Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
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Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
· Mar 30
The Louie Stowell Newsletter | Substack
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If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.
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- 4 civilians reported killed and others injured in [SAF] drone strike on a market in AlNuhud yesterday.
- The city has been under RSF control since May and "has witnessed repeated aerial bombardments, resulting in recurrent civilian deaths and injuries."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- The city has been under RSF control since May and "has witnessed repeated aerial bombardments, resulting in recurrent civilian deaths and injuries."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
- 4 civilians reported killed and others injured in [SAF] drone strike on a market in AlNuhud yesterday.
- The city has been under RSF control since May and "has witnessed repeated aerial bombardments, resulting in recurrent civilian deaths and injuries."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- The city has been under RSF control since May and "has witnessed repeated aerial bombardments, resulting in recurrent civilian deaths and injuries."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Today's quick update [Nov 28]:
- Clashes between SAF & RSF in Babanusa, W. Kordofan following RSF attack on 22nd infantry base.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF converted AlNuhud Hospital (W. Kordofan) into military command center, fully equipped barracks.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Clashes between SAF & RSF in Babanusa, W. Kordofan following RSF attack on 22nd infantry base.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF converted AlNuhud Hospital (W. Kordofan) into military command center, fully equipped barracks.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Today's quick update [Nov 28]:
- Clashes between SAF & RSF in Babanusa, W. Kordofan following RSF attack on 22nd infantry base.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF converted AlNuhud Hospital (W. Kordofan) into military command center, fully equipped barracks.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Clashes between SAF & RSF in Babanusa, W. Kordofan following RSF attack on 22nd infantry base.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF converted AlNuhud Hospital (W. Kordofan) into military command center, fully equipped barracks.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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I'm doing a christmas signing at @booksellercrow.bsky.social on 6th Dec alongside all kinds of massive names. Preorder your Lokis here and I will deface them in any way you like on the day! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... (Preorders close on Monday)
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I'm doing a christmas signing at @booksellercrow.bsky.social on 6th Dec alongside all kinds of massive names. Preorder your Lokis here and I will deface them in any way you like on the day! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... (Preorders close on Monday)
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I'm doing a christmas signing at @booksellercrow.bsky.social on 6th Dec alongside all kinds of massive names. Preorder your Lokis here and I will deface them in any way you like on the day! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... (Preorders close on Monday)
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This is why you have to love the work. When publishing and fortune kick you in the face, the page will still be there for you. When all you get are nos, the story will be your yes. You can't count on sales or marketing money, but you can count on the feeling of flow, of creation, the joy of art.
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is why you have to love the work. When publishing and fortune kick you in the face, the page will still be there for you. When all you get are nos, the story will be your yes. You can't count on sales or marketing money, but you can count on the feeling of flow, of creation, the joy of art.
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And we're not supposed to talk about our time in the doldrums, not supposed to complain or whinge too much about our bad days, not supposed to talk about the losses. We are only supposed to show the highlight reels, to make it seem as if we are always riding the crest, grateful and buoyant.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And we're not supposed to talk about our time in the doldrums, not supposed to complain or whinge too much about our bad days, not supposed to talk about the losses. We are only supposed to show the highlight reels, to make it seem as if we are always riding the crest, grateful and buoyant.
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Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
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If you sell one book, you think you'll sell every book. If you get a big deal, you expect all big deals. If you sell film rights, then surely you will always sell all your film rights. Every email or text could be the answer to all your hopes and dreams! You are constantly jonesing for joy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you sell one book, you think you'll sell every book. If you get a big deal, you expect all big deals. If you sell film rights, then surely you will always sell all your film rights. Every email or text could be the answer to all your hopes and dreams! You are constantly jonesing for joy.
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I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
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Really late to the game on good news Friday but I spent yesterday in full catch up mode.
Catch up mode because of what made me happy this week. Three days of mending clothes demos and workshops with the brilliant sustainability team at Queen's University. 😍
Catch up mode because of what made me happy this week. Three days of mending clothes demos and workshops with the brilliant sustainability team at Queen's University. 😍
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Really late to the game on good news Friday but I spent yesterday in full catch up mode.
Catch up mode because of what made me happy this week. Three days of mending clothes demos and workshops with the brilliant sustainability team at Queen's University. 😍
Catch up mode because of what made me happy this week. Three days of mending clothes demos and workshops with the brilliant sustainability team at Queen's University. 😍
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what is it with trans women and master and commander
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
what is it with trans women and master and commander
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When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century
In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…
tygertale.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
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Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
Fun fact, I stopped watching 12's run part way through for various reasons and I missed this episode at the time. Watched for the first time last year and wow.
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Fun fact, I stopped watching 12's run part way through for various reasons and I missed this episode at the time. Watched for the first time last year and wow.
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Get a coffee and read this (and reach out to a friend to talk it over with--thank you @louiestowell.bsky.social, remote morning coffee buddy extraordinare)! ☕
I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
www.speculativeinsight.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Get a coffee and read this (and reach out to a friend to talk it over with--thank you @louiestowell.bsky.social, remote morning coffee buddy extraordinare)! ☕
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And the Sisyphus Advent Calendar is on the @nataliehaynes.bsky.social list this year!
You still have a week to make yours…
greekmythcomixshop.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/m...
You still have a week to make yours…
greekmythcomixshop.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And the Sisyphus Advent Calendar is on the @nataliehaynes.bsky.social list this year!
You still have a week to make yours…
greekmythcomixshop.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/m...
You still have a week to make yours…
greekmythcomixshop.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/m...
Deleting a post cos I wasn't specific enough the first time about my terms
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Deleting a post cos I wasn't specific enough the first time about my terms
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.
Sri Lanka seeks foreign help as Cyclone Ditwah death toll reaches 123
Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.
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I may have an impersonator out there. Please rest assured I shall never “reach out” to ask you about your “creative terrain”.
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I may have an impersonator out there. Please rest assured I shall never “reach out” to ask you about your “creative terrain”.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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This was a wonderful joint interview. I love when I get to talk to @annleckie.com about anything, but about empire especially.
I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
www.speculativeinsight.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This was a wonderful joint interview. I love when I get to talk to @annleckie.com about anything, but about empire especially.
A conversation i didn't know I needed to read but that makes such perfect sense as a combo, of course!
I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels.
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
www.speculativeinsight.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A conversation i didn't know I needed to read but that makes such perfect sense as a combo, of course!