Net zero is cheaper than fossil fuel dependence. That was my #1 takeaway from @iea.org's latest World Energy Outlook. Don't let anyone tell you drill baby drill is about affordability. ✍️https://www.iisd.org/articles/explainer/five-lessons-iea-2025-world-energy-outlook

If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.

Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Just finished this last night after having been on the library waitlist for ages. Wonderful book. Very fresh take on magic, and insightful on academia. Definitely recommend if you’ve got complicated family feelings with the upcoming holidays.

This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.

I finished Alien: Earth last night and I now DEMAND a WALL-E style followup where the eyeball discovers Earth one creature at a time. Mud-skippers lolloping around! Giraffes not quite able to keep the head up! Hummingbirds failing to hover! Mob violence as the gulls fight back! Confused camels!

if someone can show me where the automatic settlement and citizenship exists, can we have our fourteen grand in fees back please

Even if this is over briefing, any government that doesn’t immediately and very loudly condemn such a line is condoning taking family heirlooms from traumatised survivors of war and atrocities have in the world. This is basic humanity, it shouldn’t be that hard to understand.

I am not sure these are the biggest reforms for decades/for a generation. Core proposal is incredibly similar in analysis, spirit and content to 2022 Nationality and Borders Act of Priti Patel (offer temporary protection of 30 months) The 2023 Illegal Migration Act more sweeping Both failed

As well as it being immoral, ill-conceived, cruel, economically flawed & quadrupling down on demonstrably ineffectual politics (the way to stop Reform is *opposing* them duh), any new asylum system that depends on the Home Office doing more admin is risible, for a department so famously awful at it.

Hive mind, can you help? I'm looking for the source of a Jung quote: "Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all." Having trouble unpicking it from libquotes and their ilk.

My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3! www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...

For anyone in Bristol at a loose end this evening, I'll be doing a TedX talk! On human creativity in the age of AI (spoiler: GenAI gets trashed) tickets here 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/tedxb...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

These people are going fuckin nuts partying over a guy who campaigned on affordable housing, and subsidized childcare and busses. Like c’mon man. There is a very obvious path forward to fight the horrors. Praying the right people realize that

I will never understand why Labour didn't do this at their first budget - starting with that majority, a clear narrative of fixing the previous 14 years of decision making, and 5 years for benefits of the decisions to become clear before an election. Now they have to own it.

Night of the Zoopocalypse is exactly what you’d expect from a Clive Barker idea/exec producer. Gloopy cosmic horror for kids! Horror beats and structure all the way. Mainly about the visuals really, but I’ve also never heard a child (not mine) scream like that. youtu.be/BAAjmeieBs0

Great book. Chapter 1 is one of my all time favourite shaggy dog stories, and it goes in the most deliciously unexpected directions after that.

Feeling more than a dash of sadness that I'm not heading to Brighton for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social today. Much love to all you gorgeous people, and I hope you have an excellent time. If you need me, I'll be dancing my feet off with my daughter at a wedding!

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

UK politics as The Monkey’s Paw: in this essay I will etc

Seeing as it’s nearly Halloween, a Weird tale of mine in the mighty @nightmare-magazine.com - featuring creepy elite clubs, masked arbiters, feminist parakeets, bureaucratic body horror and a very confused Labrador. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

58.4% voting centre-left/left against 38% voting right. Sounds like democracy actually working in FPTP, for once. Still, PR would be nice, wouldn't it?

If you're in London, bookish folk, this 2 day event is for you! 📚💙 #booksky. Plse SHARE to support all the lovely small publishers & authors who'll be there. Come say hello to us too on the @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social table, with authors @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social

Halloween people! Does your city feel like it's watching you? Have you been swallowed up by urban decay, capitalism and the terrifying rise of fascism? Then you need HUNTING BY THE RIVER - fourteen stories of cat killers, plague pits, nightclub demons and more. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...

@influxpress.bsky.social are having a Halloween sale. If your preference is for a quiet, beautifully crafted style of horror, if you've yet to discover the work of writers like Elizabeth Hand, Joel Lane, Malcolm Devlin, then this is an awesome opportunity to do so! Get in. www.influxpress.com/sale

Abolish the Home Office

Just finished the pleasingly weird Mordew by @alexpheby.bsky.social. Shoo-in for any fans of Bas Lag or Gormenghast out there. Also the finest glossary I’ve seen in a long while. A slippery weave of arcane and abstruse sophistry and inalienable truths.

Rating: Fucking banger.

Going to #NYCC? Want a YEAR OF THE MER galley? I'll have a secret word for you every day of the con. Be the first or second person to whisper it in the ears of the @sagapressbooks.bsky.social team at their booth and a copy can be yours! First code tomorrow (10/9). Stay tuned!

Had a great time with TRADWIFE by @tcparker.bsky.social. True crime social horror bringing The Handmaid’s Tale even closer to home, extremely smart riffs on the reportage style/structure to boot. Thank you @almakatsu.bsky.social for the nod!

As a rule I keep politics off here but sometimes an incident needs highlighting, an experience needs to be seen, a person needs their voice shared. I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Shoutout to my copyeditor, Kevin Eddy, who I don't think is on here. But I am having a genuinely delightful time reviewing his comments on my manuscript. He and my editor @georgesandison.bsky.social and I have a whole conversation going here, and it's just really fun.

Hmm. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Extremely depressing, but not very surprising, to see Union Jacks and George’s Cross all the way up the A414 to the A10 in Hertford. I’d love to see them joined by some other flags, say the UN, Pride, trans Pride and EU flags.

oh just FUCK off

This is the story. Coked up drunkards aren’t a protest.

Can confirm lobbing Jilly Cooper into the 200pt zone just feels great. And that Rose Biggin is excellence on legs.

The Groyper Wars

I'll be doing a live Youtube reading for The Pixel Project tonight (Friday, Sept 12th) at 8:30 ET. Details are below. The Pixel Project is a great group dedicated to ending violence against women. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMt...

Hey, Austin, if you’re around, the place to be tonight at 7pm is hanging out with @ericlarocca.bsky.social and yours truly at @bookpeople.com!

"I stayed up late finishing that book. Woke up completely the same." Once upon a time I was sat in A&E where I had the choice of reading Angels & Demons or staring at my hand trying to decide if it was broken or not. I lasted one page. Very into Nick's point here, but also, I just can't...

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

@aliyawhiteley.bsky.social ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Infinite improvement in the quality of Bluesky activated!

Mild melting moment to discover my local library has the Unsung edition of THE CORAL BONES by E J Swift. Then showing my kid my name in the acknowledgements! Peak imposter syndrome. 🥸 Good people of Wood Street, check this bad boy out though, you won’t regret it!