"No time to explain, get in the car"

Whenever someone in power blames immigrants on the difficulties facing working people, working class communities and those struggling to make ends meet in disadvantaged areas, remember two words: 'managed decline'.

This is an accountability post for myself. I _will_ read the new things on my TBR list, from the interesting people I listened to at Brighton I _will not_ slump, and comfort read Dungeon Crawler Carl book six.

Glenn Powell looks like a PT that you wouldn't trust to train your significant other. Every session ends with a bizarre stretch where they put their leg onto his shoulder. He insists its fine, and tries to disarm you by inviting you out for 'brewskies'

Just tried the new Gingerbread Pepsi....

Modern Leper by Frightened Rabbit is the best song that most people haven't listened to. This isn't an opinion, it's objectively true. Sorry, I dont make the rules.

My nephew is in the match day squad for tomorrow. ⚽️ It's going to be a really nice moment, playing alongside him, but also, daaaaaammnnn I got old.

Went to my first finance seminar since world fantasy con today. The first guy to approach me to network was working on reopening dormant mines, using pneumatic chainsaws - which very much sounds like the sort of WIP people were discussing in Brighton.

lol

On bonfire night every other year, I've worried about the fireworks winding up the dogs and making them bark. Just had that thought today, and now I'm low-key dreading the conspicuous silence that's gonna follow the sounds. Remus will be fine, he was always just copying his big-little brother.

Binged all of The Witcher season four while my head is still full of cotton wool and my liver is still pickled in the pints of Easy Street from the weekend. Sharlto Copley is brilliant as an unhinged, horrible bastard. Otherwise, it's fine but unremarkable - similar to earlier seasons.

I think he might have missed me. 🐩❤️

NEW DAY. NEW CHANCE TO PROVE LOVE. LETS TROT

World Fantasy Con was sick, but with 6 more hours of trains ahead of me, I feel like a poorly looked after Sims character.

Avoid the worries around leaving your luggage unattended by only drinking one black coffee all day and making yourself really dehydrated. Follow me for more god-awful life hacks.

On my first train of the day. The hobbit is leaving the shire.

✨🎃COMING 31 OCTOBER🎃✨ Chthonic Matter's ‘Harvest The Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror’ 14 killer stories for you to enjoy, including ‘And In The Firelight I Will Find You’ my re-imagining of the myth of Montol that might get me run out of town, but I'm absolutely stoked with how it turned out!

Hey, I know that dude.

A kid outside my office just screamed, "May your scooter fall apart!!" I know scooters are fairly modern, but that's the most medieval-coded insult I've ever heard.

Is it culturally inappropriate to sing Biffy Clyro tunes with a thick, thick Scottish accent if you're from Cornwall? Asking for a friend 👀

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

Worrying my latest short story is a bit route one with its messaging, but then again...

Any book reviewers out there want to review 'The Trouble with Prophecies'? I can provide a free copy.

CEOs out here saying stuff that, if I read it in a cyberpunk novel, I'd say, "Come on, that's a bit on the nose, lads. Let's have believable corporate overlords."

Are you ready for the darkness @jvgachs.bsky.social wants to bring into your life? 🐁🙏🐀 #Booksky

Finally watched Sinners. Enjoyed it. It's stunning and fuuuuuucking compelling, but it wasn't as good as the hype had led me to believe. I'd geared up for genre defining, and this was fun, pretty, and sounded great......but dont think too hard about lots of it, or it falls apart.

It hurts my soul that there's no H in caricature.

Hey, ya boi, David is in another thang. I've heard it should be live on *that* website by the end of the weekend/start of next week. This story had someone say, "Your weirdness is very visceral and really sticks with you," and it's one of the sweetest things anyone has ever said to me 😂

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

All our horror books (with the exception of Vampire Hunters) are on sale now through Halloween for 99 cents on Smashwords. Get yourself some spooky reads for the spookiest week of the year!

Want your reading chops round something uncanny and yet agonisingly relatable? Yeah, so we have that in our print anthology - and another 24 stories to boot. Raising money for charity, go grab a copy... mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 1/2

11.1% of donkeys make one asinine.

My neck. My back. My knees and ankles - all crack.

Uh-oh @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social are at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

Imagine giving yourself a spritz of each of these and thinking you'll smell and look good until Sunday. Outrageous claims.

I've not done the appropriate research, but instinctively, I think at least 50% of people want a badass scar that travels vertically down through one of their eyes.

When that submission counter starts to get real low...

I really like The Boys, and Gen V has been decent, but the bulimia and self-harm bits have been clumsily handled, at best.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Only in week two of training but due to the generosity of Guardian Football Weekly and Talksport listeners we have raised over £10,000 for Great Ormond Street Childrens Charity in just 10 days. Mind genuinely blown - thanks so much. If you'd like to donate www.justgiving.com/page/barry-g...

Can't wait for the Daily Mail to call the second tiny moon 'woke'

Tuition fees to go up again. They really want to make Uni a middle-class and higher thing again, dont they? I was the first to do a Bsc. Degree in my family. Graduated over 10 years ago. Maths degree. In a decent'ish job. So far this year, I've not even paid off the interest on the student loans.

My echo chamber is a small cardboard box I climb into when I want to scream. They call me the Solid Snake of despair.

A hazy double IPA is calling to me like the Green Goblin Mask.

Pratchett and Discworld, or Sword Lesbians? A very real question im having to ask myself this morning while planning for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting

I've got one of those Bluetooth radio frequency things to play music in my car..... so did the lad behind me at the lights. I didn't mind the Skepta that came through my speakers, I can't imagine he enjoyed Bounce by System of a Down as much.

I won't use an umbrella, and I lose respect for others who do.

People with common sense: "Dont play with your food." Me, an idiot: "Please enjoy my baby babybell chest burster scene"

Buying direct/indie isn't about "sticking it to Amazon" It's about putting money in the hands of people who will spend money and pay taxes. Capitalism sucks chode, but the small power we have is with our spending, and you make a choice whether your money ends up in a fund or with a person.