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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 8h

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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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 7h

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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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

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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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 13h

We're living through an age where daily evidence makes it increasingly undeniable that a massive proportion of people are straight-up fucking idiots.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

liberalcurrents.com

The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 17h

This post for my story was kindly shared on Facebook where my wife noted the AI option to find out more about me. Let's just say she is not the only one surprised to hear I have a Guinness World Record. No one sent me a certificate.

A Facebook AI answer to Who is Brian M. Milton.
It goes: Brian M Milton is a British author, journalist and record-breaking adventurer who writes mainly about aviation and 'new aviation ' sports

Who he is

This is the writer mentioned in the Glasgow SF Writer's Circle post.
Award winning adventurer and aviation historian, former journalist.
Holds the Guinness World Record for the first circumnavigation of the globe in a microlight aircraft in 1998
Founded the British Hang Gliding League and won the Prince of Wales Cup for beating the Americans
Works as a nonfiction author and ghostwriter since 1998, specialising in aviation history and adventure accounts

What he writes

He's best known for aviation history and adventure nonfiction, but the post you're reading mentions new fantasy work.

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 14h

This is why hiring a lifetime businessman with no experience in creative industries or creating anything artistic for that matter, straight from Google, just might have been a bad move for the BBC, but hey.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15h

Political journalists are such marks. All three of these - Europe, Social Care, and electoral reform - are things he's saying will come after the next election. Not now, not when he actually has a significant majority he can use to push through progressive reforms.

Andy Burnham
Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

Analysis: PM’s promises will take time to come good
Key takeaways from Burnham’s conference speech
Pippa Crerar Political editor
Tue 29 Sep 2026 19.21 BST
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Andy Burnham has staked his future on a gamble that the public will back radical progressive policies on social care, electoral reform and Europe, telling voters that his agenda will break the mould of the last 40 years and “allow us to rise again”.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 16h

"Halting he covered the last few placements. All those names were about to have warm-bodied idiots at them." White-Gloved Heat (1962).

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 17h

Jump scared by the James Watt statue in Greenock randomly appearing on my timeline. Gah!

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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Calling Authors: Dead House Publishing is opening submissions all November for their new anthology, Subliminal. Wanting horror that exists below the limits of conscious awareness. Have specific guidelines (find them on the linked website) max 6000 words, $ 20 USD pay www.dreadhousepublishing.com

dreadhousepublishing.com

HOME | My Site

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026

Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for real though, conversations with coworkers about AI are forcing me to consider that when it comes to the work we do, I might as well be working alongside p-zombies. just a weird and terrifying absence of a consciousness that there is meaning to what we’re doing

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Shoved over from craven outliers. Marcus had been moving in the opposite direction of all the others." Numbers in Plights (1894).

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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

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 · 27/08/2026

Want to read my one and only Zombie comic horror? It's inside #Haverin and it wants your brain. Cheerleaders with sharpened batons need not apply. #GSFWC40

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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haverin is an anthology of 43 stories from writers who have been a member of the GSFWC at some point in the last 40 years. My fellow editors are @munchkinstein.bsky.social and @hexthervvv.bsky.social and cover art is by @jennicoutts.bsky.social #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN #booksky 💙📚

A pile of 3 books, anthologies by the GSFWC in the last 10 years. On top Haverin, then Gallus, and on bottom the 30th anniversary Thirty Years of Rain.

Cover artist Jenni Coutts studies a test copy of the book, ensuring that she is happy with how it looks.

Brian hitting the big order button having had Jenni's approval.

Author Elsie WK Donald, a little grey haired woman. One of the earliest members of the GSFWC and still a regular. She is holding a copy of Haverin, in which she has done the foreword as well as having a story.

