Getting my kicks on Route 66!

Graeme Garden's birthday today. A man whose uncanny, almost eldritch ability to sit doing seemingly almost nothing in a group of fellow comedians and then walk off with the entire show in his pocket thanks to single killer line is unrivalled. Man's a genuine genius. Happy Birthday, Graybags.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Pre-order SARAFINA: www.waterstones.com/book/sarafin... Pre-order GOTHIC: www.waterstones.com/book/gothic/...

TWO UK COVER REVEALS! Stunning covers for my UK editions from Black Crow now available for preorder. Covers designed by Rian Hughes. First PB UK print runs will have block sprayed edges. SARAFINA releases April 7 GOTHIC releases May 26 PLUS an exclusive HB edition of SARAFINA coming soon...

it really boils down to who do you hate more, rich sex abusers or the left, and I’m afraid that from Thatcher to Starmer we’ve been run by people for whom the answer to that question is “the left”

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Just watched Tobe Hooper’s 1977 film Death Trap. I expect to be thanked for this.

Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10th. In the Epstein files, there is what appears to be a draft DOJ press release announcing his death that is dated August 9th. (It’s here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Wow, who’d a thought?

Get in! Brilliant book post today from the wonderful @radiomukhers.bsky.social! Been looking forward to this one …

Ten countries have launched investigations related to the released Epstein files. Norway, UK, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedinia, Turkey, Poland. Conspicuously absent is the United States, the epicenter of this scandal. We know why. …

Showing them all what a REAL MAN dresses like!

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

A viral image which supposedly shows Nigel Farage visiting a child with terminal cancer in hospital isn’t real. It’s based on a real picture of a boy with cancer, which has then been edited with the help of AI to include the Reform UK leader.

A fantastic obituary by Cathi Unsworth, for the legend Roger Burton, who left us just over a week ago. Without Roger and the Horse Hospital there may never have been a Strange Attractor... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

See also: character reads contemporary newspaper that looks like it was made with bad Photoshop and characters drink red wine that's clearly Ribena.

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I hope that photo of Brett Ratner in the Epstein files with a teenage girl doesn’t harm the ticket sales of his Melania film

One of my favourite little pop culture facts is that John Le Mesurier was a massive fan of Earth Wind & Fire and would often unwind by listening to them whilst smoking a massive joint.

So he won’t play in the US but was happy to play to white supremacists in apartheid South Africa. Better late than never, I suppose.

So there's not one but two films currently on release featuring weirdly haired, bling-obsessed paedophiles. The first, of course, is The Bone Orchard with Jack O'Connell and his scary band of Savile-alikes, and the second, of course, is Melania.

My first Anna Sharpe thriller is out in paperback today so here’s the obligatory photograph of me looking awkward while holding a copy of my own book. Please for godssakes buy it. It got great reviews. People like it. And if you hate it, you can always use it to swat flies. geni.us/NotesOnADrow...

The government's free AI training courses are... exactly what you'd expect really. Check out the whole thread...

I came here to kick ass and quote old Air Supply lyrics and I’m all out of love.

Hit me Paul Shane one more time

Art is everywhere if you know where to look. Just wash your hands.

“It’s your weekend to have the kids, John, do you have to shout at the hotels both days?”

New entry for the most divorced man in the UK

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them

Reminder that Sex Matters want to obstruct banning of conversion therapy - go to @goodlawproject.bsky.social for more. Sex Matters work hard to silence anyone who offers support to trans community and will do it by any means they can thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/a-difficul...

Anything we can do to make it happen faster?

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

Just completed my tax return. Kneel before Zod.

they have extracted all the semen from every ice agent who plugged themselves alone in a marriott bathroom and now the president is going to drink it

If you watch the panorama tonight about pet owners paying extortionate amounts for healthcare for their furry loved ones, do bear in mind that it’s basically the American healthcare system but for animals and that it’s what our nhs would be replaced with if certain right wingers had their way.

I’ve realised that the only reason I check social media every day is to see if Trump is dead. And one say, hopefully soon, I’m going to be happy.

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”

Why I love Alan Moore...

Duran

She’s wrong about everything, so this is just the tip of the iceberg.

An off-duty ICE agent was just confronted in Minneapolis after people noticed a Nazi SS lightning bolt tattoo on his neck. If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?