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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Stoo Goff @stoogoff.com · 02/10/2026

Ecko swears like a motherfucker, won't do as he's told, and enjoys blowing shit up. Is he Chosen? Is he fuck. Does he have magic? No, he has an attitude and boosted reflexes. Is there a prophecy? You know exactly what you can do with that. He does have a very cool map, tho'...

My very old, hand-drawn map of the Varchinde, still on my noticeboard over my desk. Shows a classic fantasy continent, framed by seas, mountains and forests, veined with rivers and dotted with cities.

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I read Ecko Rising last month and loved it! Cyberpunk with a fantasy map in the front?!? Definitely jam. Also, use of juddering. Not a word you hear outside of Norfolk very often

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Also: the original Wandering Inn (The Wandering Bard, as it was named for the game, becoming The Wanderer in the book).

Pencil sketch-map of the inside of a tavern, made on squared paper, and very, very old!

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Oh amazing, really glad you enjoyed it! It's very much a Marmite book (certainly the first one), and I'm always really happy to know that people like it! (And yes, thirteen years in Norfolk. Me not Ecko).

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Cheeky royalties from ECKO, and lovely to know that people still buy a fourteen-year-old book. Was it for everyone? No. Was it clean, neat and polite, obeying traditional genre boundaries? Also no. Was it it #LitRPG fiction, in advance of the current trend? Well maybe, tho' not as you'd expect.

Ecko Rising, Burning and Endgame, by Danie Ware, covers by Martin Stiff at Amazing15.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Started this morning with my Tax Return. The fact that the bill goes up, every year... this is a good thing, right? 😭

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They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Infuriating attempt by Zuckerberg et al to worm their way into our lives even more. And then to create this fake Adventure Time abomination to do so? UNACCEPTABLE! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying

Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you sat next to the Prof, absolutely. If you sat next to my vastly more human and flawed self, you'd get a chaotic jumble of books, games, cats, child, housework I need to do, what time my next shift starts, and holy fuck where did that deadline come from anyway.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Submissions are open! We're seeking short stories from writers living in the North of England for our anthology of cosmic horror. Find out more and submit: carnyxpress.co.uk/anthology-3-...

Submissions are open for short stories on the theme of cosmic horror, from writers living in the North of England, from the 1st October to the 30th November.

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 01/10/2026

This. Is. So. Cool. :) You don't even need to be a sci-fi nut to appreciate this wild, far-out concept: we cannot prove that there *wasn't* another technological civilization on Earth, millions of years ago. Material traces don't last beyond 2 million years. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

theatlantic.com

Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?

A look at the available evidence

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Up. Sleepy. Bare foot in still-warm cat puke. Morning.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sweet Shop is where it's at for digital comics. No AI bullshit. No tech gimmicks. No venture capital. If you must read on a screen, this is the most ethical option in my opinion.

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning Womble! Have just finished the third Sworn Soldier novella, What Stalks The Deep and am about to start the GN adaptation of Call Me By Your Name

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wishing you a particularly Rosy Sunday morning ##warhammercommunity

Bookshelf, showing an action figure of a Sister of the Bloody Rose, complete with red armour and Sabbat helm, two LEGO red roses, and a row of books.

Book of Martyrs (also by Phil Kelly and Alec Worley)
The Rose at War
The Rose in Darkness
Faith and Fire (by James Swallow)
The Triumph of Saint Katherine
Aestred Thurga, Pyre of Faith
The Rose in Anger

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In the words of Mister Adams (and have quoted this before), 'In the beginning the Internet was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.' *No irony whatsoever to posting this on Bluesky, obvs.

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Spending less and less time scrolling/online has such a measurable rate of return, and it's happened quite surprisingly quickly. I haven't quite (yet?) regained my youthful ability to 'lose' myself completely, but I'm hoping that will come.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Benefits of less time online* I read a whole book yesterday. Not a big book, or a complicated one - was one of the Louise Cooper Indigo series - but a whole book. And I honestly can't remember the last time I had, not the hours in my day, but the attention span.

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One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Today in 'Getting Old', it's an afternoon at the Osteo. Backs are stupid.

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Think you mis-spelled 'terrorist'.

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...to start with. It's not a dungeonbash, and it lacks the lootboxes - though it does have a proper fantasy feel, a good ol' map in the front, and some suitably butt-kicking battles. But - who doesn't love a dimension-travelling pub!! 😆

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...(for sake of argument) a particularly sweary #CyberPunk assassin, but it did make me chuckle! Could I call Ecko LitRPG? Possibly, as it did come from our #dungeonsanddragons games, but perhaps not in the classic sense of the genre. Fantasy, yes, but a little more confrontational, certainly...

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