@shortestwitch

Nuisance/Writer/Publisher/Librarian| in books & in bogs | poetry & spec fic | 📚 Dionysia, Unfurl | editor @thebraag | bsky @shortestwitch | she/they 🏳️‍🌈

 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
kymdeyn.com/
Joined March 2019
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New followers, hi! I'm a poet/Spec Fic writer/editor/tarotist based in Newcastle. My pamphlets are Primers Vol.6 (@NineArchesPress ) Dionysia (@VervePoetryPres) and Unfurl. I run @TheBraag, a press and micro-journal. Website is kymdeyn.com 💚✒️
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Three things: I'm basically never on here any more, the nzi slop got too much for me, which means—like everyone else—I've lost a bunch of my reach and visiblity. Anyway, my small press, The Braag is open for submissions! 3rd thing: I'm on the blsky!
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So, chatbots are accessing people’s private data to tell them things “no one could possibly know,” and some folks see this as proof that the bots are angels / demons from another realm. The internet has broken a lot of brains. I’m begging you to log off. Read a book. Go outside.
guapunzel
@guapunzel14 Jun 2025
just so yall know they are on tik tok using chatgpt for mediumship and getting accurate results…like things they havent even shared with anyone one girl was sent by her chatgpt to find records hidden in her house…..and they were there
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It shouldn't be a controversial take that presses that charge a submissions fee but don't pay their authors shouldn't exist. And yet.
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@tparsi14 Jun 2025
Read the whole thing, but particularly the last line
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Dom@domsalisbury9 Jun 2025
Now they've cancelled taking £300 from pensioners on £35,000, perhaps they can cancel taking £8,000–£10,000 from chronically ill and disabled people with incomes of around £15,000. #takingthepip
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instagram really liked this one
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PRIMERS returns. We're thrilled to announce that the selecting editor for our biannual mentoring and publication scheme is poet @LaurieBolger Now in it's eight edition, the ever-popular and unique Primers search begins today. Find out more here: ninearchespress.com/primers
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ALCS@ALCS_UK15 May 2025
The Government has today announced it is keeping the existing copyright exhaustion regime, after previous suggestions that would have been catastrophic for UK authors. Thank you to everyone who joined the Save Our Books campaign back in 2021 💪 alcs.co.uk/news/success-for-…

Success for the Save Our Books campaign

The Government has announced that the existing Copyright Exhaustion Regime will be retained, after previous suggested changes that would have been catastrophic for UK authors.

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soli
@solisolsoli13 May 2025
Black Cat by Maya Fidawi
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⚠︎ New creatures founded Number : 671-675
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I get yelled at for saying this but children enjoy being challenged and it's good for them to read books that are a bit difficult. In my experience, adults are the ones trying to keep them from classics while the kids are aching to read Dracula, Jane Austen and Jane Eyre.
Icona@iconawrites30 Apr 2025
One of the worst trends I recently found out about is parents not allowing kids to read anything other than children’s books/YA until they are close to 18. I love children’s books, but reading Ovid, Homer, Dante, etc. before I was fully “ready” was so formative for me.
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Tom Snarsky@TomSnarsky17 Apr 2025
William Stafford
FOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRAID There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot—air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

ALT FOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRAID There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot—air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

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may🍉@maybebi47727 Mar 2025
im so tired of AI. restaurants have AI ads on billboards and my little cousins show me AI memes on tiktok and my friend treats chat gpt like her bestie and every trend on twitter is related to AI im so fucking tired of AI how can no one else see how bleak life has become
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Slam of the North brings together the best performance poets from five northern universities to compete over one exciting evening! For 1 night only, we are bringing together the best performance poets from 5 northern universities to compete in a spectacular celebration of poetry!
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1 in 5 employers won't hire a disabled person. We are twice as likely to be unemployed and have to apply for 60% more jobs. There are only 23 truly remote jobs in ‘Disability Confident’ organisations in the whole of the UK. Cutting PIP won’t get more disabled people in work.
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Finding twt increasingly gross these days! I've been at 🟦 for ages @shortestwitch.bsky.social 💙
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rat king
Illustration of a rat king (multiple rats tangled together by their tails). The rats are all clustered in the top half of the composition, with their tails forming a loop below. A dripping crown is overlaid on the loop, and the rats all have small crowns.

ALT Illustration of a rat king (multiple rats tangled together by their tails). The rats are all clustered in the top half of the composition, with their tails forming a loop below. A dripping crown is overlaid on the loop, and the rats all have small crowns.

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Who for a story? Who for a tale? Thank you @reactormag for revealing the stunning cover for my debut novella, AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Arrives 9/16 from @TachyonPub, illustrated/designed by @hyperbolictelly, get a closer look & exclusive excerpt below!🦊💜 reactormag.com/ccover-reveal…

The Challenge of a Trickster God: Revealing Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill - Reactor

To survive the challenge of a trickster god, a quick-witted acolyte rallies her ancestors...

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'It’s a two-tier system where you can either afford to do an unpaid internship and have a career in the arts or you can’t.' theguardian.com/culture/2025…

Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say

Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries

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