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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him)

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Author, LARP, physics, economics. Subjective Chaos, BSFA, BFA finalist. Board @SoA, Treasurer @BFS, Chair @BSFA. Rep:John Baker @PFD. Writer @ (hugo winner) Nerds of a feather stewarthotston.com Last: The next enemy Next: Mage against the machine (05/27)

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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 1h
This horrible hateful end of the spectrum were kinda confined to whatever nonsense party was to the left of Labour and I remember discussing with others saying that if we were lucky they'd stay there poisoning one another. Seems that's not to be the case and it will kill the greens.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 1h
how should I waste this morning? Oh yeah, on hold to the bank because they have an error code that doesn't exist and error message asking me to press a button that's not there...
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 11h
What’s your favourite of the year so far?
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 14h
Luminous by Silvia Park and When There are Wolves again by EJ Swift
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 16h
There more like tasks rather than stuff like to lost dog quest.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 17h
Ikr. Like what the hell
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 17h
@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @tauriq.bsky.social i’ve only just stumbled upon the FBC taskboard at the central field office with it’s huge number of sidequests…
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 19h
those sheep were a nightmare, they refused to be died black, so the script had to be rewritten to accommodate all white cows. As one can imagine the scandal about white washed cows was all anyone talked about
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 20h
TIL that the 'crows' in The Crow were actually ravens.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 20h
This person for whom coffee causes migraines had his first coffee in ten years. It was wonderful. However, I’m on strong anti-migraine pills BUT the caffeine has me shaking!!
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 21h
now three attempts deep in trying to get someone to spell my name right on a contract...sigh.
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 23h
We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just EIGHT DAYS until we meet in Glasgow! Tickets are still available for both individual days and the whole weekend. Get the details ➡️ britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...
A graphic advertises 10 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 30/09/2026
a good edit reminds you that you can write well. It also reminds you that you have bad habits, blind spots and an infinite scope for improvement. I love getting edits because each one improves my craft even when it's in the service of recognising 'this change doesn't work'.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
The role will close to applications on the 21st of October. To apply, please read the full job posting and follow the link to the application form from there; there's significantly more detail, especially on what we can offer as an employer.
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Writer and Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)
We’re looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join our small in-house team at either a senior or mid level, working specifically on Fallen London.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 30/09/2026
@emilyinkpen.bsky.social FYI
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just 10 days until we meet in Glasgow! Tickets are still available for both individual days & the whole weekend. Full programme (including the British Fantasy Awards!) & ticket details are on our website: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...
A graphic advertises 10 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
The contrast between Iroh and Ozei is esp well done
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
That would be the dream
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
A review of the darkly funny, and delightfully gory, Resident Evil. A good film, not just a good video game film
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Review: Resident Evil
Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film is a blast. It's a gory, silly blast of a film with some neat jump scares, beautiful composition and stylishly constructed cinematography. It's also perfectly paced - never outstaying its welcome and delivering to the viewer a sense of the worst night in the world for an ordinary schlub who is trying their best.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
A magical panopticon
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
Yeah. I’ve consciously slowed my play down because certain sections are so fricking amazing and the design is so overwhelming.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
I've had a deeply, awfully scabrous idea for a novel from a piece of horrible news media this week. I'm not sure I could write it but I think it deserves to be written.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
haha, fair. it's a stronger season than the opener that was a little messy around its characters before eventually finding its feet.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
the only person who could pull this off is Sandra Hüller
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
I thought this too but IMDB says otherwise - they're still listed as involved for season 2. There doesn't seem to be a single lead writer (maybe Phinneas Kiyomura who's listed as writer for 7 episodes of season 2). I will amend to suggest that this is inspired by their work.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
Please, please, please give this some love
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 29/09/2026
Come see me flail using a flail.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
I'm gonna write a full review but the metaphors are about dysphoria and dissonance for sure. And the transition between Jesse and Dylan and the role Jesse plays in this sequel...well they feel of a whole rather than arbitrary.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
I am most strongly reminded of I Saw The TV Glow two protagonists and how they end up in very different places. Jesse and Dylan (and I'm not done yet) seem to be making the same journey but with a very different ending (I suspect)
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
so...I don't want to say too much on main but my read right now is that the two games are a seamless whole and dylan/jesse's story is a single thread about transition. In Control Dylan says he dreamed he was a girl and the Board tell Jesse there was only ever jesse dylan fayden.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
as for Control Resonant, there's a big portion of game that's a little like a spiderman game but then...then it goes hard and gets both weird and very, very beautiful.
A dancer holding two batons in the air. Plus the title Control Resonant. The dancer's legs are covered in blood but her torso is stark, crisp white.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
I have just watched the Korean film, Hope. I have questions.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 28/09/2026
Just starting a beta read for a friend and continuing with May We Feed The King. Depending on how I get on I'll start Absolution by Vandemeer this week too
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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Game Review: Denshattack! Alex Wallace goes off the rails on this review. You won't want to miss it at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/09/revi...
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Game Review: Denshattack!
Is there somewhere we can play? Again and again and again... Look. I’m autistic. As you can imagine, I like trains. Sure, I’m not the bigg...
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 27/09/2026
reading may we feed the king and enjoying it's strange structure and central character's careful fragility
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 26/09/2026
Control as an allegory for trans self-discovery is super interesting - through both games the sense of Jesse and Dylan as mirrors of one another and absent when the other is present. The alienation of world, the strange transforming qualities of it. Hmmmm. Am reminded of I Saw The TV Glow
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 26/09/2026
The other song of the morning? This from Control Resonant:
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Say What by CONTROL Resonant on Apple Music
Song · 2026 · Duration 3:23
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 26/09/2026
have been watching Kaiju No 8 and this is the title music to the second series and it's a wonderful little track:
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Beautiful Colors - Single by OneRepublic on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 4 Songs
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 25/09/2026
it's a little portal into what privatised healthcare would look like for us humans...
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 25/09/2026
Control Resonant has such attention to detail it’s incredible
An image in an art gallery jn Control Resonant. Incredible attention to detail.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 25/09/2026
Sad times.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 25/09/2026
hmmm. I'm assuming you mean LLMs rather than everything that's been relabelled as 'AI' by marketing and sales. In that case I'd recommend you dip into both @doctorow.pluralistic.net and @wolven.blacksky.app's writing. They do a lot of ethics but also a lot of tech stuff w/o a focus on the math
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 25/09/2026
It kicked my ass
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
help me cover travel costs for these events via a small donation. Industry no longer feels the need to support organisations like ALD, but the work still needs doing, so I'm hoping the community will step in! www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-fi...
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Donate to Help Me Finish My Workplace Gender Equity Report, organized by Suw Charman-Anderson
What are the barriers preventing gender equity in the workplac… Suw Charman-Anderson needs your support for Help Me Finish My Workplace Gender Equity Report
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
it's fabulous!
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
Okay, I'm in
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
I'm not sure how I feel about marxist cops. Are they Stalinists or Trotskyites?
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
happy birthday!!! Hope it's a great day
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
a normal day on the internet then
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 24/09/2026
happy birthday to them!
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