It's been quite a while since I've been on a podcast so I was excited to get involved in this one - Daniel's great and damn is he hard working, at one point I was just wondering if I should be interviewing him about how he managed to do so much in his waking hours! Links below:

Spent a while working out an orange chicken recipe for supper, which I've never done before. Kids said it was too orangy... They do like a massive plate of stir fried chicken though so I can't complain too much.

A very accurate flowchart

And that's my sixth work email account up and running.

Booked myself a week off next month. I can feel the stress levels messing with my attention span, which means I'll need it by the time it comes around!

Note for the uninformed: Kathleen Stock is an outspoken, fanatical transphobe. A better headline might have been "bully calls on bullying victim to put past bullying behind them (and bend over)".

It's been quite a while since I've been on a podcast so I was excited to get involved in this one - Daniel's great and damn is he hard working, at one point I was just wondering if I should be interviewing him about how he managed to do so much in his waking hours! Links below:

Just looking at a new audio company's page, testing out their stories. Stills to dramatize scenes, but must be AI generated given the number involved, narrator clearly AI generated and so lifeless they've not found a good one. And don't even get me started on the writing...

If you're tempted to get suckered in by Leo and his smooth talk, remember the Church is currently suing Colorado for the right to discriminate against women and queers. Don't let them fool you with pretty lies. You cannot be "dedicated to social justice" whilst suing for the right not to practice it

Thank god, I was feeling really down before they invented a pasta sauce that spies on us.

Libra: You will get your dream job today. Unfortunately, it's that dream where you're being chased by fanged clowns with bloody cleavers trying to give you a copy of Dianetics.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Normally I binge an album after I buy it for a while, then calm down. Oddly, I gave Everybody Scream a few listens then put it into normal rotation, but I've found myself binging it these last few weeks. Maybe just jealousy over those who've see Florence live...

AI is tobacco. That's the model. The more you use it, the more you need it. Then they jack up the price.

I wish we could skip to the bit where Starmer's gone and centrists have stopped writing desperate thinkpieces about how Wes Streeting is strong and stable leadership that will save Labour.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Ah sundays out in the home counties. The dull middle aged cycling nerds are out in force

I probably don't even want to know how harlequins did against Bath. Can't imagine how it could have been good, given the season so far.

No matter how old I get, I'll always read some names wrong, like "Philippe, Duck d'Orleans"

Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie. Also Trad publishers.

Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

Trying to come up with a band name for the book, and unsurprisingly every one I can think of has been taken already. And they might take issue with the way the band are presented so...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

When a woman blocks you on Tinder for being creepy.

If Liz Kendall wants me to embrace AI, she can fix what’s wrong with it and stop talking about it as if a trillion dollar surveillance/kill-list engine sucking down as much energy as a new industrialised country and appropriating billions of pounds‘ worth of labour is a lost kitten.

Nice - don't think I've ever come across the word "coolth" ever before, but just read it in The Anechoic Chamber collection. So I've learned something today.

honestly very funny to see the line "We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average" in a study paid for by anthropic inc

Just been told that my agent has retired. Apparently I missed getting that information... Do I look for a new one?

Dog's already scratched her plaster half off her neck. Vet has given no advice on how to stop her tearing the stitches, they can't think of anything. I wonder if bandaging her foot would stop her using it?

Dog is home and refusing to settle, woozily wandering the house wondering why there's no food in her bowl (I'm boiling rice for her)

I don't even really know what makes a good video clip for socials because I don't watch that stuff. I don't like having a stream of faces talking at me, I actively find it stressful. Plus I'm not a performer, I'm not charismatic, it takes a huge effort for me to deliver anything.

Elderly dog dropped off for her latest op. My concentration span may not be the best today.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Ok, time to sent a reversion notice for the Twilight Reign novels - doesn't look like there's any appetite to engage over reviving sales. I'll see if any smaller publisher wants the backlist or I'll sell them myself.

A huge #BBNYA2026 welcome to @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social and Devil Inside Good luck!

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

Recently published, we are bringing back Jo Hall's award-nominated novel, The Summer Goddess. wizardstowerpress.co...

My point, if I’ve got one, is that this reflects the reality of publishing, especially non-fiction. And it possibly says something about the status of books.

Anyone had hachette royalties yet? Just remembered no statement has turned up. Only a small amount so I'm a low priority but just curious how many people are missing them

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Having felt not great all day, I'm feeling significantly improved after an hour of writing. Might be I've been missing that recently and should do a bit more!

Mind slightly blown by the fact I, for example, am closer in tennis ranking points to the world no. 3, than the world no 3 is to the world no 2. The gap is that huge.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

So, incredibly happy for, and proud of, Hungary. And looks like PM might even manage 2/3rds needed for a deep constitutional undoing of Orban's feckery. If EU has *any* sense whatsoever, it will THROW MONEY at Magyar, like a drunk yuppie at a stripper. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Time to watch D2: more spice, more flowious

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

First match of the season and I manage to get a calf strain 3 games in. We won though!

Sigh. Dog decided to celebrate her neck looking better after a week of care by scratching the crap out of it, so I can't ignore this operation any longer.

I'm greatly enjoying the inevitable questions resulting from melania's "I had no links with epstein" t-shirt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...