My daughter didn’t even know what diphtheria is - and if I’m honest, nor did I. The reason for that is vaccines. Without them, some of you reading this wouldn’t have made it to adulthood. So why do people refuse them? New MORE JAM TOMORROW morejamtomorrow.com/episode/jabs

🌶️ I was just closing up my Chilli House for the night when I noticed one of my plants has a lot of fresh new top growth. Healthy, light green leaves and new flower buds forming. In November! 😯 Can really see it here amongst all the older dark green. 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🧱 Oh, frak, these LEGO sets are sooooo tempting! 🫣

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ☝️ The Lego Icons Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise-D ($400, 3,600 pieces) will be available on November 28.

This is insane. Big picture, people. It's November and it's 16 degrees. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

🔍 A burgeoning interest in the #RetroComputing scene led me to @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social, who recently met up with his friends 👇 One of his pictures caught my 👀 and I zoomed in to discover a book I’d not heard of before: “Acorn - A World in Pixels”. I boggled! 😳 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming ⌨️

📬 Royal Mail are reporting technical difficulties with their web-site and tracking parcels. I’ve certainly seen “unusually busy” (at 11:30pm at night) and “please try again” responses when it times out. Just received a delivery which the system thinks is still in-transit and yet to get near my way.

Really don't understand the complaints about the 'lack of games' this console generation. Never has there been such an abundance of high-quality titles to play. It'sactually absurd.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

😂 Tempted to try this with my Tory MP. I’ve written 📧 to him before - back when he was supporting Johnson - and he’s even written me back with a physical letter through the mail. It was pages long, very chatty. More than I was. 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️

The Namco Legendary Pack is launching for Atari 50 on November 13! Pac-Man and Atari, together again!

🎂 I didn’t have the first clue what a “Labubu” was until I watched this #CupcakeJemma baking video. Now, of course, I see them frequently! Including a VLOG that I just watched on YT. Once seen, never unseen. You’re welcome.

🌶️ Still got quite a few hot pods on my Chilli plants, even into November. Planning to harvest a bunch of these at the weekend to send out a few more pick’n’mix-style 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 ⬅️ Fatali ↗️ CC Jigsaw Brain ↘️ Hot Chocolate 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🔊 Seeing a new Myrath song pop up on my YT subscriptions last night was an unexpected bonus. That it also features a duet with Elize Ryd is ++! So ofc I’m now listening to their excellent 2024 “Karma” album. They’re a prog-metal band from Tunisia. I love those influences. 💿 #NowPlaying 🎶 on 🍎🎵

🔊 While I’m not a fighting games guy I really enjoyed listening to the @nextlander.com lads discuss ”Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection” from @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. The passion and depth baked into the DE range of historical collections is quite superb every time 👏😍 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #MKLK 🥊

🔊 The one in which @emmakennedy.bsky.social is told that “the numbers is the point, cutting is the point, and they are going incredibly fast and incredibly aggressively, with no thought to the repercussions.” “The chaos won’t stop,” reckons Casey Burgat. 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

💸 Seems like some positive success in 🇺🇸 at last, where billionaire bucks are being burnt in the big city? 🔥 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️

While pull my remaining hair out waiting to see whether the fascist goblins will fuck up my ability to travel overseas in a week: Any of my UK followers got any pub or brewery/taproom recs for East London, Leeds, or Harrogate? How about records shops?

😘 These were not the controllers of joy I thought they were as I first scrolled past! 😂 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

🟫 I remember playing #ThomasWasAlone back in the day, so I just poked around at my Xbox Achievements 🤗 A full 1000G across ~7h of play back at the very tail end of 2015. Blimey, it has been a decade 😳 Recommended! 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

💿 +++INFORMATION+++ Less than a week to the Blu-Ray release of “Blake’s 7 Season 2/Series B” 🤗 I was just checking it was still on schedule and was surprised to note the sale frequency listed on the ‘zon. Who knows if these numbers can be trusted, but they seem good? 📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣

A total and utter hero

🎧 The one where @rmcunliffe.bsky.social says “we should be looking at what is the fairest/most constructive system overall.” @nndroid.bsky.social notes “what we’ve just heard described is something that’s probably going to let the loonies in and give them full charge.” 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

A Month of Rain & Reads Daily Challenge 4: Be Gay! - Share a book with a gay protagonist and tell us what makes it awesome. The prize for today's challenge is a copy of Kill Me Quick, by @josiejaffrey.bsky.social Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR

🔊 The one in which there’s a bit of push and pull from @nndroid.bsky.social in a mild debate on The @bunkerpod.bsky.social that considers what is the ‘it' that is happening in the world - something that is quite distinct from fascism. 🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🧮 Seeing a lot of olde calculators lately. It’s great action here on #CalculatorSky and I might have to toot a 📸 of my own childhood calculator tomorrow 🤔 I used to put a cheat sheet on the inside of the battery compartment cover. Doubt that’s still there… 😙

Me looking at your posts.

