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Doctor of food. Writer of stories. Neurospicy. Kind of a lot. Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk Drabble&micro markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 15d

'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.

This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 10h

Ooh, yaaaay! Glad you liked it!

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 5d

It has to be said, I’m struggling. I am still in over draft after paying my bills. If you’ve ever enjoyed what I do here, be it writing, curating the Palestinian Speculative Fiction reading list, or just my vibe, please consider using my tip jar: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

Join me for more deep thinks when I should instead be doing big writes.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

If you're the last person on the planet, are you still an introvert?

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 4d

Thank yoooou 🫂

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a new position! It is called ‘fetal’ and I’ll be here for a while.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo is spitting.

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Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Nathan W. Toronto @bulletpoints.bsky.social · 5d

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 5d

Magdalen

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 5d

Our editor, Emily, has made it through a lot these past five years, and hopes you will enjoy this deeply heartfelt and personal collection of her unpublished writing during that time.

Quiet, Quirky, Queer — and now on #NetGalley.

Sexy Garlic

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 5d

The older I get, the more NO

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 6d

No, I know, it just feels like the rage is slightly off point. It’s not the terminology that’s really the problem, it’s the subsidies, the backroom agreements, the continued support for mega farms and poor animal welfare. This feels like a bait-and-switch.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 6d

Watching people rage bait over burgers and sausages. Like, I get it’s stupid, and driven by big ag lobbies, but surely there are bigger fishfingers to fry?

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Plant-based 'burger' label grilled in EU parliament – DW – 10/08/2025

Can a veggie schnitzel legally be called a schnitzel even if it contains no meat? Some have argued such names are confusing consumers. The European Parliament seems to agree.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

doomscroll break

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 6d

Sad thought: today isn’t Saturday.
Worse thought: tomorrow isn’t Saturday either.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

a black and white drawing of a boy with a sad face

ALT: a black and white drawing of a boy with a sad face

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

In case future employers need to know where to find me.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a new position! It is called ‘fetal’ and I’ll be here for a while.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

At least yours are for being a good person. I just get salty with pushy parents.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 7d

I have one against me. But it’s from my partner disallowing me from joining the child’s class WhatsApp group. Apparently, we want her to be allowed to remain in the school…?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 9d

Non-peaceful approaches suck. They’re also often ineffective. If the government is going to ignore us anyway, which they all seem to do, then maybe don’t get in the way of peaceful forms of voicing concerns.

I point you to France 1789 for reasons not to be bad leaders.