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Delighted to see I have four works nominated on the BSFA Awards Long List. If you're a member of the BSFA, you now have until 19 Feb to vote on which long list works you want to see on this year's short list.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

Our general submission window will open on the first of the month! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! Guidelines & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/

This space exists because readers and writers keep finding each other in unexpected places. Through shelves, threads, notes, and late-night reading Two long-running communities where many of these conversations began Goodreads www.goodreads.com/group/show/1... Tumblr www.tumblr.com/communities/...

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

Two useful tools for anyone interested in actual policy delivery instead of endless Labour Kremlinology: 🔗 Legislation tracker from @dangroshev.com | labourreforms.uk 🔗 Government pledges tracker from @fullfact.org | fullfact.org/government-t...

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

YOU HEARD THEM! Britt's not even able to struggle on an even field - there are ACTIVE systemic & individual forces at work trying to make their survival impossible. SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. Take the graphic & alt text. Please send what you can. Act NOW to #KeepFolksAlive 💜 linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

The last time I checked a couple of years ago, the Home Office cost recovery target on visa processing was 202%, but in the latest annual report it was 241% - meaning that for every £100 it costs to administer the visa system, the department aims to raise £241 in fees.

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Happy release day to @nicole-glover.com for THE STARSEEKERS! www.crimewritersofcolor.com/bookdetails?...

Missing, set in Manchester and featuring homeless private eye Victor and his disgruntled dog, Oscar, is available through Amazon prime. I've come to love the characters and hope you do too. Please leave a review if you can, it would be a great help. Thanks. www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-City...

Good morning. Need coffee. While the juice of life brews, let's catch up. I've been many things. Veteran, teacher, CIO. Today, I'm a writer and caregiver to my wife and son. My wife's kidney failure, started a decade ago. My son is on the spectrum. cognitivedissident.substack.com/about

Your last chance to see the Outsiders exhibition in its current form will be at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow in April/May. That isn’t the end though as I’m developing a powerful new exhibition on homelessness, in collaboration with another photographer, which will be shown in Leeds in 2027.

Oh no. How ridiculous. Show Trad Wife and the Bat some love if you can. The book is terrific and deserves its sales.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Happy release week to @bryanpatrickavery.bsky.social for the JUNIOR SPIES series! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSQK3MM...

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

Feeling alone at Christmas? Why not join an annual virtual party started by Sarah Millican on X but now here?! I’m doing my best to keep this tradition going. Use #JoinIn on Dec 25 if you need company or just want a chat. Like/Save this feed to see all the #JoinIn posts bsky.app/profile/did:...

Your Afternoon #TimelineCleanser .. Nothing to see here. just 11 dogs on a surfboard ...

Our mental health is so important. If you’re struggling please reach out. UK numbers: Call Samaritans: 116123 National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652 The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58 Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994 Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141 SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630

Where I am, people celebrate Christmas today and consume unholy amounts of food. In case you need this, here you go. Merry Christmas. 🫶🏻

Been trying to keep my head up with all this generated slop bullshit but man, it's really starting to get to me. I've always struggled with my confidence in my work and feeling like it (and by extension me) isn't seen, and lately it's been hard to want to talk or post about my art.

Google has updated their privacy agreements, allowing their #AI model Gemini to harvest all of your data in gmail. Here's how you opt out. #HowTo #FYI #ProtectYourData

Happy Christmas Eve Eve lovely phone family. How's everyone feeling? 🤗 I know this can be a really difficult time of year for many of you. Here are some great support charities (UK) if you need them. There's never any shame in asking for help. Have a fabulous day ☕️ #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Here's a long forum thread where people are researching Adelaide's life. It's wonderful. You may cry. Or maybe that's just me. www.rootschat.com/forum/index....

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Okay, I've read the AISI paper now and it's interesting www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-... but I do think it could have been much more interesting if they had applied some sociotechnical thinking (and recruited a sociologist to do the social analysis)

i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd... pls share widely

This is an amazing and comprehensive article on Open AI, the CSUs, and AI implications www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

The Vanity Fair photographer, Christopher Anderson, is one of the most respected portrait photographers currently on earth, with an incredible body of work. Everything he and the creative team did with That Article was intentional. Your reactions were provoked by artists making art. Human artists!

Harlequin France is canceling contracts with translators to use AI. Publishers rushing to cut their own feet off befuddles me.

Genuinely can't like this post enough @kityates.bsky.social

#writers #authors #authorslife #writercommunity #selfpublishing #novella

I don't know why but in the last 2 days I've seen multiple people posting about my favorite shark the tasselled wobbegong and in case your timeline has not been similarly blessed I just think you should be aware that this is what it looks like

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Behind the story: Endalk highlights how Ethiopians are falling victim to scams on tech platforms

Hello @hayfestival.bsky.social what a wonderful day I am having!

Ai has stolen everything and still losing money. Them folks not even good at thievery.

Karin Smyth wants us to believe that new NHS private finance will be 'fundamentally different'. Her reason? Because the public owns the asset at the end of the PFI contract 🧐 1/3

Happy release day to @mpmthewriter.bsky.social for DEATH AND DINUGUAN! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717270...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Today! If you're around for @miamibookfair.bsky.social, I'll be on a panel at 1pm with @dwyermurphy.bsky.social and James Grippando, discussing our latest crime novels! I'll have TWO DAREDEVIL: ENEMY OF MY ENEMY galleys, if you find me and ask for one in time! www.miamibookfair.com/event/on-the...