"@naomialderman.bsky.social stresses the role of public libraries designed to try to serve the public, and not to hook us into an endless outrage-and-hype cycle", writes Richard Ovenden. https://bit.ly/49LOliK

Based on my recent travel experience, 3 top things in Melbourne: - all day breakfast - shower ventilation fans strong enough to spit you out onto the roof - my cat

My vibe is to say "Oh that's so VanderMeer" whenever there's any kind of cool lighthouse going on

The correct and only response to this question.

Norwegian brown cheese is my new fav cheese

Hotel breakfast buffet: exists My hunter-gatherer ancestors: *wild cheering*

Suspicion that I'm looking a bit seedy following the long flight confirmed by waitress putting the entire coffee pot down on the table

Pleased to report that every single person in Oslo has immaculate nordic noir police procedural eyebrows

Going to the bathroom in turbulence because who doesn't love a danger piss

I'm going to be mostly offline for a few weeks but if you want to see an Australian losing her mind at the weather in Norway pop by www.instagram.com/bp_gregory/?... where I'll drop pics when I hit wifi

My heartwarming family tale of slowly perishing in a frozen Earth apocalypse got STREDDED

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Yayyyy

Here's the thing

Yeah ok modern life is over-complicated but I do love how sometimes you can open task manager and scare your programs into behaving

Sure sometimes it's a hard day at work but then I think about the level of safety and trust we've achieved with our rescue cat who was mistreated by awful people, who treated her like a breeding machine, that she now loudly demands love and treats and pats ...

For those who watched CHEROPHOBE and are interested in some behind the scenes talk, I and @leox.bsky.social sat down to have a chat about this passion project.

"Libraries have changed ... no longer the funereal, silent and earnest places of my childhood, school and university days. In the sleepiest towns I found bustling, architecturally conspicuous, light-filled places eager for conversations about books and writing.." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Saying the sweetest most chipper good morning to colleagues like I'm not on my way to utterly destroy the work bathroom

So that Louvre thing wasn't theft they were simply making their own AI museum, no idea what everyone's so upset about.

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up. “fears of increased safety and privacy violations as a result of nondiscrimination laws are not empirically grounded.” www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a...

Agatha Christie could never

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I bring a 2am kind of convincing everyone around the bonfire at the backyard whiskey tasting to read @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's new book The October Film Haunt vibe that other spirit enthusiasts are not ready for

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Today in the trendy open plan office there was a screaming man dressed as a tree Jfc I'm trying to do finance

It doesn't hurt anybody and it makes me happy so I choose to believe the Evil Dead Necronomicon, bound in human flesh and inked in human blood, has nipples

Quoting with the first 4 horror movies that are 10/10 for me: Alien (1979) Train to Busan (2016) Sauna (2008) Kairo (2001)

Just a little over a week until Norway. I'm teeing up the sound byte of Copper saying "They're not Swedish, Mac, they're Norwegian" on my phone to play at my partner whenever anything happens ..

Easy to think I'm a fan of science until the microwave acts funny, and suddenly I'm a terrified scavenger crouching in my rags in a radioactive wasteland

Few things make me feel so old as to look around the office and realise I'm the only one wearing my shoes

hold my beer

Neighbours are voluntarily lounging on towels in full view of the blaring sun and over here I'd pay good money for the Molly Millions eyes

Playing the new Indiana Jones game is doubly fun if you keep adding "In it's country of origin, right?" to the dialogue

BP Gregory and the irresistible urge to tell inanimate objects that they are doing a good job

Interesting article for the Missing 411 / National Park After Dark / SAR creepypasta crowd: They were lost in the wild and on the verge of death. This is how they survived www.theguardian.com/travel/ng-in...

You videocall me you'd better be ready to see my cat

Things in my working life I was not and will never be prepared for: The sheer number of people who when filling out a field requesting an email they can be contacted at will confidently write the word "email" and then happily continue on with their day, satisfied they have done a good job

"Decision makers are adopting an even more conservative stance, which steers them toward acquiring books from people who already have built-in audiences .." thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

I'm not saying I'm in the office a lot, but today my cat yelled at me and I asked if she's logged a ticket with Helpdesk

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WE ARE FACING A GENOCIDE BECAUSE OF MOTHERFUCKING OIL EXECUTIVES?

WTF. Kids are feeling GUILTY just for BEING WHITE? Fuck. If only they had access to adults educated to a university degree level and then trained specifically in how to help children unpack concepts as complex as how you can benefit from structural racism without being personally responsible for it.

"Until comprehensive public value data is routinely enabled and supported, our most treasured arts organisations and institutions will remain vulnerable to decision-making informed entirely by a single value dimension: money." theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

m'learned colleagues have more sensible things to say about #Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

Thinking I've been raptured but turns out this bolognese was just so good

Yes please buy my special edition books at Scarlet Ferret & I'll spend it all on coffee ❤️☕ Your choice of: * Frozen world apocalypse bad daddy horror (Flora & Jim) * Outback burning hidden mystery town horror (The Town); or * Paranoid lost in space horror (Outermen) scarletferret.com/genre/horror

Today I learned that for *cough* only $399 I could buy a Publishers Weekly review. For that amount, I could give away 10 paperbacks...So, let's do that instead. For the next 10 wks, I'll give away a book a week. Like this post and follow for a chance to win WHILE I WAS GONE. Entries close on 9/22 🖤

My dudes sheep are already creepy you didn't need to put a weird eye in it