Zoë Sumra

Author of scifi novels Sailor to a Siren & The Wages of Sin: Fencer. Football & cricket. She/her

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

New novel: THE WAGES OF SIN - magic, murder and mayhem within a faraway planet's underbelly. https://t.co/fnvTzP5SeA #scifi #spaceopera

[Andy S. 🇩🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AndySTHFC]

Yeah let's give the most financially lucrative sporting event in the world to a country that hates football AND foreigners. What's the worst that could happen??

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@LeclairLar @OliviaTroye Unfortunately the WC rules say all referees have to be based in Florida and travel around from there.

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@Matan_Vilensky @maggieofthetown Say that to a book fan and you'll get a vastly different response - GOT's old school fans consider it's been on fire for ten years.

[Maggie Lovitt @maggieofthetown]

And if I said the collapse of sci-fi franchises goes hand-in-hand with the rise of fascism and right-wing sentiments? Sci-fi thrives on this sort of forward-looking, almost childish, belief in a better tomorrow, which feels impossible these days.

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@SCanuanswer @OrevaZSN Write fiction. Any fiction.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Hildegard Angel Oficial @hilde_angel]

Nem uma única bola rolou no gramado até agora e este é o quadro da COPA 2026:
• As equipes do Senegal e do Uzbequistão foram tratadas na chegada como criminosos, com buscas completas em seus orifícios.
• O melhor árbitro da África foi enviado de volta à Somália, apesar de seu passaporte diplomático.
• O Fotógrafo da equipe do Iraque foi impedido de entrar mesmo com visto válido.
• Foi negada a entrada nos EUA de 90% dos fãs marroquinos com ingressos já adquiridos.
• Foram recusados vistos a 14 membros da equipe de apoio do Irã.
• Foi negada a entrada no país do principal atacante da Suíça, o camaronês Breel Embolo. A equipe viajou sem ele. Após a forte repercussão, o visto foi enfim concedido.
• A equipe iraniana, cujos jogos serão todos nos EUA, foi proibida de pernoitar no país. Imediatamente a após cada partida, os atletas voarão de volta ao México, onde se hospedam.
- Qual é o sentido de sediar a Copa do Mundo se não pretendem que o MUNDO faça parte dela???

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@CallumLyon This has been the case for 20 years or more. It's ridiculous.

[Super Relaxed Fantasy Club @SRFantasyClub]

SRFC is back on Tuesday 9th June with RJ Barker @dedbutdrmng and Mike Brooks!

Get your free ticket here: https://t.co/XNY3M7zk5k

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@radio_RG I've been enjoying your commentary very much over the last week. An offering for the books series: Bedtime For Francis Tiafoe (for elucidation, see https://t.co/HnIE5RAPx5) - Zoë, London

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

Harborne has donated a total of £30m to Nigel Farage, the Brexit party and Reform UK as well as Boris Johnson and the Conservative party. Harborne’s donations make him the second largest political donor in modern British history after Lord David Sainsbury

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

Anti-immigration videos traced to overseas AI accounts https://t.co/tfLU6IV7UH

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Say what you like about the British press, but I find it reassuring that they spend months ripping apart a Labour PM for properly declaring some glasses and football tickets, then all but ignore someone who wants to be PM when he tries to cover up a £5 million gift.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Good for the Obsever for leading on this.

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor?
Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve.
Got rubbish piling up? Email them.
Bus vanished from existence? Email them.
Streetlights dead? Email them.
Care package delayed? Email them.
Pavement like the Somme? Email them.
Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is.
Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes.
Welcome to local government.
The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward.
The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated.
Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@CrookRanald @snowleopardess That's incorrect. That is the number of knife crime incidents, mostly of people CARRYING a knife, bot using one. Please don't misread statistics.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer.

Why? Or, more to the point, how?

Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt.

But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR
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[Zoë Sumra @ZoeSumra]

@iforgotthefall @Ionaonie They don't care. Whipping up outrage at a potential, no matter that it is already impossible, is all that matters. The lie travels faster than the truth.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet.

Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire.

It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process.

"Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner."

Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.