The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social myself and @bethanmay.bsky.social are reviewing Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett. Nils: “A perfectly enchanting read!” Beth: “I want to pick this book back up and re-read it.“ Link: fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/12/agne...

It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.

As we reach the end of another year of bringing you content featuring incredible books from the world of SFF we round up the team and choose the best of 2025 publishing in the Fantasy Hive's Awards! Discover the nominees and all the winners here: tinyurl.com/ymej7zv5

What an honour to win Fantasy Hive's Short & Sweet Award for Triggernometry Finals!! Huge thank you to all the readers out there who believed in my weird math western series - couldn't have done it without you!

Some great award winners in there including @starkholborn.bsky.social , Claire North and @aptshadow.bsky.social

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.

New books from me from Tor UK - this starts with Children of Strife next year and will continue with some standalone books after that.

“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.” Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk

The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable. Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised. Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.

1. The best time to invest in independent media and move away from corporate media was yesterday. 2. The next best time is right now. 3. I’m not a hard journalist, but I do honestly inform. My blog is free to read and subscribe. No paywalls. Subscribe: charlotteclymer.substack.com

Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.

This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

So, we moved house. It turned out to be way more expensive than we'd hoped. So it goes. Anyway, now would be a really good time to buy our books! Or if you're after editing services, I've got you covered there too. 1/

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.

The terfs have tried to bully another good, honest voice into silence. I'm very sorry Robin felt he had to resign, and I hope he keeps speaking up against prejudice. Give him a follow if you're not already.

So is this what happened over Ireland?

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

My former hardcore Brexit friend tonight: Words to the effect 'we need a stronger and more united Europe, and leaving the EU was a massive mistake'

With news that Madeleine McCann’s father has called for a new Leveson Inquiry After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control? The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another? @cliffmitchell.bsky.social

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯 The Green Party has passed 180,000 members! That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉 All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope. Be part of it. Join today ⤵️

ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.

Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.

The 'ceasefire in Gaza' is a myth perpetuated by Trump and Netanyahu. Palestinians are still dying. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

All I want for Christmas is for everyone to get for themselves exactly what they hope for immigrants, disabled and trans people.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand This is not normal www.ft.com/content/db73...

"Branding individuals as 'narco-terrorists' without proof just to open the door to lethal force is not a legitimate policy,it’s a dangerous fantasy. It bypasses due process, shreds constitutional limits, and pushes America toward another unnecessary foreign war." -Senator Rand Paul (R)

Oh for fuck's sake. Urgent Question in parliament about the fact that a group of well-funded bigots are weaponising the justice system to attempt to force the segregation of a minority group? Maybe? Anyone? (And while we're about it, let's get GC beliefs unprotected, because fuck that)

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you. Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

It is possible in social gatherings to turn your backs on bigots and not speak to them. GCs believe themselves to represent a majority of women: if this were true, they won't have a problem with being shunned by women who don't agree with them.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They were 8 and 11 years old

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social

The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story. The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth. And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.

“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners” Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm not actually against stealing art. I just think that if you actually want to stick it to the man you should mean it. Start heisting art from hedge funds and billionaires who use it as collateral, not pirating books and music which is stealing from the pockets of your fellow workers.

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics: "Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?" Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"