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🚨 SEVEN New stories have launched from our Original Worlds imprint! Now available at coldopenstories.com they're going to live rent-free in my head for months! Check out all the releases, and leave a comment on which story you'll be checking out first:

@RichardDawkins Once again, a public intellectual falls at the first hurdle in distinguishing between sex and gender.

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

I’m beginning to understand that many of you use the word “cancelled” to index the much more complex social process we used to call “falling out of favor”

@EscapistMag Whatever asset-stripping cretin is steering the wheel behind this travesty should really take a look at their life and maybe cancel it.

🧿 The internet’s longest-running Warhammer fanfiction contest returns with The Mind’s Eye. 🧿 Explore telepathic warfare, psychic intrusions, and dangerous powers waged in silence. Mind over matter isn’t metaphor here - it’s lethal. Enter ➡️ 40k.coldopenstories.com

🧿 Open your third eye - the winners of the longest-running Warhammer 40,000 writing contest are here! 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction-x… Thank you to everyone who entered!!

Hey! I was part of a judging panel for a Warhammer 40k flash fiction fan-fic competition on @ColdOpenStories, and the results were released today. 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction-x… #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #fanfic

*my ship is ablaze, my crew are attacking each other with cutlasses and teeth, cannon-shot is tearing into our hull from left and right, my stammering orders are being received with outright scorn* this is not the time for change. I plan to get on with governing.

*dirt-smeared, blood-streaked, I pivot my horse* Brathgar! What a glorious day this is for battle! Death to our foes! *I swing my sword in a clumsy arc and immediately decapitate myself*

@NancyMace “Christian”

Not our problem.

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

@SiddhantAdlakha I reported a post underneath something you put up recently that was unambiguously racist hate. X didn’t seem to think so 🤷

Was sent relentless racism, death threats, and even gore for not liking one episode of a superhero show. So, you know, just another day at the office.

@goodreads Hi @goodreads — desperate to get back into my account but the reset password email never arrives. Cannot find a way to speak to your service, please help!

Every. Single. Time. 😭 Which part of the ride are you on right now?

Nick Cave responding to a grieving mother who worries that she forsaw, or perhaps even willed, the death of her young child is one of the most beautiful things you will read today.

Pleased to say that I will have an unofficial Warhammer 40k short story published soon with @ColdOpenStories! In Carrion Void, Chaos Sorcerer Anivadi Cale corners an Aeldari fleet in the Eye of Terror. However, old betrayals are in pursuit… Read more: 40k.coldopenstories.com

@BrndnStrssng Disturbing AI uncanny valley-feel to connect with modern sensibilities, nice.

This is shot and cut like the people doing it were thawed from ice ten minutes ago and given a brief rundown on what a movie is and what it should look like

@kunktation I think about this a lot

Which is insane because the Iranian government was massacring thousands of protesters mere months ago. How do you fuck the optics up this bad?

@MalkyDel Looks good! The Emperor approves.

So I did something semi-drastic over the weekend and let the intrusive thoughts win. Shortest my hair has been in literal decades.

@TheWapplehouse noooo it’s worse every time

The resistance libs really do take the belt on this every time

In honor of Twitter’s 20th birthday what’s the worst tweet you’ve ever seen