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Stephen Rice

@writing-steve.bsky.social

Fantasy author. Software developer. Silly gamer. www.stephenrice.co.uk www.twitch.tv/writing_steve 'A Handful of Souls' - Messy and Epic Dark Fantasy (5⭐ Amazon Rating & SPFBO Semi Finalist) https://books2read.com/u/bxQWve

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20.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm pretty quiet on this app at the moment. When I have social-media energy to spare I'm mostly spending it streaming my writing sessions on twitch. 😅

But know that I'm watching your posts like a sneaky hawk. Yes, you. Your posts.

20.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I read this, I liked it. Maybe you should read it and you should like it, too.

Short and sinister-sweet.

18.02.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's been a rough week for me, but at least Civ7 arrived to soothe me through the worst bits. Is there anything more healing than abusing Deity AI? You can sail up rivers now...

15.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Tru

13.02.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Health for me is a house of cards, and some of the cards are currently on fire. Normal service (twitch, work, writing, walking, eating) will resume shortly. *dial tone*

13.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That is a powerful toaster.

08.02.2025 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Salutations

08.02.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Connor, you're doing great. 🫡

08.02.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm torn between being annoyed you have 70k words lying around, and giving you unwanted advice. 😂 I'll settle for suggesting you read it through a microphone, one chapter at a time, from your boudoir balcony. A crowd shall gather!

08.02.2025 13:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Prepare yourselves for the cutest unboxing ever

08.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

😂 this is amazing

08.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Okay, I just committed a tbr violation and read it. Lovely, creepy fairytale vibes.

And I'm a big fan of this sort of thing:

08.02.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spotlight best light

08.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Support the spotlight! My tbr moves sloooow, so all I can say right now is I love the cover, the author's great, and I'm looking forward to reading it. 😂 But these are valid reasons. Look at it! Look.

Just 77p, I might add.

08.02.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why no toaster pictures, Quen? 🤔 4 slot? 8 slot?! We need details.

08.02.2025 11:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Amazing how quickly the health karma fairy struck after my mildly celebratory post yesterday. Just about almost feeling better now, and the weekend is *checks notes* pretty much over. Fucking fuck.

Ah well. Onwards, and with more careful carb intake.

02.02.2025 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I cannot overstate how weird it is that after 3+ years of a worsening health condition, I get days when I feel 'normal'. By contrast I feel dangerously powerful, capable of world conquest.

Start of my villain arc?

01.02.2025 12:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Offline writing session this morning. Private! Camera off. Big old offline writing session - productive, offline, no distractions, no twitch, no... wait I'm just procrastinating through a different social media platform

01.02.2025 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, could be worse.

01.02.2025 07:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RIP, Wayne June. I've been playing DD2, and it struck me again how amazing your performances are. Everyone stopping by the stream was struck by the art of the game, and your insanely talented narration was right at the core of that.

o7 rest easy.

31.01.2025 10:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Promotional image featuring the cover art for the book The Thirteenth Hour: Book One in The Cruel Gods series by Trudie Skies. The text says: Fantasy of Bad Manners, Tea, & Naughty Words - Birthday Freebie!Cruel gods demand worship from their mortal subjects in this gaslamp fantasy featuring magical portals, gothic cosmic deities, quaint Britishisms, and steampunk vibes. Free for today!

Promotional image featuring the cover art for the book The Thirteenth Hour: Book One in The Cruel Gods series by Trudie Skies. The text says: Fantasy of Bad Manners, Tea, & Naughty Words - Birthday Freebie!Cruel gods demand worship from their mortal subjects in this gaslamp fantasy featuring magical portals, gothic cosmic deities, quaint Britishisms, and steampunk vibes. Free for today!

The Thirteenth Hour ebook is currently FREE today for no reason whatsoever. If you don't own it yet, why not?

UK and US only, but message me if you want a copy outside those: mybook.to/TheThirteent...

30.01.2025 12:59 — 👍 74    🔁 49    💬 13    📌 6

Go get those words Samuel!

30.01.2025 10:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This seemed somewhat apparent to me when it was described in a news article as getting halfway through a response before clamming up. Censorship gaffa taped on the output, likely reusing a lot of existing systems.

29.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I mean I'd like to stream this evening, but sideways windows update is taking its sweet time.

28.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maybe I don't want another follower. Ever thought of that? Huh?

(jk please come hang out, making coffee)
www.twitch.tv/writing_steve

26.01.2025 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My day off streaming today! Partly because I broke my phone, and there's no way I'd wake at 5:30am without an alarm. Partly because I'm le tired.

22.01.2025 08:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I relate to thee, Wobble.

21.01.2025 08:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book covers and quotes from proof.kucharski.io

Book covers and quotes from proof.kucharski.io

Excited to officially announce my new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, out in March (UK) and May (US) and available now to pre-order: proof.kucharski.io

It digs into the ideas we can use to weigh evidence and converge on truth under pressure - and what happens when they fail... 1/

20.01.2025 10:38 — 👍 111    🔁 29    💬 6    📌 6

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