📬 A while ago I happened to ask a few #BookTube folks I follow if they’d like to pick something ‘off-piste’ for me to try reading 🤓 @beckymreads.bsky.social ”Everything…” @readalongqueens.bsky.social ”Ink Blood…” @thebookbella.bsky.social ”Water Moon” 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 It’s been quite a while since I read 📗 in @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social ”The Library Trilogy” 👇 but I’ve finally got my mittens on 📘 “The Book That Held Her Heart” in today’s #BookHaul which completes my set. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

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📬 It’s taken me a while to haul but I finally have two books discussed on the #StarshipAlexandria podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social - Holdstock’s “Mythago Wood” and Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” 🤗 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 About a year ago @bunkerpod.bsky.social put out a live show featuring @nndroid.bsky.social talking ”Exterminate! Regenerate!” with @johnhiggs.bsky.social I had to wait a bit for ’my’ paperback edition, which arrived today. 👨‍🏫 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦 📺 #TVSky 🚨 #DoctorWho 🕰️

📬 Fresh out of today’s #BookHaul are the next pair of books in the “Arcana Imperii” series by @phokion.bsky.social I read the first book a few months ago, loved it, and I also have the “Beyond the Fringe” short story collection as an ebook too. 📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 In today’s #BookHaul I was delighted to get a 🇬🇧 B-format sized paperback edition of ”The Folded Sky” by @matociquala.bsky.social 📘 of the “White Space” series. This matches the other books in my Library, so it was absolutely worth the extra wait 🤗 📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 Okay, who’s been a bad, bad boy? 🤔 Yup, I 😆 My first #BookHaul of this year from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social who’ve been maintaining my ever extending wishlist 🤗 A mix of SFF, recs and podcast Readalongs for my June TBR. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

🚙 For no particular reason I have just been trying to remember the last time I was in a car 🤔 I’ve not driven a wagon myself since 2019. I was a passenger a couple of times in 2021. No further recollections.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember tech ever losing the younger generations like this, with the possible exception of nuclear weapons. Which probably isn't the case study you'd want to be imitating.

🧗 I like puzzle parkour platforming across megastructures in games, so @crakestraw.xyz @official.entertainium.co review of #Motorslice by @regularstudio.bsky.social / @tophatstudios.bsky.social caught 👀. Particularly having “parried an oncoming train and rendered it inoperable.” 😳 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

🎧 The one where @neilmorrison87.bsky.social looks forward to things getting “juicy” and worries about a jaded @motomatters.com who calls a 2026 championship winner, and @adamwheeler99.bsky.social considers who likes to eat at Michelin Star restaurants 😆 🏍️ #Motorsport #MotoGP #FrenchGP 🏁 #Podcasts 📻

🎧 The one where co-host Peter Bom talks about his plastic bag of “technically brilliant” screws 😳 🏍️ #Motorsport #MotoGP #FrenchGP 🏁 #Podcasts 📻

🧹 The pesky 🐦‍⬛ family tore up parts of the garden this morning, leaving a right old mess for me to sweep up. But then I found that they’re already assaulting my 🍓 even well before being ripe 😤 Bah. These’ll be netted in defence soon enough. 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

I just love making #crochet blankets, they work up so quickly, they’re always useful, and it’s very satisfying to knock them out.

🌡️ It got properly chilly last night 🥶 Glad I hadn’t rushed to plant everything out in May like I often do 😰 It takes an hour to move tender stuff indoors and cover over stuff eg. 🍓 with layers of fleece. 🇬🇧 #UKWeather 🌡️ #WeatherStation 🌦 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱

🔊 “The Mother’s Day Song” LOLOL 😂 Steel Panther style… 🤘😘🤘

4️⃣ Last four games that I’ve played are… #Lunark #Gorogoa #OneNightStand #Superliminal 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

FINAL COVERS REVEAL. Both volumes of the 'Blake's 7 Production Diary Series C' will be available from 25th May from www.cultedge.art 460+ pages, 2000 images, this is the full story of the making of the much loved third series of #Blakes7

📺 Holy 💩 what a remarkable #FrenchGP just now 😲 MAR! Aprilia!! Wow!!! 👏😍 Major psychological blow sets up a championship battle 🤩 🏍️ #Motorsport #MotoGP 🏁

💬 Just been watching @danielecoolbaugh.bsky.social chat with @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social over on #BookTube. TL: “Success for me is… keeping me sane as much as anything.” DC: “My wife’s like ‘OMG, stop talking about SFF, I don’t care. Go interview someone.’” 😂 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🔊 The one which critiques some recently announced new retro handhelds - lots of interesting views which I, a newb to the handheld scene, hadn’t considered 🤓 And also… WiFi connected cooking appliances for making a decent chilli! 😳 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

☁️ Looks like a fairly cold, overcast day ahead of us here today 🤔 Might try and catch up on my YT subscriptions, of which I’m now a couple of days behind 🫣 🇬🇧 #UKWeather 🌡️ #WeatherStation 🌦

