Pokopia is pretty fun 🥹

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

@boardsofcanada.bsky.social listening party in Glasgow tonight 🎶

The shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Fantasy Novel are: 📚 Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree Press) / @shonak.bsky.social 📚 Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (Independently Published) / @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social 🧵⬇️

It's my birthday yay 🎉🥳

A flooded future Earth, pilots and solarpunk: check out Puddlejumpers, written by our own Alex Blott, with art by Vicky Chen and lettering by Buddy Beaudoin! Pick up your copy now at the link below:

Hey hivemind, a question for y’all… Does anyone have any recommendations for ongoing Glaswegian fanzines or fanwriting? I’m going to be on a panel at Satellite 9 and I want to know whether I’m missing anything or whether there isn’t much out there at the moment. @satellitecons.bsky.social

Thoroughly enjoying all the perennials coming back to life in the garden 🌷

Last year, @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social and I made a visual novel in 7 days for a game jam. It's a heist simulator with branching narratives and multiple endings. I can't believe we managed! 😍 I also made references to the best anime of all time, which is ofc Redline chrisdbrown.itch.io/sterlings-run

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Might fuck about and reread Fruit's Basket

It's been a while since I shared a long read! I spent several months looking at gender representation in the world of board games. Hugely grateful for the time of the designers who shared their stories with me.

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

I fear they have found a phishing scam that would work on me 🐷

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

I don't know what it is about Friday afternoons but I somehow regularly manage to get about 6 days of work condensed into 3 hours. Is it the prospect of a cheeky beer after dinner? I'll never tell.

Given @annleckie.com has a new Radch book out, it seems like a good time to point to this conversation between Leckie and Arkady Martine, on writing empires, imperialism, and colonialism: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras

This is only getting worse: we're getting a lot of emails and phone calls from people receiving fraudulent emails claiming to be from Canongate editors.

Checking the garden after yesterday's hail showers and I think the new petunia have simply taken the ice and used it to double in size overnight 😅

Fuck it, Peel Session it is

🗣️ Surprise Surprise 🔁 Very glad I'm going to the @boardsofcanada.bsky.social listening party because I need new tunes asap

Well deserved, this is by FAR the most gorgeous board game I've played in a long time. It's also satisfyingly complex, very replayable, and loaded with *really* snazzy game pieces, for people who are into presentation big time (it's me I'm people) 👑

Purgatory is an unstaffed train platform with a non-specific signalling fault

Congratulations to everyone who made the longlist for the 2026 Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction -- but especially to our own Meghan Ellis and Ian Hunter! Fingers crossed for the winners announcement on 2nd June... @ianhunter60.bsky.social @meghan0n.bsky.social @cymerafestival.co.uk

Went to look at a really BIG book about birds today. John James Audobon's The Birds of America is one of the most expensive books in the world! Yet we have several volumes here in Glasgow (and Paisley) A gorgeously-illustrated piece of work that inspired Darwin.

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Delighted to be longlisted for the 2026 Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction with my piece "The Pavilion In The Sky" 🎉 great news for a Sunday afternoon. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2026-prize

We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

I just left this guy in my trug last year to see how he'd cope with the winter... looks like strawberries are on the menu! 🍓 I should've known a native Scottish plant would, you know, handle a Scottish cold spell 🫡

We're looking for a producer at Screen Burn! ❤️ screenburn.com/job-listings...

Watching the results from down south come in 😮‍💨

the word "aura" is derived from "auron", a character from popular playstation two game "final fantasy x", and means "embodying a state where you are cool like auron"

This is like, the Final Boss of subliminal messaging (positive) www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Nl...

The stars never aligned for me writing for Paste, but I've read their work for years and it sucks to see the decision to shutter them. What a great start it gave a lot of people! And for people like me who are still chugging away without much success, it's crap to see the pool get ever shallower.

Guess who's going to the @boardsofcanada.bsky.social Inferno Session on her BIRTHDAY 🤩✨🎵 Bless you boards of canada and warp records 🙏

something something, sun and a little treat 💙💛🩷

Went walking yesterday as the weather was so glorious. Such a good walk that had it all: ferns, lambs, aqueducts, Munros, even a bit of sea as a treat ☀️

⠀ ◤◢◤新たなアライアンスレイド◢◤◢ #FF14 × #EVANGELION 　 　⪢ 🟪 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 🟩 ⪡ ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ #エヴァンゲリオン youtu.be/680o2J54FKY

demeter when her daughter goes missing

Mission success, I think 😌☀️

It's a glorious day in Glasgow and I'm going to look at some baby Highland Cows.

Going absolutely ham on a new playthrough of Slay the Spire Poison damage my beloved 😌

found myself in a pretty trick spot: rent’s going up and I don't have much work right now. So I’m looking for (paid) assignments! I’m a pretty good critic, I've written a lot about Black film and animation – recent samples in replies! I can be reached at: kambole [at] outlook [dot] com

We are thrilled to announce that AKIRA is the highest grossing classic release of the year, earning over £1M at the UK box office. 💥 Proudly showing that there’s no better place to experience incredible films - old or new - than the cinema.🍿 Book now! akirafilm.co.uk

Finished another reread of Pride & Prejudice, which means my inner monologue will sound like the Georgian upper crust for about a week

This is better than 10 days of sunshine and a fridge full of berries and beer. New Boards of Canada, in this economy?! pitchfork.com/news/boards-...

Oh my GOD I am such a huge fan of Satoshi Morie's work. This is completely awesome to see it in English.

Lunchtime listening ☀️

I've carved out an entire day to write today and I'm thoroughly enjoying it (so far) 🌟