Steve J. Wright
@stevejwright.bsky.social
Arts and sciences person, very unprofessional SFF writer and reviewer, blogs at stevejwright.com. Mastodon @[email protected]
Your actors keep falling through that open trapdoor?
Problematic stage gap.
Problematic stage gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Your actors keep falling through that open trapdoor?
Problematic stage gap.
Problematic stage gap.
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
Baroness Jones, "The problem is that labour have not created enough safe managed routes"
"If we had safe managed routes people could come here, justify their arrival, start to work, start to pay tax, start to create business"
"And actually be a huge benefit to our society"
"If we had safe managed routes people could come here, justify their arrival, start to work, start to pay tax, start to create business"
"And actually be a huge benefit to our society"
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Baroness Jones, "The problem is that labour have not created enough safe managed routes"
"If we had safe managed routes people could come here, justify their arrival, start to work, start to pay tax, start to create business"
"And actually be a huge benefit to our society"
"If we had safe managed routes people could come here, justify their arrival, start to work, start to pay tax, start to create business"
"And actually be a huge benefit to our society"
Pretty fair analysis from @aliettedebodard.com here. I'd just like to amplify a couple of points (because I like the sound of my own voice.)
The UK, with its ageing population and many, many job vacancies, takes in one-fortieth of one percent of refugees globally. We're not pushed for space.
The UK, with its ageing population and many, many job vacancies, takes in one-fortieth of one percent of refugees globally. We're not pushed for space.
Honestly I'm probably way more rational than I should be but like
-What's the budget the uk spends on asylum and asylum claims?
-How does it compare to other budgets?
-how many asylum seekers are we talking about vs uk population?
(The uk is 17th in eu+ countries)
-is any of this worth it?
1/?
-What's the budget the uk spends on asylum and asylum claims?
-How does it compare to other budgets?
-how many asylum seekers are we talking about vs uk population?
(The uk is 17th in eu+ countries)
-is any of this worth it?
1/?
Very true: “The UK rarely loses at the @echr.coe.int, and almost never on immigration-related issues”👇
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.news.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.news.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pretty fair analysis from @aliettedebodard.com here. I'd just like to amplify a couple of points (because I like the sound of my own voice.)
The UK, with its ageing population and many, many job vacancies, takes in one-fortieth of one percent of refugees globally. We're not pushed for space.
The UK, with its ageing population and many, many job vacancies, takes in one-fortieth of one percent of refugees globally. We're not pushed for space.
#Novelmber+
29439. Must get out of this slump. POV character has been drinking, listening to jazz, and is now starting to dance. Shocking scenes of dissipation no doubt await.
29439. Must get out of this slump. POV character has been drinking, listening to jazz, and is now starting to dance. Shocking scenes of dissipation no doubt await.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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29439. Must get out of this slump. POV character has been drinking, listening to jazz, and is now starting to dance. Shocking scenes of dissipation no doubt await.
29439. Must get out of this slump. POV character has been drinking, listening to jazz, and is now starting to dance. Shocking scenes of dissipation no doubt await.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
Grabbing the wedding ring off a man’s finger or stealing a woman’s jewellery will not pay for immigration accommodation.
Are we really going to let the UK government, the Labour Party, enshrine theft into law? Is that who we are?
If you want refugees to pay for things, give them the right to work.
Are we really going to let the UK government, the Labour Party, enshrine theft into law? Is that who we are?
If you want refugees to pay for things, give them the right to work.
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Grabbing the wedding ring off a man’s finger or stealing a woman’s jewellery will not pay for immigration accommodation.
Are we really going to let the UK government, the Labour Party, enshrine theft into law? Is that who we are?
If you want refugees to pay for things, give them the right to work.
Are we really going to let the UK government, the Labour Party, enshrine theft into law? Is that who we are?
If you want refugees to pay for things, give them the right to work.
#Novelmber+
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
For the people who tell you Bluesky is an echo chamber full of left wing politics.
They are only distantly related; the ancestors of the penile leeches that infest hippos evolved as a symbiote in moomins and have now become a key part of the moomin reproductive cycle. Every seventh year they emerge from their moomin hosts and sing with a voice like a nightingale full of butter.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For the people who tell you Bluesky is an echo chamber full of left wing politics.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
#Novelmber+
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#Novelmber+
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
#Novelmber+
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#Novelmber+
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
#Novelmber+
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
#Novelmber+
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
#Novelmber+
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
#Novelmber+
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
#Novelmber+
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Since it's Remembrance Sunday and performative poppy discourse is happening as usual, here's my take from a couple of years ago:
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That’s for Rememberance
So I bought a poppy to wear. A red one. A depressing number of people – or a number of depressing people – have taken to associating this symbol with a dismal sense of jingoism. They wi…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Since it's Remembrance Sunday and performative poppy discourse is happening as usual, here's my take from a couple of years ago:
stevejwright.com/2023/11/09/t...
stevejwright.com/2023/11/09/t...
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14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
The rich don't want you to have more money, they want it all for themselves. That's why they're rich.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The rich don't want you to have more money, they want it all for themselves. That's why they're rich.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
My self-published novel is 90,000 words. I have no budget for marketing, much less trsnslating, but I'd rather learn Old Church Slavonic by myself and pen all 90,000 words by hand in Glagolitic letters than ask an AI word blender to touch my book.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My self-published novel is 90,000 words. I have no budget for marketing, much less trsnslating, but I'd rather learn Old Church Slavonic by myself and pen all 90,000 words by hand in Glagolitic letters than ask an AI word blender to touch my book.
#Novelmber+
12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".