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Ooh looking forward to this!

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These beautiful #poetry books are all on SALE at just £7.99 each until the end of February, along with FREE UK postage across our shop. Don't miss out on big book savings📚 ninearchespress.com/shop

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The Government is siding with Big Tech over creators + as a member of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, today we support the #MakeItFair campaign TODAY is the final chance to respond to the Gov consultation on copyright + AI + make your voice heard! writersguild.org.uk/fight-back-a...

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Your reminder that software developers are selling generative AI on the economic model of a primary school cake sale. Other people provide the essential ingredients at their own expense, and do the crucial work unpaid, while the sellers of the end product keep all the income.

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AI is profiting from human creativity – isn’t it time creators got their fair share? A fair deal for creators isn’t just about making things right, it is essential for the future of creativity and AI. Find out more: societyofauthors.org #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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A wee reminder to vote for your faves in the #BSFAawards longlist. Deadline this Friday. You can vote for my short story collection "Schrödinger's Wife (and other possibilities)" if you like 😊.

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BSFA 2025/ Nick Hubble's Selections: "Schrödinger’s Wife" is one of 3 books (pictured) on the longlists from @GoldsmithsPress GoldSF imprint, with Vonda N. McIntyre’s "Little Sisters & Other Stories" also on Best Collection list & Abi Curtis’s "The Headland" on Best Novel longlist.

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Time of cowards indeed. Very informative and frankly terrifying piece of what lies ahead for Germany by @okwonga.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

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Of all the things Elon Musk has said, this is the worst. We cannot rely on Trump and his shadow president Musk. The UK must boost defence spending and take the lead in Europe.

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I’ll be speaking at this rally tomorrow. ✊🇺🇦 If you’re anywhere near London - come along! Let’s make some real noise!!

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✍️Writers, what would you create in this room, given half the chance? We are now opening the call for applications for our Writer's Room for the 2nd year. Deadline: 5pm, Friday 21 February 2025 Full details: cityofliterature.com/writers-room... Questions? ✉️ [email protected]

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Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .

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Are you working on creative non-fiction that explores the climate crisis? Send us your creative non-fiction pitches for our upcoming Climate Issue. Our Winter 2025-26 issue will have a special focus on the climate crisis. Deadline: March 31st, 2025 stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

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🔊Are you an SoA member in Scotland and wish to improve conditions for authors? SoAiS committee has 3 vacancies. Please send a headshot, biography, and short paragraph (500w max) to [email protected] if you are interested. Deadline March 6.

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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Probably am.

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Via @davidgbeer, a poem written by Helen Dunmore shortly before she died. Oh to be this calm and stoic in the face of one's own finality.

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The Curiosity Mars Rover has had great luck in photographing clouds. On the rover's 3048 Martian day, or 'Sol' a nice 'strip' of iridescent clouds was captured on color. This was composited with other photos from the same location and other sunset views to create this wider Martian twilight scene.

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"Ransacked" -- Selma Dabbagh in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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🚀 Nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards are now open! 🚀 Members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon & the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon can nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Awards Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Learn more: https://buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards

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So thrilled that my short story collection 'Schrödinger's Wife (and other possibilities)' is nominated for the #BSFAAwards and so pleased for all the @shoreinf.bsky.social nominees! Please vote for your faves in all the categories before the 28 Feb deadline.

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The Hosking Houses Trust supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon. Details in link. Please share :) hoskinghouses.org.uk

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This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

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The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

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Year long paid residency (£24K) for a mid-career writer to explore themes of shared responsibility for, and within, the climate crisis, producing new writing with support from Fruitmarket. Closing date 17th Feb! Get in now! Please share!

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PREORDER (@betarish.bsky.social, 30.04.2025): In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar’s unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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“You almost certainly believe, as I did, that there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are, as I was, almost certainly wrong.”

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“If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?” —Jane Haining “In Days of Darkness”, a poem by Stuart A. Paterson for #HolocaustMemorialDay www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/days-da...

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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So grateful for this lovely review from @runalongwomble.bsky.social !

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Ich werde im #SWRKultur interviewt und spreche über mein früheres Leben als Astronomin, das Universum, meinen deutsch-jüdischen Großvater und was es für mich bedeutet, die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft zurückzufordern: www.swr.de/swrkultur/le...

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Love Private Eye ...

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🌊 Catastrophic coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef The 2024 marine heatwave devastated corals in the southern GBR, with 53% of monitored colonies dead by July. Even 'protected' reefs were not spared. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/lol2... How can we protect these vital ecosystems? 🧪 #SciComm

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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

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This proposed industrial development in northern Chile is really worrying - this part of Chile is the best place in the world for astronomy and should be protected, the pristine views of the night sky should be understood as part of our global cultural heritage: phys.org/news/2025-01...

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