It’s worth sitting for a minute with the knowledge that Morgan McSweeney received three quarters of a million pounds to subvert democracy and it’s only a scandal because he didn’t fill in the forms correctly.

"he was apolitical, he just hung out in the nazi bar, with all the nazis, making nazi jokes, it was more about the neitszchean nihilistic blackpilled sacrifice of one's empathy on the altar of an individualistic will-to-power, an antisocial loser's yearning to embody the Shadow in laughing cruelty"

“hating both parties equally” is also always a lie btw, as evidenced by what he did with his time and his embrace of violence. hating both republicans and democrats is actually a perfectly “normal” rightwing ideology (look at the tea party)

This isn't a "Labour argument". Mutatis, mutandis, this is the same argument that the political establishment has been pushing since the Aliens Act of 1905. In short: the claims of nativist bigots must not be challenged and immigrants must accept second-class status to preserve social hierarchies.

Next time somebody complains I’m gonna say “did you see what they did to Watt fucking Tyler?!!!”

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

vampire art by hans henning otto harry

Seen UK academics & press sneer at Chotiner but fuck me the mincemeat he'd make of 99% of people interviewed in the UK media would be a thing of wonder & beauty to watch. Their mates & social equals haven't said a peep to them in two decades, it'd be like fat fucking seals ambushed by an orca.

It's instructive that a sizeable proportion of the ruling class in the UK appear to be looking at America and saying, "Ohh I'll have some of that."

This is Australia but holy shit

Ye fuckin' [elder] gods, those Clark Ashton Smith covers...! www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

New stories! A broadside! A journey, one completed and one to come! And a couple of other writers I'll be reading with great anticipation. horrorsong.blog/2025/09/22/t...

Blöthar the Berserker, armed with a mighty battle axe, impenetrable shield, the udders which are the main natural defense mechanism of his species, has gone too far

What was the role of short tales in late antiquity & early Byzantium? A new, open access book 📖 looks at how little stories say a lot brill.com/display/titl... I love that the short stories of Galen are included here & hagiographical stories alongside paradoxographical compendia (wonders & marvels).

Divest from the "Novel That Wishes It Were a Screenplay" industrial complex NOW

The Elric of my dreams.

Moby Dick is a novel full of amazing depths and beautiful, aching strangeness. You could read it a hundred times without ever truly knowing it. And sometimes Melville just calls me out directly, the bastard:

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

The suppression of dissent is yet another form of collusion with the genocide, alongside arms supplies, military cooperation, and the refusal to impose meaningful sanctions. All this likely puts the UK in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mike Moorcock loves Yoshitaka Amano's Elrics. I'm sure he'd prefer an Amano-styled anime series.

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Utterly vindicated in my goal of never achieving anything noteworthy if it means I get to avoid this kind of fate

An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

Catering to the sort of person who reads RPG splatbooks in lieu of fiction has got us here, & should be punishable by exile.

Tom Waits crusty hobo music cured all of my mental illnesses and then gave me new, worse ones

I'd say the US political system is a sewer but sewers are important and useful to humans. readsludge.com/2025/09/15/d...

The Spectator promoting fascism? Heaven forefend! Why, their lovely editor Fraser Nelson is everywhere w/o comment or censure, & all the other journos & politicians in Britain ensure they're seen every year at the Spectator garden party...!

'Masterpiece... you might just have found your new favourite author' #TheCourseOfTheHeart by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social, reviewed in the Big Issue. This new edition of Harrison's cult novel, featuring an introduction by Julia Armfield, is out now. www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Donald Duck was Antifa is he an enemy of the state?

Palestinian families like Mohammed's are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, they urgently need shelter, food, & transport (no donations for 8 days):

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

If you're leading with £150,bn investment in the UK and not the fact that 10% of it is energy sapping Datacentres and £90bn of that is for fucking Blackstone you are not fit to report on current events.

FGS The leader of a country having to prove his wife’s gender just to satisfy a Bigot.

There are 2883 food banks in the UK

A documentary that has everything - Grimdark, John Blanche, Mordheim, Warhammer 40,000, church architecture, Trench Crusade and... Napoleon Dynamite? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sVU...

Still beats working on the docks.

"Those of us lucky enough to still have eyelids wink in the darkness." 👁️ Read the rest of the story here: rdcu.be/eFqJ4 💙 "The Earth Will Not Consume Our Bones" in @naturefutures.bsky.social !! 🤖

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

All this stuff should be categorical proof beyond any doubt that there is no accommodating reactionaries who have the bit between their teeth; that the only acceptable option is to resist them with everything we have and that anyone who wants to compromise with them is a disastrous idiot, at best.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Can't even project an image of a known paedophile palling up to the US President without being arrested in this country.

Now that we know the Corbyn antisemitism campaign was strategised and coordinated by Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘best pal’, would any journalists like to explain why Corbyn’s pronunciation of his surname was more concerning than the fact that the guy briefing them up to that point had stayed in his house?

Does anybody want to explain to the general public what was going on here? I’d sure like to know!

It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely. Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?

In summary: Nazi billionaires, social media propagandists and fash thugs must never, ever be permitted to muscle in on the territory that rightly belongs to horrible British wingnuts who spent years building the right social and professional connections