Luke F. Shepherd

OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

There are 3 certainties in life: Death, Taxes, and any conversation with @stephengrahamjones.com being the coolest listen possible. (Also, related to my last post about The Weird - his story ‘Little Lambs’ is in there and it’s sooooo fucking good)

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

Genuinely formative for me. So many cool stories in here.

This type of unfounded accusation is becoming more and more common against writers of a certain background. If The Atlantic care so much about AI use, why don't they go after the writers who admit using it like James Frey or Olga Tokarczuk or Anthony Horowitz? It's plain double standards.

It's FOLK HORROR season!! May I rec "Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror" (pub on 10/2025)?? Awesome horror in here including one by me! 💖 Stories by: @f-shep.bsky.social @hvpatterson.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @dextermcleod.bsky.social & more! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXPG791...

Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Boy, sure can’t wait for Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife to be talked about in the same omniscient breath as Parable of The Sower 🫠

AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books

Wrote a thing. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/ten-ways-i...

Zoo City, Lauren Beukes The Employees, Olga Ravn Ammonite, Nicola Griffith China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine Are You Happy Now, Hanna Jameson (And obviously anything by Butler or Le Guin… but especially Dawn for me)

‘But if we don’t platform them and give them money they’ll only get richer and have a bigger reach!’

Ruin a book by adding a word: Don’t Matter

18, working at a wildlife park. Man turned up in his truck saying he was ‘here to shag the alpacas’. I was told to walk him through, wait til he finished, walk him back out. That was the day I learned ‘shag’ meant ‘shear’ but fuck me the walk down to the farmyard section was a nervous one.

Trent Reznor gives up trying to control his kids in B&Q. Fine, Pinch Nails.

PRINT RUN NEVER MISS

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @stephengrahamjones.com was simply extraordinary. Straight onto my all timers list. Read it now. Before everyone sees the movie adaptation that’s absolutely begging to be made. The voice man, ahh the voice. You want to experience your very own version of this. Trust.

Adrian is a very cool dude and he’s serving up some fungal delight (well… murder/blackmail/tension) from TODAY! Go grab your copy of A Murder Most Fungal and chow down!

It’s that special time that only comes around once every 4 years: People sharing vids of the Japanese fans tidying up after themselves and going ‘oh wow the Japanese are so civilised, why don’t we do that?’ and then immediately forgetting about it for another 4 years.

Shaka, when the letters fell.

PRINT RUN never miss

"Lots of creatives seem to have mental health issues, adversity must inspire art..."

I fear 46-0 is going to ruin my life www.46-0.app

LOVE this one today from Steff Sirois, and we think you should love it with us! "Eventually, we’ll watch a wrecking ball smash through the curved glass of the sunroom like it never mattered. The last time I was in there, you still had a body..." https://www.havehashad.com/egup9

This is so much fun! Incredible worldbuilding. Well worth your time (and balance of probability you’re probably doomscrolling a Reddit forum at some point today anyway - so make it this one)

Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

Never come closer to brushing my own teeth with the dog’s toothpaste and toothbrush. Mouth was open and brush was on its way in before I realised. Time for bed.

Wanna be slightly depressed by some sword and sorcery? *slaps hood* This baby will get you there, no worries. open.spotify.com/episode/4eCd...

"WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS PANTSES" Taken at Manchester's emergency protest against the EHRC guidance, May 2026

Straight forward romance is out, trash couples are in. Back this and read my story about the addicting, superficial early part of falling for someone.

Sub 2 hours is unreal. Sawe and Kejelcha are legends.

WE BUILT THIS SHITTY WE BUILT THIS SHITTY WE BUILD THIS SHITTY APP VIBE CODING