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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's not just the govt I worry about. So much worry! Why sleep? More time for worry!

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this where we find out that John Byrne is a paedo?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Worryingly, with folks getting covid repeatedly and the rise/prevalence of LLMs, the collective cognitive capacity will probably start declining soon. If it hasn't already. So, soon we just won't be able to reinvent things! Then we'll have to rely on teh LLMs to tell us to breathe...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw a video a while ago showing the exact new whodackies stuck on the walls can be bought at that big diy chain store in the US I can't remember the name of. They've been spray painted gold. Full marks for dictator tat.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been playing around with Inky, reworking a short story of mine and it's hard to not get mission creep but I've already downloaded Godot...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hmm, money does seem to be persuading a few publishers...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I remember a scene from a film where a trans woman turned up to a clinic/convincing someone session in jeans and is told "you clearly aren't serious about being a woman. Start wearing skirts." It's so ridiculous. Perform your gender so we don't have to think for ourselves!

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Greek the idiom for "I don't care" is "I write it/them on my balls" Greek is great for mentions of dick as well. Oh look a sea cucumber --oops, I mean a dick of the sea..

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, we all know women are incapable of running in the presence of explosions; we'd just fall down crying or some shit. (This is sarcasm! We could do with more women action hero thrillers.)

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The people we're talking about here need never work another day in their lives. They still choose yet more money over even whispering, eg, that genocide is bad maybe. How is this different to the tech bro elite or oligarchs?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's whole genres of books I call "man running," "man running with explosion," and "woman running."

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You've really missed the point here. Being "apolitical" is a political stance. It's saying that you don't care about the world catching fire or people being killed for simply existing, because you'd rather make money.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

................. do people just crave an illiterate, ignorant, THOUGHTS ARE JUST TOO HARD FOR MAH BWAIN BWAIN approach to modern life?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hmm, well, it depends on the character...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've just hit 40k on a second-ish draft of a novel I'm referring to as "vampire witch shit." Yay! #writing #amwriting

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And how to get it back to how it was remains elusive...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm yet to arrive at a firm opinion on this. I struggle with schedules so putting things behind paywalls for paying subscribers puts me in an energy hole. But, I want to get paid for my writing, but I have no audience so I guess I put stuff out for free?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So, I was reading yesterday about how about 40% of Chileans still voted for Pinochet even at the end of his dictatorship, after almost 2 decades of nightmarish shit happening to their neighbours. Because the economic wins made the outright torture worth it? Some folks are scary.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was writing a wee serial on substack before I abandoned the platform, but I also abandoned the story. Rising from the ashes... A pair of witches! "Succumb to my devil vagina magic!” Shouted the naked woman as she ran down the street" #shorts #writing

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The panic of accidentally discovering a new shortcut key.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The US media seem weirdly interested in talking about the catholic church when it isn't a catholic country. Coz, yea, it isn't a democracy, and has also done, like, an imperial shit ton of dodgy stuff over the centuries. (Imperial shit tons are approx. 53.11 times bigger than metric shit tons)

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I left NZ 11 years ago and Ms was also accepted there. In Scotland I've found it isn't really. It's almost always changed to Miss *insert extreme GRRR face here* It's just another way of being asked 'are you sure you want to be here?'

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Clearly the one you and I missed out on the invite to :p

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The better question is why these eejits have the cultural and political power they do. (I mean this both rhetorically and as an actual question so we can figure out a way to sort this problem.)

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Me, knitting Saga's jumper from Alan Wake 2 and explaining circular knitting to my partner: It's not a loop; it's a spiral.

My knitting work in progress of Saga Anderson's jumper from Alan Wake 2. It's a muted orange-red mainly with dark grey, pink and light grey colour work.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 01/09/2026

Please help get my collection of short stories get some more readers! "These Broken Little Worlds", is looking a little lonely on Amazon... If you can leave any review or rating, no matter if it's 1 star or 5, you have my gratitude. ❤️‍🔥 www.amazon.co.uk/These-Broken...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But where will all the NHS staff too useless to do their actual jobs go if there's no management structure to promote them into???

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm having the anxiety, so I drew a thing. #artsky #art #MassEffect

A pencil and ink drawing of a hannar from Mass Effect. Is it Blasto? Could be, but they're not holding a gun. Maybe Blasto is facing left, there's a slight green glow around their legs from some sci fi lighting coming from the right. The background is an orange starburst against purple.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Every time I watch him, I just stare at his jacket, at his pants... I also make clothes and I can't figure out what about them makes them just fit wrong. Everyone else on the stage always have clothes that fit, it really is a mystery.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To better witness Keighley's suits that somehow never quite fit him?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Geebus, the comment section over there is scary. Too much "no, I think people shouldn't be encouraged in any way to prevent completely avoidable massive head injuries. They might stop cycling if we did."

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)

The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

The back of the cover of Haverin, continuing the green landscape dotted with various creatures, including a robot head, lion, and a pie. Text reads: Haverin, Scots, Verb: Talking in a foolish or trivial manner, speaking nonsense. Glaswegians enjoy a bit of haverin and few enjoy it more than the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle have for the last forty years, following many hard critique sessions with a bit of a haver in the pub. This anthology is a celebration of those forty years, with more than forty stories of Fantasy, Science and the Odd from members past and present. Join us on this fantastical journey, turning havers into stories and revelling in the full range of writing that has come out of the Circle since 1986.

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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 13/08/2026

A student from my Graphic Fiction class is crowdfunding their comic. If you've a spare quid (not easy these days, but still) do chip it in. Here's a wee glimpse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @metaphrog.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reminder that age verification laws are identity theft mandates

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am also a skin picker. I'm fairly sure mine is related to childhood trauma, but I wouldn't rule out ND. Why choose? Just have both! Brains are mad wee fuckers.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 29/07/2026

Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You Inherit Fifteen tales of toxic inheritance, quiet British dread and the men who refuse to change gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I refuse to see the movie! I'm choosing to be an utter wanker about: learning Greek to read The Odyssey in Greek. I am wimping out in sticking with modern Greek, however. I'm enjoying everyone's piss takes about the movie, though.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

aye, and it's a massive argument in favour of UBI, too.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I had a thought; what if we all tag team in as an MP? The roles clearly aren't burdensome from the number of MPs also doing other work, and they come with a pension as soon as you retire/lose your seat. And hey, we might even get some good ideas on how to community better while we're at it.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If thought leaders are trying to look for hints and tips in the Odyssey, an historical fantasy even when it was first spoken, logistics are the wrong place.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As someone who struggles to even walk about my flat some days, this is heartening.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Because it isn't about the toilets. It's never been about the toilets. It will never be about the toilets.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

But it's very on brand behaviour, lol.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm most curious as to the pronunciation of Telemachus, and if non Greek folks will finally figure out how to say it.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I do support trans people, I'm sorry you got the impression I didn't. I'm not trying to talk about cis folks, my initial post was about how more talking and less monolithing was needed. The core JKR hate group is likely untouchable, they're the monolith, and they aren't even all cis.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I was wondering where you were going with this, because I already understand this. My point was that when communicating with problematic people, it goes better if you don't start by insulting them all.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And within patriarchal societies cisgender women are often conditioned to to view themselves in a very specific way. To the point where many act to defend the patriarchal systems, even to their own detriment.

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