Looks at Facebook. Remembers why looking at Facebook is pointless.

Bat season has begun. 58 spotted flying over the garden on 15 minutes.

UK #DEAL ALERT! Calling all one clickers because THE ATLAS SIX @olivieblake.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK until the end of the month! amzn.to/4uMvTOZ #TheAtlasSix #Atlas #ad #amazonuk

@althistorian.bsky.social do you know Mark Galeoti? Podcast called In Moscow's Shadows, generally about Russian political maneuverings, the Ukrainian War and so on. Episode 248 (17th May) branches out into AH with theories on What If Kiev had surrendered to the Mongols

One of these is still available: amazon.co.uk/kindle/redeem/?t=GSZF68VHKGU553U #KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, the Discworld novel that introduces Sam Vimes and Corporal Carrot. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have a amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. #GNUTerryPratchett

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! My mate Phil's really bad high school band. REM U2 Blackbeard's Tea Party The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Lloyd Grossman and the New Forbidden Public Service Broadcasting Depeche Mode The Wedding Present Public Enemy

I am reading Cronus @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and wondering how a piece of short fiction can have become more relevant in the few months since it was published.

Audible Monthly Deals have always been a bit of a sore point. They exist, audible make them very difficult to find. I have a couple of #UKSFFBookBargains worth a look The Kaiju Preservation Society by @scalzi.com is probably my favourite of his recent books. £3.99 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B098G4PVZ...

While Cherie is most focused on the US market, it's worth checking this out on UK Amazon as well. #UKSFFBookBargains

I'm not entirely sure if this counts as #UKSFFBookBargains, since it's writing about myth more than actual fantasy, but it's a good book and £3.99 on audio. Read by the author @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

@lukecharters.bsky.social Good questions here. Would really like to know.. Clearly I was naive, but I expected Labour to protect minorities from far right lynch mobs, not lead them.

On the tube

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.

Hurrah, it's Have-Amazon-Ducked-My-Kindle-Ensuring-That-Any-Replacement-Is-Not-Bought-From-Them day, to those to celebrate.

The eBook edition of THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE by @aliettedebodard.com is currently discounted to just £2.99 in the UK! - Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... - Kindle: www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Scholars... Published by @gollancz.bsky.social, it was shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award.

UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because the audiobook for CACKLE @rachelharrison.bsky.social and narrated by Laurel Lefkow is on #sale on #Kindle UK for a limited time only! amzn.to/4dggujw #Cackle #ad #amazonuk

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

FAO mobile game developers: Turning music and sound effects down to zero does not mean that I want to enjoy your work with no distractions, it means I want to carry on listening to my podcast while I play.

Late to the party, but I have now watched half of the recent Dune movie. Exquisitely beautiful, lacking any characters I have any sympathy for. Very true to the book.

5 paperbacks for £5 in total from Forbidden Planet: forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?off... (Dunno what the postage cost might be on top of that.) Via HotUKDeals: www.hotukdeals.com/deals/5-for-... #UKSFFBookBargains

I love this series! Definitely recommended!

At all sff, so not bringing out the hashtag, but I've enjoyed the rest of the series. 99p, today only www.amazon.co.uk/Everyone-Thi... Not reduced on Kobo

UK #DEAL ALERT! Calling all one-clickers because the audiobook for GIFTED & TALENTED @olivieblake.bsky.social & narrated by Eunice Wong is on #sale on #Kindle UK for a limited time only! amzn.to/495efwW #GiftedandTalented #ad #amazonuk

Get a 20% off two new titles in Adrian Tchaikovsky's (@aptshadow.bsky.social) #TyrantPhilosophers fantasy series, with discount code: PREORDER20 at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social#TyrantPhilosophers Buy #LivesOfBitterRain: https://bit.ly/3PqG6RA Buy #PretendersToTheThroneOfGod: https://bit.ly/4txJeJh

#UKSFFBookBargains Wistful Ascending by @jcmberne.bsky.social, and it's first two sequels is currently available on Amazon for the very bargain price of nothing. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BG364XJ7/ (links to the rest of the series down the page) Books not available on Kobo.

#UKSFFBookBargains 31 books by Robert Silverberg for £13.22, available through @humblebundle.com. Being Humble, you can pay less for less - there's a bottom tier with three books, including Lord Valentine's Castle for 73p. www.humblebundle.com/books/best-r...

Today on the website, for those who’ve read Children of Strife - bonus content. A whole extra chapter that didn’t quite make it into the finished book, essentially a self-contained short story. adriantchaikovsky.com

UK readers! Bookshop is giving 20% off preorders of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS with the code PREORDER20. The deal is good through the 17th. My dragon can't wait to meet you!

So is Amazon emailing everyone to tell them that they are bricking some people's devices? I am perversely glad that they're not coming up with BS about why it's good for users to junk fully working eReaders. If they do junk mine then I'm not buying a new Kindle from them.

Natalie Haynes in York! 💙🏺Student tickets just £6, early bird tickets £8. Yorkshire myth fans, fiction readers, classics nerds, and Radio 4 listeners, this is your time! I’ll be at The Citadel, York City Church on June 14, with Toppings bookshop. Tickets: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/york/...

@lukecharters.bsky.social Were you looking to ensure the Labour party would be out of power for another generation then Wes Streeting would seem the man to finish the job.

This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography

AMAZON UK MONTHLY KINDLE DEALS! This May, you can snap up: @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's THE TOMB OF DRAGONS: the third book in THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO & @isabelcanas.bsky.social 'S VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE: a standalone horroromance where vampires and vaqueros face off at the Mexican/American border.

Random Fandom: I happened to meet comics writer Ian Edginton's mother yesterday. She was very surprised to meet someone who knew his work.

So the big question of the afternoon is should I listen to Platform Decay again?

Tips for new writers thinking of entering our annual competition.

I'm not convinced that Ed Miliband could revive Labour's fortune. He was leader, he failed. Let's not revive the whole "wrong brother" though. He stayed on. He served his constituents. He's done a good job in Environment. He didn't flounce off to fly a Thunderbird as soon as something went wrong.

Thank you North Yorkshire Libraries for getting Platform Decay so promptly.

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Guards! Guards! (Discworld Book 8), by Terry Pratchett, which I have, and have read, and have given away before. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one! #GNUTerryPratchett

#UKSFFBookBargains Blighted Stars by Megan O'Keefe, which I haven't read, but I seem to remember people saying good things about. First of a trilogy. 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Blighted-Sta... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

A little perspective. Which you won’t get from the media. Note that only England had local elections: Scotland & Wales had full parliamentary elections. #UK #England #Localelections

When persistence prevails... timharford.com/2026/05/when...

'Ere, sir, you 'ave kind eyes and look like you 'ave a good 'eart. Will you buy my folk horror novel Scratch Moss on e-book, sir? It's only 99p and would make an awfully big difference to me, so it would. www.amazon.co.uk/Scratch-Moss...

UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME @amydelaforce.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK for a limited time only! amzn.to/4f4YhXk #AKissofHammerandFlame #FatedforHael #ad #amazonuk