Alan Fleming
@alanfleming.org
SF fan, co-chair of Unconfined - the 2027 Eastercon to be held in Glasgow (https://easterconglasgow.org).
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@alanfleming (SFF here tech there)
Bit grumpy about Bluesky but it's where SFF's at 🤷🏻♂️
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@alanfleming (SFF here tech there)
Bit grumpy about Bluesky but it's where SFF's at 🤷🏻♂️
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Alan Fleming
@alanfleming.org
· Jan 10
This needs to be a pinned post here: Apologies if I unfollow you on Mastodon. Too many social media platforms with people posting the same thing to them all. This one's going to be my SFF one (until it crashes and burns as all capitalist-owned ones do and we'll all move to Mastodon)
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Just a reminder that Eastercon memberships go up on December 1st, 2025. Today is a good day to get a membership.
Current membership rates
Adult Attending (18+) - £80
Low Income Attending (18+) - £50
Child/Teen (7-17) - £20
Infant (0-6) - Free
Apocryphal - £2
Supporting - £40
Current membership rates
Adult Attending (18+) - £80
Low Income Attending (18+) - £50
Child/Teen (7-17) - £20
Infant (0-6) - Free
Apocryphal - £2
Supporting - £40
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Just a reminder that Eastercon memberships go up on December 1st, 2025. Today is a good day to get a membership.
Current membership rates
Adult Attending (18+) - £80
Low Income Attending (18+) - £50
Child/Teen (7-17) - £20
Infant (0-6) - Free
Apocryphal - £2
Supporting - £40
Current membership rates
Adult Attending (18+) - £80
Low Income Attending (18+) - £50
Child/Teen (7-17) - £20
Infant (0-6) - Free
Apocryphal - £2
Supporting - £40
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SHADOWPLAY, the sequel to the award-winning PANTOMIME, is out now. I had a friend go in and send me some nice things people are saying about it.
The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨
The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
SHADOWPLAY, the sequel to the award-winning PANTOMIME, is out now. I had a friend go in and send me some nice things people are saying about it.
The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨
The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨
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Did you catch our latest newsletter? This month we covered our upcoming rate rise, new volunteers, Novacon, LR Lam’s latest book release, and a had piece from about fandom in Glasgow. Check it out here and be sure to join our mailing list for our news and updates!
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Unconfined - Eastercon 2027 in Glasgow
Unconfined is the 2027 Eastercon - the UK National Science Fiction Convention, and will be held in Glasgow. This newsletter, sent out approximately monthly, is to keep you up to date with our…
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November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Did you catch our latest newsletter? This month we covered our upcoming rate rise, new volunteers, Novacon, LR Lam’s latest book release, and a had piece from about fandom in Glasgow. Check it out here and be sure to join our mailing list for our news and updates!
buttondown.com/eastercongla...
buttondown.com/eastercongla...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Have you checked out our new Halloween tshirts? Celebrate the spooky season in style with our limited edition design, in black, purple, maroon and navy, available at our shop - easterconglasgow.org/product/east...
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Have you checked out our new Halloween tshirts? Celebrate the spooky season in style with our limited edition design, in black, purple, maroon and navy, available at our shop - easterconglasgow.org/product/east...
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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.
LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!
MASQUERADE, the third instalment in the MICAH GREY trilogy, is now 25% off at @waterstones.bsky.social
Use the discount code OCTOBER25 at checkout!
The MICAH GREY trilogy is a story of found family, queer joy, and self discovery, wrapped in a whimsical gaslamp fantasy🃏🎪
Use the discount code OCTOBER25 at checkout!
The MICAH GREY trilogy is a story of found family, queer joy, and self discovery, wrapped in a whimsical gaslamp fantasy🃏🎪
October 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
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Jim Caviezel
Met Vin Diesel
Going to the fair
Said Jim Caviezel
To Vin Diesel
“Ha! You’ve got no hair”
Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,”
My pate is bare,
But this is incidental;
For tonsure-free
I’d rather be
Than totally fucking mental”
Met Vin Diesel
Going to the fair
Said Jim Caviezel
To Vin Diesel
“Ha! You’ve got no hair”
Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,”
My pate is bare,
But this is incidental;
For tonsure-free
I’d rather be
Than totally fucking mental”
September 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jim Caviezel
Met Vin Diesel
Going to the fair
Said Jim Caviezel
To Vin Diesel
“Ha! You’ve got no hair”
Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,”
My pate is bare,
But this is incidental;
For tonsure-free
I’d rather be
Than totally fucking mental”
Met Vin Diesel
Going to the fair
Said Jim Caviezel
To Vin Diesel
“Ha! You’ve got no hair”
Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,”
My pate is bare,
But this is incidental;
For tonsure-free
I’d rather be
Than totally fucking mental”
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Thanks, I love it.
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thanks, I love it.
Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!
ALA Most Challenged Books of 2024 locusmag.com/2025/09...
September 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!
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Come play with us, 3PO.
September 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Come play with us, 3PO.
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There are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one.
This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one.
This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
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Today is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Today is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)
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The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban.
#Glasgow #StoneCircle
#Glasgow #StoneCircle
September 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban.
#Glasgow #StoneCircle
#Glasgow #StoneCircle
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Top entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke:
Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
September 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Top entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke:
Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
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Our first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍
easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
Welcome to the first newsletter from Unconfined! - Unconfined - Eastercon 2027 in Glasgow
The first newsletter from Unconfined, describing what we've been up to planning the convention.
easterconglasgow.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍
easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.
September 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.
Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.
September 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.
See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.
September 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.
People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets.
(Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
(Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets.
(Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
(Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.
It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop