Watching the Palace game on Channel 5.

Fantasy Football is back!! I think I changed my team a half dozen times today, but as the first actual game starts in just over an hour I am somewhat stuck with all my decisions now!! Hey ho.

So it begins

To people on this platform saying that those holding "I support Palestine Action" signs deserve to be arrested, because PA has been designated a terrorist group by the government: Remember that lickspittles and system justifiers have enabled every form of oppression, everywhere.

Note the clarity of language in this reporting from Metro, a free UK tabloid. Britain's national broadcaster is institutionally incapable of doing this.

Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.

Palace!!!!!!!!!!

For followers of my work, I have some very exciting news, both personally and professionally. A new challenge. A new beginning. I'm going back up on the high wire, to see what happens next. Details below.

Barry N Malzberg 1939-2024. One the few authors to be prolific enough to call PKD lazy. D.Harlan Wilson and I interviewed last summer for Dickheads podcast . Here is my personal collection. Galaxies and Beyond Apollo re-released by @antioedipuspress are weird SF masterpieces. #barrymalzberg

Sorry to hear of the death of Barry N. Malzberg, the writer whose books are always next to my own at used bookstores. He was a prolific author, knew the ins and outs of publishing better than anyone, and was as brilliant as he was bitter.

Smoking has been steadily declining in the UK for decades and will likely soon be <10% of all adults. Hard to take seriously the hospitality lobbyists claiming that a beer garden ban would have anything other than a very marginal impact on the industry