First song of the New Year is @seeming.bsky.social, of course 🎉

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

trying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called “Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball”

5 perfect movies (in no particular order): - Spirited Away - The Matrix - 2001: a Space Odyssey - Videodrome - Inside Llewyn Davis

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

OOOO WA-A-A-A

A Failure of Imagination — the new single • bandcamp = seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo... • streaming = open.spotify.com/track/0j7GpZ... • youtube = www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COf...

as someone who grew up believing in a literal hell for about 20 years of my life, i was delighted to visit my first ever christian hell house. it actually got pretty *weird* to be honest: www.webworm.co/hellhouse/

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

breaking into the louvre to steal back my heart after it was purloined by a certain little lady's inscrutable smile

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Recorded on the night train from Kyiv to Lviv. I didn't know Kyiv had suffered a maximum effort Russian attack on energy infrastructure: Shahed drones, air-launched ballistic missiles & Iskander ballistic missiles. Power still being restored #StandWithUkraine

they should invent a kind of news that is good

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

reupping this. for no reason www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

These books are free to anyone who wants them. They come from my late ex-publisher. If you want one, let me know in the replies (there are 200 in total). If you can afford the postage, brilliant. If not, no problem. I'll still sign & post one to you tomorrow. P.S. Stephen Fry called it "hilarious"

And when you get to hell, tell them I sent you. I get $5 off for every new customer I refer

1. Terry Pratchett 2. Stephen King 3. Haruki Murakami 4. J.G. Ballard 5. Arthur C. Clarke 6. Agatha Christie 7. Ben Aaronovitch 8. Philip K. Dick 9. Magnus Mills 10. Ursula K. le Guin

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

Random hot take: books like 'Orbital' and films like 'Gravity' are not science fiction because they don't feature anything speculative. They're just set in space. That's normal now.

More of this tone please 😏

Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

1. Mel Giedroyc once came to the museum I work at for a tour. She'd booked under her married name so none of the staff knew it was her. I was in the bookshop and when she walked in I thought 'she looks just like Mel from Bake Off...oh, wait...' 2. Once I saw Craig Revel Horwood in a Pizza Express.

as ever, if you ask people if they think art should exist for their enjoyment they will say yes, and then if you ask them if the people making the art should get paid for it they'll tell you "no that's a fake job"

Absolutely adoring the new @seeming.bsky.social single. Powerful and snarling. It's been a long wait but it sounds like it'll be worth it. See you all at the grindshow. open.spotify.com/track/1dFHrJ...

Yael van der Wouden, who won last night’s @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction, said she was intersex in her speech and had only got the right treatment because of “every trans person who’s fought for healthcare.” Say it again: Transphobia. Hurts. Everyone.

I hate having to do this but I've launched a GFM. My beloved cat Emily needs expensive surgery to remove malignant tumors and simultaneously my (vital) car needs expensive work done. I'm in the hole. Any help - even sharing this around - would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cure-...

Money

“Increasing shareholder value”

Disabled people have been pleading with folks to show solidarity for years. We saw the rising tide of eugenics the moment everyone declared Covid over & decided to leave us by the wayside. Pandemics give rise to fascism. What we’re seeing is the result of allowing disabled folks to be left behind

Ed Balls

Today is Ed Balls Day.

If you'd asked me in 2008 whether Harry Potter or Twilight would age better, I would have absolutely never believed the answer

every day without a Pope is another knife shoved directly into my skull . this is kony 2012 all over again

Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament. Sign here 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

but im a jeep im a vehicle what the hell am i doing here beep beep honk honk steer

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

[CN: Conversion therapy, child abuse] This account is run by a group of LGBTQ+ people raising awareness about Wes Streeting and the UK government's complicity in the abuse of trans children and young people via conversion practices.

I feel like people who make 'phones bad!' cartoons needs to realise that literally everyone already hates their phone

Five romance movies to get to know me: The Apartment Brokeback Mountain Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Fountain Gone Girl

God I miss the days when the only thing most people had to worry about was a beach making them old

Solidarity with Trans women today and every day.