Since we opened to submissions, we've reached over 260 patrons! As a thank you, we're doing a Patreon subscription giveaway! This includes access to our community Discord, behind-the-scenes newsletters, and more! To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!

An absolutely mind-melting image taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, featured in @sciam.bsky.social's Best Space Photos Of 2025: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... There's just so much out there.

Voting closes tomorrow! Please consider taking a moment of your precious time to vote for the band, individual musicians or our new album: we pour our hearts, souls and all the contents of our pockets, to the last bit of fluff, into the band 💖

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Awkward as it seems to self promote when *gestures* everything: this is our livelihood and we would be infinitely grateful if you might have a minute to vote. Also, our album The Mirror has some deep emotional arcs that may be cathartic in difficult times: open.spotify.com/album/2TU9Wv... #Music

Mood

The first ever Roland drum machine - the TR-77 from 1972. The Rhythm 77 is a sophisticated analogue accompaniment instrument with some very groovy beats. #analog #drummachine @synthsky.bsky.social

John Donat’s photograph of Lynn Chadwick’s sculpture The Watchers, Alton West Estate, Roehampton, 1960.

Distant drumming. Rising damp. Shifting shadows. And a girl appearing, in horror.

Mood

Meaeaeanwhile: A relaunched project may or may not be underway with its new album. Thrilled to be part of the www.krowofficial.com updated lineup (together with members of my beloved @ebbband.bsky.social) again doing vocal harmonies and maenadic theatre performance. Stay Tuned for more news!

Delighted that Heartlines chose to release this piece just as snow is finally starting to fall along my stretch of coast ❄️

Fresh on the Haunted Generation website - a long and fascinating chat I had with the great @thomasdolby.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social. Includes The Flat Earth, muppets, Robyn Hitchcock soundchecks and his old Morris Minor being in Star Wars... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/01/05/t...

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Now that we’ve (mostly) recovered from Hogmanay, we’re buzzing to kick off our 2026 gig year with The Temple of Prog at The Brickyard Feb 21, with Solstice, Spriggan Mist, Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham and Idiogram! www.fatsoma.com/e/3l91bf0b/t... #music #progrock #livemusic #artrock #festival

Happy New Year, Everyone!!

Jim is magnificent! He makes me miss Zwerver (Dutch: wanderer). Mischief incarnate, he was known to the neighbours as That Big Red Monster, one of the local Boxers refused to pass our garden on his walks, he got into neighbours' kitchen' to eat all the food, set off burglar alarms and loved snuggles

Oh my goodness, WHAT?? Erin is on the cover of Prog!!! 🤯🤩

Merry Holidaymas, Everyone, however you celebrate!!!

Ed Emswhiller’s Christmas cover art for Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1960.

EEEEEE He Has Set Off!!! #Yule

Fancy joining this YouTube channel for a solid @ebbband.bsky.social session? We'll be there to answer questions in the chat 😊🎶🎙

To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about singing carols to yule worms. It's about packing gnarled scarecrows with tinsel and moldy fruit cake. It's about devouring tarantula exoskeletons while crouched in the hollow of an ancient oak.

This review of our new album is just.. insanely beautiful.. what is happening?? 🥲❤🎶

if anyone needs to see a dog in the snow

🍂❄️🍂"What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!" 🤍Sonnet 97 #ShakespeareSunday

It's odd posting about awards eligibility & asking please consider me when my book's barely out so not many of you have read it. But I have one sole eligible thing this year, and I'm proud of it in all its briny strangeness. So hey, please consider THE SALT ORACLE if you're nominating? 🖤🖤🖤

This review of our new album is just.. insanely beautiful.. what is happening?? 🥲❤🎶

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Morning. 🖼️ Tunnicliffe

I WAS COMPELLED TO MAKE THIS BY FORCES BEYOND MY CONTROL

Oh, hello, good evening from your Dual Dutch/British Citizen!! (Wearing Union Jack heels, Orange clothes to represent The House of Orange and a bindi for India!) 🇬🇧🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Can I brazenly point out that someone might appreciate poetry for Christmas? amzn.eu/d/8GeJEBX

Wow, thank you SO much for sharing your thoughts on The Mirror, @ayushn21.bsky.social!! 😍🎶

Bandcamp Friday may be over, but you can still support us 🥰

As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors! Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!

Shakespeare was just like, “enough historical drama, time for Island Wizard uses his daughter as sex-bait while disciplining these two mutants”

It's Bandcamp Friday! My band Djinn And Miskatonic has music you can buy. Our most recent EP, Paleo: djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep

Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, British Columbia. r/brutalism

This is our award eligibility post for 2025. We published 18 short stories this year, and love every one of them. We hope you gave them a read, were suitably haunted, and will give each one consideration. And maybe the magazine too.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1

NO FUCKING SHIT DID WE NOT SAY, O'NEILL?????? (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social 🤷‍♀️)

Look, a bundle of weirdo's thrilled with their finished album.. The Mirror is out tomorrow!!

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Pearl Jam (a highlight of my teenage years) Ravi Shankar (a year before he died, so grateful I had the chance, it was transcendent) PJ Harvey (so good) Underworld (about 5 times and 100% would go another 5) Skunk Anansie (dat voice, dat power)

Aaaa, The CD's have arrived!! Private first listen party for the EBBsolute Legend Tier on Patreon in 15 minutes.. Album launch gig at The Corporation in Sheffield this coming Sunday (30/11), alongside Also Eden!! *much squeaking and bouncing*

Ah, drat

One Week. To say it's been an intense, beautiful, exhausting, nose-to-the-tarmac process is downplaying it. I'm so tempted to post Kurt Russell in The Thing saying "Nobody trusts anybody now.. and we're all very tired" but since we still love the shit out of each other, 'twould be half a fib :)

Books make super great Christmas presents because you're both gifting a sale to an author and a great read to someone you care for! bookshop.org/lists/books-...