In memoriam...

Spinetingling #Bookdrop yesterday. The @sstpublications.bsky.social/@sgj.bsky.social Unholy Trinity is finally complete 😱🔥🤘 #MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych

EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.

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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing* Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.

Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages

Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is

Quarry. Aquarius.

Trust Britain to meet the Bang Bus with not moral panic but clerical pedantry, some pallid council drone, worsted trousers shiny with duty, googling a pornstar at taxpayer expense, then loftily ruling her vehicle ‘a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Don’t look here, look for small boats and refugees, get angry at desperate poor people not rich entitled twats who try and play you for fools.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."

Superb scene from Stephen Frears’ The Hit with mob assassin John Hurt perplexed by supergrass Terence Stamp’s seemingly zen-like acceptance of his impending death at his hands. Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...

Amazingly, one of my short stories made it into this anthology — thanks to @saltpublishing.com and the editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for picking it up. You can preorder at discount of 25% to the end of July

What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?

Cake done for my daughter's 6th birthday tomorrow. Took me all bastard day 😵‍💫🙃😆 But got a nice little @sgj.bsky.social boon as a reward - and what a beautiful-looking book it is too! 💥🤘🔥 #Minions #Stuart #KevinKevinKevin #TheBabySitterLives #KillerOnTheRoad #SagaDouble #FlipReverseIt

So I did a podcast for #NIHR's #HealthTech #Research Centre for #BrainInjury, talking abt misreps of BI & #coma in #literature, #film & #media... & why it matters! Huge thanks to @thepiercy.bsky.social for inviting me & for using an old photo of me with a more precocious hairline & ungrizzled beard:

Particularly the one between your ears

i have entered season four and i am screaming, “no. NO!!” at the screen. if she’d just hit the books a little harder, we all would have been spared riley fucking finn.

I just verified my age by pontificating on the joy of buying an album on cassette from Woolworth's whilst having a pocketful of stolen Pick'N'Mix.

Just finished this and will now listen to The Beatles with fresh ears. Also confirms that they wrote ‘Get Back’ as a refutation of Enoch Powell, while Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart agreed with him

I just verified my age by writing several albums of instrumental synth music celebrating and mourning the welfare state, affordable housing and the post-war consensus.

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The utter nerve of this one-man horrorshow. #Sturmer #Starmer #Keith

Lolz. #Burn

Me, when a non-fiction book has no index

There's been a bigger scandal over a BBC documentary about the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children, over an irrelevant detail, than the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children. The world turned on its head. Depraved. Deranged.

Next for Gregg - GB News host or Reform MP ? All we know for certain is that he will never STFU

The NSPCC receives donations from JCB to help protect children while JCB provides bulldozers to destroy children's homes. Important petition. 👇👇👇 www.change.org/p/tell-the-n...

"Can't believe it's been nearly 959 years since them slags smashed into Hastings. It still freaks my nut out to this day."

The UK is truly a horrible place thanks to transphobes.

- Hawk the Slayer - The Beastmaster - Willow

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Young long tailed tits still feeding on the fat balls in my garden #Birds #Photography #NatureUK #Wildlife

Bagged myself a @sgj.bsky.social quartet with some birthday book tokens...

Clegg having any kind of principles after working for Zuckerberg was unworkable

The height of sophistication is to stay in a hotel where they don’t think you are going to try and steal the hangers.

They can ban groups. But it won't stop us demanding an end to the genocide. Whether Palestine Action for the next hour or after... Support action for Palestine to stop arms sales to Israel to stop the killing of innocent people. They can never ban our collective humanity. 🇵🇸

Aside from the wonderful surprise of a Royle Mail, @nightjarpress.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social #BookDrop, I got a nice little second-hand haul from the ever-excellent bookshop, #nextchapterbooks in Sheffield. Including a *signed* @ggaffa.bsky.social gem 🔥🤘💥

Me: Has Israel committed war crimes? Piers Morgan: We need to wait for due process. Me: Does that apply to Hamas, too? Piers: No, they did their war crimes on camera. Me: So has Israel? Piers: That’s the end of the show

Great article, here. 👇👇👇 #BackZack #GreenParty #EcoPopulism #TheNewLeft

'The Shrouds isn’t so much a meditation on grief as it is a reality check: it doesn’t matter what you do after someone dies'. 💥🔥piece on David Cronenberg's latest movie, The Shrouds, & interview with the director from the ever-brilliant @motelsiren.bsky.social. 👇👇 www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

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