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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 2h

PictCon, Perth's SF and Fantasy micro-con returns on Saturday 17th October. Join Guest of Honour and GSFWC star Neil Williamson, as well as E.M. Faulds and Ruth EJ Booth for a day of games, workshops, panels and more! pictcon.com @pictcon.bsky.social Here's what we'll be up to:

In this black and white photo, Neil Williamson is a white bald man with a short cropped beard. He is wearing a dark coloured top.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 2h

(Please note panel titles have been edited to fit on social media.) 11am - Scotland's Scientific Discoveries and SF - E.M. Faulds 12pm - AI: Socialist Dream to Weapon of Capitalism - Ruth EJ Booth @emfaulds.com @ruthejbooth.bsky.social

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PictCon – A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 21h

Quick, somebody say something nice.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 4h

I don't know if this is true at all but our local buses, run by a private company, ofc, apparently also run taxis so will shut off a service at the merest pretext so that people are forced to the more expensive mode. I wish I could say I found that implausible.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 4h

I'm sure the fans will be delighted with the surprise extra time - I know my other half will be more than happy to listen to it bit by bit until it's done. He only got the sub for his birthday a few months ago and he's already worked through bloody near all of it!!

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 5h

Just over one week to go until the launch of Her Borrowed Grave. ● Urban fantasy ● Folklore and hidden histories ● Characters forced to question what they believe ● Stories where the past has not finished with the present Thursday 8 October. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HL4PFK8... #UrbanFantasy #BookSky 🌃📚

A flyer for Her Borrowed Grave. The book cover shows a silhouetted figure walking over a rain-washed, cobbled street. Behind them is winged serpent on an intaglio, such as you might find on a signet ring.

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Bibliotta Webinars @bibliotta.bsky.social · 5h

New webinar alert! Come to "Outlining Stories While ADHD" on Monday 26th Oct, 7pm for (at least) an hour and a half of solid tips and tools for brains like ours. This is a rerun of the Worldcon workshop by @emfaulds.com. Early bird tickets available, so swoop in now! 🦅 bibliotta.com/events/outli...

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Outlining Stories While ADHD – Monday 26th of July

bibliotta! webinar: Monday 26th of July 2026, 7 – 8:30 pm (UK time). A lot of writer’s advice mentions “outlining” as some sort of miraculous way to create robust story structures and solve plotting p...

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 7h

There's a link to a spreadsheet on the con info page on the BFS site, which I suppose you could download?

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

Feel that. Hope the despair passes soon 🫂

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hello! Today's the anniversary of my first wee trad published book. So for new followers: a gamebook thread This one's good for the: - ttRPG-curious but can't get a group together - DM who wants a night off - nerdy parent/ relative who wants to induct a young person into dungeon crawling life

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 12h

Dear @andyburnham.bsky.social Can we do a hard rejoin to the EU so.. Fully into single market and customs union. Schengen. Euro. Full metrication including Kilometres. Berlin time. (CST) Have I missed anything?

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

Britney Spears is an an anagram for presbyterians

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

Sure, that's probably true, but I can't help but feel there's probably a very specific term that applies. See the other replies for the 'Hypocoristic suffixation' answer that a cleverclogs left!

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

And won a gold medal for Olympic origami or summat.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

Is that it? Ooh, interesting! Thanks, I didn't expect an answer so quickedywick!

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

V. important question! We must find out.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

You never told us about your hang gliding either! 🤣

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 11h

I'm also Aussie! By birth, if not current place of residence. There must be some smartypants who knows what it is 😅

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 12h

Surely there's a term. I'm just not caffeinated enough to find it yet.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 12h

I was already awake but my fire alarm going off for no reason was fun. (Apparently almost anything sets it off from humidity to fruit flies, which in this season...)

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 12h

Linguists, is there a term for when you make a word longer and sillier for cuteness? E.g. "toothypegs" for teeth. Like a diminutive but specifically about adding extra nonsensical syllables?

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 13h

Remind me which part of the world men are

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14h

For as long as I have been writing, I have met people looking for someone else to do the work for them. They want to call themselves writers but they don't want to put the time and effort in, just boom! Instant book. Those are the people who went straight to AI. Losers and cheats.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 14h

I think it might be time for women to go back to hunting in packs. With chopping knives.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 15h

Called it. He knew. It served his purpose. He wanted his casus belli. He wanted it to go far enough that he'd have popular support for the extermination he has openly yearned for.

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Andy Best @andybest.bsky.social · 21h

Trying to limit news-posting here. Also I present as an average Gen X bloke, so in case you've surfed in or seen my book, here is the regular reminder of where I stand on things.

A cute, pink backdrop with a lovely rabbit, and text over that says: Don't let anyone say fascist shit.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 22h

A whole new cast! Welcome to BFS Shortcuts; not replacing Long Story Short, but filling those empty weeks in which silence reigns. No longer! Ten set questions introduce authors you may not have read, but should. Kicking us off tomorrow, @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social faces the questions!

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/09/2026

Wrong EMF, but the thought is appreciated! 😅

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 29/09/2026

oh no it's me

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/09/2026

That's the one. Who first said that, do you know?

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/09/2026

Yes it's funny how most of its "rogue" actions seem to be centred on theft of other people's hard earned money and destabilising democratic processes. Really, really, really weird.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/09/2026

What's that saying about equality looking like oppression to the privileged?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/09/2026

The "woke" don't want women in charge and men relegated. That's what a lot of men fear. But they actually want equity. The trouble is, it's so far from actually happening right now, we might need some over-correction for a bit.

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