Train dreams. Blimey.

This is great!

Do you know what I saw on X? Nothing, only losers look on there

Lovely stuff

Disappointed to realise I don’t have a top ten guitarists list. Or even a top five. At a push I could probably come up with a top ten list of 20th Century US poets or Howard Hawks and/or Cary Grant films, but they’d likely be the same as everyone else’s, and in no particular order.

Christ, this *is* depressing. Well worth a read.

SHE’S SAYING WHAT EVERYONE’S THINKING

Beginning to suspect that world leaders don’t even listen to my social media demands

Do it! That’ll show the fuckers!

Whipping this stupid year into shape

Trinity Buoy Wharf on New Year’s Day

Happy Q1 to all who celebrate

If you’re struggling today, ‘Bringing Up Baby’ is on iPlayer.

God bless us one for all and all for one

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals

"I also have not read it." Merry Christmas, everyone. Here is my annual reposting of the message board where Ayn Rand fans discuss A Christmas Carol. forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/t...

EDGY BILLIONAIRES. IT WAS ABOUT EDGY BILLIONAIRES.

Somebody’s dog got in the way of my stupid picture (it was a good dog)

I get it: you’re young and you’re exhausted. Now try being *old* and exhausted.

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

Also: HOW IS IT TUESDAY???

I can’t believe it’s nearly Christmas. Or that it’s almost 2026. To be honest I can’t believe anything anymore. Reality has been captured by big tech, corporate media, and immoral politicians. We’re dumb animals being led to the slaughter in an abattoir made of lies. This is the time of monsters.

Edgy billionaires: a sort of litany… owen-booth.com/2025/12/23/e...

started / going

Some more mornings

Nice out this morning

"Tell me about the Digital Transformation and Innovation department. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all."

I hope I'll be this stupid some day, just full of dumb joy at striking up a friendship with a Furby or whatever

Guys! LinkedIn just dropped everyone’s 2025 Year in Review! See you there!

Nothing? LUXURY! I earn *less than nothing* - and THEN HAVE TO PAY IT BACK!!!

LAST MINUTE-ISH CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR BOOK LOVERS, YOU SAY?

Short announcement that I’m bravely withdrawing myself from any and all 2025 Books of The Year lists - in protest at everything. The fact that I didn’t technically *have* any books published in 2025 should not be taken as having any bearing on this decision.

"A few weeks ago, I was wrestling with a major life decision. Like I've grown used to doing, I opened Claude and started thinking out loud-laying out the options...asking for perspective" The author even admits he's been more open with AI than any actual human beings Insanity

Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

Given the *the state of everything* - not least the publishing industry - it feels like a miracle that really good books still manage to sometimes make it into the world, so I’m flagging this again and demanding that you read it

FRANKLY APPALLED

THIS IS GREAT!

Yes, it’s a scam. But also: THEY LOVED MY BOOK!

“He’s saying what we’re all thinking!”

I’m pretty sure I worked on a project that was exactly about this… www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Any conversation about genre in the 21st century (especially, but in no way limited to, folk-horror, horror and contemporary fantasy) that doesn't include the quiet, yet vivid underpinning of Hookland, is missing something vital.

While Hookland has a history of traditional pantomimes, it also has a tradition of Christmas ‘Shockers’. Akin to Théâtre du Grand Guignol, these horror shows are known for their bloody mix of folkore and true crime. A typical ‘Shocker’ will flip from Clapperclaws to gallow-ghost murderers.

Fucking hell trying to make up stuff and write it down out of your own mind doesn’t get any twatting easier does it

I think the four-day week movement in general could do a lot of good, but it feels peak Guardian that there's nothing here about how closing schools for an extra day would affect working-class parents with less flexible arrangements than, say, lawyers, development directors and project managers

Say what you like, that guy was so far ahead of his time.

Think of a movie. Double it. Add 6. Take away the movie you first thought of. The answer is 3.

And also this one: owen-booth.com/2025/12/05/h...