"Now here's Tom with the weather."

Fellow music writers and publishers! A pal is looking for an agent for his hot music biz memoir - pls send recommendations via DM or similar Ta!

Registration is NOW OPEN! 🌿 Join the Alice Fraser Writers' Retreat Switzerland 2026 ⛰️ 5 days in a ridiculously stunning Swiss alpine valley to write and reflect. Get momentum and mentorship. 📖 [https://www.patreon.com/AliceFraser] #AliceFraser #writingCommunity #ComedyWriting #writersretreat

"The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB" is out TODAY in the US and I'm so pleased to see this review in the New York Times. "What makes Corera’s book original is that he shows the U.S.S.R.’s demise from the vantage point of its security services."

You should read @alicefraser.bsky.social's lovely and sorrowful and human piece on Bondi Beach & then reflect that it's the sort of communication that's only possible when you don't view everything as an online argument that you have to win at all costs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“All quiet, sentry?” “All quiet sir; perhaps…too quiet…” #PlaymobilInfestation

A lovely boost of confidence for Realms Unknown to be mentioned in the Guardian’s roundup of some favorite pods! #RealmsUnknown #GuardianPick #AliceFraser #ComedyPodcast #PodcastRecommendation #SciFiCommunity #TrendingNow

if you’re the praying type can you please toss some prayers out? Not in a position to give any details so we’re just all gonna trust that the various gods will know what the deal is

People on the multi-polarity roller coaster: "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Multi-polarity understanders: "Calm down we're still on the lift hill."

We had a good run

If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.

“How you doing as a historian with all this?” Me:

On one level, this is a return to great powers behaving like great powers. Which is something of a shock after a few decades of very different norms.

good moon tonight, large moon no I'm not going to check the news, just look at the moon

[sigh]

The real reason we have January

Internet 2026: ChatGPT: like owning a parrot that encourages you to kill yourself X: slobbering attention whores eat all the child porn they can AI-generate while complaining women won’t talk to them BlueSky: pleasant and well-meaning, but slightly itching to correct my use of the word “whores”

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

Tapping the sign again: www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/t...

This is my song of 2025. Late entry smashes all competition.

My partner was working at the Westroads mall when Omaha had a big shooting. They still rattle me. But it feels hopeless. We get Blizzards and cry over them. Salting brownies. It means a lot to hear from @alicefraser.bsky.social, from a country that hasn't given up: youtu.be/YAqq1NDZ0Ok?... (27:41)

This year was also the year in which I failed to write a new end-of-year poem.

“People keep telling me what Bondi was about…” https://www.patreon.com/posts/145965752?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

Bugle bondi bit reactions www.patreon.com/posts/146680...

Three rules for usong AI when writing poetry: 1. Don't 2. Just don't 3. FFS don't (Also apply to other art forms.)

I like it when the art and the artist are both awful, so you don't have to waste your energy trying to seperate them.

I, a cybersecurity professional, thank you, a slop coder who doesn't understand the concept of code review and secure practices, for the opportunity to find employment until I'm 90.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Ah, Christmas! The time for day after relentless day of drip fed information about a criminally abusive financier and the things he and his associates did.

We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025. Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

6th C cultural appropriation ! Arian KingTheodoric (L) renamed as Orthodox EmperorJustinian (R) at St Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna. Boo! #MosaicMonday

I have to say, @bookpipeline.bsky.social had me at “you won,” but then they sent a mug—amazing. Thanks again for choosing “Old Bird,” as the 2025 Unpublished Winner in Mystery/Thriller.

“And to drink?” “Oooooh, lashings and lashings of ginger beer!”

Stop! I know what you’re thinking! You need that final stocking filler for a history-loving loved one! Something under £15, small, perfectly shaped for wrapping, easily & quickly available from (all good) high street shops or online! I’ve got your back… #Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

Heyo, We are looking for some great guest cohosts to come on @realmsunknown.bsky.social with me. Know any podcasters / YouTubers or authors who are very funny and very into Sci-Fi or Fantasy? Recommend them here please!

Because sometimes we all need to dive into a wardrobe and escape the world 🦁 Yeah, that's right, it's a Narnia-themed Realms Unknown this week... youtu.be/AhTjORWE9-A?... w/ @alicefraser.bsky.social and @eleanormorton.bsky.social

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Have you heard this? Dead Funny History starts 15 Dec Look at the credits for goodness sake Produced by Dr Emma Nagouse & @scriblit.bsky.social ✏️ Emma, Gabby, Athena Kugblenu, @jackbern.bsky.social 🎤 @jlukeroberts.bsky.social Richard David Caine, & Mali Ann Rees www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We’ve just started our annual Lord of the Rings rewatch, and Bilbo never explains quite why the hobbits are so concerning.

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week will be “fictional non-fiction”. Think reference books for fictional science, manuals for technology that doesn’t exist, bestiaries for dragons, Dinotopia, A Passion For Passion. Tell me your favourite fictional non-fiction!

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

I'm part of a new podcast with showrunner Kat Viken where we discuss the impact of AI on creative careers, with celebrity guests in film, TV, comedy and arts. Check out AI & The Creative Professional! 🎧 https://pod.link/1850401719

One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

Guy Fawkes signature before and after watching this World Cup Draw

things that were socially acceptable in the 70s - smoking around/with children - throwing car keys into a pot and shacking up with neighbours' spouse - drinking babycham things that were not socially acceptable in the 70s: - thinking Hitler had a point