Hello, I am a comic writer person now. I did comic writing of Flash Gordon.

Five decades of pumping out escalating terror that somewhere, some disabled person might be getting a free sandwich, will do that to a nation.

So the other day I was exploring an abandoned building, as you do, and amid the weird and vaguely haunting detritus I found there (a single gold high-heeled shoe??) was an intact pack of batteries so I took it. They work. This tells me I should go back there for weapons, first-aid kits and food.

So the other day I was exploring an abandoned building, as you do, and amid the weird and vaguely haunting detritus I found there (a single gold high-heeled shoe??) was an intact pack of batteries so I took it. They work. This tells me I should go back there for weapons, first-aid kits and food.

Hey remember how a book I spent 3 yrs on has made just enough to cover a single month's rent in 3.5 years of sales, yet everyone was shocked I walked away from that series and will never release another ebook? Someone new pirated the whole series yesterday as I spent $600 on my cat with cancer. So.🙃

When Reform U.K. Ltd run Councils.

Not a big flag enthusiast but once in a while ...

"I hereby find both plaintiff and defendant guilty on all charges..." "wait no you can't find against *both*--" dons black cap atop judge's wig "wait this isn't even--" "...and sentence them to be taken from this courtroom directly to the gallows and hung" "that's... not how this..." *bangs gavel*

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Of all the fandoms to try this on with, Moleskine have been monumentally stupid to try it with Tolkien fans. Producing promotional materials that has a map of Middle-Earth with gibberish names on, as if people wouldn't notice? Idiots.

I cannot help but find the unexpected ecumenicalism here extremely funny

And they know they're going to be hammered in the locals and they still, somehow, don't know why

What I’m not asking for: slandering of our male colleagues who are talented and deserving. What I want: women/minority writers to be valued as true creatives. Not just story secretaries. 2: for our ent press to reflect every time they announce another show from the same 3 people…why that is.

This isn't a joke. Cis male authors only do this when they're very stressed or feel threatened

They're doing the detransition thing but with autism now.

Oh look another great reason to avoid the billionaire’s playthings that are destroying the world and most of us. Honestly thinking for yourself is SO good. And uses precisely 0 carbon.

😭this is so good and the recognition and treatment described is so hard to get, and so many physicians treat.a patient even KNOWING this stuff as inherently suspicious

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

It just defies comprehension that the world's richest man is literally a hitlerian figure, got to illegally commandeer the US govt for months and condemn millions to excruciating death, and then just fucked off to make jokes about "show orphans" on podcasts with zero consequences. The mind recoils

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

Checking in on the big online bookseller to make sure no one’s selling AI slop under my name (not so far) feeds into a weird exploration of things people think should be sold to people looking for my books. A modern grey fabric sofa? How am I a grey sofa?

This spectacular painting by @leemadgwick.bsky.social is a visual representation of my PhD

Remember that time we were all staging classic paintings and such in lockdown? I am straining every sinew not to be like "good times" but it was nice when the ongoing global catastrophe at least allowed for solidarity and whimsy rather than...*gestures at everything*

greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/04/17/g... Is this not just bribery?? And meanwhile they can't collect the rubbish?!

content over trust, service, people, or stories. disgusting and counter-productive.

UPDATE: Still not a definitive answer but HC have been in touch to promise one soon!

Basically, he doesn't know! He no longer has whatever paperwork he signed back then.

Can anyone help me? Some of you may have noticed it's taking a long time for the promised republication of Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages to come through. The issue is we'd like to reuse the original covers. The artist has generously agreed. We CANNOT get an answer from Harper Collins UK.

brutal, shameful and disgusting I can't stop thinking about this + 'Hamnet-era' in the Guardian yesterday + that quote from Sam Altman doing the rounds, about buying intelligence as if it were a utility

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Today I learned, as I curled into a rotted husk. She was 43. Harold was 47.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

Important discussion for #CoOpPlays fans

Even former Thiel Fellows are starting to realize that the tech industry hebben een serieus probleem

FAO @aptshadow.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/Tyranids/c...

Before Salvation's Child hits shelves on May 26th, we're digging into the archives of The Final Architecture series. Cosmic Lightgouse will be picking our favorite questions and posting my responses as we count down to the graphic novel’s debut. So: any questions, post below!

I have already checked behind the guitar and found nothing. I now consider that maybe "sewing machine" is a variant of "piano." Now, I am not an idiot, I have checked all around the sewing machine, under the fabric, and under the table, with a TORCH. Multiple times. BUT. There is a sewing box...

This also seems very plausible and yet even after loading the dishwasher and moving every tea-towel, no glasses!!!

I go through BOTH laundry baskets, and the basket I use for belts, and the basket I use for toiletries (I am a very Open Baskets person, because, as you will be stunned to discover, I have ADHD and it allows for a form of tidiness I can keep on top of) But no glasses!!!

Many excellent suggestions! I really WANT them to be on or in the bed--it just seems so plausible? so intuitive? I have multiple scatter cushions and a weighted blanket there! I unmake and remake the entire bed. I go through all the sofa cushions. I take down everything on the hooks... No glasses!!

I try the bread bin, and inside the breadbin, and around the toaster. No glasses!!!

I tend to work on my laptop while lounging on the sofa. I check all over the coffee table -- yet again. I check under the sofa, again. No glasses!!!

I check "Service Model" by @aptshadow.bsky.social. No glasses!!!

I do not use my teapot very often and it is too small to actually CONTAIN glasses, but ... I check behind just in case. No glasses!!!!

(My continuing adventures as a Bluesky text-based videogame character.) Lots of votes for "bathroom" and "bathroom shelf." I check the bathroom shelf. I check BEHIND the bathroom shelf (as it has a gap) I look in the bathroom cabinet. I go through the laundry basket. No glasses!!!

Several votes for "by the sink!" I look by the sink. I look IN the sink. I remove everything in the sink. I clean the sink. I load the dishwasher. No glasses!!!!