ME: I know you from somewhere JESUS: I get that a lot ME: No I’m sure JESUS: Just one of those faces ME: [holding my arms out] Go like this

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as it happens, I think it’s going to be a very Good Friday indeed

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

Without downloading any new pics, what’s it like dating you?

Len Deighton’s SS-GB is the most successful example of treating alternate history as a setting, not a genre: a master of the espionage genre weaves a tale through Nazi-occupied London that doesn’t rely on the setting to be interesting, but grabs and uses what’s unique about it. RIP to a great.

NEW SHOW: Alibi: Dead Air is doing a full run this April-May at @theatredeli.bsky.social. Dean Rodgers and I are to blame. If you missed our test run back in October, now's your chance to try this award-nominated(!) spin on immersive-theatre-meets-jubensha-game: www.alibi.london

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

One of the most wholesome online communities I've accidentally joined is the Facebook one where the chief engineer maintaining the retired UK HST trains that were exported to Nigeria asks retired UK railway people for tips that aren't in the formal manuals, and they provide it with great enthusiasm

Happy International Women’s Day from Pitbull

Another chance to read Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social )'s #interview with Tom Black ( @tomblack.uk ), #author of yesterday's showcased #AlternateHistory #book "Zonen" and much more. #AuthorInterview #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

caught this a few years ago and very excited that it's back - really charming song cycle and love-letter (in more ways than one) to the Edinburgh Fringe. a perfect way to spend a sunday evening in wandsworth www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-fringe-a...

Spy of the Year is OUT NOW! I teamed up with the brilliant @hannahraymondcox.bsky.social @arlohoward.bsky.social and @chloemashiter.bsky.social to make this lighter take on the jubensha format. Our first print run is now on sale with these wonderful folks: jubensha.co.uk/products/spy...

I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

Aunt Bessie’s pancake mix. what an unexpected banger. happy shrove

keir starmer waiting for the may elections

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

congratulations to Ed Miliband!

@coneshotline.bsky.social cones look what I saw today

I see a lot of people debating the funniest outcome and to be clear the answer is: 1) They let Burnham run. 2) He wins it. 3) They lose the mayoral by-election. 4) This forces a leadership election. 5) Andy doesn't win it.

Slightly diminish a game Bridge Request

I never thought I’d see “what’s it gonna take to bring him down? child porn?” actually tested in live conditions

this is going to be really excellent - if you’re around and want to make a new thing, or have something half-formed in your head, come try it out with a bunch of other great people in the same boat also it’s at the bridge command set, you don’t get to create art on a spaceship every day

From the archives: Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews SLP founder, editor and #author Tom Black ( @tomblack.uk ), also known for his work on #interactive #AlternateHistory and #ScienceFiction #theatre such as #BridgeCommand. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

happy New Year’s Eve! today I thought about how Howard Dean had to stop running for president because he made a weird noise. and now,

A reminder of SLP's recent #AlternateHistory #book releases as we close out 2025. Looking forward to more in 2026! #HappyNewYear www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/this-ye...

TimeSplitters Future Perfect THEN. Battlefield 2 NOW. I like gun go bang with friends

angering my friends, family and colleagues by consistently calling it Layer Cake: A Knives Out Mystery

she knows me! (the masculine urge to chop)

every wiki article about classic UK comedy like "Father and Sons was a comedy duo comprised of Reg Father and Tommy Sons, who appeared on a record breaking 18,450 episodes of The Light Applause Hour. Reg Father died in 1988 of Cigarette Fever. Tommy Sons remains alive in prison since 1997"

it’s the time of year when I remember that I didn’t know how gas ovens worked until a few years ago so I always thought Sylvia Plath cooked her head

You're laughing at this but you won't be when your shitty Tesla gets sunk by a U-Boat.

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

It’s Animal Farm, Liz. I play Moses the Raven and have a really cool rap parody about leaving my droppings on people’s cars.

I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from the time when @tomblack.uk said that the fictional politician I most resemble is the guy who mugs “Carry on, nurse” in one very brief montage clip from House of Cards.

not a shot at Julianna but the implication that this has aged badly feels off. like, yes, people did actually do that? maybe my expectations were on the floor but my own view was “lmao Italy just told everyone to stay inside forever, we are simply never going to do that” and then we just… did

You will be visited by three spirits

yes YES the Christmas crisps are out

So orgs have no agency over their admissions, and are are being forced to oprress people against their own and their members' wishes. If trans women making jam makes you angry please know you're a contemptible degenerate, disliked by everyone with an actual soul www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

holy shit the last time this happened was kohl?? the guy who started being chancellor before the wall came down? we live in a Europe

I, a person who wants Rachel Reeves to not be chancellor of the exchequer, am increasingly tired of the number of shitty ways that the press are trying to stop her being chancellor of the exchequer

not just doing a plug here, but this was foretold in Andy Cooke’s The Fifth Lectern, which @sealionpress.co.uk published all the way back in 2015: www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page... FPTP basically breaks, on paper and in reality, when you get more than 3 parties competing everywhere nationally

Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026! Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world... Tickets will be around £15!

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books it's the one that started it all. @tomblack.uk and @jacktindale.bsky.social explore #WhatIf there been any truth to the (wrong) #conspiracytheory that #HaroldWilson was a #communist #spy. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...