Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) has a spooky name
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SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. #SGSAH funded. #StrathLife
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**New Blog** Thank you, everyone, for your kind Birthday greetings! As thanks (as well as apology for missing World Fantasycon later this month), please accept this wee seasonal gift from me...
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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📅 Look at that, we already have dates for next year’s con dates. Mark your calendars, Flights of Foundry returns September 18 - 20, 2026.
See you there!
See you there!
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📅 Look at that, we already have dates for next year’s con dates. Mark your calendars, Flights of Foundry returns September 18 - 20, 2026.
See you there!
See you there!
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Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Heads up SF, Fantasy and Horror peeps! Fran Lacuata is now on Bluesky at
@franonimous.bsky.social.
Not only is she an author of genre fic, but also a published HEMA (historical and esoteric martial arts) expert, educator (School of the Sword Godalming), and advocator for women in martial arts.
@franonimous.bsky.social.
Not only is she an author of genre fic, but also a published HEMA (historical and esoteric martial arts) expert, educator (School of the Sword Godalming), and advocator for women in martial arts.
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Heads up SF, Fantasy and Horror peeps! Fran Lacuata is now on Bluesky at
@franonimous.bsky.social.
Not only is she an author of genre fic, but also a published HEMA (historical and esoteric martial arts) expert, educator (School of the Sword Godalming), and advocator for women in martial arts.
@franonimous.bsky.social.
Not only is she an author of genre fic, but also a published HEMA (historical and esoteric martial arts) expert, educator (School of the Sword Godalming), and advocator for women in martial arts.
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As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.
If you're an academic talking to a non-academic audience, the goodwill you build by either not using jargon, or explaining any jargon you do use, is incalculable.
Correct use of jargon is about gatekeeping. But you're not here to show your credentials, you're here to engage with other people.
Correct use of jargon is about gatekeeping. But you're not here to show your credentials, you're here to engage with other people.
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you're an academic talking to a non-academic audience, the goodwill you build by either not using jargon, or explaining any jargon you do use, is incalculable.
Correct use of jargon is about gatekeeping. But you're not here to show your credentials, you're here to engage with other people.
Correct use of jargon is about gatekeeping. But you're not here to show your credentials, you're here to engage with other people.
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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
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Why does AI write like a high school student desperately trying to make their word count?
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Why does AI write like a high school student desperately trying to make their word count?
Today's a pain day, so success looks like managing a shower and arranging a plant hand-off (thanks to kind people).
Now to make sure I'm hydrated and rested enough for good recovery.
Even machinery needs repair and maintennance, folks.
Now to make sure I'm hydrated and rested enough for good recovery.
Even machinery needs repair and maintennance, folks.
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today's a pain day, so success looks like managing a shower and arranging a plant hand-off (thanks to kind people).
Now to make sure I'm hydrated and rested enough for good recovery.
Even machinery needs repair and maintennance, folks.
Now to make sure I'm hydrated and rested enough for good recovery.
Even machinery needs repair and maintennance, folks.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
And that's how we got governments led by the Bullingdon Club
If you don't pay a proper salary for public office, the only people you get occupying public office are the already rich who are there to ensure they stay that way and you never get there
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
And that's how we got governments led by the Bullingdon Club
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Never seen this classic so correcting it thanks to Alan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tonight.
@realbigal.bsky.social
@realbigal.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Never seen this classic so correcting it thanks to Alan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tonight.
@realbigal.bsky.social
@realbigal.bsky.social
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
It's amazing how easily you can placate a spoilt brat with a black marker pen and a football.
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month on.ft.com/43efnLR
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month
Head of football governing body is close ally of Donald Trump, fuelling speculation that US president may be first recipient
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It's amazing how easily you can placate a spoilt brat with a black marker pen and a football.
That first GoT joke will need to be phenomenally good.
Going to use this to describe the writing projects I have abandoned
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
That first GoT joke will need to be phenomenally good.
