In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October. www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

For fuck's sake

I thought this had to be a joke because this is all so laughably awful but no, this is literally what the article says what the fuck are you telling me I can just request gifts from a throwaway email account

I dreamed the Home Secretary was mildly but dramatically injured trying to retrieve my bad cat from a roof. I was slightly cancelled for this.

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

I've realised that Starmer truly thinks Farage et al are bad because of who they are, not what they do. Starmer considers himself a nice, decent person, while Farage clearly isn't. So it doesn't matter if he's condemning the exact same people Farage hates to lives of misery -- he isn't Farage.

This is grotesque and yet again, another conflation between israel and Jewishness used to weaponise antisemitism

It makes me so angry when I spend ages wracking my brains for the Italian for something and I finally cave and look it up and it's just. the English fucking word. Fuck you, "il touchpad."9

ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025. One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.

I get two, but they scraped almost everything I've ever written. Not just books but short stories and articles.

I mean, yeah. This is just bullshit. They stole loads more work than the settlement covers, we know this to be true. They're getting away with murder here. bsky.app/profile/lavi...

One thing that really ticks me off is this point in the FAQ: "Also, the lawsuit is excluding 2.5 million works 'written in languages other than English. Most of those 2.5 million non-English works were unregistered.'" The class action really screwed authors outside the USA. 7/

Also: I have 7 titles in this, which at $3,000 each, is $21,000 (I know that's not what I'll get, the law firm gets 20%, plus whatever else). But, if the amount was the standard copyright infringement amount of $150,000 per title, I'd be getting $1,050,000 (minus whatever).

She is holding a book! 📖 Currently writing a section on visual evidence for book use in medieval Scotland - so this could not be better timed... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.

I know the someone involved.

Israel literally claimed that all these civilians, including members of the European parliament, were connected to Hamas. Israel also believes that all Hamas members and ‘supporters’, defined as whatever Israel decides is ‘a Hamas supporter’, must be destroyed.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

At 0:12 you can see Hegseth confront the reality that no one in the room respects him. Hits him like a meteor.

mandatory training questions are all either "should your computer be a) 33.4cm from a heat source b) 33.5cm from a heat source c) 33.6cm from a heat source" or "if you see a fire, should you a) report the fire and get out safely b) take a video and post it on tiktok c) run into the fire"

Just days after we were told not to worry, Keir gets there's a problem and he's going to stop enabling racism now.

People have been writing articles about how we Finally Need To Talk About Immigration my entire fucking adult life and I'm so old and so tired

I dunno about the rest of you, but I want my cardiologist to relax and rest rather than spend her off-time picking litter and sweeping the streets.

this is basically the aim of every AI company

This whole section really.

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be) theneuroscienceofeve... The myth that 'if you're under 25, you're not mature enough to decide anything' refuses to die. But it absolutely should #Brains #Development #Maturity

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

Now this is Content

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How peculiar. Normally BBC tells us when a ReformUK member has scratched their ar*e.

Every day I wake up and despite myself I think: Surely. Surely by now they've figured it out. And every day they haven't.

It does feel a bit Labour: ID cards? Press: No Labour: ID cards? Press: No. No way Labour: ID cards but... we make them a bit racist? Press: ... Labour: It will harm Deliveroo bikers in particular? Press: You son of a bitch. I'm in!

In the past hour or two signatures on this have nearly doubled. It’s almost as if nobody wants a compulsory for all form of ID which will erode civil liberty and solve nothing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I'm so tired of the country being run as a result of Morgan McSweeney pointing at a poster of Britain's Biggest Cunt and insisting that getting his vote is the sole objective.

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Labour: We get it. We understand why you're leaving... Left-wing majority of Labour leavers: Phew. Labour: ... it's flags and asylum seekers, isn't it? Left-wing leavers: 🤦‍♀️🤦🖕

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

As a so-called intellectual it’s both sad and disturbing that this sort of rhetoric draws so little criticism. Let’s be clear, to this sort of revolutionary the academics would only be first.

Consider this alongside the fact that people who were held only briefly by the regime and whose whereabouts were known the whole time describe being kept in the kind of conditions that kill people, given time.

Mainstream political media is not equipped to communicate the basic realities of life to people whatsoever because it prioritizes power's interpretations of reality over verifiable facts.

oh god an origin story. We had that? It was the pre credit sequence of Casino Royale

I was on BBC Radio 5 today with Adrian Chiles, Kate Slotover and Emily H Wilson, talking SF book recs from about 1 hour into this link. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My God!

Knowledge is elitist. Education is snobby. Expertise is detached. The only way to be truly "democratic” is to crowd-source reality. That has been the political vibe of the last ten years, not just in Britain, and it is the road to ruin. The pandemic probably didn’t help.

Look, it's not often that my response to terrible bullshit is "no, this isn't primarily about controlling women," but in the case of the Trump/RFK disinformation fest, the impact on women is a bonus. This is primarily about conditioning people to consider autistic people's existence as a problem.

Any commentary from the rapture people yet?