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Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

As someone who just finished a creative writing MA, I couldn't agree more. Just write!

I know you may have seen this today but just in case you ever have a doubt that so, so many British people in the highest echelons of their society had and have a baffling blindness to colonialism and its long, long shadow...

From @profdanhicks.bsky.social upcoming book - bsky.app/profile/prof...

Nope.

Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾‍♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾‍♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾‍♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿‍♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿‍♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿‍♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾‍♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate

Also please include self-published authors when you think of indie, not just small presses 🙏

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Thank you so much, the music made the ceremony extra special today x

A small wedge of Christmas cake held against the sunny sky, with blurred trees in the background.

Christmas cake and sunshine!

a pair of sliders in the middle of a tarmac road. Set apart as if a person was mid stride and they just disappeared right out of them.

Poof!

Someone disappeared mid stride in the Northern Quarter... well, that's my take anyway.

I went to cross the road, and they were just sitting there as if someone up and vanished mid run... I think there's a story here.

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy.

The creative industries contribute £124bn.

Fucksake.

Stop AI copyright theft.

This is high art

It is bleakly funny reading todays UK papers & seeing the Treasury claiming that 'diplomacy' ensured they got hit with lower tariffs while economists point out in adjacent articles that it's because the UK has fuck-all trade post-Brexit that they got a low tariff.

I loved The Garden of Delights, and such a treat to listen to @amalsingh.bsky.social read from his Novel. Thank you!

Thank you, loved your interview... and yes to all witches!

A black-clothed figure stands in a dilapidated room wearing an animal mask. The wall behind them has peeling paint, and Chinese writing is on it.

This Qingming—the day every year when Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites & make ritual offerings to ancestors— Xueting C. Ni reflects on the unique sense of Chinese horror, and why its stories remain under-explored.

britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-h...

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How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox If you want to get rid of all AI services and features introduced in Mozilla Firefox web browser, this article will help you. Mozilla Firefox 136.0 and later ve

Just found out thanks to the latest update that Firefox has "AI" features. Here's how to switch them off.

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

Some very brief highlights:

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Two notebooks. One A5 black with a yellow gold flower motif and one black A6 one with black and yellow fan motifs sprayed edges.

New notebooks. After finishing my MA, I can't stand writing on my laptop, so back to basics.

Masking Saturday had me sleeping most of Sunday away... still regulating, will resume (gestures at thin air) soon...

My kindle displaying the cover of Althea Leon's book The Hiding: Book One of the Seer of York

My new commute read from author @alethearlyons.bsky.social

Beautiful to see!

It was lovely to meet, can't wait to get involved in more BFS/Manchester events.

BFS member and author Adrian with myself, Sharon sat behind the BFS desk at the Black British Book Fair

Wonderful to meet so many potential members today... don't forget to check out the upcoming BFS podcast, info here: britishfantasysociety.org/introducing-... and BFS blog here: britishfantasysociety.org/blog/all-blo... & shout out to @alethearlyons.bsky.social & Adrian for doing all the work today!

authors—Kit de Waal, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, Jeffrey Boakye, and Cebo Campbell sat on a raised platform, discussing Resilience to an audience.

Fabulous panel on 'Writing Black Lives: Tales of Resilience and Identity' with authors Kit de Waal, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, Jeffrey Boakye, and Cebo Campbell.

My hand in the forefront holding a Greggs coffee and vegan sausage roll in front of Manchester Central Library.

Sustainace (debateable) aquired!

I strongly suspect that what we’re seeing with Gen AI is proof of the impact of what happens when you fail to teach even basic levels of image/visual comprehension to children.

They grow up to become adults who don’t value or understand the art they consume.

Black had holding a card that reads Black British Book Festival Manchester. Manchester Central Library. Today. With image of Central library in background.

I'll be at the #BlackBritishBookFestival this afternoon at Manchester Central Library repping the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social with @alethearlyons.bsky.social — come say hi!

This!

And it's not only about the international SFF community but also those who can't afford to expose themselves to Covid. It would be really cool if instead of going back to in person cons only, we made the effort to keep the online part alive because... things are taught right now. We want to join you