good morning. thought I would share some writing advice that I've found useful over the years. hopefully it will resonate 🙏

it's falls in teen pregnancy. if you think this is a bad thing then you need to explain to me why you think it's a good thing for children to have children.

A very useful map this one, serving as it does as a stand-in metric for working out which parts of the UK have the weakest patter. And to no-one's surprise at all, it's the South outside London

m'lord, m'lord. I must have your audience with haste. your wettest vizier has launched a scintillating betrayal

A brief thread on the kind of fiction that interests us as an anticapitalist magazine, what we like to see in the submissions and look to publish. Will likely expand on this in a future newsletter too.

If you're my friend on here I will buy your book. it's an absolute privilege

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

I'm 35 and I'm still in awe how light it can be at nights. It's 9.25pm and still grand outside

I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.

Remember that time I made a biblically-accurate Angle

if you're profile shows up on the labeller like this I can't follow you

I've said it before and I'll almost certainly say it again: Gordon Brown should never have apologised to that bigot for calling her a bigot, and he should've called her a bigot to her face not behind her back.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

stop trying to make me have an opinion on Star Fox

Oh no, can you imagine if people in Scotland had to endure cruel austerity

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

joanna cherry, ash regan, john mason, kate forbes, fergus ewing, jackie baillie, anas sarwar, jk rowling, can you hear me jk rowling? your boys took one hell of a beating! your boys took one hell of a beating!

looking forward to SLab getting fucking demolished in elections

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The reason this disaster happened is that - exactly as they did in Scotland - the party’s most insufferable people point blank *refused* to believe nobody particularly likes them or wants what they’re selling, and that has just made them angrier, nastier and more determined to dig their heels in.

something is seriously wrong at the Electoral Commission that they've not forced neo-nazi group Independent Green Voice to change their name. They steal Scottish Greens votes in Holyrood elections

crazy this is how Stavros got his start

lads am fucking levitating that I have VLC running dual subtitles

They already did that tho. There are two kinds of a autistic people: useful to the Nazi regime and not useful

what it's all about www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneR...

People keep asking Alan Moore questions about comics he's disowned when they could spend more time asking him questions about things he actually gives a shit about—and get answers as glorious as this.

a series not worth any time whatsoever

The hardest part about being dumb and broke and in your 20s is realizing you’re actually 44

started using a fun new app for learning Spanish, but found out they're Israeli and make cancellations and deletions hard, so that's been an afternoon sending a GDPR request

Someone said these were the inverse of each other and I can’t stop thinking about it

I didn’t spend two years sneaking about like a creeping little prick, sending snotty WhatsApp messages and handing dossiers of Facebook screenshots to Sunday Times journalists for insane national panics, just so we could lose five hundred council seats to the Greens and concede Wales and Scotland

The part being buried is that he attacked a longtime friend earlier that same day, had a history of serious violence, had been referred to Prevent, and was known to have serious mental health issues. The UK is using this case to once again target pro-Palestinian speech, though! Because of course!

For @typebarmagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about how trying to play nice with the modern concept of "fandom" is ruining the greatest card game that's ever existed www.typebarmagazine.com/the-fandom-s...

Happy birthday Roberto Bolaño, who would be 73 today, and who also would have seen many of his darkest, weirdest visions of fascism running amok for real

I really REALLY want more capital W Weird dark fantasy in the STP Magazine submissions. Dark fantasy that bends and blurs genre boundaries, insists on the inexplicable, and unsettles the world for both the characters and the reader. I yearn for it.

above all, why is a Labour MP using the term 'liberal'. we don't have Liberals in this country

as i have been saying: demanding tax cuts for these companies is absolutely perverse

Post something you're proud of. "Blanquitos" was the first time I tried to intentionally write a TropiWeird story Partly influenced by my dog's illness at the time, I wish it had won some stuff I'm just happy it reached a lot of people www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

yanks on here say this shit all the time, I dunno what the deal is

First time reading “Autofac” by Philip K. Dick. No surprise but he diagnosed the problem with AI in 1955.

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

the most interesting thing about this story is not the survey itself—which is a year old and has since been retracted over huge problems with the sample—but that media outlets keep trying to push stories of a massive religious revival among the young in absence of any evidence

"passport bros" are not at all new and they are not "frustrated with modern dating" they just want women who are completely subservient to them and have zero power in their own lives

looking forward to SLab getting fucking demolished in elections

huge youtu.be/69ga05Usywo