Any day now I expect to hear that the US Navy is sending SSBN-741 to dock in Nuuk as a show of strength.

Last year was... A year. I did manage to publish a couple of stories: www.thedarkmagazine.com/out-of-all-o... & northerngravy.com/atch-ere-kok...

We've got a new issue coming out very soon and you can get a sneak peak at the sick cover art by Ana Luna.

I've made a few more updates to the eligibility and recommendation link post. Keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

21st century nazis have made the 'are we baddies' sketch obsolete. It is very clear they know they're the baddies, and they love it. They think it's awesome. They worship evil, and are euphoric in disbelief that they're allowed to get away with it.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

We join Demilitarise Education’s call to End University War Complicity. Sign the open letter urging university leaders to cut ties with arms companies linked to war, human rights abuses, and environmental destruction.

The point of OfCom and the OSA isn't to stop the now-paywalled CSAM spawning engine or actually protect actual children online; it's to firmly police discourse inside the UK.

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Whoa. If a mere 10% of you read my latest short story below, it would rule www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

More OC from FB memories

‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Palestine Action activist Heba Muraisi, 31, said to be “near death” after 70 days on hunger strike,

The Times was right behind Trump in his first term, cheering him on and denouncing his opponents as elitist leftist swine who hate the working man, right up until that torchlit Nazi march where that fascist killed that girl. Then it all went sotto voce. No such concerns, this time.

Pre 20s fantasy: "House of The Faerie Lord" 20s 30s fantasy: "Amazing Tales presents Saetanta the Wanderer" 40s 50s fantasy: "Gwyen Cycle" 60s 70s fantasy: "In the City of Lost Gods" 80s fantasy: "Dragonhammer" 2010s fantasy: "The Kobold Prince Opens a Cupcake Bakery" 2020s fantasy: "Orc City"

20s to 40s scifi: "The Amazing Men from Venus!" 50s to 70s scifi: "Go and Sing Your Sorrow To The Stars" Modern scifi: "The Interregnum Empire Chronicles Book 6: Revenge on Centauri" (cover is an AI generated chad holding a gun and wearing artstation core tacticool armor)

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

To quote Angela Carter quoting Thomas Wolfe, "Life is strange & the world is bad."

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

There are thousands upon thousands of people who were brought up on scifi hearing the words "your CEO overlord will now permit you to have pre-approved sexual conversations with their chatbot front for worldwide corporate surveillance" and thinking "neat" I just want to wake up.

"We won't get rolled like they did, our melanin levels, er that is, our insurgency threats are MUCH lower"

You could already do a pretty amazing YouTube video of “news show presenters who cannot believe what they are fucking hearing from actual ministers”. Start with the Taylor Swift tickets, move on to the collective punishment ones and finish with this.

To close the spirit of things, I am going to read The Dead again.

there has never been a rules-based international order thank you for coming to my TED talk

The Assassination of the Sheriff of Nottingham by the Coward Robin of Locksley

It gets dark early now and the country is raked by rain, so if you're the protagonist in an M John Harrison novel now is the right time of year to take a slow train to an unfamiliar town to check on an old friend who hasn't been doing so well

Story of mine from Weird Horror #9 got a mention in Ellen Datlow's recommended reading list in the new Best Horror! www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/stopping-pla...

Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates was not wrong - people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. They are extremists by their nature.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

If the rest of the world is curious; look behind you - the chance to use international politics to stop the Yanks was in 2003 and the Second Iraq War.

I can help you out with that John mate

A long-awaited, clearly visualized investigation into Israel’s use of the M113 APC as what I’ve called a barrel bomb on wheels to destroy civilian infrastructure. Experts estimate it carries one to three tons of explosives, likely ammonium nitrate, though not confirmed.

Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.

I dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures? You’ll never guess - Flu - Winter - Icy weather - Friday nights - Christmas - New Years Eve Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming

From Ted Chiang's fb

it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

My best idea for 2026:

we are never going to be free of these motherfuckers are we a fucking Mosley, yes, those Mosleys

If you were anything else but a tired-out coward, you’d swim out into the blue and never come back.

A man who asks this question does not deserve a dog.

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish sniffers Farewell and adieu to you smellers of ham

In memory of Shane MacGowan, who would have celebrated his 68th birthday today #punk #punks #punkrock #CelticPunk #punklegend #punkrockhistory #otd #ShaneMacGowan #ThePogues

Merry Xmas. tomwaits.bandcamp.com/track/christ...

The British state has used every method they can to isolate and break the spirits of the 8 prisoners who stand with Palestine. They are now close to dying & the British state doesn't care. Irish people know hunger strikes. We know British oppression. We know colonialism. Stand up, take Action 🇵🇸