every author explaining to their publisher why they've missed their deadline: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

TRUMP AND MAMDANI SITTIN' IN A TREE K-I-S-S-I-N-G

More fuel for @stephenkb.bsky.social’s theory that post-AI jobs will include bank teller - and now also door-to-door opinion pollster.

It’s been a long time coming but it’s great to see the IOC protecting women. The IOC is moving to remove men from women's sport. Men who identify as the opposite sex are still allowed to compete, they just have to do so with the men.

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

Parse the duchy, and he’s left outside. Encore.

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled on.ft.com/47FBigb

This is a super fab piece of interactive journalism on Saudi's Neom project from the FT visuals team. Keep scrolling.... ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇

Following intense press coverage and ongoing developments within the Royal Family, Nobody’s Girl, the posthumous memoir by Virginia Roberts Guiffre has seen a 49.4% boost in sales and has ascended to the top of the Official UK Top 50 👇 #BookSky

I think it unlikely, The Bookseller whitewashed all the shenanigans at the @rsliterature.bsky.social, when they ignored the criteria for fellows, brought their mates in, and threw Kate Clanchy under a bus. Then told a whole pack of lies about it. I expect the publisher to be utterly spineless.

Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy https://www.booksns.com/171312/ Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy by Bookandaglassofwine

I do not understand why people think this will help transgender folk. It’s literally why people hate Democrats.

ICYMI:

Baxi unveils high-temperature air source heat pumps – pv magazine International www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/b...

About half of Americans believe ghosts and demons are real, according to a 2020 poll. An English scholar explores the literary record to uncover how people have imagined ghosts and demons — and what sets them apart. buff.ly/FuYV4Dv #Halloween 👻

Wow quite an opening paragraph. Great article on how trans activism is a complete failure. www.queermajority.com/essays-all/h... Even if they change I would not welcome these activists back - cruel, ignorant social climbers who hurt an actual minority for klout.

The Pizza Hut downfall has been coming for a while and the clue was in supermarket pizza shifting away from deep pan, surely reflecting the typical pizza consumer's changing desire.

Lovely, informative column by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, the FT’s architecture critic, on Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing FT www.ft.com/content/8564...

One wonderful legal fact is that the provision effectively giving licence to agent to commit crimes abroad is... ...section 007 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/1...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

Tag yourself. I'm "Fifty-two years an imbecile". BTW I do not wish to know if this is a hoax. (h/t @fohf.bsky.social)

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Martin Wolf back in the comments (under a very positive review of Nigerian Modernism at the Tate) on.ft.com/42F542Z

Exceptional commenting

I see Bluesky is being normal as usual. CBS bought the Free Press only because of its wild success. This only started when journalists, many on here, got her sacked from the NYT. You shall reap as you sow as they say. Or FAFO as the new kids like. Many are not as lucky as Bari though.

Epic; no notes

I have never more viscerally felt this

reader Q&A with Gideon Rachman www.ft.com/content/bb76...

Hamas confronts its final red line on.ft.com/4nwXFeo #FTEdit

I am not surprised by much on Bluesky.

The meltdown on this site about a Ezra Klein podcast is wild. People are very weird about two people talking about not dehumanising folk.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Got my performance review.

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing. Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social “Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode” on.ft.com/3VxxCaR

Really like seeing this common humanity rise the trans activism. Maybe with thought the trans community can start seeing Rowling as a human being.

There are bigger things going on in the world but this was great FOI work by Andrew Ellson of the Times about how TfL chose not to not to release a study showing LTNs did not cut car use. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Another free link to this, in case people have going to bed reading requirements on.ft.com/3K1ZFg3

on.ft.com/3I6b7GR Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead (this is by the excellent Dan Neidle - but I reckon there’s only a slim chance of sensible decisions like these)

The animal internet is cute right up until pets start getting into online conspiracy theories and cyber bullying

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

”The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is...not a novelty. Indeed, the only mild surprise is perhaps that there has not been more of it.“ From June, by @davidallengreen.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Charlie Kirk’s death is so sad. 😢 Bluesky’s user base are not disappointing me though. Charlie wasn’t wrong about Bluesky.

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Full statement here. TLDR millions of people on TikTok are currently falling for ChatGPT misinformation. Apparently one if the influencers used ChatGPT to “research” my “funding.” Unsurprisingly, it was completely wrong. Please help me amplify this correct information.