Tremendous obituary for Ian Watson from Lisa Tuttle. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Charles, Scott, Jean, Hank, Warren & Bobby

Bit chaotic at Åcon tonight because Finland is playing Germany at ice hockey. The hotel bar is rammed with sports fans.

Who has four paws and got to talk about The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social at a convention in Åland?! 😁😁😁

Registration for this year's BristolCon (October 25th & 26th) is now open. We will be there, with the new Green Man book and much more. We hope to see some of you there too. signup.bristolcon.org/

Only 14% of Brits support the Far Right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who hides behind the name Tommy Robinson - mostly men, a new poll for The Economist reveals. The backbone of his support, and funding, is America.

Journo: Mr Streeting, I hear you are backing Andy Burnham to return to Westminter. Wes: I certainly am! He’s just what we need right now. Journo: Why is that? Wes: Because now I have quit the Cabinet I don’t have anyone to backstab!

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Good morning from Finland, and welcome to day 4 of Starmergeddon. In yesterday’s episode everyone laughed at little Wes because he didn’t have any friends, so Wes threw a tantrum in the hope it would get him more friends. His plan is not going well.

Camazotz, bat god, associated with night, death and sacrifice. His name comes from K'iche' words kame ("death") and sotz' ("bat"), literally translating as "bat of death." 100 BCE Zapotec, Oaxaca. Camazotz appears in the sacred book Popol Vuh of the Maya as an inhabitant of Xibalbá (the underworld).

See, UK, it *is* possible for a court to uphold the rights of trans people! More seriously, to me this case highlights how feckless the UK Labour Party has been in its mishandling of trans rights over the past 5-10 years. The Sex Discrimination Act amendments and the Equality Act are of a kind. 1/

Ammanford curry house named one of best in Britain (some of my friends in the local Plaid group love this place, must try it) nation.cymru/culture/the-...

Welsh archers… still the best nation.cymru/sport/welsh-...

Recently published, the first volume of Fight Like A Girl is back in print at last! wizardstowerpress.co...

Our ebooks are now distributed by Draft2Digital, which means you can buy them on Apple Books, Smashwords and other platforms. They are also available through BorrowBox and other library platforms. Here's the order page for The Green Man's Heir: books2read.com/u/m2znvd

I’m at Åcon, and the GoH is @emilytesh.net. On being asked about her next book, she started talking about Achilles on Skyros… #TakeMyMoney

While Streeting contemplates what he does next, here is a brief look at his role in undermining Trans+ healthcare in the UK, since becoming Health Secretary. Plus a look at how in 2022, he said: "my Christian Anglican faith definitely informs my politics"🧵

It impossible to overstate the damage done and deaths caused by Wes Streeting to trans people during his time as Health Secretary. May he rot.

Wes, you’ve been writing “anonymous” articles for The Guardian for months saying how feeble you think Starmer is. No one believes that this is a recent realisation.

Wes gets Guardian to lie about how much support he has while his minions desperately try to drum up more votes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmergeddon update: 1. Wes still can't find 81 people who can stand being in the same room as him; 2. Everyone else is holding fire until they can jump in to be the "anyone but Streeting" candidate.

Oh, my. The BFI is releasing a restored PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1958) on Blu-ray in September. No extras to speak of, as the rest of the disc is taken up with BRIDE OF THE MONSTER (1955), the previous film Ed Wood jnr. did with Bela Lugosi.

Good morning from Finland, and welcome to day 3 of Starmergeddon. Remember, if you are in the UK and have a Labour MP, now would be a very good time to write to them and explain just how much you despise Wes Streeting.

Superb but depressing from Matt D’Ancona in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/155853...

It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

Nice to see all three of our Sir Gaerfyrddin MSs in the new Cabinet nation.cymru/news/first-m...

Are you a fan yet? Juliet E McKenna's award-winning Green Man series is hugely popular all around the world. The first in the series is The Green Man's Heir. wizardstowerpress.co...

and GUESS WHAT? Our Pride Month Spotlight in June is going to be 🏳️‍🌈GENDER DIVERSITY🏳️‍🌈 bringing you the joy, struggle, and resistance of diverse gender expression around the world!

RSVP for the free, virtual book launch event on May 16 for Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, The Curve of the World: bit.ly/48L9p7V. The message of this novel is "far more urgent now than it was when she wrote it," comments @cherylmorgan.bsky.social (review: www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/the-...)

Can Wes find 81 Labour MPs who think that the party’s disastrous performance is last week’s elections is due to their policies not being transphobic enough? Stay tuned to Starmergeddon… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Closing down comms

Oops, almost forgot to buy data roaming... 😅

Boarded. Next stop Helsinki. 🛫

The new commissioners for the EHRC. Seems like it will continue to never have had a trans commissioner, despite spending a disproportionate amount of time working very hard to take away our equality and human rights.

Historically accurate Bronze Age Greek warrior clothing. At least according to Classical Age Greeks. Over to you, Mr Nolan...

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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is WANDER. Unworldly genius Philip Devere has his own idea of what it means to be PC compatible, arf. From my sf&f story collection, JEAPES JAPES. #bookqw #shortstories www.benjeapes.com/index.php/wr... Hear me read a longer version at benjeapes.substack.com.

"Removing Kier Starmer is a remedy to the condition of having Kier Starmer as leader. Nothing else." To which I might add that making Streeting leader instead is like treating a bad case of flu with a dose of bubonic plague.

Through Terrorisation at Heathrow

While Wales begins a new chapter, Labour is descending into chaos. The people of Wales deserve better than this - and they voted for it. Plaid Cymru is calling for stronger powers - the King’s Speech must respect the Senedd election’s result and deliver on the needs of Wales.

It is Starmergeddon Day 2, but I’m off to Finland so I will miss much of the excitement. Try not to destroy the country while I am gone, please. (And by ‘not destroy’ I mean ‘don’t let Streeting become PM’, obviously)

Well…

Thought I'd let you in on a little secret, I've just signed up for email newsletters from #WelshGovernment. Don't tell anyone cos they'll all want one, and then we might have an involved citizenship, and then we'd have a democracy to be proud of... Where will it end! 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.gov.wales/subscribe/an...

Statius in the Achilleid writes Achilles as an angry force-feminized youth scheming to assault a princess. Louis XIV's sibling Philippe commissioned a marble statue of femme Achilles in full Amazon warrior garb. Unusual gender modalities of Achilles have existed going on three millennia. IT WOULD BE

And it's here!!! Look at this absolute beauty of a cover, painted by @jedwardneill.bsky.social !! 😍😍😍 BORN OF MALICE from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! Link in the comments... #booksky

My first graphic novel as publisher, Salvation’s Child, is out next week! And here’s the opening plus an interview with writer @aptshadow.bsky.social ! www.polygon.com/salvations-c...

There aren't many candidates for people worse than Starmer to take over the leadership and become PM, however Wes Streeting is definitely the worst of the worst...

Here’s a book I wasn’t expecting to find: probably the first novel (as opposed to autobiography though some of them were quite fictional) by a trans woman. And it is science fiction, obviously.

Oh, come on, Satan… A little subtlety might have been useful here.

Tragically spot on: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...