We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

#bestalbums2025 #sherelle #cleoreed #mariedavidson #thenecks

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Black Archive covers are all done by Cody Schell using icons created by @blairbidmead.bsky.social, which is why they are always awesome.

RIP Dave Ball. I was at this Megadog rave and The Grid rocked it! youtu.be/tdiQR0N5Mtw?...

Excellent new review of @blairbidmead.bsky.social's Rose Coloured Crosshairs. 'Again proving to be one of the best FP authors out there, Bidmead creates a masterpiece of intertwined storylines ... that ties itself together perfectly within just 150 pages.' tardis.guide/reviews/stor...

New ramblings at The Hypolloi 🐈‍⬛️

Saw 'Superman' at the weekend with the fam. It is an imperfectly perfect adaptation. Loved it. Ages ago, I posted that a new movie version of Superman should be a weird gestalt of Mr Rogers, Ted Lasso & Andrew WK.Now, I'm not saying James Gunn read that post, but.. #superman 🦸‍♀️ 🎸 🧷

Norman Tebbit, on his bike, freewheeling downhill to Hell 🔥

I'm confused. Why was Rachel Reeves crying in parliament? It can't be about Labour attacking the disabled, because something something, toughetty tough, sensible, grown-ups something.

Happy Solstice! 🌞

I can't decide who are worse; people who idolise CEOs, people who want to be a CEO or CEOs 🤔

Brand new short fiction on my Substack today! #books open.substack.com/pub/blairbid...

What would you all say to a shiny reprint of @purserhallard.com's genuinely seminal FP novel,' ...Of the City of the Saved'? All new layout, with new illustrations by Nick Hallard and new content? We've done 6 City anthologies - now it's time that the original, as you might say, joined Obverse!

READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So whatever else you do, please never stop reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. Never stop helping them find books to read and love. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #books

The comp copies of my new Faction Paradox novella, 'Rose-Coloured Crosshairs' have arrived! Cheers @stuartdouglas.bsky.social - available now from @obversebooks.bsky.social Get them while they're hot! 🔥 🦎 💀 🌹

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

This by the ever-excellent Benefits and Work is definitely worth a read: 'Mental health #PIP claimants demonised as cover for massive assault on physical health awards': www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/mental-...

The cover of my new Faction Paradox novella, 'Rose-Coloured Crosshairs'! Available to buy as an ebook and pre-order as a limited edition hardback from @obversebooks.bsky.social now! #books

A movie you've watched more than six times, using GIFs.

#SupermanDay #superman Quick sketch for Superman Day 🦸‍♂️

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

Due to a mix-up at the BBC Graphics Department in 1982... #DoctorWho #Sorry

The end has been prepared for and all that - but not for the @blackarchive.co.uk, which reaches volume 76 with alook at Baker's final story, Logopolis - the first part of a two-part Archive investigation of the Baker-Davison regeneration. obversebooks.co.uk/product/76-l...

I have a new policy. If I see an article about the 'Alien' franchise and it uses the word 'xenomorph', I do not read the article. #alien

Poshos, having annexed the arts completely, are now punching down at any lower-class stragglers, who are impertinent enough to attempt to leave their box. #classwar

#worldbookday2025 Buy my books! Use discount code WORLDBOOKDAY2025 at the checkout at obversebooks.co.uk #books

For World Book Day (yes, the British one is on a different date to the US one!), here's a 10% discount code for all of Obverse's catalogue! WORLDBOOKDAY2025

Way to go @democrats.org. Great coms.

Doctor Who Twin Peaks AEW Dynamite The Wire The Prisoner The Shield Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad The Young Ones Spaced Catastrophe

Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

Jack Kirby, forty-nine years ago:

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "Once upon a time in Mexico, there were four luchadores called Tierra, Viento, Fuego and Agua." - The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 #booksky #wrestlesky

For our 75th book, we're taking a look at Doctor Who's 25th anniversary story, SILVER NEMESIS. It's fair to say it wasn't universally adored back in 1988, but Jim Cooray Smith finds much to love in this tale of Cybermen, time travelling aristocrats, deadly living statues, and all that jazz.

I have a GLC flag sticker on my laptop. I like to think the circlet of the Saxon crown represents the M25.

While you're waiting, here's the Silver Nemesis cover, by @blairbidmead.bsky.social and Cody Schell. Isn't it great?

Donald Trump. An Apology. The new Private Eye is out now

Not today

Once again, black don't crack.

Didn't expect the defining image of 2025 to turn up quite so quickly.

#bestalbums2024 #niaarchives #underworld #ibibiosoundmachine #fatdog

Today, I have moved on from crying to the Superman trailer to crying to the reaction videos of other people crying to the Superman trailer. #superman

I'm not crying. You're crying.

Christmas reading by @grantmorrison.bsky.social & Dan Mora (with added cat) 🎄 🐈

For Whom The Bellal Tolls

Trying to manifest DCU stuff. Junpei Mizusaki on an anime 'Super Young Team'. Ben Wheatley on a live action 'Hellblazer' movie. Sally Wainwright on a live-action 'Knight & Squire' TV series. Aardman Animation on a stop-motion 'Kamandi' movie. @jamesgunn.bsky.social

The insane finish to AJ Styles vs Kota Ibushi, featuring a conflicted Kenny Omega and Styles catching Ibushi mid-air from a Phoenix Splash into the Styles Clash!!

Trump picks the delegate from Arcturus as the US health secretary.