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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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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 21h
Ah that scans. Agree that the edge is gone a bit - It all feels like one never ending, unlikely, plodding car chase - for every character. I suspect there’s a reveal coming that explains at least some of the uncanny valley… but I’m not expecting it to be a very satisfying one.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 23h
Getting a GOT ‘oh no, we’ve run out of the source material’ vibe big time.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 23h
Just me or is this season of Slow Horses not quite working as well as others have? Obviously Lamb is superb, but outside that it’s just got a few too many clunky moments, bad character choices, and messy pacing for me. (Also lol no you would not find that name as a novelty number plate)
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Too soon Mike, too soon
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Place in the Sun
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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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shaunt @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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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The fear of makin’ bacon had no hold over him. Impressive.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Did he at least pull off a double leaning jowler to dethrone you?
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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...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com
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 · 07/08/2026
Nah, no battle lines here. When it comes to AI use I’m very much on the same side as Lily. Just thought the context of the study relegated it to a ‘not ideal, wish they hadn’t’ rather than the ‘fuck these scabs’ I initially felt
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ugh… yeah, ok thanks for digging, Lily. I’ll stand by this being ‘sub-optimal, heavy side eye, why would you do this?’ rather than the ‘unforgivable and fuck you forever’ it would’ve been for me if the workshop was any more recent. But the former ain’t exactly great as it is.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
(Pleeeease stop making me kinda defend AI use 😂 but…) reading these I still don’t see anything that problematic? Only people making assumptions that were common back then. Remember to some the idea of possible, actual ‘AI’ was exciting… before the tech bro hellscaped reality became apparent.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nah, Lily I was all ready to go scorched Earth but this workshop took place before OAI even released the first version of Chat GPT to the public. Personally I find it weird they were ever interested in experimenting with it, but the context is wayyyy less problematic than anyone doing that now.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I still think about that dog
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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 · 26/07/2026
They could make him reversible!
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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 · 16/07/2026
Embrace it, Daddy.
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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
*to be clear, I’m not pissed off with Apex and don’t think they did anything wrong - they shouldn’t have to do a background check on every author and I appreciate their transparency
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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 · 02/07/2026
I mean, I don’t think the chuds who use AI to ‘write’ would care. If they cared, they wouldn’t use AI.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They’re absolutely brutal and I love them.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s not (a dumbass opinion). I think most football fans hate it. The Argentinians have always been notoriously bad for the ‘dark arts’, but it feels like the Austrians are trying to play them at their own game today.
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Oooff that slaps Adrian, very nice work! 🔥 And surprise bonus Napper? Awesome!
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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m not usually one who clamours for adaptations but I’d be all over any version of this like a rash
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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 · 18/06/2026
I remember mini words inside words of that makes you feel any more accomplished?
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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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Luke F. Shepherd @f-shep.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Having the exact same experience - 150 pages in and it feels like something very special indeed
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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
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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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