Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

So proud of

Stepping gingerly into February, although that’s mostly due to a back spasm that’s left me waddling like a constipated duck.

The proposition that complex true world systems resolve down to a trolley problem binary choice needs data to support it

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

In my probably atypical experience people who don’t like The Clash have spent too much time listening to Should I Stay Or Should I Go and not enough time listening to (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

As we're doing starter packs, I have just created a new one for cat fans. Do let me know if I've left your cat (and you) off! go.bsky.app/ML99Quk

Considering celebrating when Kiribati enters 2026 and then going back to bed

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

On this special day, we honor Ray and Walter Cichon as well as Bart Haynes, drummer of the Castiles, to whom "The Wall" is dedicated.

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

We’ve been without cats for nearly a year since the last of our two died, but now we have kittens again (4 months old so in between kittens and young cats). That’s Stevie on the left and Sid on the right, the rescue charity named them and we’re keeping those names. They are adorable.

On the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica, let me just say: Death to Spiked/Living Marxism

Another day, another revelation…

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Take a look at what I just added to the website It's Elizabeth & Marilyn by Julie Owen Moylan - a book all about the time the two most famous women in the world met. It's not out until 2026, but I am SO looking forward to this. Signed copies: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/eliz...

Liz Truss is in Hungary. And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony. It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.

Since it’s past the watershed, I’ll leave you with the bloodchilling finale from the 1974 blockbuster ‘ZIPS’. Don’t have nightmares.

What the fuck, Mind? Have you not read the Samaritans' reporting guidelines on suicide?

I feel the weekend calls for slices of Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, spread so thickly with butter you leave tooth marks when you bite into a slice. (The Danes call this happy state of affairs tandsmør, incidentally.) www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe are sheer Rhodesia, aren’t they? Frederick Forsyth etc. Harare airport 1978. Sweating with suitcases. Bar. ‘You *fool* Tice! We’ll owe ten million rand. They’ll cut our ears off’ ‘For Christ’s sake calm down, man. You’re a hysteric! I’d never agreed had I known’ etc

As long ago as 2016 Andrew Neil was earning well over half a million a year as a political commentator. And he's just admitted the most basic "orange man bad" commentator on twitter has a better read on the US President....

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Hamas fighters kidnapped the Bibas family because they killed or took hostage virtually every civilian they came across on the 7th of October, regardless of their nationality, faith or gender. This was not an aberration, it was part of a consistent modus operandi.

The Boss is here 👍 @officialbruce.bsky.social

For people who are not familiar with the absolutely shabby treatment I got from the UK government last year, here’s a reprise bylinetimes.com/2023/05/23/i...

Public Service Announcement. Big Jet TV is live. www.youtube.com/live/egvoBvc...

A red weather warning means it’s festive and jolly, right?…… Right? 😳

I guess this means the Lords will be Justified and Ancient

A Barnier is one Scaramucci short of two Trusses.

This is SENSATIONAL.

"Centrists enabled the Nazis" is basically the Very Online Left's version of "The Nazis were Socialists" Anyone who has read a history book rolls their eyes at both

Tis the season

Lebkuchen in packets of 7!? Selling a prime number of tasty treats must be a fiendish German plot to undermine British family life

I was going to put the bat down and step away from the dead horse, but now that we've been quoted in the Guardian talking about the AI dingbats, I want to just say a couple of things about self-publishing and the value of $5,000.

When I said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being DHHS Secretary would kill people, you all understood that I was being literal, right? To underscore: Kennedy Jr. will actually kill people. Mostly children. And only a contemptible monster like Trump would position him to do that and think nothing of it.

Make a working model of a tourbillon clock, they said, it’ll be fun, they said

since there are more people on here now: I am the book content editor for Tor.com and I'm looking for 2024 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre-bending speculative books! If you're a writer or a publicist with an SFF book out next year, please share the link/info here! (or email me)

Hmm, can’t seem to post images 🤔

J’Accuzzi

"She loved a m-m-m-massive bang, did your m-m-m-mother." -Oppenheimer All Hours

What’s the etiquette when people you blocked “over there” follow you over here? 🤔

First post here. “Hello world” is traditional I guess.