remotecore
@remotecore.bsky.social
Writer. Listener. Reader.
Explorer. Gallus. Remote.
He/Him. GSFWC. WGB.
Glasgow.
Devourer of Words.
Destroyer of Words.
I want to be a stranger.
Become a shape changer.
(banner by Andrew Morrison)
https://linktr.ee/remotecore
Explorer. Gallus. Remote.
He/Him. GSFWC. WGB.
Glasgow.
Devourer of Words.
Destroyer of Words.
I want to be a stranger.
Become a shape changer.
(banner by Andrew Morrison)
https://linktr.ee/remotecore
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@remotecore.bsky.social
· Oct 17
GALLUS
Gallus celebrates Glasgow’s third home turf Worldcon and showcases brand new work from our authors. Some of the writers featured here have been around since the beginning, some are brand new. Some …
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I am remote. I'm Scottish, Glasgow adjacent. #WGB and #GSFWC. I write.
I read all the time, especially in these isolation years. 💙📚
I am always listening #bandcamp 🎶🎧
bandcamp.com/remotecore
You can read my story Occupy Midnight in Gallus
gsfwc.wordpress.com/gallus
I am remote. I'm Scottish, Glasgow adjacent. #WGB and #GSFWC. I write.
I read all the time, especially in these isolation years. 💙📚
I am always listening #bandcamp 🎶🎧
bandcamp.com/remotecore
You can read my story Occupy Midnight in Gallus
gsfwc.wordpress.com/gallus
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Wavering, Helena 150.
January 5, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Wavering, Helena 150.
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My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt
January 5, 2026 at 7:50 AM
My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt
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Join us! I am moderating for the first time so no heckling in the chat though! 😆
Our first panel of BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing takes place Saturday 10th January 2026, 10:10am to 11:10am (GMT).
Mirror Worlds
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @georgiacooked.bsky.social
Mirror Worlds
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @georgiacooked.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Join us! I am moderating for the first time so no heckling in the chat though! 😆
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You guys familiar with Leslie Otway? I just happened across his work and I love it
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 AM
You guys familiar with Leslie Otway? I just happened across his work and I love it
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NewCon Press's roster for 2026 is looking pretty good.
Ian Whates
This is by no means complete and titles will doubtless be delayed while others will be added to the schedule, but here's a taste of how 2026 is shaping up for NewCon Press, with Geoff Ryman, Liz...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
NewCon Press's roster for 2026 is looking pretty good.
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I will be in conversation with Bora Chung about magical realism and speculative fiction in east and south Asia this Saturday.
Join us online - details in poster.
Join us online - details in poster.
January 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I will be in conversation with Bora Chung about magical realism and speculative fiction in east and south Asia this Saturday.
Join us online - details in poster.
Join us online - details in poster.
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Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me.
In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery.
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In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery.
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January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me.
In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery.
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In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery.
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There was speculation at the time that for the USA one of Saddam’s most aggravating moves had been three years earlier when he sought and received UN permission to cease trading Iraq’s oil in 🇺🇸$ switch to 🇪🇺€.
I’m not sure if this was ever proven as a cause for war but it can’t have endeared him.
I’m not sure if this was ever proven as a cause for war but it can’t have endeared him.
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
There was speculation at the time that for the USA one of Saddam’s most aggravating moves had been three years earlier when he sought and received UN permission to cease trading Iraq’s oil in 🇺🇸$ switch to 🇪🇺€.
I’m not sure if this was ever proven as a cause for war but it can’t have endeared him.
I’m not sure if this was ever proven as a cause for war but it can’t have endeared him.
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What was not speculation was that it undermined the position of the dollar as the global currency of choice of the oil business. Something that was worth more to the USA than seizing Iraq’s facilities.
Two years ago Maduro stopped #Venezuela’s oil being traded in 🇺🇸$
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Two years ago Maduro stopped #Venezuela’s oil being traded in 🇺🇸$
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January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
What was not speculation was that it undermined the position of the dollar as the global currency of choice of the oil business. Something that was worth more to the USA than seizing Iraq’s facilities.
Two years ago Maduro stopped #Venezuela’s oil being traded in 🇺🇸$
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Two years ago Maduro stopped #Venezuela’s oil being traded in 🇺🇸$
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Oh, and it doesn’t matter if you protest because I will be circulating AI videos of you celebrating in the streets and thanking me. My reality is stronger than your reality. That’s what power is now.
