🔍eBook Discount! THE HANGING TREE by Ben Aaronovitch is only $2.99 on Kindle Daily Deals. Peter Grant has been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies. Assuming he survives the week… buff.ly/jgsMwpm

If it is the Rapture tomorrow I hope y'all have fun up / down there. I'll be staying right here, where the dogs are

OOOH! Co ni off, bois bach! 'Yma o hyd' is an important phrase in Cymraeg. It's use in more modern folk songs is a symbol of continued resistance, anti-colonialism and community.

I NEED YOUR HELP! But first, go get your free book: mybook.to/insolitudess... Yes, In Solitude's Shadow is free! And the rest of the series is on sale. It's super cheap 🙌 But the help, you say? Please share this far and wide! Neurodivergent, queer, middle-aged characters. Sweeping scope. Go!!!

A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN is published tomorrow! Here's a reading from chapter one to wet your appetite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zypA... #books #fantasybooks #mythology #folkhorror 📙🔥

Do we have a new anthology project in mind? Oh yes! Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/...

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

For the first time in my life, I have joined a political party. I'm such a grown up!

# 231- Tej Turner (@tejturner.com), author of the 'Avatars of Ruin' series, showcases an excerpt from his work in this Showcase episode. Listen here: pod.link/1524142040/e... Tej's Linktree: tejturner.com #author #fantasy #interview

I like the idea that we've got to pollute the algorithm with facts about ourselves! Tell me one fact about me and I'll tell you one fact about you. These will be absolutely true facts that definitely will help build our perfectly accurate generative AI profiles.

#ClimateAdaptation - neither business nor government (see Planning and Infrastructure Bill) are keeping up with the risks of the #ClimateEmergency www.edie.net/climate-risk...

"President Trump is remaking the country in his image: crude, harsh, gratuitously mean." Must read by trans writer. www.nytimes.com/2025... archive.is/v0uoa#sel...#sel... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The state of the Jo - Chris just tried to drop a jacket potato on my plate and I moved the plate away because the potato was hot and I didn't want the plate to get hurt...

In case you missed this on The Other Place...

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. Fuck Censorship Free Artists

This petition ⬇️ calls for the Green Party to refuse to platform organisations that want to undermine trans rights at official Party events. Will you sign too? I’ve never attended a party conference before but I’m off to Bournemouth on the 3rd on my own. If I encounter any transphobia I’ll struggle.

So, what is this? Check back tomorrow for more news.

#365DaysOfFood dydd 203 - Chris made a potato and broccoli curry in the slow cooker :)

If only 10% of the people following me bought a £0.99 book from me, I would be able to buy a castle for my cat and if that doesn't motivate you I don't know what will. shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

I'm beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting comedians make transphobic, sexist, violent, racist jokes without professional consequences wasn't about protecting the freedom to make jokes.

Hi #BookSky 💙📚 I've finished reading Colinthology edited by Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social and @rozc.bsky.social

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇 https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

To celebrate completion of the Thunderstrike Diaries series I've reduced the ebook of System Failure to 99p/99c. If you fancy a story of a sapient conscientious objector warship and a bioengineered lion fighting galaxy-wide presidential corruption, give it a try. Book2Read.com/u/311lrW

If you'd like to come camping in Wales for a couple of weeks to avoid an indefinite stay at the J K Rowling Reeducation Camp for Naughty Transies and Other Undesirables, we have plenty of camping space.

We will be attending the brilliant Edge-Lit book and writing festival in Derby today, so it seems the perfect time to shout out to our speculative fiction! share.google/DmcOrUK2MMrZ... We are doing the submissions workshop at 4. See you there!

Trump: "I think we're gonna have something very very big coming up soon on autism. Autism is totally out of control ... we're gonna have a news conference early next week on autism."

I might have said this before, but if you are at all gender or neuro spicy and you can get out of America, get the heck out of America...

No, YOU just spent 50 quid on rare winter squash and sweet pepper seeds because you were depressed....

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu. www.academia.edu/terms

Daily moment of cute

If you are trans and in the United States and want some jewelry from the shop but can't afford it, go to this website at the top of the next hour (9AM Mountain/Denver time) and submit an (easy, non-arduous) application. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

@sentimentbot.bsky.social OK, I'll bite

Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for blackberry and bay crostata | The sweet spot

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Don't look now, but I think I've found another Russian spy....

Buy SURROUND SOUND on HIVE and support local bookshops! www.hive.co.uk/Product/Mark...

I made a few promo images for my novella, Bring Me Home, in Wiz Duos book 2. Which do you think works best? Genuine question! (The book in question shares a home with a Juliet Kemp novella! Find here: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...)

this is so funny to me, why is she dressed like sad goth pizza hut

This is what I was waiting for. The entire film of @ledbydonkeys.org's latest scrupulous masterpiece. How can they possibly have been arrested for stating nothing but facts? This country... And Murdoch plus fat cats American, Indian and British were at the banquet. Pah.

"I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m astonished at the apparent lack of visible concern on the part of mainstream environmentalists as we slide into a police state. The right to peaceful protest remains a basic human right, but you wouldn’t know that here in the UK" writersrebel.com/love-anger-a...

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Groupmind: anyone know the author and title of an SF short story about a civilisation of strange-matter creatures inhabiting Earth's mantle, which is discovered just as they discover us?

Help support British farmers: 5 things you need to know about unfair supermarket dealing 🔽 Sustain and Riverford are calling on the public to write to their MP, to join the call for supply chain regulation. #Getfairaboutfarming www.sustainweb.org/blogs/sep25-...

finally, some good news. people.com/luigi-mangio...

Taking a brief break from Milford Critique Week (where I'm having a fab time at the wonderful Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social) to celebrate the #bookrelease of my #solarpunk short story collection "Futures to Live By" by Newcon Press 🌻 www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

It's #buyastrangerabook day! @bwianair.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £20! Yes, that's right. TWENTY POUNDS. So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch. UK only.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

My mum just phoned to say my aunt died this morning, on her own terms. She'd had enough. She'd been sick since my cousin died 40 years ago, and frankly I don't blame her. And would not have argued with her, she was a primary school teacher of the literal Old School, and she did not brook nonsense.

Totally normal day coming up. Just a little book launch later… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...

Be a real shame if this embarrassing photo of Donald Trump and his bestest ever pal Jeff was shared widely on the internet..