Today’s gadget, with a nice dose of ordinalization. intheweights.com

Going to make these ancient space crusade tarantulas into pintle cannons for heresy land raiders, but such incredible nostalgia pieces!

Going to make these ancient space crusade tarantulas into pintle cannons for heresy land raiders, but such incredible nostalgia pieces!

The 8-12 week wait time on novel querying is….well, it’s a fucking long time, isn’t it?

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

only somebody as profoundly stupid as JD Vance could possibly think that allying the US with faltering has-beens like Russia and corrupt regimes like Netanyahu's (and Orban's, remember him?) instead of strong, capable, democratic countries like Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada etc would be smart

Tell everyone you know. InfoWars, July 2nd, big surprises.

Oooh Stephen King (yes that one) liked one of my recent podcasts, the latest series of DOCTOR DEATH

Britain 2026: Guy gets 26 months in jail for selling CD remixes (!) 1.) We have AI companies stealing art, music, books etc with ZERO penalty; 2.) I can think of *dozens* of sex crimes and killings that carried lower jail time bsky.app/profile/slow...

I like presidents that, when they say “unconditional surrender”, they mean the other country

If you’re trying to write a book you should follow @katemckean.bsky.social, read her blog and buy her book. Full of so much clear, well written, no bullshit advice. bsky.app/profile/kate...

I promise you this will be the best newsletter about books with numbers and equations you ever read. At Agents & Books today we talk about how the money works in traditional publishing in the least scary way possible. www.agentsandbooks.com/how-the-mone...

That most London of sights, a hooting crack addict wearing only shorts riding the wrong way up a one way street on a lime bike

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

Banning youtube kids to make sure the feral underclass raised entirely by screens have zero guardrails. No ms Rachel or cocomelon, only Joe rogan and crypto scams plz bsky.app/profile/poli...

Can’t believe trying to work out how to highlight gold armour during a boring meeting makes the death penalty now, but you know, guilty as charged. bsky.app/profile/hans...

Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest

I saw a serious professional thing that suggested posting to Instagram 40 times a day was the optimal amount of posting. I didn’t believe it but now I sort of think it’s probably true for the people who click on AI thumbnails and buy aloe Vera based MLM products

"It's called 'literary sci-fi,' T — it's when you rewrite a Twilight Zone episode with a thesaurus and sell it to a bunch of fanooks who think 'Heinlein' is a cheap beer"

Natural England in full Caligula mould: KILL THE PONIES, MORE FISH DISCOS AND BAT TUNNELS www.thetimes.com/article/ba52...

My favourite ever Cook report was when the wrong’un throws a brick at the camera smashing the lens, and the way they play it out is freeze framing the brick at the last second. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Roger Cook got death threats from some of the vilest people in the world. The fact he's died peacefully after a short illness at the age of 83 feels like he won, ultimately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not that often that journalism makes a real-world impact and changes things but it looks like that's what Jim and @londoncentrical.bsky.social are doing here www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

It arrives on people’s screens the same way as the BBC or Channel 4 or Sky now. Make it behave. Bring it to heel. Then you can ban it, if you want to, for the perfectly understandable reason that it’s breaking the law in your country. It’s a broadcaster. A publisher. Make these people grow up.

NEW STORY DAY! “Ghost in the Tank” is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com! It’s about giant mechs and censorship by tech companies and getting punched in the face and desperate queer shame and all the ugliest intersections of technology and culture. I think it’s my best work. I hope you love it.

I can spot AI text from a mile off and it just gives me such an icky feeling to get half way through a post and see those tells. Just write the f-img social media post!

great ask in the legal advice subreddit

@naomialderman.bsky.social absolutely loved your substack this morning on how to be well read. 2 things: 1.) On mushroom books, WIFE SHAPED BODIES is one I loved I think you might like; 2.) My company would *pay* for you to do the couch to 5k of being well read, what a brilliant idea.

"remember this login" site does not remember, enter password "incorrect password" click forgot password "enter new password" type password "cannot use previous password"

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Policy changes create winners and losers It’s a truism that losers complain more than winners are grateful But we’re on a ludicrous path if those who lose out from policy decisions demand and then get compensation That’s a recipe for nothing being decided ever

I have never been more disappointed to be right, and I really thought I had hit the bottom of that the evening of 23 June 2016.

Cabinet revolt over Royal Navy Spending? Is it 1908 again?

🎼 He’s got a big square head, and he’s killed people dead, Al Carns Al Carns 🎼

Peruvian election proving this meme exactly right

Reading the recent Stalin biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore, and this paragraph sounds quite familiar in our current context. Highly recommend btw.

it's a big claim, but i may have found the most mental youtube video

"The Police Federation for Northern Ireland says twelve officers injured during disturbances last night is down to ‘violent fascist law-breakers’ who want to wreck Northern Ireland." [Belfast Telegraph]

Governments have to assert their sovereign right to protect their self-interests by blocking X

putting this differently -- Sir Francis Walsingham would not have understood how the technology worked but he WOULD immediately zero in on "a foreigner opposed to the basic government in Britain is deliberately inciting sectarian violence"

i am obviously not from the British Isles so my perspective here is biased, but I see this as essentially a question of national sovereignty. X is run by a man agitating for the overthrow and subversion of a foreign government and is protected from consequences by the geopolitical power of the US

OH THIS THREAD 😭🫶

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

I’m Willard, when I’m writing fiction I write body horror mostly (or at least that’s always a component). Day I was born was the day John Wayne Gacy was sentenced for the murder of a dozen people. #HorrorWritersChat bsky.app/profile/rami...

If I'm gonna die in a pointless nuclear war between billionaires who want to colonise mars, I want the person who pushes the button to feel the roughness of the metal and plastic beneath their fingers, feel the thing click and turn, not the frictionless sigh of a touchscreen, you know?