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Dextra Hoffman @dextra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning. I'm about to start an intensive therapy program to help get my mind right. This is scarier than the cancer was. I could use some help, please. More details in the link, but as alternatives, my PayPal is dextra.hoffman AT gmail DOT com or Venmo AT Dextra-Hoffman. gofund.me/61800496a

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Donate to Standing with Dextra Through Mental Health Treatment, organized by Dextra Hoffman

I started a fundraiser a few years ago when I was dealing with thy… Dextra Hoffman needs your support for Standing with Dextra Through Mental Health Treatment

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 28/09/2026

So many of this type in politics (Starmer, not OP). Entitled pricks who think they're due a turn. Not fighting FOR anything, not wanting to change things for the better, just filled with the unshakable belief that they are BETTER & removing the incumbent by any means necessary is therefore justified

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been fascinated lately that we seem to be in a period where ppl are administrating & conducting sex offences, as well as on end-to-end encrypted services, on *facebook*. Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.

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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm sorry but if you can't work out how to make *truckloads* of cash as a AAA name in video games you are a level of failure beyond even the worst, most chinless, lazy failson of a billionaire

instreamly.com

Video Game Industry Revenue in 2026: 3.6 Billion Players and a $188 Billion Market - inStreamly

Video game industry revenue hit $188.8B in 2025 with 3.6B players. Global figures by year and what the market's size means for media planning.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Even the memories of lampshades were fading. A year later, few people under stood the compound word." L_________s (1998).

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

uses of this tech desensitize us to what it actually does. Much like that tamagotchi sort of thing Zuckerberg wants everyone to love … and give control of their lives & financial information to, & much like AI bots are used to make cute videos of babies & animals. It’s fucking insidious & I hate it.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

saw it for what it was: a rubber skin over one of those metal robot “dogs”, the ones that you know govts/military are secretly arming with weapons to keep protesters in line and even kill ppl in military conflicts. And I couldn’t unsee what was under that rubber skin. And it hit me: these “cute”

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I spent the weekend at a book table at a local convention. When I went out to the food truck yesterday, there was a (fake obv) dinosaur, just under feet high, being radio controlled by someone. It was cute, a quadruped with a babyish face, just walking around and entertaining people. But then I

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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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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you see the word "loyalist campaigner" on BBC News in relation to Northern Ireland and don't know what it means, the shorthand is Nazi.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Murky little substances that were collected without the permission of any authority. Most authorities were running around looking for the things." Nominal Normality (2003).

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frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

how did this get made, and why can we no longer make public service films like this, are two very important questions that people who control budgets are clearly not asking

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Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With alt text. Avoid this game like the plague, it involves literal Nazi game devs.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What may actually slow AI down is a financial crash combined with material and resource constraints.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Knuckle-free, he walked, through a pervious layer of open gas. Not since long-times had he been able to achieve such thing in wakefulness." Numbular (1968).

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can the media stop participating in AI psychosis

Tilly Norwood Says She’d Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman: 'But Only If It Were Their Digital Twins' on an 'AI Production'

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Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LLMs are fancy autocorrect, probabilistic algorithms can generate output which says it feels pain, but only becuase it was trained to say that.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/09/2026

There's a genre of TV called "Scripted Reality". (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripte...) Never been much of a fan of this mutant. Pick one or the other, I say. The disguised hybrid is a low-dose poison in the contract with an audience. Lucrative though. Premier League football should pick another genre.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our politicians are likely to be complete dullards and in hock to the tech bros pushing the AI scam. Burnham last week at PMQs babbling AI will be the solution to AI while deflecting the question of getting a moritorium on data centres.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 25/09/2026

Paul Finch's horror side rarely gets the credit his crime writing does. His new Black Shuck Shadows collection argues otherwise. Five sharp, unsettling stories. Review here: gnofhorror.com/paul-finchs-in-the-f…

Paul Finch's In the Forest of the Night: A Black Shuck Shadows Review

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You fall right into their hands when you parrot 'gone rogue'.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, it's great to have people talking against AI. But commentators and such need to not just fall into the bullshit marketing gibberish the tech bros are using. It's embarrassing to watch.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Bedazzled in the presence of so many articulate people, Wilson was forced to retreat. He retreated right out into the countryside, fifty miles away." Appearances on Hillocks (1952).

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Exactly. These people love Yudkowsky and Nick Land and anybody else who will tell them that they are very smart and good boys eho really understand how to make "AI" and that this, in turn, makes them gods. And if you want to know how i know that… Well, I'll just say "i seent it."

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