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Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
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Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · Dec 31
Time to collect my published short stories from 2025 into a pinned thread as if I know what I'm doing. Listed from longest to shortest and overlaid on a holiday snap, with word counts and links in the replies. Hope you enjoyed one or two of these throughout the year! Or, y'know, maybe now? No? 🪐📚
2025 publications by Leigh Loveday. Stories listed are By Train Through the Actinic Mountains in Uncharted Magazine; The Sometimes Neighbors co-written with Salena Casha on Creepy Podcast; Under Aegis, a reprint at Bulb Culture Collective; Pavonine at Cosmic Horror Monthly; Threequarter Lane in the What Comes to Light anthology from Trash Cat Lit; Moorings co-written with Salena Casha at MoonLit Getaway; Emergence Services at Timber Ghost Press; A Taste for Time at Rat Bag Lit; Calling Card at 50-Word Stories
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There was some proper club shite around in the late '90s, but if you can't appreciate the drop in Encore Une Fois then who even are you
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February 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I don't remember acquiring that experience but if LinkedIn says I have it, what the hell, let's do it
LinkedIn job advertisement for a Portuguese Voice Over Artist claiming that the person it was sent to has a 'High experience match'. Reader, he does not
February 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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A week in sunny Malta cancelled at the last minute to deal with water spurting out of a pipe in the kitchen and hours on the phone trying to file a home insurance claim. The vibes are atrocious. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY here's a picture of a holiday destination I hope other people are enjoying
Valletta, Malta, a picturesque old city that loads of other people are in right now and probably having a lovely time
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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My. Novelette. Is. Live. Which means I'm freaking out because people might read it and I might die of embarrassment but also, I'm freaking out because a person might actually read it. Huge thank you to @emergejournal.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Order your copy here: a.co/d/0b5BfkX4.
The image is the cover of a science fiction novelette. A barren dune-colored planet is at the forefront of the image to the left and is set against a pitch black sky with a blinding sun off in the right hand corner. The Title "A Way Back" sits above it and the author name "Salena Casha" is below.
February 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Danger lurks in the tunnels on #Caturday
February 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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If you like books, maybe check out one of mine?
February 5, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Doing a bit of website housekeeping, came across an old blog post on responses to questions in an AI study
As a participant who does not use GenAI, do you think technology could be used in your job? I’ve no use for it. My entire career has been the pursuit of the unique take and the individual voice. Finding an angle that no one else would think of. Applying lived experience to put a personal spin on familiar genres. Elevating a piece by having sudden new insights as the work unfolds. Offering GenAI as a creative aid is like offering an athlete a lift to the finish line. In what circumstance might the participant use Gen AI? Picking up typos, maybe. Using prompts to generate fiction is no different to the non-writer saying, “I have this great idea for a story. You write it and we can split the money.” The writing is the work.
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Unexpected Predators in Google Street View, #1 in a series of, probably, 1:
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A full-sized rusty metal statue of a Predator standing between a banana-yellow car and some motorbikes outside a rural shop in Thailand, for reasons that are unclear but probably delightful
February 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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aaaaaaand i'm no longer browsing decor inspo on Pintrest. 🤷‍♀️
jameelawahlgren.bsky.social Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 15d
Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"

So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images
Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."
February 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Oh damn, this is actually much more uplifting than it has any right to be (and I thought they were shite even before they got found out)
February 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Your semi-regular reminder that I have a shop! And the shop sells zines! Horrible, brilliant zines. And you'd be doing me a massive favour by buying one, because I need the space. www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...
Magazine cover for CloisterFox zine: hot pink background overlaid with a statue's face marred by dozens of broken windows.
January 31, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Last day to get this 27-story charity anthology at a banger price of only £7.50! Money goes to The Wildlife Trusts! Do it for the voles.
Story previews: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
T'Amazon link: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
leighloveday.bsky.social Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · Oct 9
Got one! Nice tactile paperback of What Comes to Light, a @trashcatlit.bsky.social charity anthology with a story by me and 26 better ones by other writers. But how many of them have taken photos with cats in? Get a copy! All proceeds to the Wildlife Trusts! Save a stoat! mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Two photos of an anthology titled What Comes to Light, one showing the front cover with Arsehole the imperious tabby cat looming behind it, and another one with Oscar the elderly ginger cat pretending to be interested in a story called Threequarter Lane
January 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Spent the last two months of 2025 stuck on one big novel, so Jan and Feb for me are all about nice slender things readable in a week. Here's Cleo with January's haul.
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Cleo the tortie cat presents Watcher by JP Relph and Mathew Gostelow, London Weird by AV Wilkes, Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin and The Lies We Tell Ourselves by LK Kitney
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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this means the world to me
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Thys was my Heated Rivalrye
The cover of the book *This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
January 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Introducing MoonLit Audio, a new series of audio short stories, produced and narrated by our content editor, Jace DeAngelo. Listen to the first installment: buff.ly/Om641cZ

#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
#AudioBook #LitMag #MoonLitGetaway
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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They're also going to "make Britain a crypto hub" apparently - you know, the thing we've all been asking for - along with more sobering stuff like this. Genuinely, what the fuck has happened to us that anyone could get off on this rhetoric and not feel deeply ill about who they've become.
Excerpt from Reform's spite-fuelled policies: "Reform UK will defend free speech, uphold British traditions, ban DEI quotas, and reject the politics of guilt. We will ensure British children are not indoctrinated in schools, that they learn of Britain's great and proud history."
January 26, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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People are scared of the spread of fascism, rightly so. We have 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 elections in May and it’s essential to keep Reform out. The far right thrive on apathy and hopelessness.

Good turn out almost always beats them. Register to vote. Why wait? Do it today

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Register to vote
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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I dunno man, this just seems like a lot of coots, what are they up to
50 or so coots just lurking together on the shore of Astbury Mere in Cheshire, and they are, objectively, lurking Two coots breaching the human/coot boundary to eat out of the palm of my hand, and two swans witnessing the transgression
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Tiny #Caturday criminal spotted
Two cats - chonky tabby Arsehole and skinny ginger Oscar - sit on a kitchen table framing a small black cat caught performing an unsanctioned food bowl raid Zoom in on Void Baby, a small alarmed-looking black cat and incompetent thief, only missing a Metal Gear Solid exclamation mark
January 24, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Late '80s were my era, but this programme about 1983's one-hit wonders is stopping me from getting anything else done tonight. The First Picture of You by The Lotus Eaters? The Last Film by Kissing the Pink? Rip It Up by Orange Juice? CONSECUTIVE BANGERS
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Orange Juice - Rip It Up (Official Video)
YouTube video by Orange Juice
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January 24, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip
January 18, 2026 at 2:45 PM