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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One wonders if news outlets worldwide, faced with the US misinformation machine, have programmed their computers to insert "He did not provide evidence or further details" in the face of all of the outrageous (and unsubstantiated) claims... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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RAF Fairford incident involves 'foreign actor', says Rubio

In a television interview the US Secretary of State mentioned Iran, which has denied any involvement

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Andy Burnham wants to help lower energy prices in the UK, has he considered NOT allowing a shit-ton of energy-hungry data centres to be built? Reduced demand = lower prices. (As does increased supply - but it has to be green otherwise we're just wallowing in waste.)

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Suitcase of Monsters", my washed-up B-movie horror actor story, will be appearing in @edgeandbusby.com 's "Witnessed", March 2027!

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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9. “EmoMo” | WYSR Review Alfred brings home a new . . . pet . . . to help with his relationship. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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8. “Bokrug and the Boy” | WYSR Review @castofwonders.org Bokrug doesn’t care about the boy. Why would he? He is a Great Old One. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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7. “Backstory” | WYSR Review A troll recounts his experience taking on a hero. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watched in reverse, this project is losing all its backers... But from THIS rather more conventional perspective, it's ticking along and getting very close to full funding! 3 days to go, 101 backers already behind it, 85% there...

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We are REAL CLOSE... come back #OpportunityWindow, get some awesome #timeloop stories!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the backerkit website showing OPPORTUNITY WINDOW is at 1567/2000 with 96 backers and 4 days left to go

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned"

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"In 2016, Musk said he was planning to send his Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018." Proving that Elon is as reliable a source of information as his AIs. (But you already knew that, right?) Would you trust a bullshitter to drive your car? To care for your elderly relative? For anything?

"The cost of diesel has risen by 59p a litre, just under 40%, since the conflict between the USA and Iran erupted at the end of February." Just in case you thought Trump's dumbfuckery didn't have an impact on the UK - even if you don't use diesel, your groceries don't magic themselves onto shelves.

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"The Orange Order is a Protestant pro-British organisation, while the area where it wants to walk - specifically along the Garvaghy Road - is largely Catholic and predominantly inhabited by pro-Irish nationalists." Gosh, I wonder who is in the wrong here?

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Going back at least as far as Jan 2018, I've had something (not always a very big something, not always a new something) published every calendar month. Well, HELLO September 2026. Coming along, breaking the trend... (Publishing short stories is getting tougher. Quantifiably)

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Is a terrorist someone who protests this? Or someone who does it?

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

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Trump lies, over and over and over again, his "relentless dishonesty" has become normalised (“flood the zone with sh*t”). He's also gullible as hell (he believes and repeats other people's lies) - and THIS is the guy with the nuclear football in his grasping mitts. Oh, America!

Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

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Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

6. “Judgment Day” | WYSR Review @castofwonders.org If you’ve done nothing wrong, the Judges won’t hurt you. Though their definition of “wrong” might differ from yours. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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5. “The Best of Us” | WYSR Review A domestic service robot dreams of the day when they no longer have to serve their human masters. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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4. “Up Sticks” | WYSR Review 24 Fell Street goes in search of its absentee owner. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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3. “Cull” | WYSR Review A man receives horrible news. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Our next Big Indie Weekend panel goes live in 15 minutes! Come join Holly, Tim, Liam, Chantelle and Phil for a chat about editing, cutting and chopping. Bring your own axe! #writingcommunity #authorevent #writerslife #indieauthors www.youtube.com/live/wxB5laL...

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How to Kill Your Darlings

Part of The Big Weekend: Sometimes the story demands difficult choices! We will be discussing the art of editing, cutting what doesn’t serve the narrative an...

