BIG NEWS: I have a new short story collection coming out in September & I'm doing it a different way, publishing it in collaboration with the new collective @breakthroughbook.bsky.social. You can read about it - & assist with printing costs by ordering a copy - here: www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...

Zelensky is a comedian who ran as a joke and ended up fighting a superpower in the bloodiest war since WWII. I hope Count Binface is ready for that responsibility.

A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

Awww this looks mega

Thank you to everyone who's already sent a Community Project submission! You've all done outstanding work♥️ BUT we thought you might like some more time, so we've extended the deadline to JULY 10TH! Get crackin'! www.thelongestjohns.com/communitypro... #AssassinsCreed #Shanty #TheLongestJohns

Ooh this is worryingly good Not sure it entirely holds up (Centre as in left/centre/right politically)

Soft launch when everyone is distracted recovering from the England game...Product for the People is back on the 3rd September in Bristol. Less unconference-y this time - more corridor conference-y with three brilliant speakers and some lightly facilitated conversations. luma.com/rjsq2i36

A sneak peak at Keir Starmer’s final scene as the 58th UK Prime Minister in Downing Street as he regenerates into the 59th incarnation portrayed by Andy Burnham.

I have been lucky enough to know true love in my life. There was also the time the actor Damian Lewis winked at me and said “Nice shirt.”

1000 copies of this signed today at the Blackwell's warehouse. It's fortunate that I have a short name! If you'd like one, you can get it with FREE international delivery here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Here's an extract, in case you want to check it's not shit: www.tom-cox.com/one-week/

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

What a lovely story www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s HEREEEEE!! Bad Services ships tomorrow but here’s a sneak peak of the long awaited sequel to Good Services. good.services/writing/bad-services-has-landed

A cool misty woodland, (Burrator woods last April), for a hot day #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

So dumping this for later, but re-reading Burnham and Rotheram's Head North the other week, and where I think the book is good is giving you a sense of where constitutional frustrations relate to personal frustrations.

A brilliant observation. As an author, once your words are out in the world between the covers of a book, your readers will infuse them with lives of their own. Step back and let the magic unfold. #booksky

The worst thing about the Starmer years has been that it has felt like being in an interminable public sector programme board meeting where the Chair (Starmer) puts off any decisions to the next meeting, where the comms team are obsessed with personas, and the key items are bottom of the agenda.

Each morning, I spend 45 min searching for design and product jobs at orgs that actually make the world a bit better. E.g., today I saw that Genomics England is hiring a senior service designer. I think we already have one of the best job boards for designers: www.hardproblems.com/jobs

The world no longer makes sense, fuckwits are in charge of everything and the internet is even further on with its mission to ruin people’s brains forever. As an ameliorating factor, though, there do seem to be more butterflies around than there have been for a while.

They seem to be constructing an actual deep state - a parallel digital infrastructure with no transparency or accountability.

This May my limited company CAKE turned 18 years old! That’s nearly 2 decades of content usability advice given out. And our online courses have been running since 2021, so they are 5 now! 🎂🍰🥳

The Martian is all like BRING HIM HOME and that's even Matt Damon, but if billionaires encounter trouble on the way to eg Mars I'm fairly confident the reaction will be oh no that sounds bad please pass the chips

THREAD. Sometimes you just have to write a thing for your own sanity. It was my birthday yesterday. I did manage to do a bit of celebrating in the evening with pals but I ended up spending the whole day writing the piece in this link: www.tom-cox.com/writers-bloc... I feel better for doing it.

This is really good…

Universally Manchester Festival! Join us on Saturday 13 June, 11am - 4:30pm, for a jam-packed day of talks and activities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWWQ... Website: universallymanchester.com I will be there with the Lego Rovers! #universallymanchesterfestival @socialresponuom.bsky.social

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CNBC TV show footage of the far right march in London They've just about filled Parliament square With barely anyone between Parliament square and Trafalgar square On the cover image, look at the bottom, there's a giant screen, with pretty much no one to watch it

The most damning resignation letter yet, I think:

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

“Don’t be a research vampire, going in and sucking out what you want from the community” @rochellegold.bsky.social Reminds me of patient involvement group who coined “we want to be at the table, not on the menu” 🧛 #CampDigital

New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper—and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. . . . I must off to studio and work with . . . Tennyson (that can’t be right) Ford. Ellison? (? — No!)—well, a rangy, languid young man. —Alec Guinness, diary, 1976

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Gorgeous

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

The eBook of Castle is only 99p right now. Repost this for a chance to win a signed copy of the original hardback edition. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

It's a bit of a myth that rents are constantly increasing faster than earnings or overall inflation - on average, they're not. So what *is* the problem of unaffordability in the private rented sector? And what does this mean for how we go about fixing it? Our take 🧵⬇️

Little extract from today's piece, which I'll be posting on www.tom-cox.com a little later today. (If you subscribe you'll get it in your inbox so don't have to worry about missing it here.)

Full thing is now up: www.tom-cox.com/what-i-am-ab...

The fact they made this travesty and didn't even call it Your Own Personal Jesus is the worst crime of all.

This is super interesting

The result? Apple's most successful laptop in *years*, which has now sold so well that Apple has exhausted the supply of defective chips and is scrambling to fill orders: www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/m... 18/

Glorious long thread in praise of process knowledge and the unsung heroes who keep every organisation going by having been there a long time and knowing how everything really works (in ways that can never be fully written down)

Music for these moments: Yo Yo Ma plays Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen youtube.com/shorts/FSN4E...

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The Black Designers Guild is an amazing programme! Deadline to apply is 10 April. Go for it ✨ www.linkedin.com/posts/tayome...

I’m not entirely sure this piece isn’t, in fact, pure parody. Or Cummings has simply become a parody of himself. The Strait of Hormuz can be reopened in 72 hours by a team of hackers and physicists, apparently. 🙄🤷‍♀️ open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Gotta say, I'm a bit less freaked out by alligators now I know they vibe to acoustic guitar.