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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 14h

This may well be the BlueSky bubble effect, but there is not a single supportive comment below this announcement. Not one.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 14h

Well, that's the end of the Society of Authors, then.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Authors on tour! If you're in Lancaster on 18th Oct I'll be in town with my Black Library colleagues @gavthorpe.co.uk & @squintywitch.bsky.social for a panel on building fantasy worlds chaired by the wonderful @oliverklangmead.bsky.social for @litfest.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! 🖤

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Author Panel:World-Building in fantasy
How do fantasy authors go about building their worlds? We discuss different approaches to constructing original, fantastical worlds.

Gav Thorpe: Award-winning game designer & Warhammer author
Victoria Hayward: Warhammer, Grimdark Magazine & Darktide 40K writer
Jude Reid: Award-winning writer for Warhammer & Zombies, Run!
Inés Gregori Labarta: Queer, migrant storyteller. Speculative fiction, horror and magic realism
Oliver K. Langmead: Hugo & British Fantasy award nominated speculative fiction writer

Sunday 18th October
Atkinsons Upper Hall, 8.80pm Tickets @ The Dukes, Lancaster

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/2 I recently spoke to @thenerve.news about reports that the Government has spent or agreed to spent at least £992m with Palantir. It’s becoming increasingly clear the British state is in the early stages of addiction to Palantir and all it represents.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am enormously looking forward to this. Deathworlder was an exceptional debut, and I can't wait to see what Tory does with knights and a winter world and all the horrors that can be conjured.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Leon Barillaro is UNIONIZING @barilleon.com · 07/10/2026

If you want to support our efforts at United Wizards of the Coast, the absolute best thing you can do is sign and share our petition asking the company to voluntarily recognize us! Together we can change the games industry for the better! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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fairrealms.bsky.social @fairrealms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - DAN ABNETT ✷ We are delighted to announce Dan Abnett as our first guest! Dan will join us at the Fair Realms Fantasy Fiction Festival on 27th March 2027 at Nottingham Central Library. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

Guest Author
Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett is a prolific comic book writer & novelist famous for Warhammer 40,000 & Guardians of the Galaxy

Fair Realms fantasy fiction Festival Nottingham Central Library, 27 March 2027

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thunderbirds was a formative show for me. Probably the first I can remember really loving as a child. There's a picture somewhere in my mum's collection of me in a Scott Tracey costume for some birthday or event or other.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Liz Truss has any lasting achievement from her week and a half in office, beyond showing how truly broken our political system is, it is this spectacular gif. It's the little shoulder swerve and smile that really makes this a classic.

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Liz Truss and the Pork Markets Speech

ALT: Liz Truss and the Pork Markets Speech

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like every piece of news back from Perseverance (and, indeed, since Mariner 9) is screaming "Yes, there was life on Mars!", but we can't actual state it definitely until the next phase of exploration happens.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm no biologist, but don't we often find all manner of life around hot underwater sites? I'm not wrong to be hugely excited by this, right? To paraphrase Carl Hauser, we need to get our asses to Mars and prove that life has existed beyond the bounds of Earth. www.space.com/astronomy/ma...

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'Mars constantly throws surprises at you': Perseverance rover finds evidence of ancient hot water in Red Planet crater

NASA's Perseverance rover uncovered evidence of water interacting with rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater multiple times, including a period of hot groundwater activity.

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some quality advice here.

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Glenn @frackpong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When your dog hears you open a packet of biscuits.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For #Hobbit day: 'If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.'

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Having taken an online British Citizenry test (and failed) I propose we make our own, better one. Q1: If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit? a) tough, it's dry digestives b) join our club c) racism

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In 1994 when they were taking off but by no means massive or wielding any influence within the music industry, Green Day took gay punk band Pansy Division on tour with them. People were very vocally homophobic back then (in England, section 28 was still very much in force - not repealed until 2003!)

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s clear that a number of governments are going to try to force through laws that hand creatives’ work to AI companies, on the grounds of ‘national security’. But this is an abysmally weak justification for stripping away creatives’ rights. Two core reasons why: 🧵 1/5

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reason that AI companies are saying "it's too dangerous! we have to slow down!" is that they are no longer making progress and need that fact to appear deliberate.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"AI models are typically trained on enormous amounts of data scraped from the internet, including copyrighted materials taken without their owners' permissions, to the chagrin of creative groups." Chagrin?! CHAGRIN?! Try FURY at having our work stolen and our governments ignoring clear copyright law

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A convicted crypto fraudster gives £36M to a Right-wing political party, more than the Labour party spent on the whole of the last general election, but we don't need a cap on political donations?

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Angry Kitten Flips Table Cartoon

Alt: Angrily frustrated little black cat flips another mother-flipping table.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)

J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Tom R. Pike @tomrpike.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And there it is: the cover of my newly-announced debut novel, Crucible of Fire. Isolated survivors of a massacred Valhallan armoured company must arm civilians and wounded in a desperate attempt to hold a key factory against overwhelming forces. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Hardcover book art showing Valhallan Lt. Kallisto Rytsar and his crew preparing to defend their position in darkness, with his Royal Dorn tank Worm of Valhalla looming in the background.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, Donna Jones commenting on 2024 riots. How deep is this attitude within the police force?

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The handling of Bjorn’s character… is magnificently done.' 'A titan of war.' 'Five out of five. Blessed by the Emperor.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT57... #Warhammer40K #SpaceWolves #BjornTheFellHanded #BlackLibrary #WarhammerCommunity

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BJORN THE FELL-HANDED REVIEW! - Warhammer 40k

YouTube video by Wolf Lord Rho

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026

as so often, Terry Pratchett had it nailed.

Death and Susan talking in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the midst of so much awful today, something positive. Small Prophets was an absolute joy of a show.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026

It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

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