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Luke F. Shepherd

@f-shep.bsky.social
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Pulpy genre boi. SFF writer. He/Him Skills include: distance running, disassociation Things I am bad at: writing about myself in third person, the rule of 3 linktr.ee/lukefshepherd

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 17h
TODAY YOU LEARN!!! You can do alt text ✨automatically✨ for images that contain text (screengrabs, photos of book passages / paragraphs, etc). It’s easy and fast! No more retyping Directions in alt text below! Reskeet to save a life (and remember, image posts with alt text get WAY higher engagement)
1. Upload your image.

2. Click on the little “+ALT” box on the image. This interface pops up. 

3. See the little box shape in the bottom right, with the big red arrow pointing to it? This is your new bestie. Press ita4. You pressed the box! It turned blue and “Copy all” popped up at bottom left. Click on “Copy all”Click gently anywhere in the alt text box. Paste pops up. Mash that button, friend!!!Look at all your beautiful alt text! So fast, so easy. Hooray! You’re done! Now post it
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's FOLK HORROR season!! May I rec "Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror" (pub on 10/2025)?? Awesome horror in here including one by me! 💖 Stories by: @f-shep.bsky.social @hvpatterson.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @dextermcleod.bsky.social & more! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXPG791...
Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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Table of Contents:
“And in the Firelight I Will Find You” — Luke F. Shepherd
“Our Lady of the Grain” — H.V. Patterson
“Barren” — Tracy Fahey
“Harmless Pretty Things” — Renae Rhoads
“The Bone Maiden” — Douglas Ford
“Like They Look at Stars” — K. Wallace King
“Feathers” — Shannon Scott
“By The Witchroot, By The Dawn” — Joe Koch
“The Skid-Steer” — EC Dorgan
“Haint-Blue and Weresnake Green” — Lisa Moore-Smith
“Unburnt Offerings” — Dexter McLeod
“The Darkness Inside Her” — Abigail Kemske
“Tall Philip’s House” — Katherine Traylor
“The Last Straw” — Sam Dawson
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Boy, sure can’t wait for Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife to be talked about in the same omniscient breath as Parable of The Sower 🫠
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Orange Guy holds up book and says “I’m gonna read a book”

Panel 2: Orange Guy looks at book cover and says “hmmmmm”

