Liz Ottosson
@lizottosson.bsky.social
Eclectic reader, writer and book tragic; stories and songs make my heart go round. NE England via south coast, Sweden, Australia and London. She/her. Need a proofreader or editor? https://betterworldwords.com/
In my journal, I just used asterisks around a word for emphasis, because I forgot I could just underline it. I have officially spent too long on the internet.
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In my journal, I just used asterisks around a word for emphasis, because I forgot I could just underline it. I have officially spent too long on the internet.
Looking forward to this! Have just been catching up on the last two episodes, which were lots of fun (yes, even the Ministry for the Future one).
Lovelies, the Starship Alexandria advent calendar starts on Monday. You'll get a short daily episode from @aptshadow.bsky.social and I, which I hope will brighten these dark days for you. You can catch up on previous episodes here starshipalexandria.com
Starship Alexandria
The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures!
In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...
starshipalexandria.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Looking forward to this! Have just been catching up on the last two episodes, which were lots of fun (yes, even the Ministry for the Future one).
Are you sad that your library doesn't stock that book everyone's talking about? Did you know that many libraries will be happy to order it if you ask them? Libraries are amazing and a free way to support authors you love. #SupportLibraries #AmReading
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Are you sad that your library doesn't stock that book everyone's talking about? Did you know that many libraries will be happy to order it if you ask them? Libraries are amazing and a free way to support authors you love. #SupportLibraries #AmReading
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Gift stories, not stuff. Visit www.coastallinespress.com to see our library of zines that make the perfect gift for someone you love.
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Gift stories, not stuff. Visit www.coastallinespress.com to see our library of zines that make the perfect gift for someone you love.
Love this - it's beautiful artwork, but also, what a great way of spreading awareness!
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Love this - it's beautiful artwork, but also, what a great way of spreading awareness!
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Only less than 1600 so i can rent a safe place!
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My dearest friend set up the weekly and monthly donation options so that we can stay alive after a tent was destroyed just 100 meters away from us last night. The sand covered our faces while we were still alive.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Only less than 1600 so i can rent a safe place!
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
Ooh, what a dream! Take a look to see if you're eligible.
The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...
The bookshelf in our beautiful seminar room @ksjatmit.bsky.social is filled with books by former fellows. Want to be next? Applications to our fellowship are open and on our website. @annaleen.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social @tomzellerjr.com @s-r-m.bsky.social and Melanie Kaplan. Please share.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ooh, what a dream! Take a look to see if you're eligible.
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration
I’m participating in the Graphic Refuge book panel event with Dr Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind on 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.
ernestopriego.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
Glad we all know where we stand now. Seriously, WTF, unnamed "Guardian view"?
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Glad we all know where we stand now. Seriously, WTF, unnamed "Guardian view"?
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North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Even with 20 years experience as a #translator, I had a huge inferiority complex. I always stayed under the radar, never rocked the boat, often accepted crap terms/payment from clients. So when I moved from translation to #editing, I knew that needed to change. (1/4)
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Even with 20 years experience as a #translator, I had a huge inferiority complex. I always stayed under the radar, never rocked the boat, often accepted crap terms/payment from clients. So when I moved from translation to #editing, I knew that needed to change. (1/4)
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I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
The UK’s culture sector needs financial, political and public support to survive. Funding is not a ‘favour’. It is an investment in imagination, in our shared experience – and in inspiration and joy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Really grateful to have squeezed in a visit to the wonderful, sustaining exhibition of @misanharriman.bsky.social's photography at Hope 93 Gallery between trains yesterday. The Purpose of Light is running until 8 Jan 2026. Go and see it if you can. 💚 hope93.com/exhibitions/
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Really grateful to have squeezed in a visit to the wonderful, sustaining exhibition of @misanharriman.bsky.social's photography at Hope 93 Gallery between trains yesterday. The Purpose of Light is running until 8 Jan 2026. Go and see it if you can. 💚 hope93.com/exhibitions/
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I released a single!
If you like stupid lyrics, indie rock or songs about Yorkshire then you maybe you should check it out
Available to purchase for free!
https://alexeel.bandcamp.com/track/the-bus-to-yorkshire
#musicofmastodon #music #PunkRock #Yorkshire #musician
If you like stupid lyrics, indie rock or songs about Yorkshire then you maybe you should check it out
Available to purchase for free!
https://alexeel.bandcamp.com/track/the-bus-to-yorkshire
#musicofmastodon #music #PunkRock #Yorkshire #musician
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I released a single!
If you like stupid lyrics, indie rock or songs about Yorkshire then you maybe you should check it out
Available to purchase for free!
https://alexeel.bandcamp.com/track/the-bus-to-yorkshire
#musicofmastodon #music #PunkRock #Yorkshire #musician
If you like stupid lyrics, indie rock or songs about Yorkshire then you maybe you should check it out
Available to purchase for free!
https://alexeel.bandcamp.com/track/the-bus-to-yorkshire
#musicofmastodon #music #PunkRock #Yorkshire #musician
Looks like a must-read for anyone who cares about the world we're in. Reposting with the UK link: www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/We-Wil...
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Looks like a must-read for anyone who cares about the world we're in. Reposting with the UK link: www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/We-Wil...
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I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here)
THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social
so brace yourselves, peeps.
THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social
so brace yourselves, peeps.
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here)
THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social
so brace yourselves, peeps.
THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social
so brace yourselves, peeps.
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A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE is full of stories about communities uniting to preserve brainpower. And ends with What you can do, now.
As she writes, denizens - meaning a person that lives or is found in a particular place - the mind is a wonderful thing to save ❤️🧐
Read it. #loveisclimateaction
As she writes, denizens - meaning a person that lives or is found in a particular place - the mind is a wonderful thing to save ❤️🧐
Read it. #loveisclimateaction
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE is full of stories about communities uniting to preserve brainpower. And ends with What you can do, now.
As she writes, denizens - meaning a person that lives or is found in a particular place - the mind is a wonderful thing to save ❤️🧐
Read it. #loveisclimateaction
As she writes, denizens - meaning a person that lives or is found in a particular place - the mind is a wonderful thing to save ❤️🧐
Read it. #loveisclimateaction
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This month’s climate story is so terrifyingly topical ☠️😱
I’m a MASSIVE fan of Harriet A. Washington’s work. Thank you, so much for A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ITS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIND.
I’m a MASSIVE fan of Harriet A. Washington’s work. Thank you, so much for A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ITS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIND.
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This month’s climate story is so terrifyingly topical ☠️😱
I’m a MASSIVE fan of Harriet A. Washington’s work. Thank you, so much for A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ITS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIND.
I’m a MASSIVE fan of Harriet A. Washington’s work. Thank you, so much for A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ITS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIND.
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Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.