🔊 The one that notes “Fiasco” capped off Lem’s SF novels, which had me wondering why as the timeline of the author was mentioned. But @andyjohnson.xyz gets into this particular detail later in pod. A curious side plot and some horrific outcomes 😳 📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #Podcasts 📻

🍞 Expecting a pal to pop past later, so fresh bread is baking in the oven and preparations for dinner later are completed. He’s a fussy bugger though, so I’m anticipating having to make last minute alterations to the menu 😆 I have thus made some backup options from the garden just in case 😅

📖 Trying to read my book was awkward one-handed when #TheGuestCat settled in for a snooze during #HammockTime this evening! I simply could not move my arm now, could I! 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #NotMyCat 🐈

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🎧 The one about 💼 full of cash in “this book on commodities trading… ‘The World for Sale’” “Whoo!” cries @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com “Now we’re talking,” reckons @seththevoz.bsky.social “PJs & drinking, it’s not an airport otherwise,” says @aishadown.bsky.social 😆 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

FFS, Labour. No-one wants diet fascism when there's tasty full-fat fascism readily available.

It’s the end of the week, so why not treat your ears to some entertaining #retrogaming chat & discussion with the UK’s longest running retro gaming podcast, Retro Asylum. All sorts of subjects and formats covered. retroasylum.com #arcade #8bit #16bit #32bit

very unpleasant to see this many people voting Reform, knew it was coming but still unpleasant to witness

🎧 The one in which @benjicong.bsky.social recommends a full size tellybox 📺 @alexsurvives.bsky.social has something in his eye 🥲 and @scowlerwilson.bsky.social is a rapid AF 🐭 detective 🕵️ Variety! Recs!! Crime… 😆 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻

Revisited this story the other night & I'm super pleased with how it turned out. (Not least because I've something longer in the works set in the same world. Also because Rebecca is awesome.) If you haven't had a listen yet you're missing out. It's not even the price of a coffee. It's free 😜

💦 My small pressure water sprayer is leaking, so I dismantled it to see what was involved in replacing the rubber o-rings. But the kit of spares and some silicon grease, with postage, is more than a brand new one 🫤 Will regrease pump shaft 1st. 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱

Since we last posted Rocksmith+ added songs from Royal Blood's 2021 album "Oblivion" and six songs from Deftones 2010 album Diamond Eyes.

God, he's so missed.

🚪 Started playing #Superliminal, a puzzle game that I’d seen mentioned in an older Debug Magazine issue 👇 It uses some great perspective tricks to solve the problems presented in each puzzle room. I like this kind of challenge 🤓 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

🛢️ Bankrupt the casinos, bankrupt the globe - TV personality and failed businessman fleeces a country for billions before failing for everybody else too. Well done 🇺🇸 outstanding work #SlowHandClap 👏 😬 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #SarcasmGreen 😤

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My award-winning sci fi book, Kenai, is free as an ebook through May 9. Get a copy on me and enjoy this mind-bending military sci-fi novel. A tranquil, remote planet, once home to an alien race. A world still holding on to its secrets.

And it would invalidate the Brexit deal meaning we'd default to No Deal.

1/ We got 50,000 articles about how weak and impotent soft power has proven in the 21st century. Meanwhile, the "1st army in the world" can't bend Iran to its will and the (self-proclaimed) "2nd army in the world" is over a thousand days into its 3 day special military operation.

The two-volume #Blakes7 Production Diary Series C will be available from 25th May from www.cultedge.art - previews of both books have been added to the site. Get the FULL story about the making of this classic series, written and researched by Jonathan Helm, designed by Grahame Robertson.

📬 After finishing J.L. Odom’s “By Blood, By Salt” just a few days ago, I really wanted to continue reading to find out what happens next with the tense situation of 📕 Now I have 📗 ready to go in a future monthly TBR 🤗 Soon… 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 After receiving notification of new volume in @palmerpickering.bsky.social “Dragon’s Crawl” series, I added “The Swamp” to today’s haul. What I didn’t expect was the heft! 😳 📗 levels up from 📕 “Dark Town” in size, and still has inner art. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 I recently read “Quarter Share”, the first volume in Nathan Lowell’s “Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper” series, as originally recommended by @kitvaria.bsky.social + @scifiscavenger.bsky.social Today I hauled next pair. 📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

📬 I saw these books mentioned recently, exploring video games on the Speccy, and decided that they’d be a fine thing to delve into, especially with a #ZXSpectrumNext on the way soonish 🤞 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ 👨‍🏫 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

🍲 I’m just a bit late realising that a new series of MasterChef was on the tellybox, so I’m pushing to catch up on the three or so weeks that I’m behind. I do love a bit of international cuisine in these competitions - Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in week one. 📺 #TVSky 👩‍🍳 #MasterChefUK 🍽️