I’m so sick of seeing Farage and co on TV all the bloody time. They now know that if thy hold a press conference on any day ending in a ‘y’, they will be given endless coverage and broadcasting hours. All this for a party that could fit all of its MPs into a hatchback car.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

I used to work for a Big Event that used retired CA LEOs to run security. Most had moved to ID/NV/OR post-retirement, and I would overhear their opinions on California and Californians over coffee before the morning briefings. They can go. In fact, we should show them the door.

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

It took me 14 tries to film this without crashing out. Books. Are. Political. #booksky #booksarepolitical #freedomofspeech #authorsky

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

I’ve joked that I pay my agents 10% of my salary - not to find me jobs - but to be the ones who have to hear I didn’t get the job… over and over and over again. Like any creative industry, #screenwriting is hard and brutally competitive. So here’s a #Scriptsky #WritingCommunity 🧵 on REJECTION. 1

Fuck off you wanker.

@emmanewman.bsky.social I’m 100 pages in on The Vengeance and it is *delightful*! I’m half in love with Morgane already (weapons under her skirt! Ha!)

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

Working on a section of SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 (due out next year), and I get to play in the pirate sandbox *and it is ALL THE FUN*!!

I hope Kimmel tells them to go pound sand. He can afford to fuck off to an island or whatever while the powers that be insisting he apologize and donate money to right-wing nutjobs chase their own tails. Let that giant media merger just wither on the vine.

In a world full of JK Cuntfaces be a Rick Riordan.

I’m not a technophobe, quite the opposite in fact, I’ve been interested in technology of all kinds since I was a child But for me to want something, it must serve a purpose, my interest isn’t piqued because something is new And definitely not because the company selling it says it’s revolutionary.

Many thanks to Taskerland for taking the time to write such a thorough and interesting review of Darkened Hill & Dale! 'Darkened Hill & Dale is strong in theme and singular in vision; its seven adventures stand apart yet resonate in proximity.' tasker.land/2025/08/26/r...

If a publisher won't commit to human editing, art and translation, the deal is not worth having. They're signalling how little they care about the final product, which comes with your name attached. This is the right place to push back. Having an agent here helps.

Jimmy Kimmel has millions The teachers who got fired ? Don’t The Black women who were put on websites for THE FIRST HALF OF THIS ENTIRE YEAR don’t The immigrants scared to go outside because they are kidnapping them out of cars? But yeah!!!! Now it matters?!?

The future of Reform UK folks.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

We are on our own. But there are waaaaaay more of us than there are of them. Remember that.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Oh, because NOBODY did it before HE did. Yes, I get rageful when I think of how the literary luvvies trip over themselves to throw flowers at his feet as if he invented the things science fiction writers have been doing for decades (but they don't get the accolades because ew SFF cooties!)

Trans rights are human rights.

lol new clown car just rolled up

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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

No. You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.

In the 1930s Mosley and his rank and file BUF were careful not to outwardly portray themselves as racists. They weren't antisemitic... far from it... they were just concerned about "bad principles" and "international bankers" and the influx of foreigners Everyone knew what they meant.

Good of the telegraph to remind us that as well as racist coked up men with prior convictions for dv, the racist march led by a racist that descended into racist violence also included some racists who shop at oliver bonas & think running the church fete tombola makes them nice people

It's been almost a year since I signed the papers to renounce a certain citizenship and WHOOOOODOGGIES am I not at all regretting it right about now.

Please someone invent Shazam but for ear worms. Brought to you by having “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division in my head all bloody day!

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

These days how free your speech is really does just get measured in how openly you can be a fascist

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

I am on tour right now with a book about two gay working class artists who died long before I was born. I’ve visited bookshops and libraries and galleries. And at every event I’ve been welcomed and there has been warmth and community. Books build empathy. The arts connect us. They just do.

I couldn’t agree more with you Christina. Labour’s comms team need a clear strategy to stand up to this completely unacceptable Far Right dominance of the narrative & now the streets. Starmer must address the nation to express the Govt position. It’s not acceptable to Govern by Tweet.

We can’t hope for help from the govt. They’ve attacked pensioners, disabled people, people on benefits, working class people, trans people, immigrants, supported genocide, criminalised protest, fostered an atmosphere of intolerance, & boosted a far right agenda. They’re part of the problem.

This. Honestly WTF is up with the govt? I mean do they REALLY want the UK to look like the US? I mean, LOOK AT IT! Shit is so effed up over there. It’s NOT THE PLACE TO EMULATE!

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Many things about yesterday's march make me unhappy, but this bit in particular – an overseas billionaire calling for a revolution – particularly bothers me. Something about it feels like that moment when a rowdy drunk guy boards your quiet night bus and your instincts start shouting 'danger!'

More and more thinking we should get Ian McEwan a copy of Spec Fic for Newbies 😂 Find out how to get your copy here: linktr.ee/specficforne...

A Market of Dreams and Destiny by @trip.bsky.social Witchmark by @clpolk.com The Winter Knight by @jesbattis.bsky.social These are desert island books for me, and it makes me want to cry when people haven’t heard of them.

A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey and Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead

London is one of the best cities in the world and it's extremely obvious that one of the main reasons for that is immigration

I spent the day dealing with the *weirdest* glitch I've encountered so far when building an ebook. After hours of trying everything to no avail, I finally found ONE mention of the issue in a 5-y-o message-board thread. Thank goodness for the 'pioneers' who record this stuff publicly. It's gin time!