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Benedict Anning
@benedictanning.bsky.social
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Horror/SF writer, occasional artist, general creative chump. Creature of the abyss and dedicated cat dad.🐈

Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social at Bell Lomax Moreton.

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Constantly amazes me how adorable this little lady is
A close up of the best girl in the world - Penny, a calico cat lies curled up, fluffy paws curled underneath her chin As before but now she has extended a leg to beside her ear. Incredible.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Enemy (2013)
sgj.bsky.social Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 3d
There a dude at my gym who I’m eighty percent sure is a twin. Some days I see him, and he looks … slightly, indefinably different. I nod hey to him to test him, but he always passes—maybe both of them recognize me somewhat? Feel like I’m in a PKD novel, here. I’m often very confused. But trying.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
A panel from Watchmen no. 4. Art by Dave Gibbons, script by Alan Moore
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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this is legit one of the saddest things i have ever seen
jessehawken.bsky.social Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 5d
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
Elon Musk tweet “Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says ‘I will always love you’” with an AI illustration of a woman smiling
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Random menty elf blip this pm so I went for the usual rushed run. Decided, sanely, to extend to a full hour. 11km. Didn't even beat my record distance. Legs are entirely dead. Can't muster the energy to go grab my water. This is better. This is def better and was def smart. I have beaten my brain
Screengrab from Peep Show episode: Superhans, a man in a tracksuit, sits against a wall in the street, holding a phone to his ear, legs flat ahead of him, subtitle reads "I've accidentally run to Windsor"
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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rainewilson.bsky.social
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨

If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?

geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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michael burry shorted palantir
a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a wall that says happening bunker
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a wall that says happening bunker
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November 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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megintransition.bsky.social
I am loving Ragwort, the sequel, right now.

I have the utter privilege of chatting with Sam and the fabulous @shonak.bsky.social for her beautiful Daughters of Nicnevin for @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social on the 20th November.

Hopefully see you there.
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Great event tonight on Halloween Eve with @joe-hill.bsky.social and @keithrosson.bsky.social at St Cuthbert's - surrounded by bones when discussing all things monstrous 💀
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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some autumnal canopies today
Skyward shot of a tree: pale green leaves aglow in the sun, blue sky Mix of vibrant leaf canopies Close up of glowing yellow-green leaves against blue sky More of the same, basically, idk
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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As promised, a recent painting!

“Roja”
Oils 16x9

You can still view this one in person (always looks so much better in person!) at @spoke-art.com NY!

spoke-art.com/blogs/news/1...
Close up of the portrait in an oil painting. Close up of an oil painting, focused a wolf A woman dressed in a red robe, holds her chest. Behind her a wolf eats an indescribable piece of bloodied meat. The wolf’s muzzle is as bloodied as the woman’s hand. Framed oil painting of a woman in red, a massive wolf behind her
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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passed her MOT, rather impatient with her reward
Penny - the best calico British shorthair cat in the world - licks a lickable treat with a wild look in her eyes As before, now she bites down on the treat As before, now she tries to eat the treat to get more creamy goodness
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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mkhardywrites.com
Tomorrow!!
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 23d
For our next Solaris Presents event we've come over all spooky!

Tomorrow, at 7pm BST, we'll be welcoming @isabelcanas.bsky.social & @mkhardywrites.com to talk all things gothic romance &celebrate their latest books:

Watch FREE live or on catch up anywhere in the world geni.us/SPGRICMKH
Against a red background, white text "Solaris Presents... Gothic Romance with Isabel Canas and MK Hardy. Wednesday 22nd October 2025 BST. Free - watch on Crowdcast live or on catch up! The book covers for THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ and THE NEEDFIRE next to headshots for the authors.
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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✨ I commissioned the talented @clhellisen.bsky.social to do some promo art for In This City, Where it Rains, and I was so blown away by the perfect gothic weird moths delight they created!! Feast your eyes!! ITCWIR is out Feb 3rd from @lunapress.bsky.social! Pre-orders: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal 🖤✨
Digital painted original art by CL Hellisen featuring a hand reaching up, bleeding, with moths gathered around the hand. in the background is the outline of roots reaching out
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.

AI is another version of colonial extraction.
heatherrandell.bsky.social Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 24d
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”

🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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we only ever love you when you're seeing red
red light drenched the scene: penny - the best calico cat in the world - sits staring at the camera, pupils wide
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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mkhardywrites.com
SURPRISE! We were thrilled to contribute to Rebellion's Thirteenth Floor anthology, which sends homicidal computer Max all across the world to protect and terrorise.

Better yet, it's available to pre-order in the Waterstones sale. It's due out February 12, 2026 - perfect for Valentine's Day!
An overlay of The Thirteenth Floor anthology on a background of a red and yellow fireball. The cover features a jagged graphic face in red with distressed yellow marks across it, and computer code overlaid on top. Designed by Sam Gretton. The Thirteenth Floor anthology cover on a Waterstone's promo graphic that states "25% off on upcoming books. Pre-order now with code: OCTOBER25. 14-17 October. Online only."
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social
Proclamation of the Imperium - 1
2022
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
benedictanning.bsky.social
some neat sky stuff today
Distant birds flying in patterns in the clear blue sky, preparing for migration The moon sits in the clear blue sky above a treeline
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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It's release day for the delicious follow-up to Gorse!! Highly highly encourage you nab a copy from the inimitable worldly wordsmith @samkhorton.bsky.social ✨
Ragwort
Check out Ragwort - A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe, new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies...
uk.bookshop.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
For our next Solaris Presents event we've come over all spooky!

In a fortnight, we'll be welcoming @isabelcanas.bsky.social & @mkhardywrites.com to talk all things gothic romance and celebrate their latest books:

Watch FREE live or on catch up anywhere in the world: geni.us/SPGRICMKH
Against a red background, white text "Solaris Presents... Gothic Romance with Isabel Canas and MK Hardy. Wednesday 22nd October 2025 BST. Free - watch on Crowdcast live or on catch up! The book covers for THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ and THE NEEDFIRE next to headshots for the authors.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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putting sunflower seeds in a mini-tin of baked beans and pretending it's a tiny açaí bowl - but, like, bad
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM