Dr Tiffani Angus

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If you feel that my writing is in some way "inferior" because it no longer has the word "Substack" associated with it, I am only too happy for you to unsubscribe from my newsletter..

Substack is nobody's friend. Substack is not writing. Substack is a tech company, funded by venture capitalists.

SIMMERS!
Goddamnit phone!

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Of course you kicked ass! That talent stays but just sort of summers under the surface.

I love running workshops with adults. But the 9-year-olds? Terrifying!!

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

But in this instance, we need to change “didn’t” to “don’t”.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Background is black with shades of red in the shape of a skull. Text reads: Spec Fic for Newbies brings horror subgenres & tropes out of the dark! Gothic Horror, Supernatural Horror, Vampires, Psychological Horror, Body Horror , Zombies, Suburban Horror, Techno Horror, Splatterpunk, Cosmic Horror On the left is a book cover. The cover is split into thirds with the top and bottom third red and the center third black. Text on the top third reads: Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan in yellow font. The middle third reads: Spec Fic for Newbies in bold white font. And the bottom third reads: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in yellow font. Below the cover is the text: Shortlisted for multiple awards! At the bottom is a QR code and the Luna Press logo.

YAY it's spooky season! 🎃

If you're looking to try your hand at writing horror, the multi-award-finalist SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES Vol 1 is ready to help with everything from good ol' gothic to squirmy splatterpunk!

Widely available in paperback and ebook: linktr.ee/specficforne...

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

I have come to realize that as someone who works from home my life is very small.

Mine would be something super cheesy and pop-culture-y like Friends or Big Bang Theory. Because god forbid my education come through for me.

The whole thing is making me angry and sad. My work is on LibGen but bc it’s not registered in the US it’s not included on the Anthropic database. So there’s no chance of even a tiny bit of justice for so many writers. The pirates started it; the AI bots and their techbros are dining out on it.

It’s so ironic.
People pirated shit selfishly. All these years. We creatives have endured excuse after excuse for doing it. Writing cease and desist letters; it was like playing whack a mole. And that pirating is what allowed these AI companies to do even worse. Great job, people. Thanks.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

The people (Tories and Reform) who tell you your rights are safe if we leave the ECHR as they’ll replace them with British laws also told you our trade, borders and NHS was safe if we left the EU because they’d negotiate amazing trade deals, take control of our borders and fix the NHS…..

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gosh I’m so sorry to hear that. But glad you’ve been able to focus on life again.

The "I would never be at peace" part here is really telling. Work addiction has always been encouraged by capitalists as a way of productively weaponizing our own misery and loneliness for their profit. Don't fall for it

You know what this shit gets you? Stress-related illness and a heart attack at 50.

Take it from a Gen Xer: this is not the way to live. The years go by WAY too fast, and before you know it you'll realize that you worked your life away and didn't live it. And then you die. There is no do-over.

Take it from a longtime editor/author/musician: no legitimate publisher/agent/book club/record label will ask you for money to work with you. Anyone who does is scamming and won’t do anything for you.

It has come to my attention that people On Here are attempting to argue that it is racism to make fun of AI and let me tell you something: ICE is tear-gassing people in my city and disappearing people all over the country and I am absolutely begging you to live in reality for one fucking day

I grew up on this film and can still recite the "Behold the sword of power" speech. It's got that weird drugged-dream-like quality that's by turns beautiful and dark & bloody, which I think fits the legends *perfectly*. (and why I love The Green Knight, too)

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

What possible motive might English Fascist Party leader and self-confessed Putin enthusiast Nigel Farage have for lying about how close he was to self-confessed Russian asset and former UKIP MEP Nathan Gill? ;-)

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

The last throw of the dice for the Tories. No longer Reform lite, now full fat Reform in all its ugliness.

This is… the concern.

The Guardian again pushing for far-right bullshit because you KNOW this is a crackdown against anyone protesting genocide or cruelty against the disenfranchised. Racists marching for hate will be a-ok.
WHY DOES THE UK WANT TO BE THE US?!

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

All these articles positing Tilly Norwood as a star and wondering when the first A.I. actor will win an Oscar are being brought to you by the same tech-bro companies who are spending billions to normalize this shit. Ignore. Create. Use your soul. It’s all we have—and it’s all we need to create Art.