Let alone the planet.

Let alone the planet.

🔥YAY! It’s publication day!📚 And I’m giving away one copy to a UK school or library. Just post a comment with the name of your UK secondary school or library and postcode, then like, share, follow. I’ll draw a winner on 14th September 25. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻☘

"The day after he was stripped of the whip, the government slipped out some amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill that look very similar to Hinchliff’s own – including one that gives some protections to “irreplaceable habitats” such as chalk streams." What are Labour playing at?

"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose it status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019 415 ppm of CO₂" - ASM

This bit. This bit right here. No, assholes, you do not have the right to take anything you can find on the internet and use it to feed your plagiarism machines. Another reason to be grateful we're living in the EU.

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested

”This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong trivialises his subjects by refusing to look at them directly, to describe them patiently; he seems not to trust the strength of his own material, or the perceptions of the reader.”

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

I wrote 60000+ words for “Why Don’t Things Fall Up!” It took me months and months of work, and I got paid less than equivalent of two months of a teachers’ salary. It’s now being sold for £3 on Amazon so would have to sell many thousands of copies for me to start earning royalties.

Thank you, Edmund White.

Re-reading the 1980s... Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels. Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so. A door opened; some things started to make sense.

Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like @ninastibbe.bsky.social have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...

They're just going to have to find efficiencies.

make it stop www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…

Oh, yes…

Oh, yes…

I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…

By all means spend your life searching for your other half, the one who completes you, the one Zeus tore you away from at the dawn of time. But first, let’s kill Zeus.

By all means spend your life searching for your other half, the one who completes you, the one Zeus tore you away from at the dawn of time. But first, let’s kill Zeus.

ALIYA AND THE SHOP OF SECOND CHANCES, by Egyptian author Laila Rifaat, is out today (with a stunning cover by Gaia Alessi). It's the One Thousand and One Fantastical Ideas! Magic carpet rides, time travel, genies, sphinxes and much, much more... Well done, @lailarifaat.bsky.social! #booksky

This is so gut wrenching www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Thank you for your ongoing reporting, @readfearn.bsky.social.

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Had to check.

And yes, they've pirated my first children's novel The Sky Over Rebecca. And Meta have used it to train AI...

Took the quiz, got the recommendation and... I've already read it.

Took the quiz, got the recommendation and... I've already read it.

Answer four questions, get a book recommendation...

”Its leading intellectuals are Ivy League graduates who persist in being obsessed with the campus squabbles of the Ivy League. Their elaborate theories are constructed from feelings of elite entitlement and petty resentment: “They seem to be dreaming about revenge on the people down the hall.”

Sign of these crappy times: this week Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, now 40 years old, is back on the Canadian bestsellers list.

It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.

NEW - Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant new oilfield. MPs and ministers have told the Guardian they are prepared to oppose the UK prime minister should he try and give final consent to Rosebank

The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik

'Plant-based foods are the future.' ...and in the background, the world's first emissions tax on meat and dairy.

'Plant-based foods are the future.' ...and in the background, the world's first emissions tax on meat and dairy.

Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

AI-generated books are flooding marketplaces and increasingly look and read like human-authored books. Human Authored is a first-of-its-kind official certification system. Note: Certification is only available for members but will expand in the future. Learn more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...

A few days ago I finished Adam Higginbotham’s outstanding new book, CHALLENGER, about the causes of this disaster and the talented people America lost that morning.

Man, you have no idea how books work.

Wow. He denounced his girlfriend. It's Nineteen Eighty-four... 'Do it to Julia!'

Man, you have no idea how books work.

Oligarch writing a NYT op ed indistinguishable from the thoughts of a Philip K Dick character based on the stupidest guy he worked with at a TV repair shop in Berkeley in the early 50s

Oh shit.

Oh hey, I've found an alternative Backlisted theme for their 10-year anniversary!

Just got my PLR statement. It turns out my books 'The Lovely Dark' and 'The Sky Over Rebecca' have been borrowed 2,000 times from libraries in the UK in the last year - so I'm going to get paid a little bit! That's 2,000 readers! Thank you each and every one! 📚💙 #booksky #skybook

This review of my first book brought a smile to my face on a dark and dreary day here in Stockholm... "The story, the illustrations, and the cover are all the best, and I want to thank you for this year's best children's book... I want it to be in every school library in the universe..."