The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.

Hey, @alanismorissette.bsky.social…

OK, so who dropped the ball on telling me how much I would love Wolf Alice? How did this happen?

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk

A new service to find reviewers for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror indie books just dropped! #BookMatch 📚🔥 #IndieAuthor #BookSky

Let’s try this again now that the DDOS attack on our host’s servers is resolved. Hey, self-published and indie SFFH authors and reviewers: BIG NEWS! 👇🏻

If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk

How I'm walking out of 2025

If you’ve read the first three books of The Eidyn Saga and want to read more about all the left-wing politics / societal inspirations and metaphors that underlie it, there’s a discord for that: discord.gg/GhQT8cUBE

I need to find someone else who has read The Damned King by @justinleeanderson.com because I am having a moment of "Okay, but if that's how it goes, what was even the point of everything before the last 50 pages?!?" Book four is due in July, so it's not REALLY the end, but ... #reading #booksky

Labour-leaning friends, & your Labour MPs: What will it take for you to say ‘I do not support this’? You’re supposed to be better than this. There is no compassion in this Labour government.

There will come a day in the future when these people are looked back on like misogynists of the 1920s, white supremacists of the 1960s, and homophobes of the 1980s. Preferably sooner rather than later.

It makes me glad to see Rob Reiner is being praised not just for his amazing movies but for his activism as well. Not just for amazing art but for being a good person. But hey, enough of my yakkin’.

Never done one of these before, but seeing quite a few of them, so what the hell? If you're thinking about the best things you read this year, here's two to consider that you might want to, I dunno, say nice things about over Christmas dinner, or remember come awards nominations next year! :)

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I really sometimes have to wonder, do people know that other people are also people? Even if they have different skin colours or come from far away? You know they’re still, like, human beings, right? You’re still supposed to care if they live or die. Do you know that?

Huge love to the victims and their loved ones at Brown University and Bondi Beach today.

19. Never had an AOL address.

Doing some cute calligraphy

I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous. People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border. We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Saw Blair Witch on Halloween and there was a guy in a Scream mask dotting about the audience beforehand. Great atmosphere. Also, Endgame, where the audience was electric and I may have shouted “Yes!” out loud when Cap caught Mjolnir.

Glass Onion said “Fuck Elon Musk, he’s a moron”. Wake Up Dead Man says “Fuck manipulative MAGA and the hypocritical Christian Right.” I think Rian and I can be friends.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

*Too* niche, apparently! 😆

Petition to begin referring to Trump as ‘sic note’. #nichejoke

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

The Project Hanuman audio book is out next week on the 16th. It's narrated by the really very excellent Zehra Jane Naqvi who hit the tone perfectly I'm very excited, so here's a preview from the first chapter. Available wherever you get your audiobooks #audiobook #scifi @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

I mean, nobody’s going while this regime is in place anyway, but just in case anybody was thinking about it… 😐

A very necessary and important column from my @heraldscotland.bsky.social colleague Marissa MacWhirter

The man with the foot kink who wrote a role for himself to drink tequila off Salma Hayek’s naked foot says what, now about who is a bad actor?

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

“Aranok, of all people, you know that some fuckers just need to die!” #WIP #TheEidynSaga

Nobody tells you how important *sleep* is to writing a book.

I’m actually getting tired of pointing out that we’re the Capitol in the Hunger Games, but… guys, we’re the Capitol in the fucking Hunger Games.

I think the issue is that many of them were content when they had plausible deniability, but it’s harder to justify supporting an absolutely incontestable racist to your family at Christmas.

Since we're talking about childhood racists, let me share something. My first direct experience of racism was in South London, age 5. Do not be shocked. In terms of age, it's about average for Black folks. I arrived at school and nobody was talking to me. I was one of two Black boys in our class.

That was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen in football. 😆 Though I’d love to know what Steve Clarke’s thinking right now!

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

Yup.

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

Is everyone else who sees the billionaires and fascists doing the same thing they’ve always done - blatantly stirring up bigotry to keep everyone else down while they bleed the world dry - feeling like fucking Cassandra screaming into a hurricane, or is it just me? This timeline is exhausting, man.

Ummmmm… @hectorchicken.bsky.social?

Current British political discourse in a nutshell.

As a straight, white, cis male with generations of “British” heritage, fuck these people and their fragile, petty, manipulative bullshit. If you’re scared of a world where not everyone looks like you or lives like you, the problem isn’t them, it’s you. You’re just small, pathetic and ignorant.