@cerealatmidnight.com Okay, great mega episode with Brian. I agree totally with your appraisal of Superman and James Gunn as a whole.

Woah! The Oxygen Destroyer still exists!!!

This manga is becoming my everything everything. Obsessed is an understatement.

Here's the NYCC schedule so far. There could be more. We'll see. 🤞

Quick trip to one of @helleborezine.bsky.social’s favourite Victorian gothic mystical sites…

Things that always work all of the time, with studies to prove it, boosting the economy and productivity, and increasing quality of life and public health, and that will never, ever be implemented within my lifetime: 1. UBI 2. 4-day working week

Every morning I check bluesky, mute a half dozen accounts, mute a half dozen keywords and phrases, then log out. Not sure this is how social media should be.

LOL Apple you are not ready for my thoughts on macOS Tahoe. You sitting down?

Coruscant? Coruscannot!

Trying to find the email l deleted - it also used the exact same "storm your book like it's the Bastille" line. But about... Star Wars, not romance.

I've been getting lots of these. (And again, as an aside, this is what AI looks like? Very obviously regurgitated phraseology from stolen content, rearranged to be as condescending and patronising as hell? And people are suckered in by this? That's probably the scariest part.)

Latest physical media arrivals! THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS limited edition (with soundtrack CD!) from @thirdwindowfilms.com, THE BETRAYAL blu-ray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social, and the US 4K UHD blu-ray of HIGH AND LOW from @criterion.bsky.social.

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

Let the hooting and hollering commence. #StarWars

Hooray! Excellent news and congrats @delilahsdawson.bsky.social!

SAME.

Thanks as always to Random House Worlds for the review copy of @adamchristopher.me Master of Evil.

OH YEAH!!! I had just started a non-Star Wars book, but just got the ARC for MASTER OF EVIL by @adamchristopher.me so I guess I'll be putting that one down and digging into this one!!!!! THE HYPE IS REAL!

If I'm unavailable the rest of this week, it's @adamchristopher.me 's fault. Thank you to the great folks at Random House Worlds for this advanced copy. Full coverage and review coming after 10/28 when the embargo lifts. #MasterOfEvil

You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.

I mean... was this issue made just for me, because these are my favourite topics. Ordered!

I'm all for Kickstarter-funded comics/omnibuses/deluxe books, etc, but going from $300 for the fancy edition (steep, but understandable for the mega-tricked-out version) to $1,500 for the even fancier edition is kinda taking the mick, right?

The NYCC schedule is up and I am also on this panel, contrary to what the listing says. We gotta lotta Vader to talk about! 👀🧐🥸

IT'S FINALLY HERE!! Thor & Loki: Epic Tales from Marvel Mythology! This isn't a novel-- It's an in-universe retelling of classic Norse myths through the bardic bragging of Thor and Loki, with added Marvel comics stories like Thor: Frog of Thunder. Buy links: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/delil...

For the love of Gorilla Grodd, why are the controls in Apple Music now down the bottom of the window? Now there's wasted empty space at the top. The only possible reason is just so they can show off the transparency behind the controls.

Between today's writing sessions on the Novel In Progress*, saw this in the NYT Morning newsletter from Melissa Kirsch, writing about a novelist friend of hers, and thought, yeah, this is the whole game right here * get your girty mind off my acronym

In space, no one can hear you… well, that would be a spoiler. CRAWLSPACE ARCs are in!

I hope you like corner radii cos macOS Tahoe gives you a whole selection... (This is four different windows maximised against each other on two displays, I haven't arranged anything just for this screenshot).

Why are all my phone icons… tilted??

Holyeeeeeee mackerel. macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 are absolutely hideous.

Hoping that other publishers also do this (like @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social).

Use your alt-text properly!

Not much point in muting certain people and certain keywords when folks just start posting screenshots of the very stuff I'm trying to get rid of. I'm gonna have to go all-in and just mute accounts now.

@cerealatmidnight.com Loved the latest channel update but how are there comments on the video that are 2 days old if it was only uploaded an hour ago?

Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

Met a very old and very unhappy friend today.

Damn, son.

Wait, I had a work ethic? I’d better listen to this cos I sure as heck need to remember what it was…

Wait, Star Wars Hunters is disappearing? I remember their enormous booth/demo area at SDCC. But more importantly, this is how we lose stuff permanently in the modern age. No historical archive, no repository of data. The only thing that will exist are gameplay videos on YouTube I guess.

You would not believe how much unagi I ate tonight. Like a whole bloody eel. So. Much. Unagi.

I have no idea what this film is but I am SO IN.

This fact I like. Bring me some more facts.

Tolkien fans are touchy, aren't they?

2025 Netflix: *boring tudum noise* 1980s BBC Video: *epic psychedelic stargate disco space laser show*

Fab review of my Doctor Who BBC Audio Original WHAT STILL REMAINS in the latest Doctor Who Magazine - David Richardson calls it a "confident debut" with "buckets of atmosphere" Hey, I'll take that! Grab your CD or download from here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/464137...

In the podcast on Saturday I'll be looking at 'I Only Killed Him Once' by @adamchristopher.me. Not since Lucy Snowe in Villette have I so identified with a lead character, which is a concern since Ray Electromatic is a not only a robot but a PI and a hitman. Best not dwell on that...

Huh, the muted words are not working? Or do I need to log out and log back in?

Anyway time to add a whole new bunch of muted words and phrases to Bluesky just to be able to sift through the nonsense on here. Or I could actually get to work!

Live webcams are both cool and inherently creepy. Like... here I am, having breakfast in the UK, and I'm watching a dude sitting in a square in Italy drink a cup of coffee. That sounds SO wrong. (Somehow I've got into the habit of having a rolling webcam feed on YouTube in the mornings as I write)