🧩 After completing #TheTalosPrinciple 2w ago, I’ve moved on to tackling the DLC, #RoadToGehenna, which seems to involve rescuing a trapped droid in each level ⬅️ I wandered into one puzzle room and thought to myself, ”I’ve solved this challenge in Portal 2 co-op”! ➡️ 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

Really looking forward to the 11th November event, featuring ALASTAIR REYNOLDS and MATTHEW WARD @thetowerofstars.bsky.social Grab a free place at srfcnov2025.eventbrite.com And sign up for our mailing list at srfantasy.club to be first to hear about this sort of thing!

On a (delayed of course) @gwr.com train. We're told we're waiting "for a relieving driver". Presumably this means he's on the loo? And then: "The driver has just come." 😳

🧵 Banger of a thread describing #finlandization. As soon as “It called the game "the most blatant form of anti-Sovietism" and demanded a ban for such games” I figured “thats going to make it hugely popular.” But the entire history 😳 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ 🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️

Fascinating thread on the responses to the game Raid Over Moscow in Finland, which were rather more serious than the protests in the UK. (and which led to it being Finland's bestselling computer game of 1985)

📬 Recently @worthog.bsky.social blew my tiny little mind when learned there were books related to S.M. Stirling’s “Island in the Sea of Time” trilogy, which I read in 2014. There are 15+ books in “Emberverse” series, but I got book1️⃣ 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #NovemberBookHaul 📦

📬 While I was reading @molcher.bsky.social’s excellent “I Am The Law” I became interested in the history of #JudgeDredd. Fortunately, the footnotes and “Further Reading” section mentioned “The Mega-History”. It seems OOP here 🇬🇧 but I found a used copy on WoB 🤗 👨‍🏫 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

📬 “The Swarm“ by Frank Schätzing is one of @theshadesoforange.bsky.social’s favourite recs that I see on the #BookTube channel. I’ve had this chonky ~900pg brick wish-listed as I couldn’t readily find it here 🇬🇧 I check WoB intermittently and saw it. 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #NovemberBookHaul 📦

📬 I recently saw @fairygrrl97.bsky.social RT @quitebrief.bsky.social 👇 regarding “Finder” by @zanzjan.bsky.social. Heists! 🤗 At the time I couldn’t see it over here 🇬🇧 but spotted while checking WoB recently. So in I swooped for a used MMP edition. 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #NovemberBookHaul 📦

📬 I did a #BookHaul from WoB the other week, which turned up today 🤗 More stories about why I picked out each of these to come in some subsequent toots, once I hunt down some linkage. 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

📬 My first Chilli seed order for the 2026 season arrived today 🤗 Not going to say that I’ve started until I’m sowing seeds at the very end of the year, but we are getting ready over here! Here’s the #CCSK2026 plus few bonus extras inc. some faves. 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

🌶️ Some time ago while yacking with @chillichirps.bsky.social and @smokehead.bsky.social I suggested a 🌶️🌱 feed 2026 #Growalong. I’ve had my eye on a “Testarossa Orange” variety after seeing it on ChilliChump’s YT show (🔗👇) but seeds are out-of-stock 🫤 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

With adventure games specifically, the idea that adventure games are a "dead genre" is almost baked into the received narrative about adventure games to the point of distracting people from the fact that more adventure games are coming out now than ever were in the 90s

8K GIVEAWAY! Win books from @csecooney.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social an early ARC from @authortrmoore.bsky.social & more! Like, follow, repost and drop a book 📙 in the comments to enter! Ends 23:59 GMT on 13/10/25. Open to UK & IE, CAN & US only.

📆 It’s the end of another week, so here I go with a weekly reading update. I finished off my final October TBR pick with my October BotM, had a bit of a lull as we commence a new month, before starting on a pair of my November TBR choices. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

I've unpacked my #Worldfantasycon2025 haul 📚

📖 I’ve made a start on “A Fool’s Hope”, 📗 of @mikeshackle.bsky.social’s “The Last War” trilogy from @gollancz.bsky.social. This chonky tome picks up right where 📕 left off. A #Readalong with #BookTube ‘s @nssecretbookaholic.bsky.social & @lisadoeslife.bsky.social. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

📖 Reading the @cultedge.bsky.social ”Blake’s 7 Magazine” cover the models in Series A is fun since there are significant connections to ”Space: 1999”, which I happen to have been watching via ITVX recently too! 📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 #Space1999 🕰️

🤫 I’ve mentioned how paperback releases come and go with little or no fanfare after the hardback hypewagon. As I’m sat here in my Library scanning my shelves I noticed two of a series and wondered about a third. It was released September 25th 2025. Who knew? Not I 🤷‍♂️ 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🍅 At a point I’ll leave my v.Sungold Tomato plants in Greenhouse to grow wild. *If* I get the timing right this can lead to fresh Winter toms 😋 Thought I’d missed the window again but as I was cutting them down I found a few fruits forming 🥳 Bit late 🫤 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱

🤔 I also need to think about some crimes in my indie novels 🦸‍♂️ 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🤔 Today I need to lock in my answers for this year’s edition of the @scifiscavenger.bsky.social Science Fiction Survey! I had best get started… 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