Happy Autumn 🍂

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.

Got abducted by aliens, but they beamed me back to earth because I wouldn't shut up about my characters and world building lore

My favourite nemesis words: Silhouette (how many Ls? How many Ts? And I think there's a U and maybe an H in there somewhere too...) Mechanical (always typed as Mechancial) Broccoli (how many Cs? How many Ls?)

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.

4 years since The Warning released their magnificent Enter Sandman (with Alessia Cara) cover, as part of Metallica's Blacklist Album 🤩🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKQ...

While I don't do much character development in advance - I generally let my characters write themselves - I do always have in the back of my mind "Would these characters (and their vehicles) be marketable as action figures?" 😆🤖🦾

Robin Hobb's Anthropomorphic Boat Merchants trilogy

Cross posting two bits of advice for a newbie writer: 1. Read like a writer (sometimes). Find out why you like the writing you like, and see if there's anything you can adopt from that writer. This needs a level of intentionality that's not there when you're just reading for pleasure. 1/

If, 15 years ago, you told me that one of the greatest pleasures in life in my late 30s would be 'a nice sit down', I never would've believed you 😅

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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

One year since The Warning performed live in Times Square, NYC 🤩🗽🎵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jecA...

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula 🦇

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Brutally incisive as ever from Remainer extraordinaire Sarah Murphy 😎🔥

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Bought a new mattress for the wee one and it's so nice that I'm now envious 😅🛏️ (unfortunately, mattresses are a huge investment 😭)

So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.

The Show Must Go On 🖤🎵

What do politicians go into public service for? You’d hope - to act responsibly in the best interests of the country. Not to live in fear of the Daily Mail having a wettie. Honest to god, if you don’t speak out now, what’s the fucking point of you?

The infantilism of UK politics has been off the scale since 2016 and the current government has largely carried on from its predecessors on that

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...

Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?

Millions of people in my country already have beliefs that are incompatible with my own Many of them vote Conservative and Reform

Share a favourite TV show character that isn’t the main character 💚

What is concerning about US is not ultimately about Trump. There are always Trumps. It is the legislature and judiciary that should check and balance, but shrug instead. It is his party and the media who should hold him to account, but shrug instead. Trump is doing what he can get away with.

It's been one month since book 3 in my military sci-fi EngineMasters trilogy was released! If you like BattleTech, Gundam and/or Pacific Rim, you'll probably like EngineMasters: a tale of comradeship, perseverance, and plenty of mech-vs-mech combat 🤖⚙️⚔️💥 Book 1 only $0.99/£0.99: a.co/d/baVoACq

Migrants can't answer back. They have no voice. So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue. In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess. That is what is really going on here.

With no hope or expectation, until this government tells a positive story about this country including immigrants then Reform will keep on winning. Sure, delivery. But that has to be in the service of a better vision.

One of the most menacing mechs I've ever seen 😬😆💙❤️

I was cycling home and a wasp flew down the neck of my t-shirt and stung me in the tummy 😖😭

Today is my 15th anniversary of moving to Edinburgh, Scotland! 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Look at what arrived in the post today @suzannahrowntree.bsky.social 😁⚔️💥🏰 (can't wait to learn all the things I've been getting wrong in all my books so far 😆)

i often suggest that folk who claim that “England is full” try driving from Penzance to Birmingham and tell me just how many sprawling cities & towns they see Vs miles and miles of countryside. What they really mean is their tiny suffocating heads are full & their racist blinkers are on too tight

If you see this, post a witch 🧙🏻‍♀️

Who are your top 3 songwriters? 🎼✍🏻❤️ Mine (in no particular order) are: 🖤Tuomas Holopainen - Nightwish 🖤Paulina Villarreal - The Warning 🖤Leonard Cohen (RIP 😢)

The Shaun the Sheep Movie is a masterpiece of modern cinema - probably the greatest silent movie of the 2010s - and I will not be taking questions at this time 🤍🖤

Post an iconic duo

The blank pages at the back of books are for you to tear out and eat

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Happy World Lion Day 😁🦁💛 (probably my favourite Big Cat, which I know is a bit of a boring choice - like choosing Superman as your favourite superhero - but IMHO that very perceived boringness makes it interesting again...)

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

Did a new one

How many times do you have to listen to a song to even begin understanding it? I'd say at least 10 if it's standalone, 50 if it's in an album 😁🎧🎶