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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 8h

Found half a bag of popcorn that I'd forgotten about.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

Today marks three years since the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was illegally felled. We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.

The stump is hidden by a thick ring of green shoots

Showing tall shoots, growing above the stump

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Summer has regrouped and launched a counterattack on Autumn. It's now decided to be over 23°C here, which explains why I basically didn't sleep.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This thread discusses "fun" which is our guiding light - but what we consider fun covers an enormous amount of ground. Tragedy can be entertaining, gloom amusing, and dark scenarios offer the chance for great triumphs.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Finished reading a new book that I'd been looking forward to for ages. Now at a bit of a loss.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September on the North Yorkshire coast.

A photograph of a stone-walled barn with red roof tiles. There is a window in the middle, through which can be seen the sea.

Photograph of a coastal landscape with a distant headline and a heather meadow in the foreground. There is some kind of stone object near the front.

Photograph of a white lighthouse and surrounding buildings in front of the sea and the sky. The buildings have black chimneys.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're open for subs!!! Please read guidelines because we get grumpy when you don't (and you don't want to grumpify us). Paying market, no fee, spec fiction ONLY, etc, etc, etc (read guidelines, yes, really) Welcome to the lounge 👽🍸

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Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September on the North Yorkshire coast.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The heatwave is well and truly over. Everyone is complaining that it's cold.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 01/09/2026

The portal is OPEN! Send us your original flash fiction - hit us in the feels, give us some hope, make it weird, play with fun formats, or hey all of the above if you can manage it in 1000 words! smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Space Door

Alt: An open wooden door in a starry field. Through the door blue sky and clouds are visible.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/08/2026

Guess who's opening to Original Flash Fiction on September 1st?! This magazine! We'll be open for the month of September, and once the portals to slushlandia have opened, you'll be able to submit here: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders

Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bye Tim Curry. You made pollution weirdly sexy and confused a lot of millennial kids with that. Sleep well.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Princess Diana dying, and my parents not believing me when I told them.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You would think an episode with puppets would be more...fun...than this.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Haven't been off work at the weekend for months, and wow are there, like, a lot of people. Just wandering about.

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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Back up and running!

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 13/08/2026

Totality in Greenland on RRS Sir David Attenborough ☀️🌙 The GIANT expedition team were lucky enough to be in the path of the total eclipse in Greenland. It was a view so good we rang up our friends at RAL Space to share it with the 1000+ people at their eclipse event in the UK.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If I'm wrong about this, if you submitted anything July 19-25 and have not heard back, please query by email.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I believe I have now read and responded to all of the submissions Kaleidotrope received in July.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Speculative Insight has been publishing 2 essays/month about SFF since January 2024. That means there's 31 free essays available to read right now! Pratchett's Men, the politics of translation, ethnicity is SEAsian SFF, Tolkien and myth-making... and so much more... www.speculativeinsight.com

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Speculative Insight

A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I found it to be of little use in writing anything of substance and I haven't used AI to write my stories. I've come to hate LLMs and I would never participate in a similar study today. I have been vocally against AI.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

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Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Shropshire Live @shropshirelive.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that, because of the continuing period of exceptionally hot and dry weather and with little rainfall forecast, it is suspending all steam-hauled services until further notice.

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Severn Valley Railway temporarily suspends steam services during prolonged hot and dry weather

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that it is suspending steam-hauled services, because of the hot and dry weather.

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hey writers! The submission portal closed this month but we have some opportunities coming up this fall, including a call guest edited by previous FFO author Ashlee Lhamon. Happy Writing! ✍️ #writingcommunity #amediting www.patreon.com/flashfiction...

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FFO Fall 2026 Submission Opportunities | Flash Fiction Online

Dear Friends & Followers, Our submission portal is closed during the month of August; however, we will have a couple opportunities opening t

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 31/07/2026

The bell tolls. The garden path darkness. The portal is closing... Writers in the North of England have until midnight tonight to send us a story of sorcery! carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Litany of failure here from Port of Tyne and companies involved in perhaps worst ever plastic pollution event in UK/Europe: No immediate containment of spillage No mention of spillage in press releases until day 4 *Still* no large-scale clear-up operation Nurdles found 20 miles N and S of Tyne

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Port of Tyne criticised over River Tyne plastic nurdle spill response

Port of Tyne says it acted to tackle the spillage of nurdles once it was aware.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Octothorpe @octothorpecast.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In this episode we deal with a veritably bulging mailbag before diving back into the WSFS Business Meeting and bringing you all the HOTTEST GOSSIP. Who was the best-dressed? What was controversial about a jar of jam? And why are bees? Listen here: octothorpe.podbean.com/e/165-e-ese-...