Panel 3: Orange Guy types a query into his phone

Panel 4: Close up on phone screen reveals AI responding with “a chocolate factory is a factory made of chocolate”
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wrote a thing. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/ten-ways-i...
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Ten ways in which being against AI in writing makes you a gatekeeper
It was time someone put them all together
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes The Employees, Olga Ravn Ammonite, Nicola Griffith China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine Are You Happy Now, Hanna Jameson (And obviously anything by Butler or Le Guin… but especially Dawn for me)
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
‘But if we don’t platform them and give them money they’ll only get richer and have a bigger reach!’
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Don’t Matter
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
18, working at a wildlife park. Man turned up in his truck saying he was ‘here to shag the alpacas’. I was told to walk him through, wait til he finished, walk him back out. That was the day I learned ‘shag’ meant ‘shear’ but fuck me the walk down to the farmyard section was a nervous one.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trent Reznor gives up trying to control his kids in B&Q. Fine, Pinch Nails.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
PRINT RUN NEVER MISS
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What really pisses me off is the ‘author’ of the story claims to be a ‘sustainability advocate’. They’re also CEO of an ‘AI powered personal growth platform’ and boast they ‘embrace contradictions and paradoxes with ease’ They don’t give a fuck, basically. Oh, and they have a deal with PRH.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @stephengrahamjones.com was simply extraordinary. Straight onto my all timers list. Read it now. Before everyone sees the movie adaptation that’s absolutely begging to be made. The voice man, ahh the voice. You want to experience your very own version of this. Trust.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Adrian is a very cool dude and he’s serving up some fungal delight (well… murder/blackmail/tension) from TODAY! Go grab your copy of A Murder Most Fungal and chow down!
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s that special time that only comes around once every 4 years: People sharing vids of the Japanese fans tidying up after themselves and going ‘oh wow the Japanese are so civilised, why don’t we do that?’ and then immediately forgetting about it for another 4 years.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Shaka, when the letters fell.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
PRINT RUN never miss
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 12/06/2026
Stop fucking glorifying depression and mental illness as necessities for creativity. You know what I can't do when I'm in a bad mental place? Get out of bed, let alone make art or write. Art doesn't come from suffering, but despite it. Imagine how much more we could do.
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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Lots of creatives seem to have mental health issues, adversity must inspire art..."
World war two plane picture, often used to explain survivorship bias
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I fear 46-0 is going to ruin my life www.46-0.app
46-0.app
46-0 | The World's Hardest League
Draft your Championship all-star XI from 79 iconic second-tier squads. 46 games. 1000+ players. Can you go unbeaten?
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Been laughing at this for 45 minutes straight
Smash JT *
@SmashJT
X.com
This is unnecessary and intentionally signaling
Trans.
They know what they're doing.
Once you notice bisexual lighting being used, you can not unsee it. This is intentional.
I will not be gaslit.
HALO
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HAD @havehashad.com · 06/06/2026
LOVE this one today from Steff Sirois, and we think you should love it with us! "Eventually, we’ll watch a wrecking ball smash through the curved glass of the sunroom like it never mattered. The last time I was in there, you still had a body..." www.havehashad.com/egup9
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My Local Wendy’s is Slated for Demolition by Steff Sirois
On the day it happens, a small crowd of us will watch from the smoke shop parking lot across the street in camping chairs. We’ll watch the workers get in their giant machines and bark orders at each…
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is so much fun! Incredible worldbuilding. Well worth your time (and balance of probability you’re probably doomscrolling a Reddit forum at some point today anyway - so make it this one)
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/06/2026
If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.
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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Never come closer to brushing my own teeth with the dog’s toothpaste and toothbrush. Mouth was open and brush was on its way in before I realised. Time for bed.
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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Wanna be slightly depressed by some sword and sorcery? *slaps hood* This baby will get you there, no worries. open.spotify.com/episode/4eCd...
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Episode 21: Trapped With a Monster by David K. Mitchell
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 24/05/2026
"WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS PANTSES" Taken at Manchester's emergency protest against the EHRC guidance, May 2026
Protest placard reading "WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS PANTSES"
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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Straight forward romance is out, trash couples are in. Back this and read my story about the addicting, superficial early part of falling for someone.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I love CluesBySam but the new directional clues, with that added layer of ambiguity, just read to me like: ‘My FIRST is in left, but never in right, Above or below, there’s a criminal in sight. Which one is guilty, who am I to say? But don’t forget - today is opposite day!’
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sub 2 hours is unreal. Sawe and Kejelcha are legends.
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it's charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 22/04/2026
WE BUILT THIS SHITTY WE BUILT THIS SHITTY WE BUILD THIS SHITTY APP VIBE CODING
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Every example used to push the "men are lonely" narrative makes me think "no, men are not lonely enough."
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Unexpected bonus of research - discovery of a banger podcast. Anyone querying, or thinking about it, give this a listen. Good vibes and bang on the money.
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First and foremost this is a great story about sex work, misogyny, and patriarchy, but it also just has some really fucked up alien sex and guys being absolute freaks. "Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher is now free to read!
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"Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher - Seize The Press
An old-fashioned auto-V glides to a stop at the embarkation point, its curved roof gleaming wet in the drizzle like the carapace of a beetle. The passenger door slides open with a faint hydraulic hiss...
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Promises from a beautiful cover and a premise of Logans Run meets The Giver (wish a dash of Autonomous by Annalee Newitz), KILLSWITCH PROTOCOL by @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social promises to be a blast. Come check out the gorgeous cover!
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EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Killswitch Protocol by M.J. Kuhn
M.J. Kuhn is here to bring us Killswitch Protocol, a fast-paced cyberpunk romp.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Another absolute banger episode. Full of good vibes and great advice for querying authors! 🤝
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thiiiisssss. (Related point, if you read a hot take article and it pisses you off, that was the intention. They know it’s bullshit. Rage bait gets more interaction than anything else, and all of these articles have been created/ run with at least one eye on driving engagement)
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I don't know why AI grifters expend so much energy trying to convince us that it's okay to write with the plagiarism machine. Send your slurry of shit into the world. Let the readers decide. Why do you act like you need our approval? Why do you give a shit if we don't consider you legitimate?
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/04/2026
I’m increasingly perplexed by the whole discussion. Show me a non-planet eating, non-harmful AI that does useful or beautiful things and I’m so very there for it. Show me an actual living machine and I’ll advocate for it. But this stuff… meh. No.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Cheers, son’s crying. (It’s me, I’m son’s)
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🏳️‍⚧️Fix your hearts or die🏳️‍⚧️
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I didn’t need to discover what happens when you google a Pokémon. That’s my day gone.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”
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