Raise a glass to Richard Burton on the occasion of his 100th birthday, seen here sharing a joke with old pal Peter O’Toole in hell. 🥃

@emmanewman.bsky.social does a really great recap, it sounds off the cuff, which if true shows what a star she is! NOTE: Read or listen to Mythago Wood beforehand as there are unavoidable spoilers. 📖👂🏼🎧🪾

Once you have seen the fingerprint of "unjournalism", it is impossible not to see it. The unfounded counter, "but critics say," should be a mark of shame. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

The wonderful people at Beyond Cataclysm have copies of The Pollutant Speaks in stock! They stock all kinds of #books and goodies that make ideal #gifts 💝 (also, they take great photographs). #sf #independent #bookshop The Pollutant Speaks - Beyond Cataclysm share.google/H1LEOFNjW0IJ...

The richest man on the planet starved 600K people to death simple because he could. No other reason.

My friend just had a traumatic complex heart operation (twice), and he's just played the "I nearly died" card to get his wife to go to the shop and get him Branston pickle and salami to go with his get-well-soon cheese selection.

One day, I'm going to learn how to practice portion control. Not today, I just had eight hash browns.

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

@jennicoutts.bsky.social If there are more editions of the "sunken city row boat" please let me know!

I'm sure this is happening to others but following Brighton Fantasy con, I'm being bombed with bogus book promotion rubbish. I've reported them as spam, but these things come from botted Gmail accounts. #painful

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

Thanks, #Brighton. You've been fantastic.

@britfantasysoc.bsky.social I'm having flashbacks to my first day at university! Where's my class? What did I sign up for? Where is my mind!?! @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

Ok, so he can't use the title "Prince", but at least he gets to keep the prefix "Randy". No one can take that away from him...

I was on a panel with Steven Erickson once and he used the metaphor that reality is the nebulous thing sitting at the center of a circle of humans, and we are all constantly staring and pointing at the thing and describing what we see. It's reality by consensus. The brain's job is hallucinating

Another announcement from the department for the bleeding obvious! Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night - BBC News share.google/L7tO8hRWJDTy...

In a discovered-today-exchange, I can offer you: vatic, resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.

Yes! The drugs DO work! I'm clear of viruses and infection just in time for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 🤩 Heading there early on the Friday train 🚃🚆🚂

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Just watched The Instigators, great film 8/10. Damon and Casey Affleck are pitch-perfect.

A head mutant, hunh? Let me think a moment....I am going to go very old school.

Help me feel better about it all by posting your favourite head mutant. I'll go with... Two-Face.

After contracting a mystery virus, half of my head turned red and puffy. The doctor said, "Wow, that's unusual." Regular writing service will resume after double-strength Floxi pills have been consumed. Feeling a little sorry for myself.

The cassette as a revolutionary communique. discotchari.bandcamp.com/album/tehran...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

When you think about it, this is a bargain for a propaganda machine. I can't imagine an interested billionaire worrying about £40m to control the Houses of Parliament. GB News: Huge losses continue despite sales and audience surge share.google/NG60Qbh0XIfA...

You made this happen 😹

Requires Nina Simone soundtrack.

I know you all think I'm the big poobah with my shit in order; however, last night I left all the shopping on the table overnight. Today's lunch is four cod fillets with a side of six sausages.

The weather is meh. Time to start planning an escape to the Pyrenees.

Looks like the scammers who were going this all on various Mastodon servers a month or two ago have found a new target: Bsky.

If there are #non-fiction #book #reviewers here that are interested in #Romanticism, #Byron or the 1800s period, let me know and we'll get a copy of Byron and Bob sent to you. No pay reviews or bots please! beeorchidpress.com/docs/byronan...

Came downstairs to discover this installation on the kitchen table. It doesn't seem to have a title.

Not a new idea but a good one. Coupled with enhanced council renovation it could flip a problem into success. Britain's asylum hotels problem - and the bold idea to solve it - BBC News share.google/7S6XGggGjak5...

It is important to reread what is special.

I know there's something wrong when you're admiring the wonder of nature and thinking 🤔 Which witcher potion does that make? #game #addiction

This Sunday's Rebel Britannia by @rebelbrit.bsky.social tells of Richard Carlile, free speech hero, who read the whole of the banned The Age of Reason into the court record, which could then be legally published ... open.substack.com/pub/rebelbri... open.substack.com/pub/rebelbri...

Finally received Daggerheart and am really loving the way the book is laid out. So now for the traditional "can I make a character with 95 trumpet" test.

I'm almost certain skyving is spelt with a 'y'. I think autocorrect is wrong.

Always, always avoid dressing like a "proper" #runner. That way, when you stop and walk for a bit, you don't get the stink eye from other runners.

# Long lead time scheduled post fail FTW. It's not summer anymore, but that just means it's perfect weather for some chilly chills.

Three car-boot-corrupted copies of The Pollutant Speaks donated to a free library in Cromer near the cricket club. Enjoy!

Chestnuts, anyone?

Basically, do this everywhere. England's 'first official Cycle Street' being built in Cambridge - BBC News share.google/NRt82TcZk2KH...

Dear Bluesky, My partner and I disagree over which condiments go on the lazy Susan and which go in the spice drawer. Is it over between us? 😿

"cum Turnum medio interea fert aequore turbo" "Meanwhile the gale whirls Turns across the sea" I wish I still had a turbo button on my PC. It was a psychological crutch. Turbo: whirlwind, vortex.

@matthewmercer.bsky.social "How do you want to do this?" Virgil: ...smites Dryops under the chin with his stiff shaft driven amain, and piercing his throat robs him, even as he speaks, of voice and life together; but Dryops smites the ground with his forehead, and from his mouth vomits thick gore.

Just shown our notes from the shopping delivery drivers. Driver 1: It's the sky blue door. Driver 2: No, that door is sea blue. Driver 3: It's too dark to be sea blue. It's navy. The inner lives of delivery drivers.

so much depends upon cardio.

The bible is two books (sort of). So if you just had one of them, that would be a monoble, right? Is this how L. Ron Hubbard started?