I want to speak to the orphan grinder, not his monkey.

I've made it lads; GenericName terf accounts are pre-emptively blocking me, now.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Ebook pre-orders are open for Wiz Duos Book 3, featuring stories by Ruthanna Emrys and Andrew Knighton: wizardstowerpress.co...

We seem to have reached the point where any given American could plug RFK Jr. right between the eyes and plausibly plead self-defence.

Just signed a copy of my novel STARS AND BONES for a customer after he picked it up and informed me, “He’s a local author, you know.” “More local than you realise,” I said.

Day 13(?) of this cold and my sinuses feel like they are about to burst.

FOX News: They're still orange.

If you vote for Reform, if you think they have a point, if you are even considering voting for them, you're a racist. No excuses, no exceptions. Fucking sick of it. Own what you are.

"Welcome to the Real Men's Outfit Store. We have both kinds of men's clothing; Sissy and Femboy!"

Had a dream last night where I sat down to a meal with @brainmage.bsky.social, @wangleberry.bsky.social and a few other undefined people. Wangleberry wanted to demonstrate her northern credentials, and chose to do so by miming pouring gravy over herself. Me neither.

We didn't widen the gyre It was always swirling since the world's been turning

Ppl keep saying he’s functionally a King now but listen my country has an actual literal monarchy and no constitutionally mandated freedom of speech and they still let a prince ruin himself live on the state run television channel

Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks. wizardstowerpress.co...

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

The Stand user could be anyone.

Wind speed is measured in beaufort because it can be pretty strong

That feeling you get when you take the first bite of a pizza. That's doughpamine.

Nicked from FB Some unfortunate wording

In King of the Hill, Strickland is a crook who only cares how much he, personally, can get out of the world. Hank simply can't see that past his near-worship of his boss for being, well, his boss. And isn't that just a dang perfect microcosm of small-c conservatism's relationship with authority?

I've seen some miserable right wing whingeing in my life, but the outpouring of cringe after the killing of Charlie Kirk is hands-down the most pathetic spectacle I have ever witnessed. He was an unrepentant bigot and one of the most determined opponents of free speech the US has ever seen.

Back in my day we had to acquire forbidden knowledge the old-fashioned way: as a Marshall Cavendish partwork.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Imagine being the horse waking up early from the anaesthesia in the clutches of this contraption.

Back in my day we had to acquire forbidden knowledge the old-fashioned way: as a Marshall Cavendish partwork.

man i wish i knew spanish

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Usually next to a river I think

Even the people who advocate the hardest for debate don't believe it's actually an effective method of establishing truth. You can tell this because they always say "X would destroy you in a debate" - it's a declaration of personal skill at debating, unrelated to whatever the facts may be.

The dream: 'debate lets the good true ideas rise to the top and helps us all' Reality: 'A rightwinger who has proven wrong in a debate on various points using actual evidence will just ignore that evidence and use the same arguments next debate'

Sky booms

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

I just read something with the word 'espouse' and for far too long I was thinking "so that's what, an online wife?". I need to get off this cursed Tim Berners-Lee's internet.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Fitting that on this #BookQW, where weather is mentioned, it chucked it down most of the day. #BQW

Lot of people undergoing a helico-pter moment.

one for sorrow two for joy three for a girl four for a boy five for silver six for actually that's a lot of magpies seven for oh no they are massing eight for oh my god they're going to attack nine for run, run away now ten for magpies Magpies MAGPIES

I finally finished reading Fight Like a Girl Vol. 2 from @wtpress.bsky.social and I loved it. There are too many great stories to list them all, but it's interesting how much variety there is, such breadth of scope and ideas. Indicative of a blind spot that the collection fills ably.

What is this absolute horseshit with soundcloud insisting you sign in before it will let you skip backwards or forwards?

Generative AI is stochastic errorism.

controversial take for an author at this moment but I think libgen and free access to information is good actually; I think people taking advantage of this for profit are the bad guys, but broad access to books around the world that aren’t published in all countries ….good actually

I want a Lego X bomber with a Dai X that combines and the articulated neck for the lasers.

Me: I think we're going to have to kill this process, Windows Task Manager. WTM: Hot damn!

Alien is a movie about truck drivers who veer off the path and encounter something Beyond. Every prequel diminishes that further into being Wileyland-Coyutani's latest wacky scheme to capture that darn acid-blooded concentric-mouthed Road Runner.

Just realised the guy with old military vehicles outside his house who has flown an English flag for as long as we’ve lived here on a massive flagpole in his garden has recently taken it down and replaced it with the flag of Hertfordshire. Comforting to know the proper flag guys know what’s up atm.

I saw The Princess Bride (1987) way too young and it made me afraid of eels.