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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 54m

My first novel is back in print thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social
If you like pirates, pterosaurs, and penguins, give it a read! Available from all good bookshops including wizards tower themselves. Support independent publishers!
#lgbtqbooks #queerbooks #author
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

The Sea-Stone Sword

ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-917950-08-4 EPUB: 978-1-917950-07-7

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 13h

When y'all buy from indie authors, it impacts us profoundly. Especially if it goes outside the circle of authors trading a few dollars back and forth amongst ourselves.

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 13h

I expected to sell 200 copies in the first year in my wildest dreams and it’s wound up selling 4,000 in that time 🥹

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 16h

Having two cats means sometimes looking down and seeing two cats! Can recommend.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22h

Alt text.

Evil, that is, has every advantage but one-it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility of becoming evil-hence the refusal of Gandalf and Aragorn to use the Ring-but Evil, defiantly chosen, can no longer imagine anything but itself. Sauron cannot imagine any motives except lust for domination and fear so that, when he has learned that his enemies have the Ring, the thought that they might try to destroy it never enters his head, and his eye is kept toward Gondor and away from Mordor and the Mount of Doom.

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 1d

chef boyar-girl on VIP when

A series of images: Ash Kron enters dressed as a spaghetti eating mobster. Josh Ruben names her "Chef Boyar-girl. Brennan Mulligan incredulously declares: "NOT CHEF GIRL-ARDEE. NOT CHEF GIRL-ARDEE. CHEF BOYAR-GIRL.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 10d

Tom Scot in the fastest car in the world.

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 3d

Both the doctor and companion should be complete losers. Utter failures and embarrassing to themselves and others. And then they should improve one another through their adventures.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 4d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 4d

In other news: Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

Book News: Angry Robot Acquires New Juliet E. McKenna Novel – The British Fantasy Society

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4d

Right, so, someone saying immigrants should have “A-level English” is someone who doesn’t know what the subject “English” is, which is learning to recognise and understand deeper meaning and symbolism in a text, to be able to analyse and deconstruct and get their own reading on a text

Ron Swanson ignoring the symbolism in Moby Dick which he thinks is a book about a guy who hates an animal

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Lori @cornjerker78.bsky.social · 11d

Judge: you’re here because you booped the cop on the nose

Me: your honor, may I approach the bench?

Judge covering his nose: absolutely not

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 4d

And, yes, before @thatdocphoenix.com says so, Big Community Switch is a good drag name. 😝

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 4d

Not usually one to get evangelical about things, but I can heartily recommend The Big Community Switch. Has almost halved our energy bill. Collective bargaining in action. Heard about it thanks to my trade union, of course.

bigcommunityswitch.co.uk

Switch Together to lower your energy bill.

Join the collective energy switch and see how much you can save on your energy bills. It is easy, free and without obligation.

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 4d

Have just seen this and shouted Yes!

Screenshot of a quote from China Miéville which reads:

"Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship or banning. It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologise for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It’s really not very f-cking complicated. Cry "free speech" in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say. When did bigotry get so needy? This assertive & idiotic failure to understand that juridical permissibility backed up by the state is not the horizon of politics or morality is absurdly resilient."

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 5d

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 5d

If Great British Energy was the energy provider we were promised, that would go a long way to addressing this. Why Labour won’t bite the bullet and do it is beyond me.
“Oh but they’ll attack us for it!” They’re attacking you anyway! Fucking DO SOMETHING!

Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 5d

"quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich. The water industry tells a similar story. Almost a third of the average bill goes towards funding shareholder dividends and interest payments."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 5d

Leave it to Milibabe
news.sky.com/video/former...

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk 'get the hell out of our politics'

The energy secretary says Musk "thinks he can tell us how to run Britain".

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Sep 30

"gee I wonder how I will transfer this information
reliably across long distances"

the trustworthy telecommunications dish:

A white borzoi in a cone of shame, the long head sticking out like a full foot and a half.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 6d

Feeling better about being so burned out I can’t even do my washing up

Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 6d

LET'S FUCKING GO

International Day for Failure

Date

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

THE INTERNATIONAL

DAY FOR FAILURE OCTOBER 13th

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6d

this platform is silencing me instead of exchanging ideas, by which I meant exchanging their good ideas for my bad ideas and not criticizing me for them in any way

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 6d

Being trying really hard to write again after a hiatus and am struggling. I used to be able to do pages and pages in a single sitting, but now I’m hitting a wall after two paragraphs. 😓

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 7d

My post from a few weeks ago

Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
Fascism relies on you finding earnest enjoyment of things cringe, it relies on you being ironically detached, it relies on you suppressing that bit of you that is unafraid.
27 September 2025 at 15:01

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8d

“Best regards”

A letter from STANLEY KUBRICK
August 27, 1970
James T. Aubrey, Jr.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
245N Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Dear James,
It has come to my attention that you and your
studio are considering producing a sequel to "2001:
A Space Odyssey" over my objections. My attorney informs me that you hold the option and, legally. there is little I can do to stop you.
However, I'd like you to know that I own the tapir bone prop from 2001 - the one "Moonwatcher" throws into the sky. If you attempt to make a sequel, I will cram that temur up your ass so far, it will take an as yet undiscovered alien super-intelligence to figure out how to dislodge it. Seriously, don't fuck with me.
Best regards,
Stanley Kubrick

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