We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Desmond’s

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

hector and the half a carrot - an old man in the park

Watching Legends on Netflix, which is loosely based on a true story and is set in 1990. Opening scene at a party playing an N-Trance song that came out in 1994. What an odd thing to get wrong.

Proud and delighted to have two stills from my forthcoming documentary about Michael Rosen used as the images in this month’s Bookseller profile

Tremendous book

ROBOT_FINGERS (a work in progress)

Beautiful sunny afternoon at Stratford Lit Fest ahead of my talk with Deborah Douglas at 6:30pm

Do come to my event tomorrow with the incredible Deborah Douglas talking about our book The Cost of Trust at Stratford Literary Festival www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/debor...

Hypnagogic jerk chicken

I propose a first law of consciousness: the owner must be made of meat www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’m in this photo, someone made us laugh

Call for help: If anyone has prior experience for vending at conventions in the UK as a non-UK-resident or citizen, could you please reach out? I am currently trying to brave the UK government webpages to figure out how to legally stay within what's sensible for me as a business to vend at DinoCon!

"you're never going to finish that masterpiece" said his horrible witch of an ex-wife cathy, shrewishly

Excellent reminder from @garymarcus.bsky.social of all the arguments about why chatbots(a far better term than the misleading “AI”) are not conscious, using Dawkins’ daft infatuation as the starting point.

I take a lot of escalator selfies and always think of Mitch Hedberg

If only there was a name for this.

I wrote about Golders Green. And Kenton. And Finchley. And Hendon. Are you getting the picture yet? Because if not, I can draw you a map. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

Massively looking forward to this book

The USA never really recovered culturally from the execution of Chapman Baxter

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Great case study in the fallibility of witness testimony

I was tidying away books in the library once when I saw a small child run crying to his mum because he'd picked up a Spanish book and thought he'd suddenly forgotten how to read

The people who think this is staged, do they just not accept that people might want to kill one of the most hated men in the world? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Sunday studio session printing some of my #folkhorroralphabet linocut prints. This one is based on Alan Garner’s novel ‘The Owl Service’.

Any indoor plant knowledge people here? I need indoor plant knowledge.

I call bollocks. I've seen a gull swallow a rat and I'm supposed to believe they avoid googly eyes

This might work on seagulls but it will not work on me

I’ve changed it but my new router’s default password is vaguely rude

Five books everyone should read once in their lives 1) The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas 2) The Demon-Haunted World, Sagan 3) The Library of Babel, Borges 4) Learning To Think, me 5) The Driver’s Seat, Spark

HEA EN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGLE

You can’t beat a human record without being human. Otherwise any vehicle and several thousand species of animal already beat the record and this ugly thing looks slow by comparison.

Does anyone know of a London restaurant that does paella with the traditional green beans instead of peas?

Good afternoon

Man at station kiosk put my kit kat in the same small bag as my hot sausage roll, which I think qualifies for a ‘see it, say it, sorted’ report

Wonderful talk by @drlucyrogers.com at @rigb.org last night. Highly recommend her book ‘Up’ which is rightly receiving accolades.

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

LOOK AT IT

I have new glasses, but what’s really important here is that I’m in my Cilla jacket era

Mmm hmm

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

I do not regret to inform you that I am once again at a Renaissance Fair and once again was pedantic with a blacksmith

Tried to verbally flex my Mario Kart skills but accidentally said ‘spood beest’ so that’s me done

Lovely stuff