I supose at this point people knows, but if you are publishing SFF/H during this 2026 and would like to be covered on Jamreads, don't be shy of contacting me (either here, form or e-mail). Publishers, authors and publicists, feel free! Can't guarantee I will, but hey, always happy to check. 💙📚

Everyone perpetually surprised by what's happening right now: you need to start reading. Science fiction, spec fic. Political stuff. Fantasy. History. Everything. You need to read as much as you can as fast as you can, to analyse and think. Because gdi you need to stop acting like you're new.

Wise words

🏙️🩸 Folk horror with concrete under its nails. Blood in the Bricks (ed. Neil Williamson) puts dread in the Tube, tower blocks, and shuttered factories. Our review highlights “Down Street,” “Hagstone,” and “Flip” among the standouts. horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... Edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

As a fellow survivor, I echo this. Please do not support the abuse machine.

Spent far too much of the last 2 days trying to figure out why HDD folders kept flickering and Windows Explorer kept bouncing up to "Very High" on power usage. Turns out I just had to detach and reconnect a bluetooth stylus pen that I only happened to notice was also flickering. Linux, here I come.

What do I mean by "like you would in a coffee shop"? If someone's quietly reading a book, you don't go grab it out their hands and loudly shit on its worth in a cafe. Well, unless you want to be shouted at / shunned. That kind of thing. You might ask to sit at someone else's table if it's crowded...

Welcome all the new Blueskyers. Remember, we do things slightly differently here. Follow people and talk to them like you would in a coffee shop and you will get a nice new social media scene. Dunking, ranting, etc will probably earn a block, and those things are nuclear here. Bon voyage!

THAT'S what it reminds me of

Pitching British reality TV shows in 2026 youtube.com/shorts/mtNYQ...

Did you know that 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins was young? And also cringe? These days he's associated with Vincent Price, who was about 50 in the movie of the same name. But no: he was in his mid-twenties. Died at 27 or 28. John Stearne, his sidekick in the movie, was no such thing. 1/

Folks, here's what you're going to do today. You're going to check the services you run and maintain (sites, apps, etc) for adtech, trackers, SDKs, pixels, and anything else that makes you complicit. You're going to delete all those things as well as their data, downstream and upstream. Do it.

THAT'S what it reminds me of

Early modern Glasgow had Shitt Wynd and the Stinkand Vennel (both probably pretty accurate), but for economy I rather like the nineteenth-century Open Close.

Kyle MacLachlan makes a Twin Peaks themed Bento Box youtu.be/YmI5iG0qakU

Unsolicited duck pic.

Here are some of my top reads from 2025, alongside what I'm looking forward to this year! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/best-of-2025/

I’ve only just started manufacturing trousers for stilt-walkers but I’ve ALREADY made huge strides

So I am doing this fundraiser in February, a medical aid for Ukraine thing. Hope you can make it, it is in Oxford. Details below. X

This is happening in three weeks! A reminder to order tickets from the link if you’d like to attend!

Lovely to see Wiz Duos 3 featuring on an end of year best of list - I'm really proud of Walking a Wounded Land, & @r-emrys.bsky.social's The Sheltering Flame was one of my favourite reads of the year too. Excellent company to be in.

May I offer you a duck in this trying time?

Appropos of nothing (something...). Wolves in space, werewolf space opera. NINE years old now and still going. www.foxspirit.co.uk/books/novell...

A short flash that never got accepted, but now on my kofi. Content warnings: death, dementia. Cosy-ish, but sad too. What happens to dragon riders when they get old? ko-fi.com/post/Story-F...

I’m happy to blurb or review all the books called too political or woke. Give me all the books by folks from marginalised communities. If you don’t think all this will impact the films, shows, and books that come out / promoted then think again. No one can just sit back and stay quiet.

After the band broke up

As the famous German saying goes, if there's a Nazi child porn generator at the table and 260,000,000 other people logging on talking to it, you got a table with 260,000,001 Nazi child porn generators.

remember, you can hide posts. so, if say you've had the same post of a video of someone being murdered pop up 100 times, you can hide that post and you'll not see it or any of the reposted/quotes of that.

After the band broke up

Writers who say they're about community but only talk about themselves or stuff they want in on - where's the community exactly? Community that only serves you isn't community.

Forget two wolves. You have three swans inside you...

New album cover dropped.

Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words #IronAge #WarTrumpet and #Boudicca in it www.theguardian.com/science/2026... PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from #Norfolk Wow 😲 We need a lie down @theguardian.com @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

I'm a weirdo who likes taking pictures out of grubby train windows.

In the UK add that possession of CSAM is a strict liability criminal offence, prison sentence 2-3 years. No proof that you sought the material is required. People can be and have been convicted after receiving unsolicited images. This is a serious risk, using X in the UK now.

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

I would love to name one of these one day but I don't think they'd accept "Jesus Swept".

We can’t go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this “wealth creation”. It’s wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich. @highpaycentre.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

Work time eaten into by dealing with AI generated spam etc. Life changing tech, sure. For the better? Not so fucking much.

Terry Pratchett fans, did you know that ‘The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All’ is a real song that predates the Discworld? Strap in, it’s funny. Like most bawdy songs its origins are vague and there are different versions floating about. 1/

If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk

ICYMI over the holidays, I chatted about two of my fave games I played last year. Date your fridge! Consort with sexy demons! Do both in under 10 hours! 🌟 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

Join us! I am moderating for the first time so no heckling in the chat though! 😆

I’m so glad that readers seem to be enjoying the new issue of Kaleidotrope so much!

Restarted couch to 5k this morning and tbh I didn't resent using the time I could have spent doomscrolling instead.

Out for a night with my crit group friends. It was lovely but ooh it is cold oot!

Wow three of my stories made Ellen Datlow's recommendation list for Best Horror #17. What an honour. 🙏🏳️‍🌈📚💙 ellendatlow.com/category/new...

So I just heard about this book which was a practical guide to how average people could resist Nazis in every day work by bogging them down with malicious compliance etc. Of interest to... Umm historians, I guess? Merry Christmas! 🎄🌟🎁 gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

The people of Venezuela do not deserve this. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. May the words of Chavez give them some solace