We launch at 1PM, and I have checked that I've definitely gone through Kickstarter approval about 50 times in the last two days.

lmao, one of my readers’ groups ran fresh outta fucks

The problem with having worked in magazines is you see this and you think, “Leading needs sorting”

People (not) eating food in tv shows should be banned. Finally catching up with last 2 seasons of The Bear. Loved the Tina episode, but when she’s crying in The Beef, all I could think about was her uneaten sandwich. Eat the sandwich it’s getting cold! Never mind that what about the sandwich?

Perfect excuse to share this classic from The Oatmeal

This reminds me of an early (ie 20yrs ago) fake mag cover I saw online that was a women’s version of Nuts. The cover line was “ooh look at his lovely arms”

"What was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out on a very public stage."

I'm allowed to make jokes about bald people because I'm part of the community. www.worldofmoose.com/products/bal...

It’s okay for life events to change you. Good and bad. After cancer, concepts such as “bouncing back” after childbirth seemed even more ridiculous to me. Of course major events like that will change your body. As will living and the passage of time. #cansky 1/5

Personally I think the left will have a better future if it avoids inventing hate figures like "Janice" and engages with voters as complex, multi-layered individuals who never, ever fit stereotypes.

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

In 2 weeks my new play Four Weigh-Ins and a Funeral is on the stage. These women gave it heart, soul and inspiration It's not a play about losing weight - but about finding community & what a community I found! Buy your tickets NOW! app.lineupnow.com/event/four-w... youtube.com/shorts/aL9Pz...

NEW ABUNDANCE AGENDA POD: Why the Tories should embrace Abundance - with @rcolvile.bsky.social ! Plus why it feels like a Sizewell C announcement is imminent, and an absolutely mad stat about caravans. Listen on Apple, Spotify or Substack: www.abundancepod.com/p/why-the-to...

It’s seven months since i started London Centric and this is a real highlight. getting nominated for the Paul Foot is entirely thanks to the support of subscribers who have given me the freedom to do investigative journalism. Thanks to them for this. And all the people with broken legs.

In today's @theoverspill: it's just a pity that HBO's series Silicon Valley isn't still going - the current AI hype would suit it perfectly.

Deezer says ~18% of songs uploaded to the service are AI-generated; 20K AI-generated songs are uploaded daily, nearly twice the number reported four months ago (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Over on my newsletter I wrote about being OK with being OK substack.com/home/post/p-...

I always think that one day I'll catch up with Adrian's backlist but then he goes and writes another book. (Not that I'm complaining, it's more a reminder that I don't read as much as I used to and that is a sadness).

It's perfectly possible to look back on the first Lockdown with personal nostalgia, even while acknowledging it was a terrible time – just as many would say they had a lovely war without (you'd hope) disregarding the horror. That's the nature of a subjective experience for you.

So hang on, does this mean my book has been pirated by Facebook? I only just checked because I assumed it wouldn’t have been given it only came out in January

A very exciting day! A trip to London to talk about my new series Captain Sunshine, publishing in 2026, and news of it in the Bookseller! ❤️

This month I saw some terrifying art, wore the same t-shirt a lot and spent time with children’s author and comedy writer Emily-Jayne Clark open.substack.com/pub/shinykat...

“People think chatbots know the answers” Charles Arthur on the problem of stochastic parrots socialwarming.substack.com/p/and-if-the...

Fascinated by the people complaining that the last Severance episode was slow. Have none of you see the show?

Or… says my brain, You could just play Zelda for a bit

Two days after I held my birthday party and called it “Bowie’s Birthday Party” and a day after I made my family sit and watch Labyrinth with me, David Bowie died. So subscribe to my Substack or else substack.com/@shinykatie

this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

Beautiful day of music in St Leonards on Sea for Fat Tuesday celebrations

Send this to your flakiest friends open.substack.com/pub/katherin...

A Star is Dead, book two in the Aldhill Mystery series by KJ Lyttleton is available for pre-order now! mybook.to/A-Star-Is-Dead

The most excellent @shinykatie.bsky.social has a second book out soon under her pen-name KJ Lyttleton! 😍 bsky.app/profile/shin...

A Star is Dead, book two in the Aldhill Mystery series by KJ Lyttleton is available for pre-order now! mybook.to/A-Star-Is-Dead

Because this never goes wrong

So far I have been asked to sign two copies of my book (THE MAN IN THE WALL by KJ Lyttleton). I really should have worked out an author signature for this pen name first...

Charles Arthur: "Maybe that’s the real threat of AI: not that it acquires superhuman intelligence, but that it acquires superhuman persuasiveness. Judging by the number of people I see posting screenshots of ChatGPT output as though it’s gospel, we may be heading that way."

Reminder that half my twitter timeline in January were convinced that the grooming gang story and/or the “secret” Starmer was hiding about the Southport was going to bring him down and then yougov did “what news stories have you noticed” polling and neither subject broke 3%

Sometimes human ambition goes too far

For me the most exciting thing about GenAI is that it can help us all become tech bros. Forget AI stealing artists’ jobs. Let’s steal the tech bros’ jobs. Start turning your stories into games, use your art to make something more interesting than the metaverse. Build a solution to an actual problem

Badger grooming parlour. If you've got an itch, you gotta scratch it eh? Many thanks Bob Eade for this great video

Today I remembered that my old boss, who died a very rich man, left almost his entire fortune to go towards creating and maintaining a new forest. I miss Felix. He could be a complete bastard, but he was also brilliant to work for. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/...

I fills my heart with joy that Alan Bennett’s mum looked like Alan Bennett in a wig. #AlanBennett90YearsOn

Wallace & Gromit: 16.3 million Gavin & Stacey: 19.3 million Doctor Who: 5.9 million If you make great scripted comedy, there will be viewers.

Yes agee ... I'm in the Cromwell trilogy slow read which has now started ... we're into Week 2

Happy birthday David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Stephen Hawking and ME!!!!

SO TRUE! And to all of the COBOL programmers I knew who dedicated many, many months if not years of their lives to Y2K and are no longer with us, it's up to the rest of us to remind people every time they laughingly talk about this, that our friends made sure they had system continuity into 2000.

Happy new year everyone! I spent the evening playing Spit and Shithead with my youngest daughter. I hope your evening was similarly rock and roll 🎸

Proof copy of The Man In The Wall arrived! I now have 24 hours to find all the typos before print edition is locked in ahead of launch on 3 January! #KJLyttleton alter ego lives!

If you want a last minute present then please consider a London Centric gift subscription: londoncentric.media/gift Optional extra: If you live in London Zones 1-3 I can STILL get you a physical gift card. I’ve got a dozen to drop before dawn tomorrow; you can still be added to my delivery round!

Just in case you happen to be buying any books for loved ones and so forth, here are 47 FACTS from A History of the World in 47 Borders

Good advice from Mike here to protect your phone. I'd also add if you can live without your banking app on your phone, take it off, and consider adding a lock to your email accounts (or moving your email to a secure area on your phone requiring unlock to access it, as you can on Android now.)