I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

A whole year as vegetarian. There's certainly been some foods I miss but I'm surprised by how few that is. Beef for example I don't miss at all. Bacon on the other hand I miss terribly. Still I think it's been a worthwhile thing and myself and the planet are slightly healthier for it.

The fact leveraged buyouts don't come with a thirty year prison sentence attached continues to amaze me.

Controversial opinion. Terry Pratchett was the greatest author of the 20th Century.

The old Terry Pratchett covers 🥹

Happy 2026 everyone!

Happy New Year's Eve to everyone!

Has anyone got any advice for how authors are meant to interact with both Instagram and Tiktok? I've been advised by my editor that if I want to be successful both are a necessity but that was the limits of the advice and I'm not adept at social media.

The problem with writing a multi POV fantasy novel is that it's a nightmare on the word count if you want to write a cohesive plot without quite jarring jumps.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

For anyone who collects PSA graded Pokemon cards, I've just put over 100 up on my eBay. I'm looking to move house in the next year or so so it's time to slim down the collection as well as raise a little extra cash to act as a buffer in case something goes wrong. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fromthed...

Does anyone have any advice for how to get a literary agent? I've followed a lot of the standard advice online to no joy and now have three finished books with two more on the way with no real way to sell them outside of self-publishing and I am terrible at marketing.

I think after I finish my current chapter I'm going to put Oathmaker on hiatus. Book 3 just wasn't well plotted out enough and life is too hectic enough for a regular schedule right now. Once I've got my new office set up I should return to writing.

Okay so on the same day they declare their intent to remove jury trials, the UK's Labour government is openly rigging the Palestine Action ban appeal by appointing loyalist judges. This may be the most openly corrupt move in the history of British politics, and fuck me is that high bar.

I've had similar problems. Dialogue is a lot harder for some reason and I've no idea why that specifically became hard.

I’m going to be real: my long Covid has changed me as a writer. I don’t really have the mental capacity to write as big stories right now bc my brain can only juggle so much information. I’m leaning into stories, novelettes, novellas & short novels. Following my strengths not fearing my weakness😌

A sincere suggestion from a family member on what I could do to round out my world-building was to include bestiality as that would spice it up. I love when my life's work is treated as a pile of garbage, honest.

I am so deeply tired of my every effort ending in failure. I have three books written I can't even find a publisher for. No literary agent has even returned an email and I've sent hundreds. A diploma instead of a degree due to health problems outside my control and therefore no career.

To my family if they ever see this: There really is no need to mock me to 'keep my feet on the ground'. My feet have not left the ground in over a decade at this point. Every dream I have ever had has been shattered and am I resigned to living a life where I might one day manage subsistence.

Israel has admitted that it has bombs attached to civilians in multiple countries. Will any of their allies do a damn thing? Of course not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCf...

Watching Thunderbolts my heart hurts for Alexei. The man's a complete mess, a fuckup on every level, but he's trying ya know?

I'm not saying people who dislike the 2025 Superman film are genocidal Zionist freaks. I am saying the correlation is there.

You just know you're screwed when the commentator notes that the flameproof parts are what's burning. www.youtube.com/shorts/gRG0P...

Jesse Watters of Fox wants to bomb the UN? Still think Fox is ok? Remove Fox. Contact your cable company to remove Fox from their channels. I can’t imagine who even watches it 🤮

Has anyone else ever read a text and your interpretation is so different from another person's you doubt their reading comprehension?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Agree with Mr Reich.......

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

High profile Nazi assassinated. Many supporters of death camps asking why anyone would ever support political violence.

About ten years ago now someone I should have been able to trust lied to me. In doing so they cost me three years of my life, sent me spiralling into depression and completely derailed every plan I had for my life. It's been a while since I thought about it, but every time it makes me so angry 1/2

Well said.

Has anyone else ever had an argument with someone so stupid that it almost shakes their faith in democracy? There's just something so incredible dispiriting in the knowledge that this barely sapient heap of bigotries cancels out my vote.

It's distressing to realize how many seemingly nice elderly family members are just unhinged racists.

Just in case anyone's blood pressure was within safe ranges. www.youtube.com/shorts/acpd3...

There's no way Silksong will ever be able to match the sheer hype built around it over the years, but damn does it look like it's going to get close.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

I am so very tired of not daring to do anything important because I know I'll just be interrupted. I never do anything valuable with my time anymore because my time is treated as valueless and that makes getting anything worthwhile done all but impossible.

Alt text: For panel comic in two blocks Top block is labeled “Introverts” In 2 panels a Bivalve says “no, I will not open up” Second Block is labeled: “Extroverts” 2 Pandlsd, diet panel is an otter. Sedona pale of Otter lifting Rock (Subtext: otters use rocks to break open bivalves)

My family have a weird obsession with my soda drinking. It doesn't matter how much alcohol I drink, that's fine. Five pints in a night? Go for it. 2 cans of soda? It's bad for your health and you need to stop.

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.

The highlight of my year may well be watching Hollow Knight fans lose their god-damned minds.