Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS. The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals. The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy writing first drafts. 🪐📚 #ScienceFiction

Recording my audiobook while competing with kookaburras. #Straya

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LOOK LOOK! been drawing this a page a week since august! A whole comic!

I have never understood why people think wind turbines are ugly. To me, they look like dancers.

Here's all four covers I did for THE EXPANSE: A LITTLE DEATH

This week's No Substance is about Len Deighton's Winter. It's a historical novel about the rise of Hitler and I found it mirrors a lot of what is happening in the US, and the things that people have said (and still say) about Trump. It's a book with an uncomfortable echo.

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I had a good day today. I was bummed that The End Times of Markusz Zielinski didn't get shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, but then my son called to tell me he'd just finished reading Traitor's War and loved the whole series. And I also started serious work on my next novel, Domesday Book. 🪐📚

Review - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky #ScienceFiction Adrian Tchaikovsky has a knack for creating terribly dystopic human societies. You can’t really blame him given what he has to work with. But the human society in Shroud is one of the worst. 1/14

Congratulations to the finalists 🪐📚 2025 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement | Aurealis Awards share.google/ethVxwt1Ye6c...

Mini-review #ScienceFiction 🪐📚

Oh good. More AI slop I won't watch. Darren Aronofsky AI Revolutionary War Animated Series Used Human Voice Actors share.google/p9A4Fb13ONJS...

I'm rewatching the superlative s2 of #TheRingsOfPower and it's even better second time around.

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Good morning from Mack. #DogsOfBluesky

I'm enjoying A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms a lot!

Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

This week's No Substance is about the excellent film, Resurrection, by Bi Gan. You should watch it.

The system is violence. ICE, prisons, the police, the US military. They were set up to murder, torture, dominate, abuse, control, and usurp. We are told not to imagine a world without these systems of violence while the cages and dungeons and bodies pile up.

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"I love this series, both in audio and written form. The author has taken the inspiration from Wells and developed the characters and storyline in inventive, original ways." More about The Martian Diaries 3-part sequel here www.martiandiaries.com #SciFiBooks #Audiobooks #BookSky #ReaderSky

Mack in the creek. #DogsOfBluesky

Roses are red The biggest fish is a shark

The unnerving, doom-laden title sequence to ITV's long-running current affairs show WORLD IN ACTION, circa 1980. Between the radar-themed Vitruvian Man (who, as a child, I confused with Jesus) and the angry theme music, every episode felt apocalyptic.

Mini-review #ScienceFiction 🪐📚

Good morning. Mack the bordoodle at Coniston Beach. #DogsOfBluesky

20 Best Visual Effects Oscar Nominees ranked by Most Fans on Letterboxd See the top 100 films nominated for a Best Visual Effects Oscar, ranked by Most Fans on Letterboxd: boxd.it/S03nk

#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content

Well this sounds like a pro-AI piece of shit. Hard pass. boxd.it/KYv0

I mean, he's not wrong. 👍 James Cameron Slams America for 'Turning Its Back on Science' share.google/snnzqIiMki2u...

NASA's Day of Remembrance honors the brave astronauts who gave their lives in service to space exploration and the pursuit of knowledge. The crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia believed in something larger than themselves.

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It's worth reading every word. 👍

Carney in Davos:

I have a set of bookshop events planned for the release of Children of Strife end of March - all in the UK I'm afraid. After Which I'll be at Eastercon which follows directly on. adriantchaikovsky.com

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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan. Europe has to wake up FAST.

From Black Panthers and Selma to Malcolm X, Loving and more, Robert Daniels recommends 24 films that shed light on the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing fight for Black liberation in America. boxd.it/2VG

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Why, yes, Trump *is* a narcissistic psychopath. See alt text for transcript

Should Finland really be selling icebreakers to a hostile foreign power? www.bbc.com/news/article...

#ResistanceRoots Artist Wefail has created an image of Trump devouring America in a reimagination of Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son. Goya’s painting is one of a group of 14 works known as the Black Paintings, which were created during a period of extreme psychological distress. /1