72 assorted LEGO minifigs in a 6x12 grid. Words above read “Octothorpe 165” and below read “WSFS Business Meeting Register: Stand up and be Counted”. The title case on the part of the sentence after the colon is, frankly, bananas, and it certainly isn’t aligned with the Octothorpe style guide.

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ChronicleLive - The Chronicle @chroniclelive.co.uk · 30/07/2026

Volunteer groups have been meeting just after high tide at several North East beaches since Monday in an attempt to rid them of tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles

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Over 1,000 volunteers in 'race against tide' to clean nurdles from our beaches

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/07/2026

When she died in 1943, she left 4,000 acres of land and countryside in our care, and 14 farms. Her legacy has helped ensure the survival of the Lakeland landscape. Thank you, Beatrix. 📷Robert Thrift, Paul Harris, Val Corbett

Border collie dog watching Herdwick sheep

Looking down towards Hill Top where Beatrix Potter lived with the landscape of the Lake District behind

Hilly landscape of the Lake District on a sunny day

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/07/2026

Happy birthday, Beatrix Potter. Born on this day in 1866. Though she is famous for her illustrated tales, she was also a prominent member of the farming community and a campaigner on conservation issues.

Black and white photo of Beatrix Potter stood outside her home, Hill Top in Cumbria. She holds her hat in her hands.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Got a new app for plant and insect identification. Tested it on my jade plants. Good news. They are still jade plants.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm barely watching any TV at the moment (mostly due to the effort of subscribing and working out where interesting things actually are), and this would be fine, but I knit when I watch TV. And this colour-work jumper has been on the needles for over a year.

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Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If it wasn't so windy, it would be really, really warm outside right now.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kaleidotrope is still open to fiction and poetry submissions for four more days. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

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Marshall's 'That's Four!' Moment

Alt: Marshall's 'That's Four!' Moment

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

PSA: Submissions open August 1st, and I'm making some changes based on feedback. What time specifically? 15:00 UTC. That's 8am in Seattle, 10am in Minnesota, 11am in New York City, either 1 or 2 or 3pm in Greenland, 4pm in the UK, 5pm Central Europe, and just after dinner in India.

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Submission Guidelines - Adventitious.

Submission Guidelines: "Surprise" doesn't only mean twists. We want stories that offer a sense of wonder...

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Kaleidotrope is now open to fiction and poetry submissions, closing again after July 25. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

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Sorry, We're Closed then Open Sign Flip

Alt: Sorry, We're Closed then Sorry, We're Open Sign Flip

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Translunar Travelers Lounge statement on AI-generated stories translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/07/16/t...

TTL’s statement on AI-generated stories

On July 6th, 2026, the editorial team of Translunar Travelers Lounge learned that an author we had published in our fourteenth issue, which came out in February, had been accused of using generative AI and multiple pseudonyms to have her work published in a number of speculative fictions markets over the last year.

Upon hearing about these allegations, we conducted our own internal investigation. Bella Chacha, aka Irene W. Collins, violated our submission guidelines in several ways, including submitting multiple times during a submission period using different pseudonyms. Her story “The Wheelchair God of Ibadan” has been removed from the website, and she will not be allowed to submit further stories to Translunar Travelers Lounge. We have sent an email to the author informing her of this decision.

The Translunar Travelers Lounge team, which is comprised of writers and readers, highly values integrity and creativity. Bella Chacha violated both with her submissions. We were both infuriated and saddened by this incident, and we wish to maintain that dedication to our values. It has also energized us to ensure this scenario does not repeat in the future.

The editorial team is discussing how to adjust our submission process, slush reading and due diligence to identify works with generative AI. Current changes include updating the slush reading process on Moksha, researching 2026 gen-AI “tells,” and engaging with authors and their publishing history. We will not use any AI detection tools, given the unforgivably high rate of false positives and the fact that those tools were trained on pirated works.

As the field of generative AI is constantly changing, there is no foolproof method of identifying a work as AI, and we are strongly opposed to damaging the careers of new authors with false accusations. Works in translation, works from authors whose first language isn’t English, works from non-Western cultures, and works from previously unpublished authors all face an even higher risk of being misidentified as AI, and we want to make sure those authors don’t face undue persecution.

We will do our best to catch any more AI-generated stories before they are published, but we will make mistakes, and we appreciate your patience as we enter this new era of speculative fiction publication.

Please direct further questions and inquiries towards editors Bennett North and Priya Sridhar.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

State of the industry issues aside, it does mildly sting to see magazines that have rejected my work publishing AI.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions July 19-25. If you jump the gun and accidentally send something before then, that's okay, but you *will* need to re-send it when the zine is open. Anything received before this Sunday will unfortunately not be read.

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