Oh, apparently a Carrington Event could cause Kessler Syndrome. There was me thinking they were different options.

I think there's a difference between 'Star Trek's writing can be a bit heavy-handed' and 'Star Trek shouldn't be political' and the difference is the difference between 'well duh' and 'oh, fuck off'.

A very Good Friday for Doctor Who fans? @filmisfabulous.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/03/31/d...

Soeculatively rewatched the pilot of Elementary last night (I dropped out originally near the end of the first season.) It's watchable, as long as you don't expect it to have much to do with Sherlock Holmes. But...

We were excited to chat with Kara Dennison. She has credits at Crunchyroll, Discotek, Sekai Project, and others. She has written several short stories for anthologies and has written some stand-alone fiction and non-fiction. @rubycosmos.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJx...

Some people sat down and decided to tell a story about hope, love, optimism, diversity, and how we nurture young people, while the fascists were turning the lights off around them. Fucking miracle.

"At last, we have created the cloned human organ donors from the classic SF novel For Christ's Sake Don't Create Cloned Human Organ Donors, What The Fuck Is Wrong With You."

I'd put a gun to my head & pull the trigger before using AI to "write." If I had the chutzpah to submit such a thing for publication I'd hope a family member would pick up the gun and put me out of my misery. We are servants of the secret fire—that's what we get instead of money—and you betrayed it!

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Just been reminded of the existence of Young Boozer.

Thing is these are both bad names. It's not "two-way mirror" because it's only a mirror from one side. Which is also true of normal mirrors so "one-way mirror" doesn't work either, that's just a mirror. It's a one-way *window*. That's the distinctive characteristic, not the mirror part.

I currently have a pain in the neck, and it's a right nuisance.

I've upgraded the Pre-Raphaelite nudie mermaid postcards I've had above my desk for decades to actual framed prints on the wall.

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I wanted to see Project Hail Mary a lot more before Andy Weir started giving interviews explaining that he's a massive arsehole.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

I have drunk too much beer now to understand stuff. Please disregard anything I like, repost or say until further notice.

At the Left-Handed Giant Brewpub Beer Festival. Beer is good.

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

Trying to drink enough coffee to understand everything Americans have been posting here during the night.

It's sheer fantasy of course, but if a BBC licensee relaunched the Missing Adventures Doctor Who novels in 2026 CE, which Doctor-companion teams would you most want to read about? 12th Doctor, Bill, Nardole and Missy would be top of my list, but 13th Doctor alone with Yaz would also be great.

Neologisms, or invented words, are also known as "nonce words", because Lewis Carroll coined so many of them.

Neologisms, or invented words, are also known as "nonce words", because Lewis Carroll coined so many of them.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

11, Sarah-Jane and Jo could be fantastic.

It's sheer fantasy of course, but if a BBC licensee relaunched the Missing Adventures Doctor Who novels in 2026 CE, which Doctor-companion teams would you most want to read about? 12th Doctor, Bill, Nardole and Missy would be top of my list, but 13th Doctor alone with Yaz would also be great.

Star Wars (or A New Hope, if you insist).

All right, this is more interesting than I expected. I'm still dubious about how you could reboot The X-Files in the present day without endorsing the worst conspiracist bollocks underlying modern right-wing US politics, but this is a promising start.

I feel the world would be just marginally more bearable if Trump wasn't, along with all the tyranny and the war crimes, such an utterly tedious prick.

Hahahahaha. Right now? I bet he bloody doesn't.

Hahahahaha. Right now? I bet he bloody doesn't.

“Lee plays the scene almost completely internally. There is a fleeting look across his face which the camera catches. It isn’t triumph exactly. It’s more complicated than that. Doubt perhaps, or reverence. Or maybe just the expression of a man who has just set something irreversible in motion...”

Just had an email from someone I thought was a bit of a prick revealing that he is, in fact, a massive prick.

Amazing story. Do read it if you're having trouble believing there's still goodness in the world.

Not that he's wrong in the specific, but that's a weird generalisation. A lot of people happily wear ordinary glasses that aren't wired for perviness.

Amazing story. Do read it if you're having trouble believing there's still goodness in the world.

Kid is rewatching the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings, and the way Treebeard is audibly just Gimli in a leafy wig is really annoying me.

My T-shirt is raising questions already answered by my T-shirt.

My T-shirt is raising questions already answered by my T-shirt.

I challenged Labour MP Mike Tapp on the government's harmful proposed immigration reforms. In response he tried to tell me what my *own* constituents think about immigration 🤔 Sooooo, I dug up the receipts on what the people of Bristol Central actually think 🧾👀

The hack question creatives get asked is "Where do you get your ideas from?". It says a lot about creativity that their answer is rarely "Christ, do you know how to make them stop? I'm drowning in the buggers and there's only so many hours in a life, y'know?"

A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Try having the exact same name as TWO different successful authors 😭 The genre I'm familiar with is Robot Pretending To Love The Writing Of One Of The Other Kate Griffins

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

There's a pervasive urge in modern liberal Christianity to try to love and accept Christians with unpalatable views in a spirit of fellowship, rather than roundly repudiating them as arseholes because they are. It's really time to get over that.

Finally some useful writing advice.

Obviously this is just Times ragebait, but of these only "Pankhurst" sounds like an English placename, and unfortunately a slightly silly one. "Elizabethtown" sounds like the embarrassing former name of a Commonwealth capital.

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey