A short comic about Lenny #TheSimpsons #comics

Bye Nige. Don't let the door hit you on the way out

“Wedding Night” by Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity

Check on my 75 word story "Wedding Night" on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social. Published today. paragraphplanet.com/published.ph...

Calling all #writers: Can you write a story in just 75 words? Paragraph Planet has been publishing one piece of #flashfiction every day, and wants YOUR stories. Submit today www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

Attn 38 year old Bsky users in London, does anyone want 2xRobyn tickets at the O2 tonight for free.

Fell down a #hades2 hole again so boom goes the early night

I keep seeing submission posts opening with narrow windows. So going to start a spreadsheet so I have a hope of having something suitable next time they come round *Proceeds to neither make spreadsheet nor write stories.

@freyamarske.bsky.social Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed "Cinderhouse", devoured it yesterday.

"Shifting trends in consumer preference" is it? No, this is just companies deciding they don't want people to properly own anything

Submissions are opening today! We are seeking speculative fiction by immigrant/diaspora writers for upcoming issues. Open to short stories under 5,000 words; translations under 3,500 words from any language into English; and flash fiction under 1,500 words. Accepted stories are paid USD$0.10/word.

Submitted a 4600 word story today.

When a picture circulating as a meme gives you an idea for a random doodle... you MUST DOODLE THE DOODLE!

Boosting this again - today's your last full day of updating your PLR so you're not doing it in a panic on the deadline day!

Joan Miró, The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers, 1941

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

THE FIRST TEN PAGES PROGRAMME! The BFS is offering BIPOC members feedback from industry professionals such as authors, editors and literary agents. To submit your writing or offer anonymous feedback as an advisor, sign up using this (updated) link: british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Hello to another day spent guzzling water while surrounded by cooling fans. It's like being Gregor Samsa if he woke up to find himself transformed into a datacentre.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

This feels. On the nose.

It's my birthday today! 🎉 I've been enjoying black/gold art lately. A little share today of some of them would be cool. c:

Apropos of *trying to make a living as an author*... can I interest any of you in a nice math-western alt history satire in these trying times? Renegade gunslinging mathematicians fighting against the vilification of expertise? payhip.com/StarkHolborn

One guy can manage all three

that is, one-sixth of the prime ministers *since 1721*.

so were they just lying about having written the kier starmer christmas special?

I am so glad the whole "lets fix the burning planet" thing got shoved aside in favour of Europe-wide rearmament and the glorious benefits of the slop machine Meanwhile, at home:

Jumping into the #doctorwho discourse so this guy for the new Doctor. The clubhouse is the TARDIS (bigger on inside than outside), rotating group of companions (these aren't the first squirrels) and impossible to accurately age him.

What I hear when I'm in the dentist's chair and hear the dentist talking to their assistant.

We need to talk about pangrams. Comrades, do not settle for 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.' Good for kids? Yep. Awesome? Nah. When 'Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz' is available, do not settle! While we're at it, I fell for the Wikipedia page. Join me! 1/15

Our submissions are open for Issue 49, themed "animal, mineral, vegetable!" To help potential contributors, we are offering a series of themed #prompts. Our next: "kudzu," known as the vine that ate the South. Tag #PJSenryu, or submit to us! #writingprompts #poetryprompts #WritingCommunity

This has reminded me of the playlist I made for Sisyphus (based of someone else's post on the old place): music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

Untitled Goose Game as told by the villagers

#Dispatch and #hades2, I'm torn as to which to put at top of my Hugo ballot. Any pros/cons to each that people can think of? Dispatch is less game but better story but Hades 2 is better gameplay loop but story not hitting as much.

I have been thinking about the prompts left in AI novels and the extra fingers in AI art and what it says about their "creators." Non-writers think writing is all about the epiphany when it is actually about editing and rewriting. Non-artists don't know that art begins with observation.

People should just make up names of pretend social media platforms and see if they add them to the list. ‘What about Twinge?’

Banning children from social media?

We haven't learned anything about what social isolation did to kids. Six years after covid, we're still pushing them into smaller & smaller boxes INSTEAD OF REGULATING THE BILLIONAIRES.

I have a small confession which is that when I read a menu and see (gf) next to something I still read it as being for your girlfriend

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

World Cup FACT: Messi is only the second Mister Men character to have played in a World Cup finals following Gianfranco Topsiturvi's appearance for Italy in 1938.

We got some last year with a battery for just this reason. Recommended if you can.

This is the first time since 1963 that both Doctor Who AND Star Trek have had no new episodes in production.

Owls don't look for a mate when it's raining because it's too wet to woo.

"I met the spouse of one of the Rainbow cast on my holiday in the southern United States." "Mississippi?" "No, George's wife, Barbara".