Damo Says
LightNews LightNews
banner
damosays.bsky.social
Damo Says
@damosays.bsky.social
160 followers 250 following 220 posts
Irish. Pass-remarkable. Here for speculative fiction, hero-less comics, dice games, audio dramas and sundry geekery. Scribbler.
Posts Replies Media Videos
damosays.bsky.social
SLAY!
BELLS RING! ARE YOU LISTENING?

#HappyHorrormas
mattthr.bsky.social Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 2d
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Bumping up this upcoming release again, and my story in it. These books are so beatiful, the author lineup is particularly stellar, and @marieoregan.bsky.social and @paulkane.bsky.social have curated and perfected the stories masterfully.

Pre-order links below ⬇️
Cover of the Witchcraft anthology of short stories from Flame Tree Press, in dark green with foil circles and painted edges, names of editors and contributors and a small ghostly female head to signal the horror content. The Tallow Feast Damien Kelly YEARS AGO, a woman - reputed to be crafty - berated Alma's mother in the market square for rendering her tallow with salt and water. Your oil will lose all goodness that way, she said, and it will spoil. She said it idly, half-smiling, as if sharing advice, but she meant it as an augury and a curse and every wife within hearing knew it. Because she was a witch. "She's no witch," Alma's mother told her later. "She just fancies herself." And as she added salt to the beef fat and water, Alma's mother educated her daughter on the realities of rendering tallow. And curses.
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
damosays.bsky.social
A witch is for life, not just for Halloween.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
paulkane.bsky.social
Advance copies of this beautiful book arrived today #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft - massive thanks @flametreepress To pre-order yours:

www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Ok. Social media break, at least for a few weeks. I spent most of today with excellent humans and I’m gonna focus on that for a bit. If you’re at @gaelcon this year, come play with me. If you know my email, shout me. But if you must stay here, know that you are missed elsewhere.
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
damosays.bsky.social
If you see this skeet, skeet a pic from your device with no explanation.
A cute and smiling sheet ghost stands before a pink background and field of flowers, carrying a small shovel. The text beneath it reads, “I will help you hide the body”
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
damosays.bsky.social
“Man, I was just in a frying pan!” says the guy in the fire.
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Mutton dressed as Ham.
ottoenglish.bsky.social Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 28
I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.
September 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
wigglewood.bsky.social
The image that inspired my most popular comic.
September 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Reposted by Damo Says
andrewmoseman.bsky.social
I would not use it at my job
I would not let it email Bob
It would not write my resume
It would not text my mom, OK?
It can't say if the Chiefs will cover
I do not want it as a lover
I do not want it in my phone
I'd just as soon be left alone
I do not like ChatGPT!
I do not like it, Sam-are-we
September 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
damosays.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Protect trans rights. End the genocide. And stop giving bandwidth (digital or psychological) to bigoted old white guys.*

*speaking as an old white guy, but hopefully this is my one moment of exception
Suzanne Harrington: The UK's treatment of Graham Linehan and Kneecap is a study in contrasts
"Unlike Linehan, in court charged with harassing a trans teenager and smashing their phone (this was before he urged his online followers to physically attack trans people), Mo Chara’s ‘terrorist’ cha...
www.irishexaminer.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
If you use generative AI, it's an instant block from me. If you come into my comments to argue about it, I am the sacred buzzsaw foretold by the bene gesserit.
September 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Please, can every writer check this and claim what’s theirs. OpenAI is an existential threat.
ryanestrada.com Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
damosays.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a book

David Copperfield of Earthsea
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

1983
dtmooreeditor.bsky.social David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

The Landlord of the Rings
September 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted by Damo Says
paulkane.bsky.social
‘There’s something for everyone in these stories!’

‘Every single one of these short stories was 4 or 5 stars for me.’

‘Perfectly captured the vibe it promised; academic, creeping, tense, and dark.’

More 5 ⭐️ love for #TheseDreamingSpires :

www.amazon.co.uk/These-Dreami...
September 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
damosays.bsky.social
So, having reviewed the various candidates, The Traitors Ireland is—even just three episodes in—an order of magnitude better than the earlier versions from the UK, US and Australia. Hats off to all involved. Siobhán McSweeney for Áras an Uachtaráin.
“He hasn’t the liathróidí!” -Eamonn
September 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Just hours to go, then I promise to calm down for a while.
#booksky
paulkane.bsky.social Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · Sep 5
Ends today! 25% off our forthcoming anthology #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft at @barnesandnoble if you pre-order now!! Link below… 🧙

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witchcraft...
September 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
amandajanemason.bsky.social
Thrilled to be included in some EXCELLENT company here. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com now.🧹
paulkane.bsky.social Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · Sep 4
Get a stonking 25% off our forthcoming anthology #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft at @barnesandnoble if you pre-order now!! Link below… 🧙

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witchcraft...
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
damosays.bsky.social
Good morning, US folks. If you’re thinking of how to use the Barnes & Noble preorder discount as spookily as possible, we got you. #booksky
damosays.bsky.social Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · Sep 4
So, if you’re a B&N member, you’re probably already aware that the lightning preorder sale is on, but in case you’re not, use the code in the pic to get a bunch of us witches for a bargain. #witchcraft 🪐📚💙
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
paulkane.bsky.social
Our anthology #TheseDreamingSpires hits the Gizmodo new releases list! 📚 ☕️ 🍁

gizmodo.com/100-new-sci-...

www.amazon.co.uk/These-Dreami...
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Damo Says
pauleric70.bsky.social
Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
damosays.bsky.social
So, if you’re a B&N member, you’re probably already aware that the lightning preorder sale is on, but in case you’re not, use the code in the pic to get a bunch of us witches for a bargain. #witchcraft 🪐📚💙
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Damo Says
paulkane.bsky.social
Happy book birthday to our anthology #TheseDreamingSpires - if you like #DarkAcademia intrigue, #ghosts #fantasy or just damned good stories this is the one for you! ☕️ 🍁 📚

www.amazon.co.uk/These-Dreami...
September 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
damosays.bsky.social
Sci-fi comic from the very talented @pauljholden.com
pauljholden.com PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · Sep 1
A free webcomic starting this week. Would appreciate a RT!
September 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM