I really should be doing some writing but I've been up till 3 a.m. every day this week and even though my brain is willing, it's also capsizing and the rest of my doesn't know my arse from my elbow. So gonna do some research reading instead. Fucking cursing myself though, wanna write dammit 😵😬

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Big thanks to El Patron @thesecretdj.bsky.social for his thoughts on Keshed 🖤 "I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."

Treat yourself it's Friday 🧁🧁

#Booksky this cult classic has been out of print for ages, essential read if Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket sounds like your idea of a good time but these aren't gonna stick around long. @drewgum.bsky.social is brilliant, so book yourself in for a few nights and enjoy💪📚🏳️‍🌈😀

Always great writing from this fella. His books are outstanding. See my list of fave non-fic titles from a coupla years back @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. Pls note they added my book to the list, i didn't do it myself 🤣 uk.bookshop.org/lists/food-f...

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Thread. Tl;dr this poll is fucking bullshit and grossly irresponsible.

Talk about loaded questions. For all but the most serious offences we should be talking about education and rehabilitation. So much crime is driven by poverty and social circumstances - prisons are overcrowded because too many people are put in them unnecessarily. 1/

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Who's looking to hear some weird new music? Visionary ghostwave, haunted wizard synth and dub-splattered hypnogogia perfect for soundtracking intense journeys thru inner space! etherdiver.bandcamp.com #musicsky

You have till November 9th to bid for a signed, dedicated copy of VIANNE - all in aid of Children in Need... www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Thank you to the TWO people who borrowed Ghost Signs from Irish libraries in 2024. PLR means this nets me 16 cents, which can't be paid cos it's less than 2 Euros 😵‍💫

I've been promoted today. Old lad with schizophrenia in the sheltered accomodation down the road i like a chat with started calling me Mick Jagger recently cos he said i'm the coolest dad he's ever seen on the school run. Saw me across the street today; "Arright Iggy Pop, howzitgoinlike?" 😀

Amazing. Lovely lass and force for good in the publishing world. 📚📚📚🖤🖤🖤

A reminder, there is no such thing as "conservative feminism." Conservative feminism is an oxymoron fabricated by patriarchal women for whom whiteness trumps all. Also fuck Ross Douthat. Don't put his shit on the timeline.

I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in

New @cipherpress.bsky.social alert. Guaranteed quality. 📚📚📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

“You’re always telling people to support indie bookstores over billionaires.” Yeah, it’s called having a consistent brand voice and a conscience.

Send lawyers, guns and money. The shit's gonna hit the fan when his unquiet spirit crashes the joint 💥☠️

Amazing stuff, congrats from me too. Always such a tough field in this one, guaranteed.

@racheledini.bsky.social literally 10 secs after i replied to your post and said about education being an end in itself 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Just had a GLORIOUS 5 hours in The Lair after fire + sparklers in the garden and 6 hours of mths, back-to-back-to-back in town with work. It's nearly 2 a.m but i'm starving, got a 14" veggie pizza on the way, bottle of iced water, fire blazing, guitar slinging time. Gonna be LATE to bed but fuck it.

Well we don't love you, you pair of mithering transphobic cunts. Why don't you fuck off together with your Saudi blood money and not come back? THAT is summat i'd love very much, personally. Trans rights are human rights, and you can get in the fucking bin. 🏳️‍⚧️✊️

I've had some amazing blurbs from some of the very best writers around for Keshed, but NGL I really do love this🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (with the greatest respect/utmost gratitude to all; who will understand, knowing me, that for a miserable old punk like me to be compared to an incendiary device is just cool AF)

Might fuck around and Reject the bending of the Knee to fascists, dude

HUUUUUUGE congrats to Hannah. A brilliant journalist and a fab human too, this has made my day.

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The only writing advice i'd give as a blanket for all. ALL this, plus - you can learn as much (often more) from bad books/ones you don't like as the ones you do, if you're paying attention. This is how i taught myself to write; and how i try to keep getting better 🙏

Death cult capitalism is fucking wrecking the mental and/or physical health of everyone bar the rich. It's a wonder anyone's in work at all. "Wellness" is a byword for how functional and productive - or not - an economic unit [person] in a system that cares about nothing else.

One of the best books of recent times, great to see it travel 📚

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

It doesn't undo any of the awful things he was responsible for, but at least the evil old bastard is dead. Not much good news around atm but this is certainly something we can all be happy about.

For the next two Saturday afternoons I'm going to be at the Leeds Library (on Commercial St) discussing my different Leeds series. This week it's Richard Nottingham and Simon Westow. Next week, Tom Harper, Cathy Marsden, and Dan Markham. Get your ticket here: events.humanitix.com/a-cuppa-with...

It's great that you exited Spotify. That's a genuine win and a good thing all around. But that quest for the "good" streaming service it put you on? That's a fool's errand. There are NO good streamers; streaming is simply not an equitable or sustainable model for music under capitalism. Sorry.

Tremendous day. Shitloads of work done this morn, two hour Robin Ince poetry gig tonight, met some really cool people, and we found some time in between the two for coffee n book shopping as well. OBVIOUSLY. Need some scran now then bed. Hideously over-caffeinated tho, sleep may be a challenge ☠️

What a pair of absolute shithouses. Fucking disgraceful excuses for human beings.

When Rob the Bastard thinks your work is dark, you KNOW it's like a coalmine at midnight. Enter if you dare ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I hosted an event for this recently and it was absolutely brilliant. We discussed @hookland.bsky.social towards the end, and @scarfolk.bsky.social too 👌🙏

Me n @dantjenks.bsky.social have been talking about this over the weekend and i totally agree. Kafkan axe to the face for me, please 😀

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Can someone hook Marc up with the thing that blocks posts from Twitter, pls? I've had it since it first came round but it's been that long I've no idea where I got it from!

#WritingMonday. If you catch me here and i'm not on a brew/smoke break, kick me up the fucking arse. Off to meet Robin Ince later all being well so should be a good day 🙏

This is going to be an awesome read. So's work is fresh as fuck, super-smart, effortlessly cool and epically allusive/esoteric. I call them the hypermodern Angela Carter; there's an awful lot about their work that reminds me of the great @michelletea.bsky.social at times too 😍😍😍😍😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈📚📚📚📚📚

I've made 8k in 5 years of paid writing including 3 book deals. The non-fic book i have out in 2027 will have taken me 4 years work, at least f/t hours, on top of a f/t day job, 2 kids and a band; for this, the equiv of less than a MONTH's wages on a public librarian salary. I am half-dead, always.

big up to good talented ppl at Larking House for beautiful remote reading of FUTURE EMERGENCIES on Saturday. thank you.

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Been fucking disturbed all night by these bastards and their noise, and the kids, proper radged now and totally thrown off. Gonna build a fire and read some Ellroy.

To whoever it is on my street detonating fireworks that are rattling the windows and my nerves, i hope the next one explodes in your fucking hands and maims you for life you selfish cunt.

This is going to be an awesome read. So's work is fresh as fuck, super-smart, effortlessly cool and epically allusive/esoteric. I call them the hypermodern Angela Carter; there's an awful lot about their work that reminds me of the great @michelletea.bsky.social at times too 😍😍😍😍😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈📚📚📚📚📚