This is happening to authors in our writing group too.
Yep, I'm getting several a day now, including ones for anthologies I'm in (and therefore have no control over their marketing) and even books I didn't write. I got one today addressed to "George".
The AI generated scam emails from nonexistent book groups (that try to extract some sort of fee) and phony book marketing/promotion ‘experts’, both trying to scam vulnerable authors, are out of control. The sheer number I receive daily is nuts.
AI generation makes them un-filterable.
AI generation makes them un-filterable.
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is happening to authors in our writing group too.
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
Taking a wee break from final year panic to catch @clclark.bsky.social at Waterstones Argle ST (Taylor Driggers-McDowall and D hosting).
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taking a wee break from final year panic to catch @clclark.bsky.social at Waterstones Argle ST (Taylor Driggers-McDowall and D hosting).
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
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Join our Shona Kinsella in launching Daughters of Nicnevin across Scotland's Central Belt!
#Glasgow folks can enjoy Jacobite sapphic witches at Waterstones Argyle Street on 20th November (w/ Sam K. Horton).
www.waterstones.com/events/sam-k...
(1/2) @shonak.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social
#Glasgow folks can enjoy Jacobite sapphic witches at Waterstones Argyle Street on 20th November (w/ Sam K. Horton).
www.waterstones.com/events/sam-k...
(1/2) @shonak.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social
Sam K. Horton and Shona Kinsella In Conversation | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Sam K. Horton and Shona Kinsella In Conversation today.
www.waterstones.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Join our Shona Kinsella in launching Daughters of Nicnevin across Scotland's Central Belt!
#Glasgow folks can enjoy Jacobite sapphic witches at Waterstones Argyle Street on 20th November (w/ Sam K. Horton).
www.waterstones.com/events/sam-k...
(1/2) @shonak.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social
#Glasgow folks can enjoy Jacobite sapphic witches at Waterstones Argyle Street on 20th November (w/ Sam K. Horton).
www.waterstones.com/events/sam-k...
(1/2) @shonak.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social
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Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson!
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Blood in the Bricks
Blood in the Bricks eBook : williamson, Neil, Slatter, Angela, Bennett, James, Whates, Ian, Major, Tim, Fahey, Tracy, Cluley, Ray, Coxon, Dan, Lakin, Kim, Jones, Penny: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson!
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Shoutout to the inventor who named their "cordless handheld vacuum" the Invictus One.
Truly a gift to women married to men of a certain political persuasion.
Truly a gift to women married to men of a certain political persuasion.
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Shoutout to the inventor who named their "cordless handheld vacuum" the Invictus One.
Truly a gift to women married to men of a certain political persuasion.
Truly a gift to women married to men of a certain political persuasion.
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Labour hate the SNP so badly that here in Edinburgh they're already in coalition with the Tories to block the SNP from running the city council (they're the largest party by far, but not *quite* a majority).
A Labour/Reform coalition is absolutely possible. Starmer is a Tory in all but name.
A Labour/Reform coalition is absolutely possible. Starmer is a Tory in all but name.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Labour hate the SNP so badly that here in Edinburgh they're already in coalition with the Tories to block the SNP from running the city council (they're the largest party by far, but not *quite* a majority).
A Labour/Reform coalition is absolutely possible. Starmer is a Tory in all but name.
A Labour/Reform coalition is absolutely possible. Starmer is a Tory in all but name.
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your intermittent reminder that the left/right axis is a spatial metaphor, not a reality, that the "centre" is not in fact a moderate middle ground but rather the *centre of power & privilege* protected by the vulgarly overt antisocialists operating on behalf of the polite paternalist antisocialists
May 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
your intermittent reminder that the left/right axis is a spatial metaphor, not a reality, that the "centre" is not in fact a moderate middle ground but rather the *centre of power & privilege* protected by the vulgarly overt antisocialists operating on behalf of the polite paternalist antisocialists