I guess the plus side of being sick is I was already on holiday? Wait, is that a plus side?

That’s no moon.

Hot damn, CRAWLSPACE is on the list too! Roll on 2026 🖤🖤🖤

DESTROY AI.

YES BOYS.

GenAI cannot summarise anything because it cannot analyse anything because there is no intelligence there. This entire premise starts with a lie and the deceit builds from there.

Destroy AI.

This is great. Give more books!

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

I’ve just finished @adamchristopher.me’s book and am filled with the Christmas Spirt! Unfortunately it’s also the spirit of ancient darkness and horror sifted through a thousand nightmares.

This also applies to writing, yo.

Love the selection of recent #StarWars books at the Lake Grove @barnesandnoble.com. For you last-minute shoppers, they all make wonderful gifts. Happy Holidays! (And, yes, I’m wearing a DC Comics hat even though I edit SW & Marvel books. But in all fairness, I did work there for 11 years.) Ho-Ho-Ho!

So the big question is, if I am on holiday for two weeks (I am), do I open my bottle of umeshu now or save it for Christmas Day?

Was going to post something, then decided not to, because Joe Hill once told me to always remember your ABCs (Always Be Cool), so I’m going to do just that now and will try to do that more often in future.

Watching the 1995 Top of the Pops Christmas episode, and as someone on here said - can’t remember who, sorry! - I am in complete agreement that everything went wrong as soon as someone decided music should be free.

good morning, y'all! fuck AI. fuck LLMs. fuck nazis. unions are vital. healthcare for everyone. science is real. art is made by humans.

Well, David Walliams can find solace in the fact that he just needs to wait a couple of years and he can come back.

Glad I ditched my @sfwa.org membership years ago.

I think I’m ready to enlist in the Butlerian Jihad now

I've often wondered if a line of Bronze Age-inspired comics, with melodramatic covers and purple text, would actually do quite well these days. I was recently re-reading Tomb of Dracula, and damn, every single panel caption could be put on a t-shirt. I miss that about modern comics.

Looking forward to talking to @outoforderbookclub.bsky.social next year :)

Huh, this is... good? I think?

Guess I'll post this again

reminder to authors to fill out your Anthropic paperwork; this is what they built off our stolen work

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

Oh wow, suddenly you have a desperate need for social and artistic skill sets? Amazing. Anyway, eat a cold loaf of Satan's ass cheese, fellas.

This, 100,000%. I've already read some oh-so-amusing tales of Christmas shopping from people who think they are being oh-so-clever but are actually being utter, utter dicks. I've worked in retail. The customer is usually wrong, and usually very dumb, so please don't be like that.

Love this analysis

Anyone recommend a good podcast app? I mean… it seems pretty basic, but I want an app where I can organise my podcasts. I use Apple Podcasts at the moment, but the library is just a big disorganised set of shows. I’d like to group things or put them in folders, perhaps.

Do I want a Commodore C64 Ultimate?

I was listening to Joe Hill on the @ukpageone.bsky.social podcast today, and the way he described simply reading as an act of rebellion really struck me. I was thinking how vital it is we fight for our art going forward (creation = rebellion) and that doing something NEW for yourself is the same.

Damn. But he’s going to need to go into hiding after this. I’m not entirely joking.

Playing catchup as I thought I had an extra day before my last Japanese lesson of the year, but わたしはまいにちにほんごをはなします。 (I mean that is true, not just what the textbook exercise tells me to write out, but - hot damn is this good for me. Start learn a new language in 2026, your brain will love it!)

"make sure you join our discorrd!" I will never be doing that.

Again going to bang my drum: *Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks *Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails *Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent. Gen AI is poisoned at the root.

Very quickly @filmsradiance.bsky.social and @thirdwindowfilms.com have become my favourite physical media labels.

I should do my Japanese homework, I say! One hour later I have done one page and my brain hurts, but goddamit, わたしのともだちはにほんにいきます！

"overrated" is an adjective wielded by people who have nothing to say worth listening to

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Gil's wife has posted his last message to his fans — closing with a bit of advice: "Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos." www.facebook.com/GilGerardFan...

I hate this timeline and want to get off.

Third Window knocking it out of the park. Again!

I need to try this, given Firefox can now be ejected into the sun thanks to their embracing of AI.

So Chile took one look at the USA and went, yes please? Yikes.

HIRAYASUMI was my book of the year. I devoured the 6 English volumes in one run, and volume 7 is out this week!

So good from @meganhuang.bsky.social.

quote this post with your four best pics of 2025 pls and thanku x

This is pretty interesting, and something I've been wondering about. As I have got older, my musical taste has got far louder, noisier, and more challenging. Yet bands I used to love - also getting older! - have drifted into twee MORness. I'd like just one old band I like to get harder, please!

Wow, 4K too. Very nice.

If you can get Peter Davison back to do the theme tune, I'm all in.