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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature - wonderful news!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning Womble! Today I'm reading the (very unsettling) 'Settling The World' short story collection by M John Harrison. I love his writing.

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The Creative Splurge @thecreativesplurge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize is open until 8 November for stories up to 6,000 words. All the details are here → www.galleybeggar.co.uk/short-story-… #WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS @galleybeggars.bsky.social

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X. SHORT STORY PRIZE (Full info) — Galley Beggar Press

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning Womble, hope you get better very soon! I'm currently chomping my way through the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard - the literary equivalent of a warm bath followed by a cup of cocoa.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CFP: Walking-with the past: Embodiment, environment, and narrative for articles that explore walking as a mnemonic, narrative and pedagogical practice that produces, discloses and reconfigures cultural and (auto)biographical memories in particular places platform.openjournals.nl/LOCUS/call-f...

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Call For Papers | Locus–Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.

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Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A #SlowArt starter pack… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS A meeting place for all interested in artists of any discipline - photography, fine art, sound, writing, illustration, more - who make work with a long-running, repetitive, ongoing, cumulative or time-defined nature. Glad of shares & suggestions

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What is The Telegraph going to write about now?

A vast list of Telegraph articles hounding Jason Arday

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sure the country’s on fire, most of it is in drought, people are dying, drowning, off work with heat stroke, the railways have buckled and trains have derailed, we’re in the grip of a fifth heatwave, and it’s cost the economy £4bn, BUT…is net zero really worth the cost?!

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lissa Evans is one of the funniest writers around. Her last book 'Small Bomb at Dimperley' was delightful, can't wait to read her latest:

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Maybe your government misread this and thought they were trans people, not trains people.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lots of wonderful books here, I'm particularly rooting for M. John Harrison's 'The End of Everything'

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ironic that Jodrell Bank is just outside the city that is flavour du jour - Manchester. More importantly it's an iconic scientific and cultural facility, a telescope that pioneered radio astronomy. It will only cost UKRI £2.8m to keep it going -peanuts, really

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ooh hope you enjoy it! it's a fab anthology

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My long short story about Lise Meitner is in the Nova Scotia 2 anthology www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... and my fictionalised account of the life of atomic physicist Marietta Blau (even more forgotten than Lise Meitner) is on Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Nova Scotia Vol 2 | Luna Press Publishing

Release date July 30, 2024. BFS Award Shortlist:Best Anthology: Vol 2, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson BSFA Award Winner:Best Artwork: Jenni CouttsBSFA Awards Shortlist:Best Artwor...

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Am hugely honoured to have my short story collection 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' on this list! Many many thanks to @goldsmithspress.bsky.social !

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I went to the launch of Tom's pamphlet and was so impressed - I love his poems.

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Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Have you read Narnia, and were you dismayed by what happened to Susan? You're not alone. Fanfic has your back - and in my upcoming book, "Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia: Rewriting Susan Pevensie in Fanfiction", I look at how fanfic writers re-imagine her story and give her a different ending.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

She was right about Michael Howard though (possibly the only time she was ever right about anything): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somethi...

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Something of the night about him - Wikipedia

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You knew this was coming.

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think we just passed oops.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

if you find a nice one, let me know...

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Animal life on Earth has been reduced by 70% in the last 50 years, and the fact that this is not talked about enough is sickening.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Let love and colour into your life. Hold hands.

Joni Mitchell and David Hockney holding hands. Both in later life, full of style and colour.

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So sad about David Hockney. A long time ago I went to an exhibit of his opera sets; these worlds he had created were just so beautiful I wanted to live inside them.

David Hockney's design for the opera L'Enfant et les Sortileges, showing red trees against a deep blue-purple background

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How is it possible that on the entire @deutschebahn.com website there is not a single working email for customer service? And no, I don't want to phone them and have to wait hours for them to answer. Unglaublich!

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🧵Please share! @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social is hiring! - Co-Director (31 May) - Digital & Social Media Assistant (24 May) Both freelance, Scotland-based, remote with some travel. Highly encourage Black & PoC applicants + Co-Director Q&A: 26 May 👉🏽 scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/were-hiring-...

A geometric, 90s-style banner with text reading: SBWN is hiring! Dark-skinned finger-pointing emojis point at the job titles 'Co-Director' and 'Digital & Social Media Assistant'. Text at the bottom of the image reads: Could you be our next team member?

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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

'Lolly Willowes' by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Fab!

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/05/2026

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's Pub Day for my debut novel, THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. It's an Arabfuturist story of a revolution set on a generation ship with lots of linguistic shenanigans. Chapeau to tu!

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Next week at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social (Thurs 23rd) - a celebration of Christopher Priest, with Nina Allan and Camilla Grudova, discussing The Illuminated Man and The Recollections. Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

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A Celebration of Christopher Priest | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Christopher Priest today.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Eric Satie Eric Stoodie

A photograph of Eric Satie, sitting down.

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