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Go outside right at sunset today; take binocs if you have them. "In the evening, just after sunset, seven planets — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars — will align in the sky. Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be easily visible to the naked eye."

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Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social ‘s wonderful and moving novella Aerth @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/02/aert...

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Je ne parviens pas à m’extirper de l’angoisse et de la tristesse face à cette page qui se tourne et a ce qui semble se profiler à l’horizon. très vite, il faudra résister à bien des choses. On n’aura pas le temps d’angoisser, il faudra avancer

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We are pleased to announce Bristolcon 2025 will take place on 25th and 26th October at the Doubletree Hotel, Redcliffe Way, Bristol. Guests of Honour are JE Hannaford, Ben Jeapes and John Higgins. To register, visit signup.bristolcon.org

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This year's Bristolcon is again a two-day event!

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

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My debut novel(la) #Aerth sold out a couple of weeks after publication - it has just been reprinted! Prize winner, judged by #AliSmith. weatherglassbooks.com/shop/aerth

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"Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study" Massive study covering 32m tweets from 8,000+ MPs across Europe points to the inescapable conclusion that the Far Right lie the most. (All other parties are very broadly on par.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Any politician who says that Heathrow Airport expansion is compatible with the UK's obligations as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act & the 2015 Paris Agreement is (pick at least one: 1️⃣ ignorant 2️⃣ deluded 3️⃣ lying Prioritising grow above climate doesn't mean you prioritise growth over facts.

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I am excited to be speaking at The London Book Fair on 13 March. Hope to see you there! www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/lp/reg...

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not to freak anyone out or anything but I’ve been reading the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton and I think the concept of fascism as a model of government featuring a normative state and a prerogative state is potentially going to be useful for thinking about DOGE

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IT IS A COUP open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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This is how fascism operates. In the 1930s the Nazi regime enforced strict control over academic institutions, censoring research and silencing dissenting voices. Many left Germany: Einstein, Born, Hahn, Meitner, Schrödinger, Szilard etc. etc. Today, US scientists are looking at moving abroad.

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My review of Aerth by Deborah Tomkins - kindly gifted by @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DFms_iOA3o...

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Some rather lovely reviews from @waterstones.bsky.social booksellers of my novella #Aerth... (which is being reprinted this week). Thank you! www.waterstones.com/books/review...

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If Orbital left you breathless, 'Aerth' by Deborah Tomkins is your perfect sci-fi read! It explores migration, conspiracy, and homelessness, as astronauts fleeing a dying world find their idyllic new home violent and corrupt! @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social Out Saturday! https://buff.ly/4h5vro0

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A wonderful #booklaunch last week for my prizewinning novella #Aerth, at @stanfordsbristol.bsky.social - thank you to all!

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Can we add my publisher @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social too? Thank you!

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People are like "the genie is out of the bottle with AI so we'll all have to live with it." No it isn't. No we won't. That isn't true

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One of the big issues with conservation's focus on threatened species and its 'let's do it for the pandas' narrative is that it allows people to dismiss biodiversity as 'a few bats and newts' Yes people like animals, but this is our life support system we're taking about - let's not undersell it!

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Putting together a -very- small stack of books that have been banned (in the U.S.) for a customer

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Thank you so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social It was wonderful to see so many local #flashfiction #writers at the launch on Thursday including @judehwriter2.bsky.social and Michael Loveday!

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Something very strange is happening with Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, who seem to be deeply anti-environmental, and who seem to be extreme neoliberal ideologues. They are actual extremists. Far more so than the climate activists they persecute. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Seems I'm very much not the only one. Pls share this widely. Microsoft don't have enough confidence in their worthless product to sell it openly, so they're hoping you won't notice they're making you pay for it anyway.

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Important article from @forbes.com @davidrvetter.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

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Wed 22 Jan 2025 – 7pm – History for Tomorrow: Joy in Enough talk with Roman Krznaric. Zoom Talk. buff.ly/4g7dYdk John Payne talking with Roman Krznaric, the Oxford-based social philosopher, about his new book History for Tomorrow:

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfK... video to show the importance of the Climate and Nature Bill. Pease email your MP to ensure they attend the second reading this Friday 24 Jan

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