A nice new review for my previous novel, Principals (amzn.to/4oT40SG) oddly it's behind a login wall on NetGallery but I can share it here. The reviewer makes some valid criticisms.

A couple of chapters away from finishing the second draft of Dim Gods and I'm so excited to start the third ([s]the[/s] a fun bit!) I can hardly concentrate on the task at hand.

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Farage’s Reform is part of a “global network of rightwing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, says Ed Miliband - as he revives pledges for a Green New Deal & 400,000 new jobs in clean energy by 2030 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"One officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Contrary to the propaganda put out by people who wanted to make revolution look fun and heroic, revolutions are not glorious times of bohemian self-actualization and joyful defiance of social norms, they are periods of ruthlessly enforced cruel discipline, physical hardship, and material scarcity.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morning Bluesky. Musk’s name appears in a new release of Epstein files.

Trolling campaigns like this have been happening for almost ten years. In 2020, white nationalist groups set up fake 'antifa' social media accounts to push false claims that left-wing protesters would attack "white suburban" communities. This misinfo went viral. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

From the newly released Epstein docs submitted to congress "Elon musk to island Dec. 6"

a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

Silicon Valley’s latest argument against regulating AI: that would literally be the antichrist

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technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

Oil CEOs are preparing for 2.75C of warming and 6ft of sea rise. So I suggest we loudly attempt to bring them down with us all. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

*cough* check out my novel 'null' if you haven't already.

To me what’s crazy is how sexless most media is now and apparently this is too much for young people. I think about this blogpost all the time now when this topic comes up bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...

Got sucked into the side of TikTok commenting on the trend in American evangelicalism right now—where there’s a growing belief that that the rapture will happen this Tuesday—September 23rd This is due to a of set of things happening in Israel interpreted through a tangled "Left Behind" theology+

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

I have been following these lectures and let me just say it’s some of the most unhinged nonsense I have ever heard and I study Hindutva professionally.

Turning the last page of the last of Mr. Banks' books was a powerful moment for me. More so than even Pterry's death and final chapter, knowing there would be no more Banks felt like real loss.

Asking for an author’s book at a library is a wonderful thing to do. The library buys the book, maybe even multiple copies, which really does help authors. A simple request can spread a lot of good around. Also I just love libraries and I’m always happy when someone checks out one of my books. 📚

I am also sick of this subject but don't want my last word on it to be incorrectly following the groyper theory. Link following is the indictment, including logs speaking (vaguely) to motivation (via Katie Conger, NYT). www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“A war framing confuses the issue. This is not a war,” former Pentagon lawyer Sarah Harrison explained. “U.S. forces went out and committed murder.”

Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a downright dystopian and often factually inaccurate speech to a massive anti-immigrant rally in London, Musk urged attendees to “fight back” against their political enemies.

Taking serious climate action isn't pragmatic, they say So I guess this is the pragmatic alternative they have in mind

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

If still trying to make sense of the Charlie Kirk thing, this thread seems to be well informed thoughts.

“None but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing toward it herself” An interesting article on the historical revisionism of the "tradwife" archetype. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hist...

JUST IN: A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

Love a bit of Chumbawamba. That's wamba with an A, not a U.

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

Overhearing multiple unrelated groups of random members of the public discussing the Charlie Kirk thing while on a train in the middle of nowhere, Wales, is quite strange. It doesn't bode well, imo.

“The action by Palestine Action Germany came after British police arrested nearly 900 people Saturday at a protest in London against the U.K. government’s ban on Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.”

What an expertly called shot

Poland downs Russian drones in first time a NATO member has fired during Ukraine war www.reuters.com/business/aer...

The National Guard has assessed that its Washington, D.C. mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

a world in which making money is always the most important aim is destined to devolve into abject immorality

There are good reasons for seeing geoengineering - large scale interventions in the planetary environment to restrict climate change - as a dodgy idea We can add, for Arctic interventions, they don't work They're not a get-out-of-jail-free card for fossil industries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This 2019 article on the British government's casual application of covert propaganda is quite something. www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-co...

Israeli arms maker Elbit has reportedly closed its UK branch after persistent protests and shutdowns led by Palestine Action targeting its facilities.

It would make a lot of sense for women in the US to start hoarding/hiding cash. I would not guarantee access to credit or even bank accounts, in the long term. The right is making all the noises that signal a desire to return to the privilege of holding women hostage.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

That the futurists who want to break the bounds of mortality are the ones most committed to the immutability of gender says something about how useful the concept is to them. Their insistence on masculine hegemony is an insistence on order and hierarchy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Location scouting. Bsky seems buggy lately.