The last review of the SH week is from @ianjsimpson.bsky.social, and focuses on Jacy Morris's We Like It Cherry (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social). "Morris is writing about tradition and belief and survival; about the Other both within and outside of our immediate experiences."
Spoilers, obvs:
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
The Exorcist Beloved Exquisite Corpse The Hunger Games Carrie Rosemary's Baby The Witches Bless Me, Ultima Lord of the Flies Kindred The Handmaid's Tale Lovecraft Country 100 Years of Solitude When the Reckoning Comes The Witch of Blackbird Pond The Lottery Perfume Tipping the Velvet In the Miso Soup
It's Banned Books Week! Here are some Horror (and adjacent) books that are often banned and/or frequently challenged. I have read most of them but I chose Bless Me, Ultima to read & enjoy. See if your public/school libraries have these books! Read Banned Books
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...
Hi, can I interest you in some fantasy written by a nonbinary author? With trans and intersex characters? Not based on a franchise by a transphobic author!
Dragonfall, Emberclaw, and my rewritten debut, Pantomime, are out now, and I could very much use some help getting the word out about them. 💖
And on my last day, at 12.05, my last piece of formal work is complete...
The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship
#movies #documentaries
Long exposure photograph of Three Shires Head which is 2 main short falls in the distance under a small stone bridge and a series of smaller cascades in the foreground. The sky is filled with wispy white clouds and a winter tree is on the upper left.
Three Shires Head, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire
#waterfallwednesday
And I can finally see the bottom of my to-do list :)
In one week I'll be back in public libraries...
Cassette tape or just tape (from NE England and of appropriate age).
This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads....
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259...
#UKKidlit #Edusky
A woman and child read a picture book in a library.
Public #Libraries are 'essential for more equitable access to books, texts and digital resources', a new report from Literacy Lab @edinburghuni.bsky.social on the future of books and reading notes.
blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/...
#Reading
What the fuck. Are there any decent alternatives?
The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI
Daily life in 2025.
#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS
The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)
Come to Aston and do my job...
Head of Content and Digital Transformation - Jobs at Aston
jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Closing date: Monday 29 September 2025.
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Skybrarians
Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.
Panel One: A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room. A voice offstage says "You can't survive on books alone" The woman replies "Maybe I can!" Panel Two: "How?" asks the voice "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman Panel Three: Caption: However The book is filled with yet more books. A skull sits on the chair. It says "I regret nothing!"
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Panel 1 A figure lies on a lounger as a hot, orange sun sets, saying "The holiday's over." Panel 2 Now wheeling a suitcase towards a plane in warm eveniong light "It's nice to sit around in the sun reading all day." Panel 3 The plane rises amongst the clouds "But all good things must come to an end." Panel 4 The figure deplanes with the suitcase in drizzle "Coming home has its own pleasures." Panel 5 The rain is harder. The figure shelter under an umbrella and looks into a shop window containing a selection of books and a sign reading "New books for autumn!" Panel 6 The figure now sits at home by an open fire, happily reading a new book. The suitcase has not yet been unpacked.
My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.
Happy 25th Birthday to Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Oops...
60-odd pages in - excellent so far. Typical Moore prose and characters but not sci-fi - more fantastical.
This accessible, local service is saving Brits £1,473 a year. www.better.org.uk/news/this-ac...
Love your #library
Book over of The Great When by Alan Moore which depicts a collapsing fantastical version of Tower Bridge in London.
Alan Moore's The Great When.
Pancakes
That was "Unfunded hobbyist research", the latest single from President Malcolm Press
2 weeks to go...
