Rest in peace, James Van Der Beek

I think I’ve finally found some use for this AI nonsense…

Amazing what you can find in charity shops these days

Listening to Creed when I'm a 45 year old dad...

Saturday morning baking bagels and listening to Fairouz #TakeItEasyYaAzizi

Uh oh. Probably going to be another war soon…

Since when did eyetests become so brutal?

I think it’s time to say goodbye to Facebook soon.

Anybody I know used Autocrit to review or edit their novels?

Board of Peace - Season 1

Not sure my local council is going to go with my suggestion, but here goes nothing.

When I meet real life journalists and published authors

Life is short. Use AI to put yourself in a vintage 70s country album cover

“Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?”

Why isn’t this being talked about enough?

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read Agatha Christie in front of a crackling fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage during a raging snowstorm whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

Finished Stranger Things. One of the best shows I’ve seen.

Funny watching Europe go apoplectic that somebody stronger wants to come and take their land because fuck it. What goes around comes around, I guess

I have just discovered Echo & The Bunnymen and I am digging their sound

Diaspora Syrians now writing their memoirs about cardamom and coffee on a Damascus balcony and the scent of jasmine in the air. Then there’s me writing cheap sci-fi and fantasy:

Cooked rainbow trout for the family. The house stinks of fish but damn that was good.

For anybody who lived in Damascus in the nineties, can anybody remember the name of the theme park at the end of the Mazzeh road? It had a spinning lady ride but I can't find pictures of it. And I think there was a giant slide. Doing research for a new novel and need your help 💚

Counting down to my first visit to Syria in sixteen years. Less than two months to go now.

Good news. The position and behaviour of the Greek government and police in dealing with refugees and the refugee crisis as been abysmal. This court case was an attempt to make an example of Mardini, who is a credit to Syrians and humanity ❤️

One of the few (probably only time) I support a decision Kemi Badenoch made. The bar for politicians is the lowest we’ve seen in generations

What I feel on most days 👇

The world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket right now.

Slowly exploring the setting for my next story. Set in Damascus during the Revolution and civil war, but in a parallel timeline

According to credible reports by @cbsnews.com, at least 12,000 Iranian citizens were killed in just two days, Thursday and Friday of last week.

Testing a tool out that will hopefully help me transition to PooSky whilst posting simultaneously to X. Don’t like that I can’t see a single stream for all the people I follow, but let’s see how this works out for now🤞

“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”

The future of Syria belongs to all Syrians. Read more: link.europa.eu/8Jv8Nh

If you have a problem, If no one else can help and if you can find him. Maybe you should still hire somebody else…

Ten out of ten for this month’s book club selection ❤️

Would hate to be travelling today. What a nightmare

Crickets on this site. As much as I loathe the other site, that’s still where the party is…

The word haunting every Syrian right now = Partition

Worrying news about possible IDF intervention in a Damascus suburb. Family and friends all worried about attempts to partition the country. This is probably the most dangerous period in Syria’s history 😞

The late and great Anthony Shadid, thirteen years ago. Shadid was in Syria to cover the Syrian revolution and sadly passed away whilst there youtu.be/Mix5bDb78xM

First morning of Ramadan. Feeling okay so far but missing not having a coffee. Glad I woke up before sunrise to have some food and water.

I'm not surprised Trump & Vance sold out our allies, our values, our way of life. I've known since inauguration that the country as we've known it for 250 years is dead. But today's disgraceful display in the Oval Office was like watching the autopsy. Disgusting. Time for revolution & rebirth

What President Zelenskyy endured today is what Syrians had faced from most of the world for the past 13 years - “why don’t you make a deal with the person who is trying to kill you”. There are some things you can’t compromise on 🇺🇦

Maybe today’s events will finally help Europe find its spine…

Good on Zelensky for not letting himself be cowed and bullied and for standing up for his country ❤️

Unbelievable times we live in…

I have never seen anything as disgusting as that. Genuinely no words.

Watching the humiliation of Zelensky in the White House by Trump and JD Vance is cringeworthy and utterly shocking. Putin is loving this.

Wishing everybody a very happy and blessed Ramadan unless you are one of the following on my Ramadan sh*t-list: Trump Putin Assad Netanyahu Farage Al Khamenei Kim Jong Un

I will testify that this is marvellous stuff