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slashnburnett.bsky.social
Doctor of food. Writer of stories. Neurospicy. Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Researcher at Fielden Whisky. Read my science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk Drabble&micro markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
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URGENT: if anyone has seen or found a huge (A2) sized folder in the parking lot of MCM London, Excel Arena please let me know. We unfortunately left all our A3 prints behind as we were going back home and this is financially devastating. Please also RT so this can reach further.

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Manage your soil

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Planning for the end of the world, by chance? Hey, you're not alone. Closing out your week and this bumpin' issue with a little short fiction PSA about future gardening practices. This is "Updated explainer: Composting during the zombie apocalypse" by Emma Burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social SUNDAY

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Brand new micro joint @nightshadesmag.bsky.social is off to a very cool, weird start; they published a piece by li'l old me just this very morning. I hope you like eyeballs! www.annareser.com/ns-torches-p...

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A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI. www.wired.com/story/new-re...

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In today’s slush heap. Seriously, tho, fuck AI trash.

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This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

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Join. I’ll read you a bedtime story.

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This is legit the most exciting EVER.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

🖤☠️MEET THE BRAVE NEW WEIRDo's🖤☠️ @slashnburnett.bsky.social's BNW-winning story “Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]” originally appeared in @nature.com We talk with her today right here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/5/...

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Surprise Announcement! ✨ We will be publishing the wonderful, comforting, inspiring art and prose book: Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell. You won't need to wait too long for more: our campaign launches 01 June! Please click "Notify me" - and let people know! ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

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Omg an incredible season of stuff coming out from @atthisarts.com

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Have you seen our upcoming work? We're so excited! And yes - it's ✨magical✨ ... (And devilish, and adventurous, and anti-capitalist... and all made with human love and community.) Here's what's on the way: 🧵

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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

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Not me, casually starting to type up notes for a new novel late on a Sunday evening.

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Issue 10 cover reveal! Our Artist-in-Residence from Ukraine, Ninja Jo, has graced us with a spectacular front cover we are excited to get into your hands June 1. #WritingCommunity #Scifi #Art

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So, while a small section of feminism has been busy selling transphobia to the legacy media and politicians, women's reproductive autonomy has been destroyed through state surveillance... observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I know this has all been said before, and by people far more eloquent, but why would you write with AI? Like, WHY? If you have nothing to say, maybe you should question why you want to tell stories, go collect some life, and then actually do some writing.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 We are thrilled and honored to be working with author emma burnett on a near-future anti-capitalistic mama-centered sci-fi story. Follow us for updates and more announcements soon!

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Have you read stories written in Shoni, isiXhosa, or Kiswahili? If this project succeeds, you'll be able to! We hope you'll share and support this translation project, as you can. ko-fi.com/africantrans... #AfricanLiterature

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