I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

that’s not very right about now of you, funk soul brother

This is remarkable.

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

I am OBSESSED with this joyfully queer music video from Beth McCarthy! youtu.be/pXEBwpNyykA

TODAY I READ: an ARC of @freyamarske.bsky.social 's BODIES OF MAGIC, which boils down all of the stresses of pursuing a medical career post-pandemic into five, jam-packed days & adds a soupçon of magic & good old fashioned YEARNING, just for flavor

The two best things on the entire internet are fanfiction and niche websites run by passionate nerds who will simply die if they don't tell you how to do one thing really well Practical heatwave solutions for your UK home: www.heatwavetoolkit.com/solutions

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

it's the long, lovely, northern summer solstice! 17 hours of daylight, light till 11pm. for those of you elsewhere, there's Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, @krfabian.bsky.social's and my weird-ancient, poly-romantic solstice novella www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

Horrid Little Goblin solidarity

okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

Just a thought but if all you want to do is cosplay being a novelist, you don't need AI. Just put on your crappest sweatshirt, make a cup of tea, open Word to a blank page, then go on Bluesky for the rest of the day, and you're sorted.

Usain Bolt in either 2013 or 2014 (@such-heights.bsky.social and I were still courting!) My main memory is that the runners were so fast and the stadium was so big that they'd covered a fair distance before the sound of the starting pistol reached us

I wrote a fanfic, which for me right now is a big deal as I'm not writing much at all! for BBC Shetland, in honour of the week I spent on Shetland in May.

The adult content account label seems like overkill for a site that has never been visited by a single person under the age of 18

I would love it if AI generated summaries and minutes of work meetings would stop making up out of (stolen, environmentally destructive) whole cloth things I didn't say Just a cute little quirk of my personality to be enraged by this, I guess

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

Dr. Lloyd Didcot, 57, was about to tell Ben Espenson, 32, that the only treatment for his ear infection would be for him to lose two stone, when he saw in Espenson’s notes that he had recently been diagnosed as autistic.

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Any of my older fan friends, does anyone know the fan mrspotatohead or how I could contact her?

Is this healthy communication? Maybe not Is it sheer genius? Maybe so Does this spark a thousand thoughts about delightful variants on the fake dating trope within polyamory fic/romance? Fuck yeah

Say what you will about BBC Sherlock (derogatory), but there is no other piece of media that has such daily personal relevance to me even after so long Aka I just tried to plug my phone charger in

Absolutely adored All Hail Chaos by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social - it was everything I wanted from the middle book of a fantasy trilogy, hugely satisfying in its own right and a perfect escalation of all the terrible decisions made in the first book

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

I got my dad some matryoshka ducks (duckryoshka? quackyoshka? matryoshquack?) earlier this year, and today I finally got to play with them myself 1/3

I'm working at a polling station tomorrow so I've been to the shops to get all my food and drink to keep me going for the day. If you are voting, you don't actually need your polling card but it helps us if you have it (with its QR code). Don't forget your ID, and please be nice to us!

Today a drunk guy with a majestic beard stopped me while I was unlocking my bike to tell me - with the sincerity god only grants his drunkest, beardiest soldiers - the world was better with me in it Thank you, my drunk, beardy comrade. May your team win and your beard never wither

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

The high council of all autistics called a press conference today to announce that autistic people “definitely don’t lie”, eyewitnesses reported.

here it is! Mel/Santos, for The Pitt, 7500w, you've gotta be super super nice to over this one, I basically don't write fiction any more archiveofourown.org/works/83965251

Holy fuck

Queer community space! It would be so cozy and such a money sink!

It's Festival of Me Day! Is work going to buy me a book I've been looking forward to and my favourite hot drink and leave me to uninterrupted bliss for several hours? No it is not

it's my sister's bday and I have sent her a 5 kilo bag of rice that will be delivered at some point today because I'm not a good brother

I would like the serenity to stop fucking around on my phone and just go to bed, the courage to stop fucking around on my phone and just go to bed, and the wisdom to stop fucking around on my phone and just go to bed

the cookie monster writes about food under an om nom nom de plume

The Grink helped me to survive, and I helped him. We laughed together over a fire on the beach, eating succulent fresh-caught crab, the juice of it smearing our mouths, the heat of the shells burning our fingers. When we kissed it was strange, daring, unheard of. Inevitable.

My novel Thornfruit, the first of a queer fantasy trilogy about discovering that your mom is maybe doing kind of a lot of murders, and (in books 2-3) that you are in love with 2 people, is on sale for 99¢. Memory magic, secret letters, sea monsters, bisexual pining & 280+ SFFH ebooks indiebook.sale

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

On the NASA #Artemis II livestream just now: "... and the song you heard was Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan to kick off the crew's day" 🩷🐴🌈

Today I learned Habbo Hotel and Hazbin Hotel are extremely different things

Warning! Today is MISINFORMATION day on the internet. It's totally unlike any other day- [finger to ear] Mmhmm.

Wha… what!? Channing Tatum is co-writing a romance novel with Roxanne Gay about two people who make a pact to get married after 40. www.instyle.com/channing-tat...

Headline writers crossing all their fingers that whatever Scott Mills did it was dark and satanic

Police are looking for a break

this article is SHARP and CORRECT

I also wrote another book that is in part about existing as a queer person in India, and in the world. It's about immortal, predatory shapeshifters & their relationship with humans, taking place across contemporary India and the 17th-century Mughal Empire: