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I probably shouldn't tell anyone this but apparently it's Fountain Pen Day on Friday and Cult Pens has 10% off all week to celebrate: cultpens.com/collections/...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

in short: if you're looking for love, get your nuts out by the fire.

I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”

Saying “I’ve mistakenly freed a prisoner” every time I fart inappropriately.

the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

Happy writing news: just signed a contract with Interzone Mag for my novelette, “The Five Languages of Grief,” an SF story at the intersection of imperialism and extraction. It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.

wtf is it with British prisons releasing prisoners in error! Two more now www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Talking about SF short fiction feels incomplete without mentioning magazines out there which are swimming against the tide (and AI slop) to keep venues alive for short stories. Consider subscribing or supporting if you are able! Thread of a few: #ShortBursts #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

"Dazzlingly fresh and original: relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted and always human" @gautambhatia88.bsky.social "A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries" @aptshadow.bsky.social "As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story" @rjbarker.bsky.social

There's so much great short SF! #ShortBursts for #SciFiMonth The Xuya novellas by the lovely @aliettedebodard.com Gorgeous setting (and covers) with fun / intense stories: Vietnamese inspired space opera with sentient spaceships, and tea (but also so much more)! Here are a few :) #SciFiMonth2025

This is great and an amazing life skill. I have the feeling the kids are already getting good at it though and it’s us older folk who might need more help :)

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

are phaser vaporized victims safe to breathe

Not even lying...

This month, we bring you the lore behind the Nāga, which is a figure of great significance in South-East Asia. 🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

It was so much fun to pick 10 random books from my collection! Thank you to the folks behind @scifimonth.bsky.social for getting this going! onemore.org/2025/11/02/s...

When they take over, every single one of us who wheezed laughing at their nascent form will be rounded up and put in the mines but man it will have been worth it.

just....enjoy this

I detect a labour awakening! Real-time clash between remnant feudalism and free market labour empowerment!

One of the unintended benefits of having my parents over right now is having a ring-side view to their township (aka RWA / HOA / RA) women's whatsapp group squabbles over domestic help.

Top Ten Tuesday: Nonlinear equations (10 random SF books from my shelves) 2/10 These gorgeous editions of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents I picked up from Glasgow worldcon :) #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Day 3: breaking news - what upcoming SF releases or other news do you have to share with us? #ScifiMonth2025

Breaking News (aka upcoming books I'm excited for) #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025 Next Murderbot from Martha Wells torpublishinggroup.com/platform-dec... New China Mieville novel "The Rouse" www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...

Haven’t been able to source origin of this image, but title’s a whole new word to me, and likely to you too. Happy Clock Back, all!

So much to read so little attention 😭

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

imagine if we had dinosaurs*. instagram account of some white woman with a "tame" t-rex that she "raised from an egg, he would NEVER hurt me" *yes I know birds are basically dinosaurs if you pedant me about this I will block you

A train derails in Cumbria! wtf, the railways are having a bad time these past few days

species that give good hugs

Best Collection: #WorldFantasyAwards2025 Winner: A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth US; Granta)

I know this is supposed to be on Friday, but I have no patience and surgery this Friday 😅

Put on your suits (my anticipated Sci Fi TBR for this month) - The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older - Halcyon years by Alastair Reynolds - The Ganymedan by R. T. Ester - Deep Navigation by Alastair Reynolds - Clarkesworld magazine (catching up) #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

The Journey not the Destination: - Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - 2001 a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke - Hyperion by Dan Simmons #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and highly enjoying Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anton for some epic fantasy back in my life. What are you reading at the moment?

Truly exemplary work, which probably prevented the awful situation last night from becoming even worse.

Some small measure of hope: 4 of the 9 people with life-threatening injuries have been discharged from hospital, 2 however still remain in life-threatening condition. Hope, they make it too 🤞 🙏 Suspects in custody within 8 min of the call. Seems like a stellar job by emergency services all around!!

November has started - suit up, hop aboard and blast off with us for a month of sharing our love for all things SF! #ScifiMonth2025

I feel as if the brutal realism of the current landscape basically demands weird fiction. This stuff is too much to process it directly on a day-to-day basis. It must be filtered through the weirdest lens until it resembles something like life, like hope or sanity.

Simply horrifying, I hope everyone recovers! Ffs www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Feast your eyes upon a duo of delicious endorsements from @kbwagers.com and @samitbasu.bsky.social for @lavanya.bsky.social 's INTERGALACTIC FEAST, the concluding part of the FLAVOUR HACKER duology that began with INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Preorder now: https://geni.us/intergfeast

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

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Hahaha..the saga of AI slop continues 😂 tldr: CEBR estimates UK retailers lost £4.9bn in past 12 months due to negative experiences with chat bots and other AI. An additional £3.7bn because these people then shared their views with others. 6% of total online sales www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers

About to get my fourth copy of the Empress of Salt and Fortune, since I’ve given (enthusiastically pushed) the first three away to friends and family 😄