Lost in the Garden is my favourite debut horror novel since Tell Me I'm Worthless. A psychedelic 70's folk horror flick unfolding in dream-like prose. Highly recommended.

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

If you only read one piece today about how wrong Ezra Klein is when he claims Kirk did politics the right way, make it this piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates where he asks: “If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

The Switch 2's killer app is finally out, the Gamecube's Chibi Robo.

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

If anybody is in the fence about Duolingo becoming absolutely AI slop I just, with no prompting had this sentence: "That dog passed away four hundred years ago." Good for memorising Kanji though. Maybe my phone is haunted.

Starmer's Labour are not just as bad as the Tories, they are worse. Vile bigots.

Kinda want to become a puppet guy.

We must expose the government’s complicity in genocide.

they are v cute 🦧🎤✨

What video game ignited your passion for gaming? (GIFs only) The first time a game world felt like a real, living place with all the warmth and threat that entails. Every new room was a new discovery, everything felt do player directed and natural.

Superman isn't perfect, who cares? It has heart, feels lived in without feeling like an advertisement for other media properties and is exactly the film it wants to be while feeling relevant and necessary for the moment. Maybe it's maudlin, but the scene between Clarke and his father is moving.

It's #TrailerTuesday so here I am. I'm stuck in the 90s, so i'm developping an ARPG inspired by 90s gems 💙 👉 Kickstarter and demo in October #gamedev #indieGameDev #indiegames

Listen, I would rather be here than the Nazi app, however, is it just me or did Bluesky become an absolute no craic zone?

Donkey Kong Bananza is a definite contender for GOTY so far. Once you get into the flow you will experience a kind of fuge state I can only describe as the monke-zone.

Finally had the chance to see Sparks live at Wolverhamptom tonight. Incredible gig. One of the most receptive and enthusiastic audiences I've encountered at a performance. Killer rendition of When Do I Get to Sing it My Way, what else could you ask for?

Fingers crossed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (what a title) will feature Mr. Blobby. The world needs to know how many little freaks there are/were running around the UK.

Every single person associated with this needs to spend the rest of their lives in a windowless cell.

You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead. We must defend the right to protest. Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸

Never has this quote been more appropriate

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Zionism

A youth services librarian has set up a petition asking Crunchyroll to reinstate their library outreach program - you can sign it here: chng.it/DS96MVfPQf #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibraries @mangalibrarian.bsky.social @bespokelib.bsky.social

Robert Lloyd does his Baker’s Dozen with @thequietus.com this week. RL takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater. It’s a good read, tuck in thequietus.com/interviews/b...

Horror is and should always be inclusive. It thrives on having stories for all walks of life. But despite the efforts of so many of us, it is still nowhere near a level playing field. So here is our list of Trans Authors we think you should check out. gnofhorror.com/the-best-tra...

Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.

A yank pope on the year of our lord 2025. God save us.

Okay! Here we go! The Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of Scanline Artifacts, a physical A5 magazine featuring a juicy selection of features and articles from the first 32 issues of our digital retro gaming and anime zine, Between the Scanlines, plus brand new material, has gone LIVE!

HP Lovecraft: everyone, this is harry Houdini the famous magician Harry Houdini: hey Stephen King: you know harry Houdini? Lovecraft: oh yeah we've been looking for a project to work on together for a while King: Lovecraft: we already established he's not really italian

Another happy day voting for the Greens in Bristol. Please vote for the Greens in Bristol, show Labour what you think of their absurd shift to the right and heinous attitudes to trans rights, healthcare and Palestine.* *Among many other issues.

Not even death allows artists to escape AI theft. What this means is that every living artist will need to have an anti-AI clause in their will, that's presuming they aren't just stealing your shite off Russian websites anyway!

"What a surprise, a guy who was a lobbyist for several petro states is taking the side of fossil fuels over reaching net zero" Carla Denyer on Tony Blair

This morning @greenparty.org.uk has called for the EHRC’s harsh and ill-considered guidance on single-sex spaces to be withdrawn. As it stands the guidance puts trans people at risk of discrimination & violence, and clearly hasn’t been drawn up with trans people’s input. I’ll be pushing for better.

It’s Independent Bookstore Day and y’all know I spent so much time hanging around @littledeercomics.bsky.social that I started pulling the odd shift. Since then I’ve traveled to events for the shop and made friends through it. Anyway, here’s some of the many comics I’ve written about the place.

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Had the chance to see Blue Road at the Watershed. Beautiful distillation of O'Brien's work through the prism of her life and vice versa. Some beautiful imagery and direction that captures some of those same visual qualities that bring her words to life. Does one of Ireland's greats justice.

Elsewhere I follow some Japanese Language cat accounts so I can one, see cats and two, practice reading. However, recently they have been posting a deluge of horrifying uncanny AI slop. I don't want to see unsettling AI mockeries of your cat! Just show us your cat.

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.