The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

This might be me favourite thing on the internet ever

Me: Well, time for bed! Daughter: Wow. Stop being so bossy.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Your independent bookstores put their money back into their local economies at many times the rate of the chains or tech giants. Authors would be lost without them. Support your local indie today (and every day).

If you want to listen to me talk about The Night Guest and how I have managed to monetise my anxiety by writing horror, you can do so here!

This might be me favourite thing on the internet ever

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

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I flew too close to the sun this winter (never got a cold and mentioned it out loud several times - although I was careful to knock on wood every time) and now it’s my time to pay for my hubris (second HORRIBLE cold in four weeks).

DEAD WEIGHT comes out in one month, and you can read an excerpt here!

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

Hold onto yer butts

Þessar sponsuðu auglýsingar frá Pétri Marteinssyni sem ég er alltaf að fá eru ekki að gera mikið til þess að hvetja mig til að kjósa hann.

Watching season 2 of Deadloch and I love it so much. Everyone is a lesbian and there is so much swearing and they all look like real people and it’s SO funny!

With so much awful news, here is something to brighten your day:

DEAD WEIGHT comes out in one month, and you can read an excerpt here!

Reading The Night Guest by @hildur.bsky.social and absolutely loving it. Just got to the bit where the cats stop responding to her as they had previously (hope that's not too big a spoiler) and I like/am afraid of where this is going....

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Nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands. We’re thrilled to share this excerpt from Dead Weight, a new horror thriller by Hildur Knútsdóttir (@hildur.bsky.social), translated by @maryrobinettekowal.com and coming from Nightfire on 5/26/26! reactormag.com/excerpts-dea...

I realize this is a feature not a bug for the right wing but Brand's MAGA pivot was so disgustingly predictable the second he faced the possibility of consequences for being a sexual predator every time someone goes right like that you can be sure allegations have either surfaced or are about to

Say it with me: fascism is beatable. Right now it feels like wishful thinking but it is actually fully historical fact. It has BEEN beaten. In different forms, in different times different places, through various combinations of...

This is the news I want to be reading on the internet

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Remember all the discourse surrounding Lindy West's polyamory memoir? The think pieces, the podcasts, the snarky responses from her husband? Based on the buzz, how many copies would you guess that book has sold so far? 3,000. 3,000 copies. That should scare the hell out of every book publicist

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Confession: Sometimes I have a hard time figuring out whether people here are mad at me or not.

There is something deliciously appropriate about Men's Health naming DEAD WEIGHT as one of the new horror books that terrifies them. Because what happens to the men in this book is not exactly ... good for their health.

There is something deliciously appropriate about Men's Health naming DEAD WEIGHT as one of the new horror books that terrifies them. Because what happens to the men in this book is not exactly ... good for their health.

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

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If you want to listen to me talk about The Night Guest and how I have managed to monetise my anxiety by writing horror, you can do so here!

OK so one of the things I find so fascinating with being published in the US is getting a peak behind the curtain and seeing how publishing works there. Because I've been published in Iceland for 15 years, I've published over 20 books and I feel I know almost everything about the industry here 🧵

I really want to know what he’s dreaming PS sound ON

This is a great thread about working in a creative industry

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."

OK so one of the things I find so fascinating with being published in the US is getting a peak behind the curtain and seeing how publishing works there. Because I've been published in Iceland for 15 years, I've published over 20 books and I feel I know almost everything about the industry here 🧵

And of course he got what he wanted and of course it was to go here:

These are the conditions to which I am subjected while I sit and try to finish my morning coffee. (Yes he wants a walk and yes he has the most intent stare of anyone I have ever met.)

Would immediately buy the mid-century novel that began with this sentence.

Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award https://aje.news/d1zgl2

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Whenever you go to Finnland you have to come home with a new Moomin cup. Sorry I don’t make the rules.

Reading @hildur.bsky.social's Dead Weight, translated by @maryrobinettekowal.com. God dang, this is so much fun. You can tell things are inching towards doom, but not how. Exactly the book I needed tonight. It drops next month!

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly. We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

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