Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Why would anyone think Papers, Please but cozy is a good idea?

I don't like horror movies because, get this, there's enough real-life horror in the world already. I don't understand the purpose of fiction and I think it's basically real. I drove into a tunnel painted on a mountain wall, and then I backed up and did it again.

Beating a man to death because he wants to buy the field you having been renting off the widow for years thats a rural pursuit

Catherine Connolly once took some money out of her holiday piggy bank to buy some fags on a Sunday morning #SmearTheBejaysis

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.” Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt. futurism.com/artificial-i...

In Kier Starmer’s woke Britain you can’t call him Mr Tumnus anymore, you have to call him Mr. Hummus

Neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters. irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

Jeremy Corbyn wants the government to own all the swans in England, the bastard.

I don’t know about specific books, but I feel like I never stop recommending Clive Barker, Angela Carter, and Flann O’Brien

Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York. Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️

I thought Benson Boone was sone kind of brainrot character, but it turns out he’s real and makes what I can only politely call ‘FIFA Menu Music’

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

I am re-publishing my novel "Faster on My Own" on my Patreon for paid members, which previously ran in my now-deleted Substack. It's about a leftist of non-specific ideology who decides that he needs to actively make the world worse so the revolution will come. Check out the first chapter for free!

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́

This is just great. My fucking agent dropped me over the discourse today. Let me know if you're interested in my novel.

This is just a guy saying something other people have said as if it’s a unique insight, without actually investigating whether it’s true.

The most devastating thing about the Irish clown trial in London, for him, must be that his alleged victim had the funniest line: ▪️Linehan had called Ms Brooks an incel and she replied ‘your the incel, you’re divorced,’ the court has heard. [Incels are involuntary celibates]

Well, here we are. I'm raising money for myself after my job fired me as a union busting tactic for ableist reasons. Please donate if you can, and share if you can't. gofund.me/bfcfca4d

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

In a bid to restore the English flag from its racist associations, loads of English racists have started putting it up everywhere for racist reasons

I don't trust it when the UK has a Bank Holiday weekend that we don't. What are they getting up to with all that free time? Colonialism probably.

I played Silent Hill 1 when I was 4. I never got past the school of course but it was enough to permanently alter my psyche.

Thinking on this, it is kinda weird how chill a *shit ton* of SFF is chill with Manifest Destiny being so deeply embedded into its culture. Like you've got one of the biggest authors in-genre going "Brigham Young was actually cool" when Young was a full-throated "we need to kill all the natives" guy

i'd like to start a new subculture for people like me who are apartment dwellers and aren't allowed to have a gas or charcoal grill. we'll be like barbecue guys only for microwaves. we'll wear shirts to work that say "i'd rather be microwavin'!" and share microwave steak recipes and stuff

What a great idea! Why not ask the amish to fix our modems and routers as well? They’re really productive too and our ISP tech support is really busy!

Society if Jira didn't exist

The way some people talk about GRRM for not finishing ASOIAF you’d swear The Winds of Winter was going to cure cancer and not just be another book in a fantasy series.

This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about "AI" for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.

Desperately trying to flush my hardback copy of Intermezzo down the toilet as the police kick in my front door

being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games

The decision to put Boyne in the centre of this reporting (rather than the less-established authors who taking a principled stand and a financial hit) is a strange kind of journalism. Nothing has actually happened to him.

Folks, take approx 30 seconds to fill this in. The Irish Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a trailblazing initiative that might well die a death if we don't come out in support of it.

What people have to remember about John Boyne is not just that’s he’s transphobic - he’s also disastrously stupid.

Anthony Bourdain: “Once you’ve seen the kid in the hole, you’ll never stop walking away from Omelas”

This demonstrates one reason that it’s worth reading the “boring old white men” of the sci fi canon - they are not limited to their times and can be interpreted in ways more relevant to modern readers.

Every few weeks prominent voices in the SFF community like to brag about not reading. Like yes honey, we can tell. We've read your work and it shows.

Yay, found one of the screenshots of John Boyne threatening to sue me. Just after the part where he was saying "please, I'm shidding, crying and throwing up with distress over how mean it is to say it looks like I was glazing myself!!!!!"

We have ANOTHER update on author withdrawals from the Polari Prize in protest of the inclusion of John Boyne: From the First Book longlist: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire From the main award longlist: Robert Hamberger, Rhian Elizabeth

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Unpopular publishing opinion but if a short fiction magazine is gonna take longer than a month to respond, have a limited submission period, and/or pay very little, then they have no reasonable right to forbid you from submitting your story to another publication at the same time.

Earlier this year, we were able to increase writer pay to $75 per essay because of how much support we got from the community (many of whom came right here from Bluesky). We'd love to pay $100 per essay in 2026.