What time is it? Time to rewatch ‘One Battle After Another.’ The year’s most acclaimed film of the year is rentable today, along with these other new movies.

We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

Love reading the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with @karjon.bsky.social. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec #FlashFiction

#Bluesky/ social media probably never the wisest way to try inflating a leaking balloon.... 🎈 (page below excerpted from 'SOCIAL ANXIETY' by Alain de Boton, 2004 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social .) #booksky 📚💙

ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

‘As both product and co-creator of the 1960s counterculture, Crumb ranks with his less scurrilous contemporary Bob Dylan. But he was less tied to the 1960s than Dylan.’ J. Hoberman on R. Crumb. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sad to report I was no fan of Guillermo del Toro's hot take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dropping into home viewing via streamer Netflix. The writer/director rings plenty of changes, but they don't refresh the story's core. Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star. 2/5 film-authority.com/2025/11/08/f...

#Bluesky/ social media probably never the wisest way to try inflating a leaking balloon.... 🎈 (page below excerpted from 'SOCIAL ANXIETY' by Alain de Boton, 2004 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social .) #booksky 📚💙

Tate Britain's Lee Miller exhibition is fascinating - Surrealism, erotica, fashion, World War 2, the camps, the aftermath, and threading it all together, Miller herself, BLAZINGLY, heroically talented, courageous, inspiring. Don't miss it. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... #LeeMiller #photography

I'm really glad there's still so much love for Shalamar. You couldn't get arrested for saying you loved them at the time - pop pap- especially among the grim faced post punkers I was busy ridding myself of but they were great and all that album sparkles.

#amplaying #nowplaying #Shalamar

Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?

Seem to be in a minority but I really enjoyed this, from my sizzled eyeballs backwards. #BalladOfASmallPlayer #ColinFarrell #FelaChen #TildaSwinton #Netflix

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social One for the 'Cheese' plate.

This is being sold as “baby cheesus” and cool, good pun, but why has a baby got a full beard?

Morning.

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968 acrylic on watercolor paper mounted on linen 39 x 25 3/4 in. (99.1 x 65.4 cm) 📸 gracecathustace (Instagram) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society

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When the world’s most notorious paedo says you’re a terrible person….

new new: "House," by Vincent Perrone: wigleaf.com

Sounds like whatever you imagine an album with that cover would/should sound like.

youtu.be/Wg9rjSsN4v4 Beautiful clip, Robbie Robertson in a reverie, listening to Van Morrison with a head-slowly-shaking Martin Scorsese. (Lifted this from also-worth-your-time article www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/p... by Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social, via @theringer.com.web.brid.gy )

#amplaying #nowplaying The New Eves - 'The New Eve Is Rising' (2025)

A trip to Bath Abbey to see 'Peace Doves' by Peter Walker - 6800 paper doves suspended in mid-air. It was quietly beautiful, and I added my own hopes for world peace, obviously, but also inner peace to anyone who is troubled. Worth popping in, but it finishes tomorrow (14th). Have a good day! xx

For @the-ringer.bsky.social, I wrote a big thing about Robbie Robertson's new memoir, which focuses on his friendship with Martin Scorsese in the late 70s, a topic I've long been obsessed with. Also went deeper on their overall collaboration in Hollywood and beyond. www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/p...

The final chapter is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking things I’ve ever read.

I blubbed on and off nearly all the way through, but especially during the final chapters, when he is reunited with Weissmuller one last time. Don't think I've wept so much while reading a book since Charlotte's Web.

My days on Bluesky.

Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing the 6 sentences that is “Subway Was Real When You Worked There” 🥪🌽🚙 Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/

FYI, "Undertaking a Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate - PCRMP Guide No. 1 (Paperback) by Nick Black (author), Janet Rimmer (author)" is by another Nick Black. Don't buy it by mistake. Or, indeed, my book if you're after his. #amwriting #booksky 📚💙

Binged Breaking Bad to prep for watching Pluribus and wtf Vince Gilligan what is this a sequel, a prequel, I don't get it.

Future generations (if they exist) will look at how this happened & wonder that in the West the best we had was a 13 year old girl who was promptly reviled while we voted for billionaires because they “told it like it is” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Me Cheeta is so good that it genuinely has you, a clever person, pondering whether an ape wrote it.

Discovering some albums I’ve missed via MOJO’s EOTY list and this is something special open.spotify.com/album/4soTMR...

FYI, "Undertaking a Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate - PCRMP Guide No. 1 (Paperback) by Nick Black (author), Janet Rimmer (author)" is by another Nick Black. Don't buy it by mistake. Or, indeed, my book if you're after his. #amwriting #booksky 📚💙

This clutch of fucks… we literally put a sex-crime ring at the center of global power. Utter madness.

#amplaying #nowplaying @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social The first of his I bought contemporaneous to its release, a giant comet across my musical sky, one of his very best.

Still my favourite rock'n'roll racket of the year.

Today is Neil Young’s 80th birthday! Stereogum asked 80 musicians to discuss a favorite song of his, and here’s @nationoflanguage.bsky.social’s Ian Devaney on “Like A Hurricane” (specifically the ‘Unplugged’ recording). Check out everyone’s picks at stereogum.com/neil.

Wrote about Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott and their role in the war on the BBC www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...

First arrivals!!!

Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi... Features glad tidings about this beauty:

Still my favourite rock'n'roll racket of the year.

#amplaying #nowplaying @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social Happy birthday, Shakey! #80candles

"I Keep A Close Watch" - John Cale, live in 1983. Best version I've heard. #JohnCale youtu.be/Td5ggufGakU?...

The results are in for the third quarter's flash fiction category as judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social Many congratulations to the authors - and also to all who made the long and short lists. The standard was very high! flash500.com/flash-fictio... #flashfiction #WritingCommunity

So excited to have come second! flash500.com/flash-fictio...