Beatrice Morgan
@beatricemorgan.bsky.social
Author of (mostly) historical + speculative fiction
Lapsed biologist 🍄 she/her
found in: PULP Literature, Minola Review, Inner Worlds, Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes
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Lapsed biologist 🍄 she/her
found in: PULP Literature, Minola Review, Inner Worlds, Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes
beatricemorgan.wordpress.com
All the edits I need to do today are the boring kind (add transition, clarify logistics etc) and I'm trying not to procrastinate here and on ao3 but. it's not really working
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All the edits I need to do today are the boring kind (add transition, clarify logistics etc) and I'm trying not to procrastinate here and on ao3 but. it's not really working
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"Farming is stupid," says @sarahday.org as we walk back in from disentangling the LGDs, who had managed to get their collars hooked together, terrifying the sheep with a vision of a very low rent Cerberus at 0445.
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Farming is stupid," says @sarahday.org as we walk back in from disentangling the LGDs, who had managed to get their collars hooked together, terrifying the sheep with a vision of a very low rent Cerberus at 0445.
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
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Been going back and forth in my mind about it since I saw the news last night and have concluded that, yes, I do expect organisations to stand up and fight transmisogynistic legal challenges - even if it means that organisation ceases to exist.
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Been going back and forth in my mind about it since I saw the news last night and have concluded that, yes, I do expect organisations to stand up and fight transmisogynistic legal challenges - even if it means that organisation ceases to exist.
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Why Is My Screen So Streaky, I Only Touch It All Day Every Day: A Modern Tragedy
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Why Is My Screen So Streaky, I Only Touch It All Day Every Day: A Modern Tragedy
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Financial precarity. Yes university students have always been living on their last 20 bucks, but the number of students I talk to now who have *multiple* jobs in addition to being fulltime students, some of whom are taking care of family members' survival needs as well as their own, is shocking. 5/
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Financial precarity. Yes university students have always been living on their last 20 bucks, but the number of students I talk to now who have *multiple* jobs in addition to being fulltime students, some of whom are taking care of family members' survival needs as well as their own, is shocking. 5/
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Anyway shout out to my wildly talented friends who released books out this year. @kvalentinwrites.bsky.social's AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER is delightfully dark and so very funny and @jennihowell.bsky.social's BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH is twisted obsession at its finest
My favourite problem to have is that so many of my friends are now published authors that I have too many books to choose from while buying gifts for other friends and family
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Anyway shout out to my wildly talented friends who released books out this year. @kvalentinwrites.bsky.social's AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER is delightfully dark and so very funny and @jennihowell.bsky.social's BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH is twisted obsession at its finest
My favourite problem to have is that so many of my friends are now published authors that I have too many books to choose from while buying gifts for other friends and family
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My favourite problem to have is that so many of my friends are now published authors that I have too many books to choose from while buying gifts for other friends and family
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
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“I cannot understand what possesses a man to hurl abuse at a terrified child looking out onto the streets of the country they fled to for safety. I refuse to understand it.“ - Nikesh Shukla speaking truth to power as always.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“I cannot understand what possesses a man to hurl abuse at a terrified child looking out onto the streets of the country they fled to for safety. I refuse to understand it.“ - Nikesh Shukla speaking truth to power as always.
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King shit (gender-neutral).
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
King shit (gender-neutral).
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Oh my god does anyone want to give me a ton of money to buy absolutely everything in this shop. I mean LOOK at this coat. I have needed an item of clothing more
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Oh my god does anyone want to give me a ton of money to buy absolutely everything in this shop. I mean LOOK at this coat. I have needed an item of clothing more
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I am not aware of a single author who has a shortage of book ideas. Words, yes. Ways to make the ideas become a book, yes. But I've never met an author who doesn't have ideas just raining down all the damn time.
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I am not aware of a single author who has a shortage of book ideas. Words, yes. Ways to make the ideas become a book, yes. But I've never met an author who doesn't have ideas just raining down all the damn time.
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Yes, I did show her this. Yes, she did ask me to email it to her so she could print it out and hang it in her office.
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Yes, I did show her this. Yes, she did ask me to email it to her so she could print it out and hang it in her office.
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WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
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"we're further north that you'd think!" (out of earshot of friends who're exactly as far north as you'd think)
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"we're further north that you'd think!" (out of earshot of friends who're exactly as far north as you'd think)
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Absolutely devastating news. The world is and was immeasurably better for having Alice in it
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Absolutely devastating news. The world is and was immeasurably better for having Alice in it
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When three teenagers use magic to escape a pack of deadly fairies, they land in a maze trapping them far, far from home...
We're charmed to share the cover for @kulwickiwrites.bsky.social's The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams!
We're charmed to share the cover for @kulwickiwrites.bsky.social's The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams!
Revealing The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki - Reactor
An adventure-packed portal fantasy arriving April 2026
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November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When three teenagers use magic to escape a pack of deadly fairies, they land in a maze trapping them far, far from home...
We're charmed to share the cover for @kulwickiwrites.bsky.social's The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams!
We're charmed to share the cover for @kulwickiwrites.bsky.social's The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams!
It really is annoying how much this works (when writing fiction, in my case. For academic writing, it's crisps that do it for me. for some reason)
Absolutely devastating for my blood sugar levels that when I simply cannot persuade myself to write something ove been procrastinating the only thing that works is to buy a big bag of haribo and eat it at my desk as I type, getting more and more antsy and typing faster and faster as the sugar hits.
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It really is annoying how much this works (when writing fiction, in my case. For academic writing, it's crisps that do it for me. for some reason)