Convinced if John Boyne had faced any consequences for putting a Zelda recipe in his historical fiction because it was the top google result, we wouldn’t be staring down the barrel of industry-wide AI-generated context collapse.

Unsolicited writing advice: the best thing youve ever written has no commercial appeal whatsoever and all the money has gone to men who did blackface in the nineties

The children yearn for simulacra of manual labor

I’ve joined the gym girlies with the bulky wireless headphones and I’m going to be honest, there should be more of a warning on these things of how sweaty your ears get, how do you all cope with your head being 5% underwater.

making and selling physical products:

lads, the only food discourse I’ve seen lately is discourse about food discourse, you’re billy-bear-hamming this (mass-processing one thing (ham) into a reduced version of another thing (bears) that claims to be a third thing (billy))

One of those freelancer months where I have to remind myself being in my overdraft isn't a failure of morals but a consequence of timing.

I have many goals in my life that require sustained effort to achieve. However, I have just started Tears of the Kingdom. Sorry, goals! Daddy needs to visit a bunch of shrines. youtu.be/QPJ_-i5c9_E?...

Let’s fucking gooooo! All the negatives of removing it will be incurred all the same while rebuilding it or repairing it, so let’s choose the cheapest, quickest option, and spend the time and money saved on finding a better option than a status quo that sucks! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't care about the 100 best novels of all time, tell me about that one book you read that haunts you because it was a weird charity shop find but it changed something in you but you lost it while moving house and you can't remember its name and you'll never find it again as long as you live.

These lists of best books of all time are always the fucking same honestly, it's boring, let's stop doing it

[extreme Thin Lizzy voice]

Crichton, Aeryn, D’argo, Rygel, Chiana and Zhaan

tracing IRL a font modeled off old Catholic scrolls found in the vatican and i gotta hand it to those monks, they (a) sure knew how to make beautiful, finessed letterforms and (b) must've had hench-as-fuck forearms, just full-on popeyed out their gourds to kingdom come, fingers like sides of ham

To echo Michael, these anthologies - and Queer Words Project Scotland as a whole! - have been *the* highlight of the last decade, for me. Getting to read, publish, meet & support so many phenomenal writers has been a privilege, and being supported in turn by @404ink.bsky.social has been a dream!

As @404ink.bsky.social closes it's doors this Summer, you have until the end of the month to get We Were Always Here/Fierce Salvage as an ebook, and only a couple of months to buy them in print www.404ink.com/store/p/we-w...

This time next week, I’ll be setting up for my first Glasgow Zine Fest in… over a decade?! Where did that time go?! Extremely excited to be tabling with @wraithlands.bsky.social - and next door to the one and only @omipalonepress.bsky.social too!

Will not be surprised these "self-driving" taxis will turn out to actually be driven remotely by workers in a tech hub somewhere on a contract stipulating they only get paid while the car is moving, or something.

Scotland's arts scene needs to wise the fuck up with what it considers an opportunity. Not being paid, to teach art school students, while also paying for materials used? I get the "experience" of working within academic settings is rare as hen's teeth, but this has exploitation written all over it.

Gutter Magazine is seeking a new Managing Editor! If you've ever dreamed of b̷o̷s̷s̷i̷n̷g̷ ̷m̷e̷ ̷a̷b̷o̷u̷t̷ collaborating on a biannual magazine publishing new fiction, non-fiction and poetry from Scotland and beyond, well, what are you waiting for? Details on the site! www.guttermag.co.uk/managing-edi...

All solidarity with @qmanivannan.bsky.social . As someone who lives in Scotland &has gone through the horrendous, impoverishing 5 year immigration process I'd much rather have an MSP who can tell me what the IHS surcharge is than someone who can't (and many who set immigration policy even cannot)

Disasterpeace doesn't get enough credit his influence on the current sound of electronic music. Not to be "only ever watched boss baby" about it, but these days I can hear fragments of Fez/Hyper Light Drifter/It Follows/Silver Lake in just about everything that isn't straight guitars and drums.

You all think this behaviour is cute and funny but liberal broadsheets only make lists of the best 100 novels of all time when they're very, very ill.

A gym with no music and the horrible sounds of sweaty people* persevering with pain is infinitely preferable to a gym with over-familiar “motivational” mainstream music at terrible volume, and yet here we are.

couldn't really tell you why seeing that made me want to draw this. Don't rightly know, myself

PEACHMAXXING

Universal basic income but only for designers always having to print stuff out every single time they use a new typeface to make sure 9pt isn't taking the first train to eye-strain and 10pt isn't stupid clown-shoes big.

I've set up a rudimentary mailing list. Please add yourself to it if you wish to receive emails whenever I'm doing some poetry or spoken word or similar. sendfox.com/rossmccleary...

Recently WhatsApp has been dinging me the *milisecond* I set my phone down and I’m beginning to wonder if there’s an update that only releases messages when your phone senses it’s horizontal so you pick it up and end up scrolling again.

Unpopular opinion: I think it would set a dodgy precedent to force a party to change their name no matter how unrepresentative it is of their values, but I also don’t think you can design your way out of people voting for the wrong party when their logos already are *this* different.

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

At a gig where two women in neon shake-n-go party wigs, tartan miniskirts and nu-metal boots are shouting unintelligible nonsense about swans delaying Avanti trains while one struggles with her synth and the other attacks a push-blade lawnmower with a rubber mallet. Electroclash is back, baybee!

Yeah sex is good but have you ever stressed for nearly a month over renewing your passport only to actually check it and realise it doesn’t expire for another year? Hooo boy!

hide and seek

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

It's hard to legislate trans people out of existence when they're in the Actual Legislature wooooooo

The UK, today, and everyday.

A bunch of new UFO docs were just declassified and if that's your thing sure, cool, but for those of us in graphic design, especially tabletop design with a very specific zeitgeist in mind... y'all.

Good! Hold their feet to the fire, Alison! They made a lot of promises they don't want to keep!

🟢 @hollybruce.bsky.social elected to represent Glasgow Southside! Holly is the second Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the second Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

🟢 @lornaslater.bsky.social elected to represent Edinburgh Central! Lorna is the first Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the first Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

I clicked on one (1) advert for barefoot shoes and now my algorithm keeps showing me feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet feet fee

Pitch: a national strike of everyone who didn't vote Reform so that those who did get a taste of what the country'll be like once they achieve their dream of expunging all their undesirables.

We are *never* going to have a real conversation about immigration in this country, or probably any country. A real conversation would start with recognising that there is no reasoned opposition to immigration, it's a mental illness that needs treatment on a social and personal level.

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

as the window shifts from a majority of readers reading print to reading online the majority of writers begin to believe web formatting is the standard and they're writing to those rules and expecting their web-formatted work to be web-formatted in print and it's UGLY and UNCOUTH and I FORSAKE IT

Would vote reform if they pledged to put all the new pedestrian crossings back the way they were, tbh

While we're announcing things im very excited to finally be able to say my debut lesbian vampire novel HUNGER IN THE BLOOD is coming out with @torbooksuk.bsky.social next May!! HitB is a queer, dark, crunchy, gory novel that I hope you will enjoy!! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-u... now go vote!!