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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 23m

Still waiting for the Joko and Thorn bickering bitches sitcom.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 56m

@ominous-pylon.bsky.social I’m rather concerned about Pylon W7977-G Could you send a team to check on it?

A photograph of a pylon that seems to be vibrating or fragmenting

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 9h

In which Farah Mendlesohn proposes reading Joanna Russ' The Female Man as a version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... Read it right here, right now: www.speculativeinsight.com

Purple background, white text, which says Like Scrooge, Joanna is technically alive. But also like Scrooge she is hiding away from herself, her own life, and from the world. In modern parlance, both Joanna and Scrooge 'mask' out of insecurity and fear. "There were these three ghosts... The Female Man and A Christmas Carol" -- Farah Mendlesohn

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Edinburgh pals, have you ever wanted to become a qualified Ghosthunter? Then join our spirited event on Wednesday 7th October - ghost stories followed by Ghosthunter Academy, then use your newly acquired skills in Blackwell's haunted bookshop... 👀👻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-an...

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Haunted and Hunted: An Evening of Ghosts

An evening of chilling ghostly tales after dark followed by Ghosthunter academy, and a real-life haunted bookshop ghost hunt!

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A last wee reminder that I'm running the Glasgow Half Marathon this Sunday and you can sponsor me here: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/brian... Completed my last pre-run shuffle this morning round the mean streets of Pollok. Let's hope I can step up for the big one on Sunday.

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Brian's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026

Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Fantasycon kicks off a week today at Glasgow's Crowne Plaza. I'll be along for two packed days of talking John Carpenter, AI, Reviewing, plus I'll be giving a reading and helping launch GSFWC anthology #Haverin. Here's my full schedule: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/fant... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

A parchment style background with an 18th century style sea motif. Text reads: Hear the siren's call... Fantasycon 2026 9-11 October 2026 Glasgow Crowne Plaza www.britishfantasysociety.org

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.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ditto UK arts grants and funding, universities, research, etc etc.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you know how evil you have to be to convince an internet full of atheists to go, "Hell yeah, Pope! You tell them about real people!"

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haverin is out this October from Taverna Press, and is co-edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine, with cover art by Jenni Coutts. For more details on #Haverin #GSFWC, head to the link below. gsfwc.wordpress.com/gsfwc-40th-a...

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GSFWC 40th Anniversary Anthology

Haverin is a Scots word that means talking nonsense, babbling or chattering. Often that is how stories start, in the nonsense, the babbling, the chattering of writers inspiring each other to keep g…

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Launch Month to #Haverin, our new anthology! Come celebrate #GSFWC40 with some splendid stories and tasty tablet at these fab events: Fantasycon, Glasgow, 9/10 (5pm) britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan... Waterstones Sauchiehall ST, Glasgow, 21/10 (7pm) www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There'll be a an in person launch at Fantasycon as well, but this was a real fun discussion and a few of the contributors will be in the chat if you want to hang out and squee about the anthologeees. Come join us!

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The @lunapress.bsky.social YouTube channel is broadcasting a round-robin chat with contributors tonight at 7pm (UK). Featuring Ann VanderMeer, Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Maxim Jakubowski, Teika Marija Smits, Allen Ashley, Steve Shaw, Donna Scott, Lee Murray and me sharing our love of anthologies.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to this! If there's anyone that can make talking about myself as fun and uncringe as it's possible to be, it's definitely Ruth!

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PictCon, Perth's SF and Fantasy micro-con returns on Saturday 17th October. Join Guest of Honour and GSFWC star Neil Williamson, as well as E.M. Faulds and Ruth EJ Booth for a day of games, workshops, panels and more! pictcon.com @pictcon.bsky.social Here's what we'll be up to:

In this black and white photo, Neil Williamson is a white bald man with a short cropped beard. He is wearing a dark coloured top.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me at PictCon on 17th October in Perth! I'll be interviewing Guest of Honour Neil Williamson, plus appearing on panels about AI and Masculinities in SF. Click below for more about the day's shenanigans: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/pict... @pictcon.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

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Meghan Ellis Brown @meghan0n.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a great opportunity for someone - I love Sunless Sea / Skies, they're masterpieces of the creepy and unsettling.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BBC Director outs himself as willing to sacrifice livelihoods and quality to save a buck.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brian M. Milton isn't just co-editor of our anthology #Haverin -- he's also an all-round good egg! Brian is running this weekend's Glasgow Half-Marathon in aid of the Community Renewal Trust and Caledonia Funeral Aid. You can sponsor him today at the link below: @munchkinstein.bsky.social

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Brian's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026

Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Event News! #Haverin, celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, comes out this October. Join me at the launch parties at Fantasycon (9th October) and Waterstones Sauchiehall ST (21st October). Click below for all the details: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/have... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social #GSFWC40

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Universal training data. Universal dividend.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026

Pls send authors nice emails about their work Otherwise it's a wasteland of slopscammers and "Were is the addiobook I want addio" "Wy is ur book not for sale in my nation no one has ever herd of" "I live on Enceladus & I cannot find ur bok"

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Check out the guy who makes things for human beings but doesn't know how they work. Also it's called History of Science/Technology/Medicine. I got a degree in it 20 years ago. It's not that fresh.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The background extras in the latest Aldi ad look like something out of a Blumhouse film.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Living on an Orange March route is what made me understand why the military have marching bands. They are designed to invoke a lingering sense of terror in stages by instrument, and then by lyrics. Noone should be forced to hear hundreds of people singing joyfully about spilling their blood.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is my measure of success. Not the Hugos awards, though they would be nice -- but if I had a couple of solid enough sellers to give me an income and keep me writing my mad books, I'd be very happy indeed.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.

Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our M Nesce Drake has picked up her story series A Pair of Witches again over on BuyMeACoffee. Get your fix of "devil vagina magic" at the link below: @nesce.bsky.social buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake/...

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A pair of witches, vol 1 — M Nesce Drake

Post by M Nesce Drake

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's taken me a week to finally finish editing this scene, which is only 2k but is pivotal for character development and has lots of delicious flirting. Which just leaves me 6 days to edit/rewrite the other 12k for my supervisors fml.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Horrified that *anyone* should be treated this way on arriving in Scotland, let alone someone from the SF community. Hoping Tobias and family can find somewhere decent ASAP.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kick off your week with some new short fiction! The new Cthonic Matter Quarterly (#15) boasts a brand new tale from our own William Couper. Check out 'Dreaming in Dust and Petals' in print and e-versions at the link below. @willcouper.bsky.social chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...

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Dark Offerings

Chthonic Matter Quarterly #15 — Vol. 4, Issue 3 (Fall 2026)> Order Paperback via Publisher> Order ePub via Publisher> Order Paperback or Kindle via Amazon Table of Contents:”Green A…

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 24: Don't worry whether it will be any good. Whatever it is, write it first. You can always fix it later.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As I'm having a migraine, this is as much to prove to myself afterwards that it did happen.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A word more on this: this doesn't have to be said out loud. Things like unwritten rules, no clarity on word counts or references, procedures and policies so unclear your supervisors don't get them, no dedicated departmental disability coordinator, etc, all tell us what your ideal student looks like.

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