There was some proper club shite around in the late '90s, but if you can't appreciate the drop in Encore Une Fois then who even are you www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmZ...

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

I don't remember acquiring that experience but if LinkedIn says I have it, what the hell, let's do it

A week in sunny Malta cancelled at the last minute to deal with water spurting out of a pipe in the kitchen and hours on the phone trying to file a home insurance claim. The vibes are atrocious. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY here's a picture of a holiday destination I hope other people are enjoying

My. Novelette. Is. Live. Which means I'm freaking out because people might read it and I might die of embarrassment but also, I'm freaking out because a person might actually read it. Huge thank you to @emergejournal.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Order your copy here: a.co/d/0b5BfkX4.

Danger lurks in the tunnels on #Caturday

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

If you like books, maybe check out one of mine?

Doing a bit of website housekeeping, came across an old blog post on responses to questions in an AI study

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Unexpected Predators in Google Street View, #1 in a series of, probably, 1: www.google.com/maps/@9.5702...

aaaaaaand i'm no longer browsing decor inspo on Pintrest. 🤷‍♀️

Oh damn, this is actually much more uplifting than it has any right to be (and I thought they were shite even before they got found out)

Your semi-regular reminder that I have a shop! And the shop sells zines! Horrible, brilliant zines. And you'd be doing me a massive favour by buying one, because I need the space. www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...

Last day to get this 27-story charity anthology at a banger price of only £7.50! Money goes to The Wildlife Trusts! Do it for the voles. Story previews: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t... T'Amazon link: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Spent the last two months of 2025 stuck on one big novel, so Jan and Feb for me are all about nice slender things readable in a week. Here's Cleo with January's haul. @therelphian.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social @shopboughtchaos.bsky.social

this means the world to me

Introducing MoonLit Audio, a new series of audio short stories, produced and narrated by our content editor, Jace DeAngelo. Listen to the first installment: buff.ly/Om641cZ #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #AudioBook #LitMag #MoonLitGetaway #WriterSky

They're also going to "make Britain a crypto hub" apparently - you know, the thing we've all been asking for - along with more sobering stuff like this. Genuinely, what the fuck has happened to us that anyone could get off on this rhetoric and not feel deeply ill about who they've become.

People are scared of the spread of fascism, rightly so. We have 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 elections in May and it’s essential to keep Reform out. The far right thrive on apathy and hopelessness. Good turn out almost always beats them. Register to vote. Why wait? Do it today www.gov.uk/register-to-...

I dunno man, this just seems like a lot of coots, what are they up to

Tiny #Caturday criminal spotted

Late '80s were my era, but this programme about 1983's one-hit wonders is stopping me from getting anything else done tonight. The First Picture of You by The Lotus Eaters? The Last Film by Kissing the Pink? Rip It Up by Orange Juice? CONSECUTIVE BANGERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPh...

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Sir why are you on my lawn at 1pm again. This is not the agreed time for the sausage roll handover, and also inappropriate fox conduct in general

Now there's a game I didn't expect to hear from again. Still waiting for the avalanche of copycat games set in Porthcawl, Tenby and Rhyl.

SIGINT #46299 from Topaz 3 (CLASSIFIED) 1. Mountain of Shitposts 2. Stolen Dream Pillars 3. Hotel of Opal Distortion

My short story, "Looped," is now free to read in Heartlines Spec! I absolutely adore the art <3 www.heartlines-spec.com/looped-by-na...

Concluding #Caturday with Void Baby in a box, he is the End

If anyone can't manage to put together a mid-budget Brit scifi/horror movie about a man trapped in this lookout post after a nuclear war in the 1960s, trying to escape before it falls in to the sea, then we should close down our film industry www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Saturday winter sun wander around Lichfield. My thanks to that one pigeon out there doing excellent work.

this is genuinely incredible

Here's a more detailed look at our events on Fri 27th and Sat 28th Feb at the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL here in Derby - individual tickets available as well as event passes! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #festival #festivals

Not my house, but I know my way around

We made our first donation to @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social! £200 in royalties from sales of our print anthology, What Comes To Light to help UK wildlife. Thank you to everyone who bought our book and contributed to this donation 🦝 Be part of the next one... mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

The video to this is completely amazing and the whole album is brilliant youtu.be/M6QKZJeK-5w?...

Sneaking in for borderline #Caturday with old Oscar bringing all his dignity and gravitas to 2026.

another thing you can do is have the parent ask their preferred AI "how does AI check its facts"

Port Talbot Plaza. Not my photo but I love it because I did see Last Crusade there, and honed my Pac-Land skills in the Plaza Cafe on the right. #childhoodcinema www.flickr.com/photos/oldci...

Happy 40 years since being reminded of the babe, the babe with the power: www.odeon.co.uk/films/labyri...

Imagine me nodding in agreement 50 times and occasionally scowling

Random reminder to not post screenshots of that other site here. We escaped from there. We really don’t need the postcards

Here's my year in review post. May it bring inspiration! open.substack.com/pub/iridesce...

Went for a Sunday stroll through town. Lost the sunlight, got briefly snowed on instead. Have a castle.

I know we're four days into 2026, but let's have a moment for everything that was 2025. I wrote a novel, had 32 short fiction publications, and was nominated for two writing awards! Check out the wrap-up on my substack salenacasha.substack.com/p/2025-a-yea...

Time to collect my published short stories from 2025 into a pinned thread as if I know what I'm doing. Listed from longest to shortest and overlaid on a holiday snap, with word counts and links in the replies. Hope you enjoyed one or two of these throughout the year! Or, y'know, maybe now? No? 🪐📚

Who's going this year? (Apart from the people whose names are right there, I mean)