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2. "White Goods" Camille doesn't need fuel to go to the moon. A heartwrenching story about dreams deferred, imagination, and bad fathers. Read Here: web.archive.org/web/20251114...

web.archive.org

White Goods – Sylvia

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New week, new author thread! This week I'm reviewing Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social 1. “How the Elephant Fell” | WYSR Review The Elephant has always crossed the bridge to eat of the fruit, why should today be any different? inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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RNLI are heroes and save lives*. You REALLY want to argue that some lives shouldn't be saved? That they should, perhaps, check passports before rescuing them? Verify stories? Make them whistle the theme tune to Eastenders? Are you human? * at the risk of their own, and unpaid - ABSOLUTE heroes.

biomespec.bsky.social @biomespec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Season 2 is going to blow your socks off - we can't wait to share amazing stories by these talented authors! #podcast #art #story #fiction #writingCommunity #bookSky #scifi #fantasy #horror @criswrites.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @jalogwood.bsky.social

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because of course he did. "Please stop (successfully) fighting for survival, because it's tweaking the prices I already sent to record highs by picking a fight with a country that now won't let its enemies oil tankers sail past its shores..."

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is "The Heart of the Beast" just "The Call of the Wild" with a happy ending?

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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It seems we need names for all the things that Drumpf is building to celebrate how brilliant he is, that aren't given to them by, y'know, Drumpf. (He gets a kick out of renaming things, why shouldn't we?) First up : Trump's Folly. (Actual size: 50% bigger than Arc de Triomphe. Cost: $15m++)

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Neither of the stupidly rich crypto-bros slinging multiple millions at Reform are UK residents. One lives in Thailand, one in Hong Kong. That would seem to be a simple tweak to political donation law - got to be a UK resident paying UK tax. Otherwise, isn't it just "foreign influence"?

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America, 100% populated by immigrants (except for those pesky natives they slaughtered and who ICE routinely harass and arrest and try to work out where to deport) has closed its borders to everyone except white South Africans. Who now begin to realise their mistake... www.msn.com/en-za/news/o...

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Much as I loathe the thuggish, intimidating behaviour of the anti-immigration idiots, the idea that wearing a mask is itself a crime seems suspect and dangerous. Laws created to stop actions that are in themselves not criminal - criminalising protest - are overbearing and totalitarian.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ben Delo is a money launderer (pleaded guilty in 2022). I'm not sure how, exactly, he expects to get his £36 million (with interest) back from Reform, a minority political party with only 8 MPs (half of whom haven't won an election as Reform) but you can bet your crypto-dollar he thinks he will.

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Another year, another failure to get on the BBC National Short Story Awards Shortlist. (To be honest, I never really thought I had a chance. But I DID send them a cracker of a story. (The fools!)) Congrats and good luck to the five shortlistees, as they wait to find who's won it.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

World Trade Centre, January 2001. The flags of the world glimpsed through the windows of the lobby. What I remember from 9/11 was how desperate people were to help each other, and how little they could actually do. This isn't a uniquely American or New York response - it's a human response.

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You have already backed this project. But then you went back in time, to before it began. So (obviously) it's vitally important you NOW back it again for the first time, otherwise the fabric of space/time will collapse and we'll all be eaten by a pair of ducks. (I did hear that right, didn't I?)

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All for AI slop. (Not all data centres are for AI - but pretty much all the news ones are. Not all AI is slop - but all the ones that need data centres are...) The way they are distorting the electricity prices and planning for, y'know, residents, is WILD.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If Trump bribing voters $5000 to secure republican victories in elections isn't illegal... it sure as hell should be. Plus, you really believe he'll deliver? You really think that trillion dollars exists? You really believe it wouldn't come out of those same voters pockets? What lovely fantasies!

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HALF a nuclear power plant to power an AI chatbot: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is collective madness, celebrated by the Finnish government. Nuclear power is many things, and better than fossil fuels. But it's hardly sitting there idle.

bbc.co.uk

Google to fund Finnish AI with €13bn investment and nuclear power pact

The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All those fascist flag-shagger thugs, hiding behind balaclavas and made up names, laughable claims to religion, and pathetic organisation titles like "Patriot Platform"... Almost like they're embarrassed.

J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Spending $22 million to solve a $1 million dollar problem by stealing someone else’s work is a neat little encapsulation of the whole “AI” scam.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pushing back against Israel's aggression does not put British Jews at risk. Israel's continued aggression does. If anything, pushing back makes the distinction - British Jews are NOT responsible for Israeli actions. (Whereas a complicit UK government would be.)

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is there anyone in the world more dangerous and deranged than Trump? (And is there anyone shitter at AI prompts than the "people" behind him? WTF is with the stars in Greenland? Dominican Republic? A toddler would do a better job than this dogs dinner)