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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 15h

I'm going to be on the radio later this month! So that's a first for me.

Come and listen to me on BBC Radio Scotland, Wednesday 29th October between 3:30 and 4pm, talking to the excellent pair of Anna Welander and Len Pennie.

Cameron Johnston in a blue fair isle style jumper in front of standing stones. Red labels say: BBC - I'm getting featured on Upload

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15h

Cameron Johnston deals alert - for new novel First Mage on the Moon and The Maleficent Seven!

1) First Mage on the Moon preorders are 25% off at Waterstones until 17/10:
www.waterstones.com/book/first-m...

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First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston | Waterstones

Buy First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2h

Fair. Is why I added the not too difficult to get to caveat. Would want to pop out when I fancy, but happy to hide behind the moat most times.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2h

And, it's stuck in my head again.
Bum, bum bum, byeeaa!

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 12h

Photo of four ice thugs facing a madcit frog. Text: Win or lose, sink or swim One thing is certain, we'll never give in Side by side, hand in hand We all stand together. - The Frog Chorus

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 12h

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Have just become aware there's a horrible number* of ai generated Ulysses 31 remakes out there and feel it's important to point out that THIS is the only remake of #Ulysses31 that you will ever need:
youtu.be/QMpf1D3YohU

*I didn't count, literally ANY is a horrible number in this case.

Ulysses 31 Redux

YouTube video by dermotcanterbury

youtu.be

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2h

This is the important point.

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 13h

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.

It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!

Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 3h

Computer generated erotica? A whole lot of unsuspecting people about to learn new things they can do with a USB socket and a floppy disk.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 8h

Do you do this if your business is going well?

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 8h

OpenAI CEO announces they will soon allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 3h

I would buy one of the smaller uninhabited but not too difficult to get to Hebridean islands, build an all mod cons house and live in it, constantly posting photos of interesting stones I found on the shore. Would then develop a rage against a seal for sitting on a favourite one.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 3h

Ooft, so much light, all that warm, not for me. You're missing so much chilly dark here.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3h

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 12h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 21h

I got taught it as a kid by my Dad convincing me to eat porridge. Didn't know it was Boswell and Johnson though.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

It really is them trying to take an old-fashioned google search and then shove it through a sausage machine so it comes out sounding like a bloke in the pub. Where they claim it's just the bloke in the pub and he cost eleventy billion and more electricity than Glasgow to operate.

Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Which makes me ask, why not just return the search results, drop the LLM and save all the complexity?
Because idiot CEOs might have to read a bit of context?
This is the same (pro-'AI') book that illustrates LLMs as a parrot.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

passing BOTH question and answer to the LLM, letting it rewrite the answer, using a complex algorithm to check the real search answer is still there, then replying to the user claiming it was the LLM wot done it.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

There was a link to a "How to make a better chat bot" book at work. I read the start where it admits that LLMs get stuff wrong and the rest of the book attempts to answer this by ever more complex ways of letting someone ask a question, doing a search, finding the answer, ...

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine admitting that you didn’t do your own work and that you’re basing your claims to epistemic authority on the computational equivalent of a game of snap.

No, I already have the papers. I want it to read the papers.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

I'd call that a good one to follow as it includes the niggly problems. I find that despite making it multiple times I still cock it up at least once a year.

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 1d

You weren't far wrong, if you listen to Johnson and Boswell share.google/B3IdKSK3Ri8r...

Dr. Johnson on Oats , by Scott Horton

Doctor Johnson proposed to define the word ‘oats’ thus: ‘A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ And

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2d

A lovely wee chat about film collectors and preserving history.
It does tip into Doctor Who news, but that's only a minor point of it, much more about volunteers preserving stuff, which is nice.

filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 2d

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2d

Very much looking forward to this wee con.
Mostly will be talking toot in the bar, unsurprisingly.

World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 2d

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

worldfantasy2025.co.uk

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 3d

The kind of infographic I could stare at for ages - combined maps with space and information.

Infographic comparing the size of London and Manhattan with

MARATHON DISTANCE
WILD 2 (Comet)
4179 TOUTATIS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
PROVEN GLOBAL COAL RESERVES
NEUTRON STAR (1.4 Solar Masses)
PROVEN GLOBAL OIL RESERVES
ALL LIVING PLANT BIOMASS
HALLEY'S COMET
BLACK HOLE OF 1 SOLAR MASS
ALL LIVING BACTERIA
CHIXCULUB IMPACTOR (Caused the extinction of the dinosaurs)
3200 PHAETHON (Asteroid that approaches closer to the Sun than any known object
PHOBOS (Moon of Mars)
EROS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
DEIMOS (Moon of Mars)
VREDEFORT IMPACTOR (Created the largest known crater on Earth)
EJECTA FROM THE 1883 KRAKATOA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE 1815 TAMBORA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTION 2.1 MILLION YEARS AGO

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously expecting a lot of interest so trying to push the price up.
Or trying to get rid of it before the curse kicks in.

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