"All done by the book". New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social: an illegal casino has hijacked the brand name and logo of Fifa's new prediction market partner Predictstreet to launch a fake mobile app on the Google store. It also appears that Predictstreet had forgotten to trademark its name and logo.

Getting an alarming amount of writing admin done this weekend, given that I'm hungover to absolute fuck. Thank you, ADHD meds!

My Eurovision notes, comments are what I would have posted on here if I’d have been quick enough. Votes are for song, performance, and Visuals. Bulgaria for the win.

Trying to get some writing admin done and my stupid brain keeps whispering 'you know, you could write your own top 100 books list if you wanted'. Shut up, brain.

I'll start: Blood On The Motorway by @hollowstone.press

Well, not quite the top, but #3 in the British Horror fiction list on Amazon for ebooks is pretty great! Huge thanks to everyone who picked up #Pyres in the last couple days! 🙏🏼🔥 #HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚 😱 Books2read.com/pyresnovel

They really should have named this 'the 100 best books if you really like one particular type of book and are not remotely interested in any kind of genre fiction beyond the obvious three we can't leave off'.

Music is the purest form of magic

Little bump for my blog post from Wednesday about reaching a full decade of being one of them published authors, and it giving me all the feels.

Great to wake up and find #Pyres at number 15 in the British & Irish horror charts this morning! It's still available for $0.99 / £0.99 for today, and will also be hitting Bookbub later. Thanks for all your support, everyone! Grab yours here: books2read.com/pyresnovel #BookSky #HorrorBooks 📚😱

Wes Streeting resigns and the heavens start pelting down hailstones. Coincidence, or omen?

Apparently my good buddy @kevharrison.bsky.social's excellent novella Pyres is on sale for 99p/99c until the end of tomorrow. I absolutely adored this one, and was lucky enough to work with Kev on the cover, think it's one of the ones I'm most proud of. It's also scorchingly political and cathartic.

Fuck it, gonna rinse the Neurosis discography today

Paging @glean.at

Since I worked out this morning that it'd been a full ten years since I published my first book, I figured I should probably take a look back at a *decade* of publishing:

Holy shit I just realised Sunday was the ten year anniversary of publishing my first novel, Blood on the Motorway. Not really sure how I feel about that, to be honest.

It's just a lamp. We project so easily. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqh...

Media Studies 101: Frame analysis is a great way of understanding media propaganda, because it asks us to understand not just what's IN the frame, but what's been left OUT of it For example, why this article on Polanski's houseboat is a BBC News lead, but Farage's £5m billionaire bung isn't

You know that there’s some headline writer out there waiting for Miliband to take over from Keir so they can finally use the line Red Ed Redemption

A-fucking-men

Steady on

London, Went into that there London for a wedding, saw some history, had some drinks #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:m5ilb5uprefiapiu6iujrxb5/gallery/3mlinsd3enu23

yo any of you xteink readers out there want some free books to stick on there, hit me up

I’m now on @grain.social, if you’re there too come hit me up and say hi

So annoyed there's no voting in my area today. Surely everything should be aligned together so we all get the chance to tell Reform to fuck off at the same time?

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Fuck yeah COME ON YOU GUNNERS!!!

Damn, not sure I've ever read one of these ranking articles where I actually agreed with every single choice.

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

This is incredible.

Where I'm currently at in the "Five Stages of Supporting Arsenal"

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Watching The Magnificent Seven and my god this is an absolute banger

📚💙 Booksky check this one out

New newsletter! Brand new Sunset Chronicles, and why I've moved off Substack (for good this time) 📚

Bandcamp Friday Have some free riffs allfather1.bandcamp.com/album/a-viol...

If you are anti fascist you are against anti semitism, end of. ✊against racism.

Absolutely gutted I’m not at @noizzeuk.bsky.social Noizzefest this weekend

Playing my wife Chat Pile at 1am when we’re both several drinks in, in the hope she’ll see some kind of karmic link to Nick Cave

Eldest has asked for a Polaroid camera for her birthday because yay physical stuff, anyone here got any recommendations for Polaroid or Polaroid-like cameras that are on the market these days and don't cost the fucking earth?

Dan's new book is out today. As well as being one of the nicest people I know, he's a hell of a fucking writer, probably my favourite modern horror author, so I can't wait to read this.

This is adorable

Reminder: if you'd like to commission Muppet-ized movie art of your very own, PM me or email [email protected] for details! Artwork is hand-drawn with mixed media on 11 X 14" watercolor paper.

Look at this silly digital bastard trying to do away with delivery people’s jobs, the little silicon prick.

Fuck yeah new Armed for Apocalypse just came through the letterbox.

Weird realisation that in order to be able to make our podcasts, and not starve, we’ve had to take them out of the public feeds where they might get chart positions, awards, sponsorship etc. It’s like “the content guys” want you to give all your work away, to devalue it. Then they’ll value it.

This is absolutely terrifying and I should not have read it just before bed, so I’m sharing it now because you all need nightmares, too

How do I get on the AI haters block list? This feels a bit like being last picked for a kickabout down the park.

Thiel didn't like losing. So he sought a place where he could not lose. Cyberspace, actual space, the fucking ocean – whatever, Thiel said, just get me the fuck out of here. badfaithtimes.com/peter-thiel-...