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Oh, and it doesn’t matter if you protest because I will be circulating AI videos of you celebrating in the streets and thanking me. My reality is stronger than your reality. That’s what power is now.
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The first issue of DEATH TO PACHUCO up for free in B&W. Try it before you buy it.
Art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social
Written and lettered by moi
Cover art by David Lapham
Edited by Will Dennis
imagecomics.com/read/death-t...
Art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social
Written and lettered by moi
Cover art by David Lapham
Edited by Will Dennis
imagecomics.com/read/death-t...
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The first issue of DEATH TO PACHUCO up for free in B&W. Try it before you buy it.
Art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social
Written and lettered by moi
Cover art by David Lapham
Edited by Will Dennis
imagecomics.com/read/death-t...
Art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social
Written and lettered by moi
Cover art by David Lapham
Edited by Will Dennis
imagecomics.com/read/death-t...
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Multiple things can be true at the same time.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Multiple things can be true at the same time.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
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If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk
bookmatch.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk
I suspect reading Brass Sun and The Western Passage in close proximity is going to prove to be an interesting juxtaposition.
January 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I suspect reading Brass Sun and The Western Passage in close proximity is going to prove to be an interesting juxtaposition.
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They’re back!!
Made a bunch more Goth Grackles as they were unexpectedly popular!!
January 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
They’re back!!
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I know there are a lot of
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.
in Infomocracy, an incompletely post-national cyberpunk elections book, one of the plotlines involves a political party promising revanchist revenge fantasies to a bunch of different voters. when they win, it turns out they don't deliver bloodshed but rather the media experience of victory.
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I know there are a lot of
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.
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Rick Owens exhibit, so SO cool
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Rick Owens exhibit, so SO cool
oddly, after very much enjoying that, i got a link for new release by someone else, to a label i'm not familiar with, to find more Daniel M Karlsson, so now listening to A loss of self. Followed by some Stephen O'Malley and Kali Malone on same label. #bandcamp
xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/a-loss...
xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/a-loss...
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
oddly, after very much enjoying that, i got a link for new release by someone else, to a label i'm not familiar with, to find more Daniel M Karlsson, so now listening to A loss of self. Followed by some Stephen O'Malley and Kali Malone on same label. #bandcamp
xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/a-loss...
xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/a-loss...
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Have you got your freebie yet? 🤔
Yo! 👋
Did you know that the first digital volume of our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia is now FREE to all?
Dive into our wild world of Neo Tokyo and meet our cast of bounty hunters, yakuza crime lords and high tech low lifes
Link below👇
Did you know that the first digital volume of our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia is now FREE to all?
Dive into our wild world of Neo Tokyo and meet our cast of bounty hunters, yakuza crime lords and high tech low lifes
Link below👇
January 4, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Have you got your freebie yet? 🤔
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enjoying "Structure and Spectra" by Daniel M Karlsson, single hour and a half track of electronic music, somewhere in the autechre/warp ballpark.
#bandcamp #electronic #FMSynthesis #ambient #noise
danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com/album/struct...
#bandcamp #electronic #FMSynthesis #ambient #noise
danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com/album/struct...
Structure and Spectra, by Daniel M Karlsson
1 track album
danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
enjoying "Structure and Spectra" by Daniel M Karlsson, single hour and a half track of electronic music, somewhere in the autechre/warp ballpark.
#bandcamp #electronic #FMSynthesis #ambient #noise
danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com/album/struct...
#bandcamp #electronic #FMSynthesis #ambient #noise
danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com/album/struct...
Bruce Sterling always says something like "what happens to musicians will happen to everyone." And I often think about that and the cross purposing of creative advice. As a [insert your niche here], advice from musicians/artists/writers for albums/art book/comic/zine/rpgs often applies univerally.
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Bruce Sterling always says something like "what happens to musicians will happen to everyone." And I often think about that and the cross purposing of creative advice. As a [insert your niche here], advice from musicians/artists/writers for albums/art book/comic/zine/rpgs often applies univerally.
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Very applicable to indie comics as well, I reckon.
Saw an interesting post freaking out about the upcoming Royal Mail changes. They’re an inconvenience, and imho not worth getting super upset about. Save your energy. But! It made me think and uh oh here’s a thread 🧵
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Very applicable to indie comics as well, I reckon.