Thomas D. Lee
@thomasdlee.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him)
Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel
Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London
Worried about climate stuff
Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency
Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel
Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London
Worried about climate stuff
Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency
Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
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Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The thing about brainstorming is that it produces results that bear the imprint of the brain in which the storm happened. The output is of almost zero interest if the brain is “the average of all past brains, randomly stolen and mashed together.”
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The thing about brainstorming is that it produces results that bear the imprint of the brain in which the storm happened. The output is of almost zero interest if the brain is “the average of all past brains, randomly stolen and mashed together.”
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
You’re meant to be able to see, feel the brain.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Dr Dee:Mortlake to Manchester' exhibition at @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which rendered Dee's dreams as mesmerising light displays. Very impressive.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Dr Dee:Mortlake to Manchester' exhibition at @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which rendered Dee's dreams as mesmerising light displays. Very impressive.
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I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.
If you fancy a rollicking detective story set in an alternate Victorian London then you're in luck: HIGH VAULTAGE by my friends @jensugden.bsky.social and @chrissugden.bsky.social is only 99¢ on Kindle in the US!
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you fancy a rollicking detective story set in an alternate Victorian London then you're in luck: HIGH VAULTAGE by my friends @jensugden.bsky.social and @chrissugden.bsky.social is only 99¢ on Kindle in the US!
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
I'm submitting my PhD thesis today, so obviously I went to bed early last night. And obviously I woke up at 1AM and couldn't get back to sleep. So obviously I read a book about the Normans on my phone for seven hours and am now editing my thesis whilst hugely sleep deprived.
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm submitting my PhD thesis today, so obviously I went to bed early last night. And obviously I woke up at 1AM and couldn't get back to sleep. So obviously I read a book about the Normans on my phone for seven hours and am now editing my thesis whilst hugely sleep deprived.
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This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
This has made me realise that I now CANNOT REMEMBER what I wrote in the accompanying essay for this book, so it'll be a nice surprise for us all
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This has made me realise that I now CANNOT REMEMBER what I wrote in the accompanying essay for this book, so it'll be a nice surprise for us all
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
There's a great passage in one of the Aubrey/Maturin books where Dr. Maturin wonders why all tyrants are so given to tawdriness and lack of aesthetic taste - concluding eventually that nobody with good taste could ever become a tyrant. He was thinking about Napoleon, but it's equally true for Trump.
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There's a great passage in one of the Aubrey/Maturin books where Dr. Maturin wonders why all tyrants are so given to tawdriness and lack of aesthetic taste - concluding eventually that nobody with good taste could ever become a tyrant. He was thinking about Napoleon, but it's equally true for Trump.
My apartment building has a 'free stuff' area in the lobby, where people leave things that they don't want anymore. Over the years I have benefitted from this arrangement by gaining a large whiteboard, a second-hand PS3 with controllers, and - crucially, for this story - a weird rocking stool.
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My apartment building has a 'free stuff' area in the lobby, where people leave things that they don't want anymore. Over the years I have benefitted from this arrangement by gaining a large whiteboard, a second-hand PS3 with controllers, and - crucially, for this story - a weird rocking stool.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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🚨Editor Seeking Emergency Paid Work🚨
My cat, Herakles, is in need of some help as he’s got some health complications thay have arisen and the vet is expensive. Opening 4 editing spots up to 32 pages for $200.
My cat, Herakles, is in need of some help as he’s got some health complications thay have arisen and the vet is expensive. Opening 4 editing spots up to 32 pages for $200.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨Editor Seeking Emergency Paid Work🚨
My cat, Herakles, is in need of some help as he’s got some health complications thay have arisen and the vet is expensive. Opening 4 editing spots up to 32 pages for $200.
My cat, Herakles, is in need of some help as he’s got some health complications thay have arisen and the vet is expensive. Opening 4 editing spots up to 32 pages for $200.
I co-authored a fun story about a reformed supervillain with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for An Honour And a Privilege - an ambitious craft anthology of stories & essays in which Lindz has teamed up with other authors, working collaboratively and then writing reflections on the process. Out next month!
If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I co-authored a fun story about a reformed supervillain with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for An Honour And a Privilege - an ambitious craft anthology of stories & essays in which Lindz has teamed up with other authors, working collaboratively and then writing reflections on the process. Out next month!
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
I saw somebody else on here talking about this already, but it bears repeating: the profusion of terrible chatbots masquerading as AI has only reaffirmed the mad genius of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is full of obsequious robots who are bad at their jobs.
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I saw somebody else on here talking about this already, but it bears repeating: the profusion of terrible chatbots masquerading as AI has only reaffirmed the mad genius of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is full of obsequious robots who are bad at their jobs.
I really enjoyed the mass signing event at WorldCon on Saturday. I signed a few books, had some fun conversations, and I got invited to do a bookshop event because I got chatting with a lovely reader, even though they didn't have a book for me to sign. It was all very wholesome and worthwhile.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I really enjoyed the mass signing event at WorldCon on Saturday. I signed a few books, had some fun conversations, and I got invited to do a bookshop event because I got chatting with a lovely reader, even though they didn't have a book for me to sign. It was all very wholesome and worthwhile.
I had a lovely time down in Brighton this weekend making new friends, catching up with old ones, and feeling very supported by the writerly community. Thanks to @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and all the organisers for doing a great job in difficult circumstances. See you all in Glasgow next year!
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I had a lovely time down in Brighton this weekend making new friends, catching up with old ones, and feeling very supported by the writerly community. Thanks to @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and all the organisers for doing a great job in difficult circumstances. See you all in Glasgow next year!
Restorative walk along the beach is very much alleviating my hangover this morning
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Restorative walk along the beach is very much alleviating my hangover this morning
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Second panel: Politics in Fantasy with @annasmithspark.bsky.social @hollyrace.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and Jean Burlesk
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Second panel: Politics in Fantasy with @annasmithspark.bsky.social @hollyrace.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and Jean Burlesk
Morning, Brighton!
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Morning, Brighton!