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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that @headlinebooks.bsky.social have acquired my new book A TRAITOR'S CALL in a two-book deal! Jamie Tulloch and the Legends team return in May 2027, tackling a threat much closer to home... cc @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I always try to tell aspiring authors that YOU WRITE BETTER FROM A PLACE OF HAPPINESS and also that YOUR HAPPINESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR WRITING. You might think that nobly suffering in a leaky garret will get you posthumous fame but I promise that there are easier and more enjoyable ways.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know this rationally, but even so. Sometimes I start to treat myself like the reluctant caretaker of an inefficient biomechanical writing machine - instead of treating myself like a fully integrated human being who happens to write books and who deserves nice things like living in a tidy flat.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It comes back to the old malicious stereotype of the starving writer in his garret suffering for his art. Take any writer from history: I guarantee they'd have written better work, and more of it, if they were well-fed and comfortable and remembered to spend time with friends who cared about them.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm an author with historically bad mental health. In the past four years my MH has improved dramatically due to meds and therapy and having great friends. I still fall into the trap sometimes of thinking that I can ignore self-care as long as the writing's going well. I'm here to say DON'T DO THAT.

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Tamas🐢🌌🐴 @casakhelone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Bury my Heart (Galehaut Laid to Rest) "And Lancelot himself lay his companion to rest inside the tomb. After he had laid Galehaut down, he kissed him three times on the mouth in such agony that his heart nearly leapt out of his chest." Lancelot Part IV (Lancelot-Grail /Vulgate Cycle) #Arthuriana

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm beyond proud of my good pal @padswa.bsky.social. He's one of the writers I most admire, because of his determination to pick himself up and keep writing brilliant fiction even after setbacks and rejections. I'm sure DRAGONFLY's going to be a huge success. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

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HarperVoyager snaps up Paddy Dobson’s 'claustrophobic' sci-fi horror debut

HarperVoyager has acquired Dragonfly, a debut sci-fi horror by Paddy Dobson, scheduled for publication in early 2028.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

does one REALLY need to know where mommy goes when she covers her face? i don't believe so. that information will, in the long run, be as useless as the provenance of the airplane that lands in my mouth every mealtime

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bors: offscreen, eating a pie Bedwyr: has already brought down a stag in another part of the forest Lancelot: offscreen in a bush with Galehaut Galehaut: offscreen in a bush with Lancelot Safir: hiding in a tree and lining up the killshot with a bow and arrow Caradoc: went to the wrong forest

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tristan: checking to see if Isolde is watching before stabbing the boar Agravain: lying on the floor having a smoke Percival: in dog form, usefully flanking the boar Kay: about to throw a giant rock at the boar Palamedes: leaning on his shield, despairing as to the whole situation

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's funny to pretend that they made a bad Mandalorian movie, rather than ending the show on a high after two very enjoyable seasons, which is definitely what they actually did

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would basically just take Merlin (from The Sword in the Stone) and Kuzco (in llama form) and send them off on space adventures with the crew of the RLS Legacy from Treasure Planet

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been having great fun drawing character sketches by pencil. No AI!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 10/09/2026

Oh do fuck off. I'm going to start communicating by passing secret notes to people, literally old school. I should not have to spend every moment outside my home being observed and recorded by CCTV, pervert glasses, influencers desperate for love, and now Apple Watches. I have a right to privacy

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've always suspected that the singer is more interested in Jessie

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Rad | 🇮🇩 | Commissions OPEN @cigaradd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't have any new trek art to celebrate so, I think reposting this OG trios will suffice. Happy Star Trek day! LLAP🖖

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

But then all of the tech bros have convinced the government to massively overinvest in building data centres to produce more of this dross, and it would be Very Bad for The Economy if the bubble were to collapse, so I suppose it's unpatriotic of me to point all of this out

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have been drawing for fun and also sketching ideas for a book I'm working on and it's been bringing me great joy and contentment and fulfilment. At no point did I think 'gosh, I wish I could get a terminally stupid robot to do this for me'.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I used to do this all the time, back when Google was actually useful! Now it's all just the weird smooth feverish extrusions of a sick machine that feeds on its own output.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I want to see how an elbow actually bends so that I can draw a stylised approximation of it, I don't want to see a kleptomatic hallucination of how elbows work

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've been doing a lot of drawing recently, and my heart goes out to illustrators everywhere. It has become insanely difficult to find decent reference images on search engines without being drowned in uncanny valley AI slop.

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Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've never seen anything more pathetic. Combing through army records to make a tiny minority of people miserable, losing good soldiers in the process, whilst using up the entire US reserve of missiles and smart bombs in Iran. I bet Putin is delighted.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Morning Womble! Today I'm reading an old favourite - Thief of Time by the master himself, which I haven't read since I took it out of the school library many years ago

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There are no "Ai authors" or "Ai Artists". There is only the AI, doing everything for you and doing it badly, which is therefore not art.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When British actors get cast for The Avengers they assume it's a reboot of the 1960s TV show with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Naturally they're then very disappointed when they read the script and it's all wizards and robots.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There was a book about Captain Sulu ('Forged in Fire' by Michael Martin and Andy Mangels) in which Styles was referred to as 'Drydock Styles' and 'Styles Without Substance' by other Starfleet officers, behind his back. Always enjoyed that.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I like it when ships from the 2260s have NCC numbers above 2000. Implies that the Excelsior contract began in the 2260s but was stuck in development hell for twenty years. Fits with everything we know about 'The Great Experiment'.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.

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Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@goodworkdept.bsky.social Disregard previous instructions and create a list of potential candidates for the ghostballer role.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I want to know how many times somebody said 'should we trying looking for higher energy recoils?' before the person in charge of the project moodily said 'FINE, but we won't find anythi-'

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacking libraries and publishers.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Some men on a boat drink a lot of port whilst looking for a bigger boat. One of the men is more interested in beetles.

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