I am very proud indeed to have my short story The Other Mara in issue 7 of the fantastic Thin Skin Magazine... !

How on earth is this acceptable?

Whether you've gone out and done your bit for democracy, or that's another day at the office done with, you deserve a reward. So here's our Ewan Downie's new story, 'The Other Mara', as a wee treat for you. Check it out on Thin Skin at the link below. @thin-skin.bsky.social @ewandownie.com

Check out the latest issue of Strange Horizons for a brand new poem from our Ewan Downie! Just a heads up that 'Beetles' is not one for entomophobes. @ewandownie.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

I am so proud to have my poem 'beetles' in the current edition of the awesome @strangehorizons.bsky.social

E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... @bethkesh.bsky.social @aanpress.bsky.social

New project: extracting all the books from my kindle, breaking the DRM so I can access them elsewhere, and exiting the Amazon ecosystem.

Our Ewan Downie's on a roll! Check out 'Semele', the latest story in his ongoing exploration of the Dionysus myth, in the new issue of Carmina Magazine. @ewandownie.com carminamagazine.com/issues-main/...

Now this is a POEM buff.ly/QDQ9Auw

Applications now OPEN for our 2026 Theatre-Maker Placement programme! Company of Wolves are offering a rare opportunity for 2 early career artists to be embedded in the operations of one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary performance companies. INFO HERE: companyofwolves.org/news/theatre...

Thanks so much for coming to the show!

“We lack the language that would let us prize the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.”

My first published story is in the Autumn/Winter edition of the awesome Frigg Magazine: friggmagazine.com

“The most important phase of creation looks like nothing is happening. We’re systematically destroying our capacity for it.” buff.ly/X2GXbAR

I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

I can't think of anything that would annoy Trump more: I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

New @convergecult.bsky.social album just dropped! Can't wait to listen. Please come to Glasgow when you tour...

“the tyranny of the quantifiable”

#Scotland Our Ewan Downie is on the road with The Bacchae! Kicking off in Glasgow (Citizen's Theatre, 4-7 March) and Edinburgh (Festival Studio, 9-10 March), he'll be on tour from Orkney to Aberdeen and more. Full dates and ticket links in the post below. @ewandownie.com @companyofwolves.org

Working on a new version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon last week my main thought is: this could go badly wrong. But I quite like being a little scared of my collaborators.

I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano. To my surprise, given that it is supposed to be a great work of literature, I am thoroughly enjoying it. #booksky

Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview

Long, but excellent... The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow

Here's CE Lord OBE's take on this morning's High Court's Hampstead Ponds decision.

Somehow, reading George Saunders' words always makes me feel calmer and more able to listen. “also start weightlifting, build a machine-gun turret …”

Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde

The #BSFA Awards longlist is out - and the GSFWC are all over it! Christopher Caldwell, Jenni Coutts, E.M. Faulds and Neil Williamson are all up for awards this year. Incoming.. @seraph76.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @bsfa.bsky.social (1/)

Thoroughly recommend @margaret.bsky.social 's excellent threads reporting from the ground of resistance in Minneapolis.

Listening to a parent trying to teach their 6 year old to play Monopoly: 6 y.o. "I don't want to go to jail. I don't like that. Can we change the rules of this game?" I hope so, kid, I hope so.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.

Board of Peace - Season 1

Excellent Cory Doctorow essay: AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

✨ Happy New Year everyone! ✨ We’re exciting to start a new year with our 14th edition Winter Training workshops. Both Glasgow workshops are now SOLD OUT with limited slots available for our EDINBURGH EDITION. 👇 companyofwolves.org/workshops/wi... #Edinburgh #workshop #theatre #edinburghtheatre

Good seat to be behind at GFT (for the Muppets Christmas Carol)

Another amazing poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz. Full disclosure: I may be reading a book by Tadeusz Rozewicz. This may surprise no-one.

By Tadeusz Rozewicz. Now that's a poet.

RIP Tom Stoppard - the first modern playwright whose work I loved. ‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard

This is very cool: Sujet Supposé Savoir buff.ly/BsHowBG

So proud to be bringing this show to the new Citz studio in March! The Bacchae | Citizens Theatre

I am currently reading Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh and Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme and it feels like my head is being melted in two entirely different directions. #booksky

““Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it.” ”

Things I didn't know before I had kids 12: When the children start taping food to the floor and furniture, it is time for the playdate to be over.

THE BACCHAE IS GOING ON TOUR! We're hitting the road across Scotland in 2026, starting at Citizens Theatre and reaching Aberdeen, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh, Melrose, Peebles, Stirling, and Orkney, plus more dates to come! Check out our website for info! companyofwolves.org/projects/the...

1/6 IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN FOLKS! Announcing.......WINTER TRAINING 2026 Winter Training is your creative kick-start to the new year --- based in Company of Wolves’ rigorous and playful body-centred training, and years of investigation into non-hierarchical creation

So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre. On until Saturday. Close | Citizens Theatre citz.co.uk/whats-on/clo...

Drinking the @stfermentations.bsky.social Foreign Extra Stout I've been saving. Crikey that's a good beer.

Listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman by @underworldlive.bsky.social One of my favourite albums of the 90s So many memories Mostly wasted

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x