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Alan Fleming
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SF fan, co-chair of Unconfined - the 2027 Eastercon to be held in Glasgow (https://easterconglasgow.org).

Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@alanfleming (SFF here tech there)

Bit grumpy about Bluesky but it's where SFF's at 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Alan Fleming @alanfleming.org · Jan 10
This needs to be a pinned post here: Apologies if I unfollow you on Mastodon. Too many social media platforms with people posting the same thing to them all. This one's going to be my SFF one (until it crashes and burns as all capitalist-owned ones do and we'll all move to Mastodon)
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I seem to have been given the hotel room overlooking the Death Star construction site

#bristolcon
Looking down on a round circular crate like roof that resembles the main weapon of the death star in Star Wars
October 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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eastercon2027.org
Have you checked out our new Halloween tshirts? Celebrate the spooky season in style with our limited edition design, in black, purple, maroon and navy, available at our shop - easterconglasgow.org/product/east...
A photo of a purple tshirt with the Unconfined gothic horror logo. It is a silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in bright purple is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in black of a gothic city skyline with an orange full moon and a cloud of bats flying across it. In the centre, between the two horizon lines is the word ‘Unconfined’ in black capital letters with an orange glow. Below are the words ‘Eastercon 2027 26-29 March Glasgow’. A photo of a navy tshirt with the Unconfined gothic horror logo. It is a silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in bright purple is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in black of a gothic city skyline with an orange full moon and a cloud of bats flying across it. In the centre, between the two horizon lines is the word ‘Unconfined’ in black capital letters with an orange glow. Below are the words ‘Eastercon 2027 26-29 March Glasgow’. A photo of a maroon tshirt with the Unconfined gothic horror logo. It is a silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in bright purple is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in black of a gothic city skyline with an orange full moon and a cloud of bats flying across it. In the centre, between the two horizon lines is the word ‘Unconfined’ in black capital letters with an orange glow. Below are the words ‘Eastercon 2027 26-29 March Glasgow’. A photo of a black tshirt with the Unconfined gothic horror logo. It is a silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in bright purple is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in black of a gothic city skyline with an orange full moon and a cloud of bats flying across it. In the centre, between the two horizon lines is the word ‘Unconfined’ in black capital letters with an orange glow. Below are the words ‘Eastercon 2027 26-29 March Glasgow’.
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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beastwreck.storenvy.com
cthulhu aid a pastiche of a soft drink with an octopoid pitcher
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
alanfleming.org
A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.
pdjeliclark.bsky.social P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · Oct 14
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”
Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!
lrlam.bsky.social L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · Oct 14
MASQUERADE, the third instalment in the MICAH GREY trilogy, is now 25% off at @waterstones.bsky.social

Use the discount code OCTOBER25 at checkout!

The MICAH GREY trilogy is a story of found family, queer joy, and self discovery, wrapped in a whimsical gaslamp fantasy🃏🎪
October 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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mitchbenn.bsky.social
Jim Caviezel
Met Vin Diesel
Going to the fair
Said Jim Caviezel
To Vin Diesel
“Ha! You’ve got no hair”

Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,”
My pate is bare,
But this is incidental;
For tonsure-free
I’d rather be
Than totally fucking mental”
September 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Thanks, I love it.
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
alanfleming.org
Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Sep 24
ALA Most Challenged Books of 2024 locusmag.com/2025/09...
September 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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jessnevins.bsky.social
Come play with us, 3PO.
Two Star Wars droids side by side
September 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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There are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one.

This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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lrlam.bsky.social
Today is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban.

#Glasgow #StoneCircle
September 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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shonak.bsky.social
Top entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke:

Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
September 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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eastercon2027.org
Our first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍

easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
Welcome to the first newsletter from Unconfined! - Unconfined - Eastercon 2027 in Glasgow
The first newsletter from Unconfined, describing what we've been up to planning the convention.
easterconglasgow.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
alanfleming.org
A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.
September 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
alanfleming.org
Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.
September 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.
September 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets.
(Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop
A white mug, with a dark blue inside. On the outside of the mug is a blue and white logo: Unconfined.
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I may have found a cross-platform Bluesky client I like. Finally.
September 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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😍😍
ladygreygrace.bsky.social ladygreygrace.bsky.social @ladygreygrace.bsky.social · Jul 8
--Our Edinburgh literary pub crawl hosts making sure to mention how many cafes are now advertising that J.K. Rowling never set foot in their establishment and nothing about them has ever inspired anything in HP.

--The whisky-infused chocolate from Islay that just barely made it home. (/end)
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Want to help shape the future of fan cons?

Glasgow 2024 is offering up to 18 bursaries (for aspiring & experienced conrunners alike) to attend SMOFcon 42 in Stockholm this December!

Deadline: 31st August 2025

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Graphic with galaxy background with an armadillo in the top left corner and the Glasgow 2024 logo. The words Glasgow 2024 SMOFcon42 Bursaries are shown in purple lettering.
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM