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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*Excited noises* I'm wildly happy and somewhat awed to be included in this anthology with so many talented writers and awesome human beings. You should come to our launch at Fantasycon...

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: Oh man, this idea is awesome. 15K: Hmmm, I need to do some in depth worldbuilding. 30K: Map, pencilled out nations/races 50K: Religions, history 90K: Civil wars, lineages, pre-history, cosmology, magic systems... 100K: What was the story again?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"International assassin" always implies the existence of national assassins, or possibly local assassins. Every midsized town has a minor assassin working out of a storefront at the mall between the Cinnabon and the UBreakIFix guy

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am awful at regularly updating here. Especially given I'm intending on doing and promoting vids again once the schools are back. Anways, off to Fife for summer visit to my aunts with the kids. Obviously after an insane heatwave it starts to rain as we head to the seaside...

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Verify your age" I used a pencil to fix my music player. There were 4 TV channels. My first computer had a tape deck.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

"O Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” 🎨 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1903, detail)

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

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The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

stop the count, etc, etc

Table showing Scotland’s World Cup Group with Scotland at the top with 3 points, Morocco and Brazil on 1, and Haiti on 0

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

No. Its cause people have less disposable income and the world is evidently getting worse in numerous ways. The only part smartphones have to play in that is making access to the 24 hour doomscroll news cycle a bit easier.

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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/06/2026

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Scotland? On fire. Your defence? Terrified. Super, super. John McGinn.

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Kenzie ✨ @notknz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’ll either start a new game or restart a comfort game, but I will not be finishing anything.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Omg, so much this. Two of my favourite things but SO many bad folks into/using it in negative ways.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 03/06/2026

I hate the Nazi attempt to co-opt Norse mythos as their own with all the blazing power of Surtr. It's a blatant pillaging of aesthetics without navigating context, not unlike what generative AI is doing today. Read one Icelandic saga and you'll quickly understand why the vikings would hate Nazis.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 03/06/2026

You can’t collaborate with a tool.

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Adam Windstorm @neohumanoid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The people that use gen-AI and scream about “gatekeeping” don’t really want to make art. They want to be praised and to make money and want to skip the actual “art” process. They don’t JUST want a product, they want everyone to tell them how gifted and special they are, too, for no work!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Currwntly hyperfocus shopping for camera toys notionally to start making videos again. Torn between fun action cam like the Insta360 3s or a gimbal for my phone like the Osmo Mobile 8. Could I possibly spend hours and hundreds of quid on stuff for a project that doesnt get finished? Again!

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Not quite lilacs, but almost the right shade for the glorious 25th. How do they rise up?

Photo of Chris in a white t-shirt next to some pink/purple flowers

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Photo of a screaming red fox on a dry-looking hillside background, with the meme text "IT FUCKEN' WARMDY"

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

In a panel on faeries and folklore in fiction, Meg quips.... 'This is no longer a panel, this is a djinn tasting.'

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Star Trek panel past and now in a panel about folklore related to faeries and myths and such. Fairly good spread of my interests represented TBH.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If you were 46% wrong at work, you would be fired.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

celtic fans knew hardship for about 3 weeks this year and almost firebombed celtic park and were insufferable about how badly run they were and now they might win a double and somehow they will be even more insufferable about it

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every year, I aspire to become more and more like my icon, Granny Weatherwax. “Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” Happy Sir Terry Pratchett Day! Grateful for the books and the magic, always.

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Definitely not making much of a case as to why they’re not voting remotely from their constituencies instead of getting second houses in London paid for by the taxpayer, let alone for their enormous salaries

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oh yay, autism awareness month. Folks are aware, but theyre also misinformed, prejudiced and instututionally opposed to actually making accomodations. Everything comes back to 'lack of resources' (or 'business need') or some bullshit prefaced by 'can't you just...'

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Yes. Character development, narrative that can meander, monster of the week. A bit of bloat in the service of world building, gardening an ensemble and having some fun is good actually.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2026

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Sigh, discourse about writing being political or not. Again. It's all political. It's just that when it conforms with *some folks* politics, they don't see it and when it presents other politics, they get all upset about other views being out there. Thats a myopic, authoritarian PoV.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I think this really illustrates that a lot of dull people who complain about "politics" in stories, simply do not know what politics are. including, sometimes, the authors of those stories.

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If you see this, post a concert photo that you took. Nile Rodgers & Chic at Glasgow Barrowlands, 2025

Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glasgow Barrowlands 2025

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Chris - Chaotic Good Story Club @chriscrowing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A significant proportion of the general public are performatively incompetent, rude, refuse to follow basic instructions or take responsibility for basic tasks while talking down to the person they expect to fix their issue.

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bolo from aeor @windrivver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/02/2026

Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I once saw a skeet that was like "I love worldbuilding fiction because creative ppl will literally build whole imaginary societies just to talk about their fetishes and hyperfixations, it's all a huge self-report" And If a skeet could stab you in the heart, man

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