Guess I should start shouting about this! PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN!! Official launch date is 29th of May 2026, but you can get a limited edition hardback if you're quick! This is my 2nd SF / Fantasy / Spec Fic story collection and yep, it contains the Godzilla one. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

"Doctor I am feeling depressed" "Yeah me too, saw this clown last night" "Doctor" "Fucking awful clown. Made me so angry" "Doctor" "Like how can a clown be so shit" "Doctor please" "So angry I have quit being a therapist and am now a clown assassin" "What"

Trying to explain to my co-worker that he didn't have a conversation with ChatGPT, it just showed him sentences that looked like the correct response, was truly weird.

UK folk! A small indie SFF author event is coming to Shrewsbury this Saturday that you don't want to miss!

Kids of my generation did very little but learn about death in 1986. The year opened with the Challenger disaster. It closed with Optimus Prime dying. And THIS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJK...

Also friendly reminder that the Luddites weren‘t anti-tech they were pro workers rights and safety and anti-capitalist so you know, feel free to call me that.

Myrtle does not own one single thought. I mean, why snuggle with your warm sleeping sisters when you could pretend to be a potato instead?

The first major disappointment in every child's life is learning a thesaurus isn't a type of dinosaur.

Hey. I don’t normally do this but I’m up for doing personal commissions for a little while. Single characters £80 each. DM if interested. Shares appreciated!

Nobody undermined Kurt Vonnegut's writing by calling it "whimsy" because he wrote in a time when having a wild imagination and mixing extreme seriousness with extreme silliness wasn't seen by publishers as something freakish and troublesome to deal with.

Well first of all there needs to be a mass education drive so people understand the need to have a pension. But this is also a cost of living issue - if you’re struggling to manage today, you can’t afford to save for tomorrow www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...

If there was ever a time to pick up a book that examines the rise of fascism in the UK and Europe, now is the ideal time to pick up a copy of Rose & Renzo! Powerful, gripping and beautifully written, this Manchester set historical fiction novel is out now! share.google/v6u29t1LkyUC...

I was thinking recently what kind of games you could set on the Discworld - but now, all I want is something like THIS set in the Unseen University.

Invite your friends over to play a TTRPG and eat an entire cheese board with CHEESE NIGHT, my latest one-page game! Eating cheese with delicious accompaniments is a core mechanic in this GMless adventure. All you need is a d6 and an array of dairy delights🧀 michellicopter.itch.io/cheese-night

lol any way 💅

Is it wear trousers? I bet it's wear trousers.

This is going to be obvious to a lot of you, but it just occurred to me that, if I describe someone as working in "the sort of office where ambition goes to die", not only will all of you imagine something different, but IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU IMAGINE! (apologies for the all caps)

'I'll just quickly jot something down while my food cooks,' he tells himself. Meanwhile, 1448 words later, I've got the bridging section between Glunda The Veg Witch and Glunda And The Drupe Mages done and dusted, I've eaten all my chips, it's 10pm, and I've got work in the morning. 🤷‍♂️

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

Every time I open Bluesky,

Once thought about opening a Lake District burger chain. They would be named after which town they were in. Ambleside = AmBurger, Windermere = WinBurger, Keswick = KesBurger. The one in Cockermouth would be called BurgerMouth, but I'm sure no one would call it that. 😊

Question for both the readers & the writers of novellas - what about novellas appeals to you? Is there anything specific about that length of story that works for you? Have you noticed any particular patterns to what stories wind up as novellas instead of short stories or novels?

These unavoidable tough choices, for whom will they be tough?

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat" Correct! You ask, who built this ship? Do they have a good track record of building ships? Is my safety a priority, or were safety measures too time-consuming or costly? Do the people in charge care about my wellbeing?

So on policy matters, Burnham has ruled out major economic changes, he hasn't ever had much to say on green issues, and he's ruling out fixing our EU relationship. He's Starmer with a Mancunian accent? That's what Labour is tearing itself apart and wasting time over?

The English isn't even my first language bundle is still available this week, featuring 15 authors with first languages ranging from Italian, German, Czech, Malayalam, Dutch, Maltese, to Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin. itch.io/b/3658/engli... 💙📚📦

This is going to be obvious to a lot of you, but it just occurred to me that, if I describe someone as working in "the sort of office where ambition goes to die", not only will all of you imagine something different, but IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU IMAGINE! (apologies for the all caps)

Politicians are all on your side until they get a sniff of power, then they're on whichever side will propel them to the top.

I don't have access to your full article to know where you go with this, but by cleaning house of harassers you clean house of a whole lot of corruption. hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

This makes more sense than I would like

This is well worth a read. 🧵

Side note, if anyone can recommend some not too pricey places I can buy good plus-size running tops, I would be very happy to hear!

This is worth listening to. 😊🔊

Getting cynical with my old age, but some of these imperative "Post a pic from your device without downloading a new one!" or the current example about rewording "I waited" smack of stealth AI training or ways to triangulate people's devices and so on. My attitude is very "who's asking?"

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

If i lived in Makerfield I’d be wondering why I am apparently supposed to vote for someone who has already made it clear he didn’t really give a fuck about *where* he stands for election because my area is a mere stepping stone to number 10

Them : "Solar panels and windmills are so unsightly!" Also them : "Ooh... gas powered datacentres" An array of gas powered generators used to generate 20MW of power at a data centre: #GlobalBoiling

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

We take what we can get, eh?

my friend said “you can’t keep adopting strange little routines just because a crow reacts positively to them” which honestly feels narrow minded

anyone want to walk me through publishing on itch.io? I've seen so many cool bundles and such moving through it, but I know nothing about it.

daaaamn london

A quick 678 words after work today, for a total of 94,277, and things got a little weird. I wasn't planning on having a random digression about dolphins, yet here we are. #AttackMars

What I love is I'm not sure which is which.

Something I’ll always stand on.

If you're talking about throwing someone out of a window and you don't use the word 'defenestration' can you even call yourself a writer.

And this morning the Shed is two vast and trunkless legs of stone standing in the desert…