The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

I just read coverage of a revolutionary AI disease diagnostic tool which could help doctors give stunning and practical health advice such as *checks notes* lose weight and stop smoking. Well, that's $30bn well spent.

What if the entire point of global society were to compete to produce the best cultural outputs (art, music, games, films, dance, theatre, live sports, etc.)? Everything in society would still be needed (food, recycling, energy), but the goal would be to inspire ourselves with creations.

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

The British media not reporting on this shooting for what it is, a fight between extremist religious hate preachers is really starting to annoy me. Especially as in doing so they are pushing their lies and bile on those who would never have heard it.

Absolutely this.

I still mask in grocery stores and crowded indoor spaces as much as possible. Some say I’m over precautious. I say, ‘I’ve never had COVID’

let’s fucking gooooooo

3500 years old and still frickin' cute.

Start asking those who support leaving the ECHR which rights they are happy to be without because when they are gone, everyone will be exploited...

Rogue Trooper was one of my favourite comic characters as a kid - grieving but still going. I suspect I also had a bit of a crush on him, in a way! Very excited to see how @manmademoon.bsky.social has approached this zarjaz story 💙

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

roses are red grapes make wine a teenage girl wrote Frankenstein

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I'm hoping the complex, weird ending remains intact. Nonetheless, great to see this coming to life in a time that needs to learn from it.

This week I did something a bit special for my weekly spooky story newsletter: I created a 'choose your own adventure' style fiction. Check it out! matahaggisburridge.substack.com/p/interactiv... #horrorwriters #horrorwriting #horror #spooky #shortstories #interactivefiction

Mario Kart World is a racing game where you can have multiplayer fun exploring an open world between the race tracks. It's lovely to see Nintendo paying homage to Burnout Paradise like this.

Last call to video game writers to get the writing credit you've earned! Have you been miscredited? We want to hear about it! Fill out this form to help equip the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the tools we need to ensure industry and relevant websites adhere to proper crediting standards.

Fancy a found footage style short horror story? matahaggisburridge.substack.com/p/holiday-re... #horrorwriting #horror #amwriting

Can’t wait to reveal more on this. Smashing together two of my favourite things - games and horror with the brilliant @ScarredForLife2 - what could be more fun? Oh yeah, talking about those really horrible retro games that most people don’t remember…

Hey #horrorwriting folks. Is #PitDark going to happen this year? I've deleted everything on the old bird place and really don't want to support that network anymore. Are we going to try PitDark on Bluesky?

Credit Where Credit’s Due Dear videogames narrative community, The WGGB’s Videogames Committee needs help! To move our campaign on videogames credits forward we need a critical mass of responses from videogames writers. Help us, help you to get the right credit! www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y97DHN3

Thank you, House of Lords, for doing the right thing again.

Happy Pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Credit Where Credit’s Due Dear video game narrative folks, The WGGB’s Videogames Committee needs help! To move our campaign on video game credits forward, we need a critical mass of responses from video game writers. Help us help you get the right credit! www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y97DHN3

4am thought: What do you call a spoon with holes? A small colander. What do you call a spoon with a sharpened edge? A knife. What do you call a spoon with slits? A fork. How do you make a spoon talk? Show it what you did to the rest of its gang.

I write horror, but this is truly the Devil's work.

This was passed, so these are official and lawful flags! 🏳️‍🌈🖤

How can we trust AI when it still can't find the printer?

This was a lovely chat about all things #horrorwriting. Thanks for inviting me to join you on this call @hwa-uk.bsky.social 💜 #horror #horrorwriters

Supported - if you can spare a few quid, maybe you could too?

I'm So Bored Of This Type Of Article Name. I'd love to have a non-clickbait Internet again.

People of a certain age - can you hear the drums? And that choir?

love this, agreed. that's one of many reasons why we see a rise in transphobia and a ban on language needed to understand genders outside the binary. fascism thrives on fear and preys on ignorance. the power of non-binary thinking is realizing life isn't a zero sum game.

A brutal micro-fiction. Bravo! *applauds*

"I don’t think robots should work where children come to have fun." - Daphne, Scooby Doo Where Are You (1969)

The claims that today's anti-trans ruling makes life better or clearer for lesbians is nonsense. According to the ruling, if you're a cis-lesbian dating a trans-lesbian, apparently you're now both straight. You've had your sexuality invalidated.

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

@keefstuart.bsky.social laying down the hard truths in this week's Pushing Buttons:

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

Friendly reminder for all those doing #horrorwriting out there: now is the time for magic!

"Bitterness is a waste of energy." - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of pulsar stars, whose PhD supervisor (a man) was given the Nobel prize for the discovery. A powerful story in so many ways. Watch the whole thing. Sit with it. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLGMbGK/

The demo is available now! Dice'n Goblin is a cute DRPG where you play a Goblin having to fight their way out with dice! Play it and send us feedback! #Godot #Indiedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/...

Wouldn't it be great if giant corporations could exist without massive illegality? Some of my academic writing was vacuumed up into the LibGen database, and subsequently used by Meta (owners of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more) to train their LLM (AI) models. #DoTheWriteThing

Beautiful writing about a powerful moment: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Let's hope there are many more.

Sign a petition to the UK government seeking action and accountability from Meta for their breaching of copyright. If a person did this, the consequences could be severe - we want the same rules to apply to corporations as apply to the rest of us. chng.it/tf6tTfqdh7

"Dragon!" the knight called, "I'm here to end your reign of terror!" "I merely land by a town and ask if they will give me someone to eat." "Yet when they offer a sacrifice you spurn it and instead eat the mayor." "Yes. And if they refuse to sacrifice anyone, I leave." "That's... Hm. Carry on."

These are gorgeous!

So, that's a a 700 word short story written for my newsletter tomorrow, and 2500 words edited of the novel I'm working on at the moment. I think that's enough for my rock'n'roll Friday night. Sleep well!

IMO, a reason researchers are seen as being away in ivory towers is a fundamental difference between the needs of growing human knowledge and the needs of capitalism. In academia, research is most worthwhile when there's a good chance of surprise. In capitalism, success is the only good outcome.