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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Or get rid of bastard insurance companies who weasel out of paying through any means necessary.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Has the internet run out of porn?

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 1d

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Editor: “We loved it but…”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have bad hair days for some reason.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

My wife would definitely do the same.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I think I heard you on John Peel.

Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

You and my wife are basically the same person.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Bastards to a man.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Or I send the boys round.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Renewing the contract on our house for another six months. The landlord hasn't increased the rent.

a man wearing a shirt that says " that was weird "

ALT: a man wearing a shirt that says " that was weird "

media.tenor.com

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · Aug 10

Publication day. My new book BURN is out today.

Choose.
Your family's lives.
Or the end of the world.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FLWSKKT...

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 3d

I like this more than I should.

Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 3d

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 3d

The solving of "those thorny problems" is the job.

That's the writing.

The more you outsource it to the plagiarism engine the more you lose your hard-won ability.

VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 3d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. They're pretty much unwatchable. For the most part, the unstoppable killer thing bores me to tears.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely underrated film. The endless sequels (oh, look. That guy we killed twelve times is back) can jog on.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 3d

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Yours truly in this issue with my tale The Sun Shines Down On England alongside a bunch of good eggs.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 5d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

The cover of the October 2025 issue of Penumbric, found at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/cover.html

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Yours truly in this issue with my tale The Sun Shines Down On England alongside a bunch of good eggs.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 5d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 4d

a man with red hair is smiling and making a peace sign while standing in a crowd .

ALT: a man with red hair is smiling and making a peace sign while standing in a crowd .

media.tenor.com

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 4d

There's a slight chance my wife and I can buy a house next year. Nothing definite and it depends on a lot of issues but I'll take the small chance of it as a positive.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 5d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 4d

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 5d

My way of spotting AI is to check if my mum shared it on Facebook. If she did, it's AI.

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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 5d

Funniest joke on Never Mind The Buzzcocks a few years later was about the Babylon Zoo singer.

"January 1996: Spaceman. July 1996: Postman."

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