“Your hair!” by IanBrownlie.bsky.social (on the week’s theme of ‘Shock’) is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com

@paragraphplanet.bsky.social I've only just noticed the butterfly logo on the PP website. So glad to be following you again (having abandoned the former bird site a couple of years ago).

My youngest is in London tonight with mum to see 21 Pilots. Because of his autism this has taken months of careful planning. I'm very proud of him. As I have the house to myself, I have rewatched Tron Legacy on *LOUD* because I cannot do this when he's in the house. The juxtaposition amuses me.

NUJ backs calls for judge-led inquiry into PSNI and Durham police spying on journalists after explosive surveillance revelations | Barry White

I started building this SFF 'luggable' rig back in September 2024. What started as just a white case with a bit of ARGB has turned into somewhat of an addiction. I must stop... #pcgaming #pcgamer #radeon

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Energy production from my 2.2kW PV system was a thing of beauty today. Near flawless and over 10kWh for beginning of March is excellent. In two days of blue skies my PV has already produced 1/4 the energy of the whole of a grey and wet February.

the very trans sci-fi short film i co-wrote and am co-directing is crowdfunding, I’m so excited! it’s a story about love and hope and connection, and we need these stories now more than ever 🩷

It’s not often that I claim to speak on behalf of the dinosaurs that I illustrate. But just this once, on behalf of dinosaurs everywhere , F*ck you William Sitwell, and f*ck you The Telegraph.

Imagine a judge saying a racist could use the n-slur or an anti-semite the k-slur "as long as it was not done 'offensively' or 'gratuitously'." Our judiciary is increasingly a source of shame.

Wes Streeting dumps women’s health target from NHS plan, but has committed to publish a men’s health strategy. “There already is a men’s health strategy: it’s called the NHS; it’s already designed by men for men,” said Dame Lesley Regan, the government’s first women’s health ambassador for England.

Wow

I've read the vulture article on Gaiman... Fuck you Neil. Fuck you for hurting all those women because you wouldn't go to fucking therapy. Fuck you for forever tainting some of my favourite stories and characters with the knowledge that the person who created them is a fucking monster.

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Danielle's the best. Fingers crossed you head into a LCBS, you get served by a Danielle. Absolute rockstar.

@shaunduke.net just saying 'hi' 😉

Currently in Basingstoke and my weather app has just issued a 'yellow snow warning'. Who's peeing in the snow in this weather?

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

My youngest, 17yo, trans, on seeing Zuck's video about changes to Meta: 'See, this is why I didn't leave Twitter and just locked down my account and only interact with my friends, mostly by DM, because it was obvious Threads would go the same way...'

Thanks to all those following me back as we set up here and we look back at the other place, mumbling, 'well, that was a short tenancy, but it was nice while it lasted'

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

I'm very late to Arcane, but, I'm 8 episodes in now and it's just absolutely stunning. I am completely blown away by the characterisation, story, acting, style, animation, soundscape. I also completely understand why so many of you are Cosplaying Vi/Jinx/Cait - amazing characters.

Happy New Year and all that. 2024 was a year I had a lot of trouble with my eyes - hopefully now under control (although I will likely be on antiviral forevermore).

Would be a shame if a bunch of authors were to pull out due to having some principles, idk

New Writing Prize here with some fabulous judges - includes writers from UK & Ireland and is for novel, play or screenwriting. Please share :)

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge. International. Please share: weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget Pls do the same.

Warnin y'all about this account that's followed me and has followed a few others I know. One of their recent podcast episodes is all about "advocating for accountability in medical gender transition" and obsesses over detransition. So y'know, fuck em. Best to assume they're just here to gather data

New mouse and keyboard for Christmas - my RGB collection grows!

Hey everyone - the amazingly talented Amelia Tyler (who you may know most recently as the narrator of BG3) has joined us.

I've waited a long time to play Cyberpunk 2077 - to build a PC that would do it justice - but, by the gods, it was worth that wait. I'm only a few hours in (just met JS) and my jaw keeps falling open. I'm wandering around Night City like a tourist, gawping at everything. It's soooooo good.

This fantastic collection is just a few hundred pounds shy of its Kickstarter goal. If you're a retro, 8-bit fan, please share: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

Harvey, a gift from my family when I was very depressed, has travelled with me whenever I work away from home. The hotel cleaning staff had placed him here when I returned to my room this afternoon.

Currently in Orlando for work, but, it's Sunday and 5he Conference doesn't start until tomorrow. America really does know how to build its Cathedrals to Consumerism.

I'm slight disappointed to report that my reconstructed hip does not trigger the body scanners at Heathrow Airport.

Looking forward to meeting up with @lizharris.bsky.social for coffee and plotting at the Windsor farm shop this morning.

Today my new Sapphire RX 7700XT Frostpunk2 arrived. It's gorgeous. Barely fits in my luggable case, but matches the theme perfectly. It also makes the 1080Ti it's replacing look like a toy.

Sometimes I forget how damn pretty the vinyl experience can be - both the physical record itself and the art work of the sleeve.

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

I've given up on 'Black Friday', hunting for bargain GPU that ✅ all my boxes was becoming a 2nd job. I've bought the card that 1st caught my eye 3wks ago: Frostpunk 2 RX 7700XT. It's white (obvs) to match rest of build. Never owned new AMD GPU, they were still ATI last time I bought non-Nvidia.

Hello! New to Bluesky and hoping to find old and new friends here, especially authors, readers and book lovers!

On Monday, Book at Bedtime features five short stories by me, separate but interconnected, one each night over the week. Hope you enjoy :)

Rescued my old Kenwood amp and my Ion record deck from the youngest's bedroom as they don't use it. I love the convenience of having hundreds of hours of music available on my phone, but the tactile, ceremonial nature of picking a record, moving and lowering the needle... Just lovely.

Last spring, I wrote a flash piece about a dating revolution. Accepted for publication by The Windward Review, you can now read it online (on pg. 29) along with other authors' wonderful, rise-up words! www.yumpu.com/en/document/...

I'm offering my first book (fantasy) for free on my website jceberdt.eu in weekly instalments. This week, I've released Episode 7. #fantasy #Alagariel #TalesOfVatan

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!! THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS releases today in the US (and Italy)!!! I have waited SO LONG to share this book with everyone and I'm so excited that it's finally out in the world!!!!!!!!!

So, today I had a lump removed from my 'good' eye, which is a hang-over from when it was my bad eye because it had an infected sty. So, now my 'bad' eye is my 'good' eye for a few days because I still have shingles in that eye and everything is blurry... Hope that's clear? (pun intended)

I wrote a story about lost things, and how they too can nourish dreams. Buy me a cup of tea if you like, or just read it here for free... ko-fi.com/post/The-Shi...