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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 01/10/2026

Since we have crossed over into the month of thinning veils between this world and the dead, The Shape of Monsters is the perfect read for the season. It has murder, twisted magic, fucked-up deer, dead things watching from the woods, creepy gothic mansions, and licorice jellybeans

a promo pic of the novel The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen - https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/cl-hellisen/the-shape-of-monsters/9781037401190

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 19h

WTF!?!? Not only is this cheap, awful, AI slop, it is racist and antisemitic! Ten years ago this would have ended a political career. What world are we living in that the Tories can just put this out there and get away with it? And I don't believe the 88 feet is a coincidence for one second.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was talking to my friend Mae today about how I wish more people cared about and read short stories. A great short story will take only twenty minutes to read but stick with you for twenty years. Wildly powerful artform! What's a short story that fits that description for y'all?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been a really shitty day, including a handful of story rejections, so it would make me very happy if you went and read my story that just came out in Sterncastle. Honestly, even if you hate it, I would still be thrilled to know you read it.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that my latest story is out in @sterncastle.bsky.social. You can read it here sterncastle.hflip.co/Q32026

Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredibly embarrassing stuff from Science Magazine here. Glad I quit academia tbh, so that I am not tarred with this brush.

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Sterncastle Publishing @sterncastle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here it is folks... Sterncastle Magazine Issue 3... REFLECTIONS! Ten heartfelt stories for your reading enjoyment. sterncastle.hflip.co/Q32026 #magazine #literarymagazine #LitMag #litmagazine #indiepublishing #shortstories #shortstory #ShortFiction

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that my latest story is out in @sterncastle.bsky.social. You can read it here sterncastle.hflip.co/Q32026

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queer authors, if you will be publishing a book on ITCH DOT IO and/or KOBO PLUS between now and Dec 31, please make that book known to me below. Especially if you're not publishing on the Evil River! Pre-order link is best, itch profile is great (so I can follow you), or whatever ya got. 🌈📚

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I worry I have done something to offend all editors everywhere as I seem to be missing quite a few responses to submissions that the tracker sites suggest I should have had by now.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone trying to co-opt bisexuality as the terfy alternative to pansexuality is an asshole and wrong. Remember that some of our foundational queer, bisexual lionesses were Black trans women.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy #bivisibilityday bisexuals! As someone who took a long time to do it myself, my greatest hope is that you see and accept yourselves, then, of course, that you are seen and accepted by everyone else.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bi Visibility Day to my peers!

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Bisexual Brunch @bisexualbrunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy #bivisibility day everyone from the team at @BisexualBrunch -of course we’re working to keep bisexuality visible all year round. Shortlisted in the British Podcast Awards. New episode with @lewyoaks @AshleyByrneNTH @TomWardThomas @DrBisbey @AndrewRWhite & more coming soon.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wondering - lots of authors, even traditionally published ones have promotional material they bring to events. Banners, commissioned art, bookmarks, stickers, I like these things. They are fun and pretty. As a reader, are you more likely to buy a new to you book/author if it comes with a bookmark?

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I should mention that I have a story coming up in a Twisted Dreams anthology which is very exciting! It's one of my favourite that I've written so I am thrilled it has found a home!

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I finally finished The Rose Field. I only wish Philip Pullman had.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know when they say 'be careful what you wish for' ...

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/09/2026

Handing NHS data to Palantir was always going to be a disaster for public trust. Now, tens of thousands are opting out and medical research is taking the hit. It’s time to scrap the deal. www.theguardian.com/society/2026/se…

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‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister

James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a core memory of doing creative writing in English at school and writing a number (e.g. 457) and being told it's not a maths class, write the number out (four hundred and fifty seven). What do people think? Do you write numbers or words in your stories? Or both?

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inkle @inkle.co · 11/09/2026

🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

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Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Feeling really low today, so if any editors have been waiting for the right moment to send me a story acceptance - now's your time! Go on. You know you want to. Human written guaranteed!

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 08/09/2026

I didn't want to say anything publicly. I was hoping I could take care of this privately but my reputation is on the line and the longer I let this go, the worse it's going to be for me. I do not use genAI When I see it and I know it, I don't repost it. If I suspect something is AI, I just don't

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's important to remember that the police's actual main objective is to uphold the state. That's what's going on here when they don't arrest people supporting the state's anti immigrant narrative, and when they arrest grannies who oppose a genocide supported by the state.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

nobody should be paying anybody's fuckass submission fees

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I really did not want to spend the whole bank holiday weekend fixing my 3D printer.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A bunch of stage magicians have professional (and unprofessional) disagreements.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/08/2026

AI is part of a class war. The rich are buying art made by artists, putting their kids in private schools with excellent teacher/pupil ratios, not allowing their own kids to use smart phones etc . They want us stupider, surrounded by slop - pigs at the trough. Stop giving them what they want.

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Indieventure: A Podcast About Indie Games @indieventurepodcast.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Here's a clip from the most recent episode when the severe heat wave alert went off during recording lol

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am getting really sick of this "ideological reasons" reframing bollocks. The man led a lynch mob against a Black man for openly racist reasons and gloated when it was successful. He shouldn't just be fired, he should be incarcerated.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I do feel somewhat vindicated in my personal interests and pursuits that one of the first things people did with cartooning was weird death stuff

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Cofnas signatories just served to out how many universities have their own Prof Whitey-McHeadmeasure on their payroll.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There is a portion of academia that has been poised, ready and waiting to jump back into full on colonialism and it is taking its chance now.

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Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I tried to tell people for years that racism was rife in academia, and was often treated as an alarmist and a trouble maker. Well, here's your proof.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2026

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm seeing several posts regarding luck versus skill. I do believe a lot of luck plays a part in publishing. What I would add to this equation is: the system. The thing is, you can have skill and luck can happen, but, to use a gambling metaphor, if you aren't allowed in a casino, you can't bet.

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