Got the artwork for my upcoming story in @remainsmagazine.bsky.social, and it looks stunning. Really excited about this. If you like dark art movements, bauhaus, and malignant artworks, I'd recommend picking up a copy of the upcoming issue of Remains. remains.uk/products/iss...

In 2005 a Museum of London community archaeology project excavated a WW2 bombsite beneath Shoreditch Park in Hackney. I volunteered on the dig and recorded interviews with local residents about their memories of the area in wartime.

Morning all. Artist: Yu Chengyou

Who’s the most famous alum of your high school? The band Acid Reign, and particularly Mark Ramsey Wharton who played in Cathedral, Cronos, Asomvel and Workshed

Lovecraft's Brood edited by @datlow.bsky.social is currently available for pre-order from @tachyonpub.bsky.social. I'm thrilled to be included in this anthology along with so many other fabulous authors! tachyonpublications.com/product/love...

Ranken came up with the title of The Pogues’ classic album Rum Sodomy & The Lash as ‘it seemed to sum up life in our band.’

RIP Andrew Ranken The backbone of The Pogues’ sound. Versatile, propulsive & joyous drumming. He was one the many reasons I loved watching them live. youtu.be/ItFwHE2n8Vs?...

"He led him over roads and paths, over mountains and hills. And all the while he slept" (Anna Wahlenberg “Tomtarna” from “Bland tomtar och troll”) 🎨 John Bauer (1909) #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #johnbauer

Good morning.

I’m sorting out my shelves and it’s reminded me why I love paperbacks more than hardbacks. Paperbacks age so we’ll from the love of being read. I’ve had these books over thirty years (over forty for Chocky) and they have scars and creases like a beloved friend.

Got on a roll today. Wrote 3700 words, and pushed the wordcount over 50k for the current WIP. After four previously abandoned drafts, I'm finally getting somewhere with this one. This might be the kiss of death, but at the moment I feel fairly focussed and have a good work pattern set up.

Folkoresky Has anyone heard of a superstition, possibly Tudor in date, of putting spoons out on the table upside down (with the back of the bowl facing upwards) to keep evil spirits away from the table?

Made another Weird Books for Weird Readers video! Cant go wrong with any of these book recs :) Featuring: Tamsyn Muir Robert Jackson Bennett Some guy who may or may not be typing this post B R Yeager @juliaelliott.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social

Apart from the difference in art (the kids stuff radiates joy a life and the ai stuff is just dead on arrival) the kids experience something while doing it. That experience is communicated in the art too. Art isn’t just the end result.

Our book 'Life in the Viking Great Army' is a contender for Current Archaeology's Book of the Year... so this is a last call for the voting from me. If you'd like to put us forward, then please follow the link below - and thank you!

New #projectrepoman post up to read on my blog. Week 5 of watching the Moviedrome films in order and blogging about them.

The first of our Haunted Book Club readings is online now. Next Tuesday night @gavcross.bsky.social and I will be discussing The Signalman by Charles Dickens. gavcross.substack.com/s/haunted-bo... Here's your chance to refresh your memory before we do. gavcross.substack.com/p/haunted-bo...

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

My latest #projectrepoman post is now available to read, this time looking at the surfing film Big Wednesday. I'm not a surfer, but this got me thinking abut subculture films in general stevetoase.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p...

Mornington Crescent: a rant. Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation. Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin. 1/18

As gen x I grew up reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's cyberpunk novels, so strangely my brain can handle this stuff.

Definitely a superb owl.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Transmission #12902 from Zuma (ACCM) 1. Paddock of Kaleidoscopes 2. Canal of Chants 3. Astral Abattoir of Spice

You can't expect me, with all your talk about superb owls, not to remind you of Louis Wain's 1904 "The Cat's Nightmare" (hint, that nightmare is owls).

As the thaw started, the igloo began to fear it might not survive. #pareidolia

That time in 1932 when the facial gestures of H.G. Wells were proposed as a beguiling enticement for early TV adopters. cc. @oddthisday.bsky.social

The weekend means a new Wombling Along that gathers reviews and other things that caught my eye online www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

Edinburgh after dark

Me, quoting Larkin: Sexual intercourse began in 1963...between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP. Son, 17: What's an LP? Me: [dissolves in a shower of dust, blows away]

"The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month, wondering if he would ever find his way out through the cold coils that lay between here and Easter." Barker nails it.

Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Introduced the lad to this classic. I still think Lola Rennt is one of the purest cyberpunk films, even though it doesn’t feature a single computer. It feels like a Netrunner in cyberspace, crashing out and resetting. The soundtrack and the style all feel like Case will turn up any moment.

A Taschen book sale means I know exactly where my Patreon money this month is going.

And it's not just Waymo. "Tesla’s vehicles also rely on similar remote operators...New National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data suggest[s] Tesla’s robotaxis are crashing three times as much as humans — even with human monitors."

David Harbour and Rebecca Hall are set to star in a new adaptation of Paul Tremblay's popular novel A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS.

So, the lad is watching The Dragon Prince, and this scene came up. Paging @jothecurious.bsky.social youtu.be/H7MgWSZK8-A?...

I think we'll stick with tools for today's #FindsFriday... although I can't claim that this is a 'Viking camps' post, as our find isn't from inside either of our winter camps! This is sf.180, an iron draw knife found in Castle Field, Torksey - south of where we know the Great Army camp was. /1

Pre-orders are NOW OPEN for *Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3* by myself and @tiffaniangus.bsky.social! 🥳 Published by @lunapress.bsky.social! 😀 Find pre-order details and check out the subgenres and major tropes covered in the book here: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...!

Trix is a friend and archaeologist I've know for over thirty years. He always does excellent #FindsFriday posts and you should definitely follow him.

Three stories to get to know my writing Quote & share your own 1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the... 2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... 3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

1. The inspiration 2. The idea 3. The ink By Imme at Honeytrap Tattoo in Nürnberg

beetle is writing you a love letter 💌

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The classic Japanese novella THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA by Shin’ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta is now available in English, translated by Jeffrey Angles - and Nils has reviewed this origin story here: tinyurl.com/4j9c9sm5 "enthralled and enlightened me"

V. happy to start the day, seeing Crawl Space at #9 in Cosmic and Eldritch Horror, and at #1 in Hot New Releases for the same category. I know there are loads of categories, but if there's one I place I think I fit in, it's Cosmic and Eldritch Horror (I'm something of an Eldritch Horror myself :) )

Looking through an old Flickr photostream (God, I feel ancient) to look at older tattoo flash, and saw this tattoo design of the Jersey Devil. The info suggests a 1920s date. Vintage Fortean tattoos is a niche topic, but one I'm here for. @forteantimes.bsky.social

Sometimes I wake up with traces of dreams that become stories. Sometimes I wake up with random phrases. Today I woke up with the words 'Slovenian National Bird', which is one of the more coherent thoughts. (South European Slavic Owl in case you were wondering.)

@remainsmagazine.bsky.social is very good. They usually sell out their limited print run. Good news. You can now get digital copies @weightlessbooks.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)