Posting this because SALES. And also swords and botany. www.snowywingspublishing.com/our-authors/...

The previous attempt had a link that didn't work properly, so I'll try again. There's a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition calling for Health Secretary James Murray to trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS here: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ja...

📢 FINAL CALL! 📢 Our Charity Auction closes in less than 24 hours – don't forget to get your bids in! www.32auctions.com/organization...

2026 Pride Bundle, the Twinks are in you! A genuinely incredible bunch of books for $30: An Oz masterpiece from Geoff Ryman, books by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social & @fozmeadows.bsky.social, brilliant releases from @neonhemlock.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social @wctracy.bsky.social, and MORE. 💙📚🌈📚

The message this sends is appalling, that queer folks should be hidden away from sight, that we're shameful, dangerous and not fully human. It sanctions hate and violence. Bigotry like this should be illegal, especially in so-called democratic countries. But they'll never stop us. 🏳️‍🌈

Fiona Gibson, contemporary sculptor based in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her work is based on local mythology #WomensArt

While we're helping each other, report this egregious bullshit, they haven't even bothered to call it something else!

Just a reminder: The Guardian entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI a little while back, so any time you see an article like this from them, you can immediately dismiss it as not credible journalism but just Sam Altman getting his money’s worth.

🚨 Even Parliament's own Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is now urging the government to trigger the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract, warning it leaves patients' data at the mercy of foreign actors. Keir Starmer, James Murray - are you listening? news.sky.com/story/palant...

Happy pride month to approximately 90% of you! I love you, you make this shit tolerable. Now let’s build the future we were promised.

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

I am once again asking for your trash for things like this

Any Glasgow folk at a loose end this evening and fancy a walk round the Gorbals in the sun, come and join me on this tour! Fine to just turn up, meet outside old St Andrews Printworks on Pollokshaws Rd, 6pm www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-hi...

Happy Friday, for some reason, I've grown self-conscious about putting my book out there, so I'm trying to be brave, here ya go, tricksters & time travel and I hope you give this non-binary Fox god and their potential new very-nice-but-kind-of-a-fuck-up acolyte a try <3 bookshop.org/p/books/audi...

Hatshepsut (whose name means "Foremost of Noble Ladies" 1507–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She is the second historically-confirmed female pharaoh, the first being Sobekneferu. #CelebratingWomen

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'Morning' #BookQW #BookSky Livak and Ryshad are content (more or less) with their lives in the Kellarin settlement. Others are keen to cross the ocean to join them. Predators have other ideas. When our friends find out about this, will they take up their swords again?

Greening urban areas: (Give @treesforcities.bsky.social a follow)

I have managed to forget my charger and my notes for the panel on Saturday. Welp, I said it was an adventure, right?

Tomorrow, Rosie and I will be getting our Glasgow on. It's @satellitecons.bsky.social this weekend... (Rosie is not attending because the con hotel is not for dogs, so no sneaking her in like @bristolcon.bsky.social. She'll be sleeping in a hotel around the corner and Ill be taking breaks.)

The Girl With A Thousand Faces is *such* a good book. I have many questions!

There's a @change.org petition to ask the US Congress "Stop Big Tech's Unchecked AI From Threatening Public Safety" c.org/wMb4thFJ4N

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

Choose Love are turning the planned far right march on May 16th into a sponsored walk for refugees. You know what to do: www.tommychooseslove.org

There's a lot of talk lamenting the rapid churn in Prime Ministers of recent years and thus resisting the prospect of ditching Starmer just for the sake of not continuing the pattern. But. You do see how sticking with a bad and deteriorating situation is in fact worse, right?

Happy #InternationalNursesDay! 💙 Today we celebrate the nurses who keep our NHS going — the people who show up, care for us, and hold the whole system together. The NHS is one of our greatest achievements. And tax is what makes it possible… 1/4

Congratulations to everyone who made the longlist for the 2026 Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction -- but especially to our own Meghan Ellis and Ian Hunter! Fingers crossed for the winners announcement on 2nd June... @ianhunter60.bsky.social @meghan0n.bsky.social @cymerafestival.co.uk

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

It’s the last day of Cottonopolis exhibition. Explore how 18th century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing powerhouse and the centre of Britain’s booming cotton industry. The city’s explosive industrial growth depended on links to India, Africa and America. Open 10am-5pm, free entry.

Calan Mai Hapus / Happy May Day and welcome to the start of summer by the old old calendars. Time to revolt!

GIRES supports the following research project on behalf of Birkbeck University An oral history research project exploring transgender and non-binary experiences of Section 28. When they were neither widely visible nor well understood. Refer to the flyer for more information and to participate.

There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.

Almost there! YES, WE CAN! www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants.

Happy Multicultural Saint Day to all who follow St George Please don't kill dragons, they're endangered

issue 42 of The Deadlands is RELEASED UPON THE WORLD including many deathy fiction and poetry INCLUDING ONE (1) NOVELETTE, our first novelette in a while it's been too long tbh. check out the issue page below and DEFINITELY, PRETTY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT US LIKE A SKELETON 💀🦴🖤

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and highly enjoying Slow Gods by Claire North. What are you reading at the moment?

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

The Llandeilo Lit Fest is happening soon. Wizard's Tower are on the programme. If you live in South Wales, please come and see us. www.cheryl-morgan.co...

Exactly 💯

Allow me to toot my own trumpet for a brief second...

Ecologi don't seem to have made it here but if you're looking to fund reforestation, habitat restoration, and carbon avoidance, they're worth looking at ecologi.com/thethomaspac... Also, if you sign up following that link, we get sparkly trees. Unfortunately, they donut sparkle in real life

Join Gareth L. Powell and Ren Hutchings in conversation on 24th April at Waterstones Canterbury, where they'll be discussing their new books Jitterbug and An Unbreakable World. Tickets available through @waterstones.bsky.social website. #books #scifi #canterbury #sciencefiction

The short story that won the BSFA award at the weekend! Listen to it for the lovely Scottish accent of @elizachanwrites.bsky.social who was exactly the person to be the narrator. And the story might leave you feeling certain ways after, too. 🏙️🦖

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'quick'. In The Sky-Slayer by Joel Cornah, Rob Sardan realises that being hated by an entire race of giant, intelligent penguins might not be a good idea. #BookQW wizardstowerpress.co...

So pleased to see Fight Like A Girl Volume 1 edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall is back in print www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2017/10...

Our ebooks are now distributed by Draft2Digital, which means you can buy them on Apple Books, Smashwords and other platforms. They are also available through BorrowBox and other library platforms. Here's the order page for The Green Man's Heir: books2read.com/u/m2znvd

Welcome to the Trans Day of Visibility. Please be kind to folks today

DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS will be back this year with a fourth running of MIDSUMMER, featuring five days of interviews, talks and workshops incoming! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #fiction #writing #writers #authors #books #novels

I will complete a series of stunts if Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike gets anywhere near the Hugos! If on the voting list at all, I will video my best Godzilla ROAR and post it here! If longlisted, I will ROAM Glasgow in an inflatable dinosaur suit! If it gets to the shortlist, I will...

Readers! What is the last book you loved by a trans author? And what is something you loved about it?