2025 by @aurorametro.bsky.social, was shortlisted this year for The Encore Award. In paperback and digital. #Climate, #nature, family, love, grief, Cornwall... All life is there. @societyofauthors.bsky.social Available online and at any bookstore.

Congratulations to the 2026 winner of the Encore Award, Claire Adam for Love Forms (@faberbooks.bsky.social). Judge Anita Sethi said, "The novel is by turns heartbreaking and humorous as it explores what it really means to care for another human being."

Some awards eligibility periods are closing soon! 👀 Please check out "As The Earth Dreams" for your anthology considerations! 💜🩵🖤 Filled with beautiful and haunting stories of ancestry, memory, labor, freedom, and more, this is the first Black Canadian SFF anthology, and hopefully not the last.

#Booksky 📚💙

Only a week to go until the Encore Prize announcement of the winning novel in London! Very exciting indeed. I'm looking forward very much to tea with my three fellow authors and the three judges, where we will have lovely writerly chats! 🥰 @aurorametro.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social

For £200,000 Farage will promote your company and get his councils to buy your products. Just imagine what he’d do for you if you gave him £5,000,000. Because it wouldn’t be nothing. It’s never nothing. He’s in hock to his donors and if he took power, we’d all be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Did you know UK rules let companies get away with slave labour, illegal deforestation and more? A new law could end this - please join me and sign the petition to stop corporate abuses now👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

So, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Very exciting news! My second novel The Wilder Path has been shortlisted for The Encore Award (alongside three very talented writers). societyofauthors.org/prizes/other...

Love Forms by Claire Adam (@faberbooks.bsky.social) Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces (@prototypepubs.bsky.social) Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington (Quercus) The Wilder Path by @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social (@aurorametro.bsky.social) Congratulations to all four shortlistees. The winner will be announced on 13 May.

@greenchristian.org.uk Great decision! greenchristian.org.uk/we-no-longer...

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

This post, including one of her stories, Is dedicated to the memory of Lorraine Collins who came to the festival for every year since 2023 and was booked this year. Lorraine died in a car accident last week and we will miss her at the festival very much. www.flashfictionfestival.com/news/

La Terre a accumulé une chaleur record en 2025: "Soyons francs, la situation est plutôt alarmante, le chaos s'accélère"

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time to get a move on with the renewable evolution. www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

This is profoundly shocking.

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

Bristol Zoo Clifton site developers subject to Government finance warning "You should avoid dealing with this firm and beware of scams"

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When the subtitle is actually the headline: “In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Zack Polanski demands on BBC Newsnight that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir over Peter Mandelson links

#Booksky #Italy 🥰

My novella #Aerth is published tomorrow (4/2/26) in Italy by @zona42.bsky.social. Wonderful translation by @madampsychosis.bsky.social Chiara Reali, beautiful cover art by Annalisa Antonini. Nota bene: No generative AI used in any part of this work. Molte grazie, Giorgio Raffaelli & all the team!

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

Have you read our recent report, Brave New World? It's a co-authored groundbreaking report that shows the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. buff.ly/vIuLqfn Join our chair @samblakebooks and create your own reel to show the creator behind the book. Use the #JusticeForCreators and tag us

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration. I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking! Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. This year marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Pray with us using this prayer from the Council of Christians and Jews.🙏

"Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018" ft.trib.al/YjIayfL ps Sasan Ghandehari donated £100K to Reform

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing. And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics. What could ever go wrong?

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

There are, I promise you, still serious and important people who think that Trump is playing 3D chess — putting on an act to convince his laggard NATO allies to pony up their fare share. But stuff like this is pretty clear evidence that he's *the* immediate risk to our collective security

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...