For Eli Jacobson Kenneth Rexroth 1952 There are few of us now, soon There will be none. We were comrades Together, we believed we Would see with our own eyes the new World where man was no longer Wolf to man, but men and women Were all brothers and lovers Together. We will not see it.

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u... Please don't do this.

spirals?, my collected short fictions and other weird brainfirings, is now available for pre-order. Or if you just want the epub, that's free - message me through my website or email or something if you'd like a copy. Not over bluesky. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H7L2RTLJ

spirals?, my collected short fictions and other weird brainfirings, is now available for pre-order. Or if you just want the epub, that's free - message me through my website or email or something if you'd like a copy. Not over bluesky. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H7L2RTLJ

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

I especially love this diagram.

@nickturse.bsky.social echoes of some of your work

Wales has a regrettable lack of Sichuan restaurants and we are driven through necessity to make our own hotpot.

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

Work on 'Dim Gods' has reached a natural stopping point so I'm back to editing short stories for my planned collection: 'spirals?' Here's a preview of the cover.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2026 is the year we find out that billionaires took secret society conspiracies as a challenge Epstein in 2016: "peter thiel LOVED the secret society idea he has done alot of work on the concept. all failed so far" Guess he found out how to make it work?

Security alert: YouTube added a feature that now puts your username in shared links, so if you share a YouTube link on here, everyone who clicks it will know your YouTube username. To turn it off, go to Settings - Privacy and turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

In case we had any doubt

This should probably be a bigger story www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Haven't seen the online white supremacist space get this amped up in a minute. Makes total sense, though: the racist riots in Belfast are the exact sorts of scenes that appear in their daydreams. They're hoping things escalate further, believing it'll trigger a racist "awakening" they get to lead.

Please Use AI

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

Most important thing you will read this month! (Possibly this millennia!) @amendlocke.bsky.social continues to write the world we live in, Iain wrote so much we will always treasure!

null sold its 100th copy this month (101st, if we're counting the copy @cherylmorgan.bsky.social bought). That's pretty cool. I'm going to celebrate by eating this Palak Paneer I was going to eat anyway.

Four (short) chapters of edits to go, then some spot-edits then I think this book is done.* *Ready for formatting.

‘I know what it was like to go hungry as a kid’ The UK Right to Food Commission is fighting for the 14m people going hungry in Britain. I spent time with them. They say shame surrounds food poverty and the more people speak of their own experiences the quicker we will tackle hunger So I’m speaking

these are getting weird

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

Waiting for a Llandeilo bus. Rain has been dripping through the bustop fixtures so long as to rust paint off the bolts and, falling, erode the tarmac beneath.

Really revealing how these creatures try to weaponize etiquette. Destroying people's livelihoods with abandon is fine and dandy, but how dare you be discourteous.

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Something must be causing these insane record-breaking temperatures, but I've read three newspapers this morning (Mail, Times, Telegraph) and they appear to have absolutely no idea what. How baffling. Sure they're working on it

"Once you know that (it) exists, it’s hard not to think about it every time you see a sudden flood of enthusiastic posts about a famous person’s new project or haircut or outfit or relationship or face." web.archive.org/web/20260515...

Please share this one.

ensconed

null's Amazon page (with its three whole ratings) is showing "Customers who bought this item also bought..." books by @scalzi.com and @qntm.org so that's a small honour*. Almost like sharing a shelf.

Back among the Saes. There's a notable difference in the shapes of people here to home.

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Big deal I can already identify people with near perfect accuracy

Another month, another milestone down. Stories for the void. Most things that happen, happen in obscurity.