The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.

One must imagine Sisyphus doing laundry.

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis. In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Loudly ask for all your drinks with “NO ICE, please!”

It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.

Congrats to editor @seresavini.bsky.social on her first acquisition! Vampires... but make it ✨fashion✨. www.thebookseller.com/rights/orbit... #annafiteni #seamripper #orbitbooks

You had me at “fancy cheese vending machine”

Knocking stars off your book review due to spelling mistakes, when you were trusted with an UNCORRECTED bound proof, really is a thing some people do, huh?

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. lithub.com/irish-noveli...

When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year. I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍 ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...

New Review - happy publication day to the excellent When There Are Wolves Again by @catamaroon.bsky.social - a science fiction novel for the 21st century that gives us hope. Run and get it I think we need this. One of the best reads of my year! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

/adds to lexicon/

don't compare yourself to other people or where you think you should be or where you wish you were or even to you before it happened. it's only useful to compare yourself to where you were when you were at your lowest imo. every episode is a hard reset on Everything, so don't beat yourself up 🤝

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

She is OUT!! (No I don't mean this fruity #BookNerd 😉🏳️‍🌈) Happy pub day to #TheSovereign by @clclark.bsky.social !! Full review to come but im about to start part 2 and AHHHHH!! I am LOVING THIS 🤭🥵🫣 Thank you @gambit589.bsky.social / @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the #ARC 💜✌️ #bookpost #booksky

The Sovereign is here - and so is @clclark.bsky.social (if you're in Toronto)! The new Magic of the Lost book hit shelves Sept. 30, and the author will be in Toronto to celebrate the launch. Join us @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 6pm for our interview, a book signing, and a Q&A!

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Sure, it's great to have 'subversive' "the princess doesn't need a knight and rescues herself from the dragon," but we should have more stories about the heroism of the dragon attempting to save everyone from the monarchy.

Well this is gorgeous (by feyspeaker)

I will accept ID cards on two conditions. 1. They're not actually required for anything. 2. They're called a Multipass

This is very Hollow Places coded

Gretchen Felker-Martin getting her comic cancelled for echoing this exact sentiment is *wildly* on-the-nose

This is so beautiful.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.

Loved this bit from Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women by Dale McCormick so much that I typed it up and pinned it over my desk (h/t Michelle Millar Fisher on insta www.instagram.com/p/DM2S05bOKk...)

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

I wish every image of Gaza bombed and razed into smithereens included a “before” shot, when Gaza — even after decades of brutal occupation, of crushing blockade, of periodic bombings — was so lush, so green, covered in palm trees and beautiful buildings.

Sure, let's go in there, what's the worst that can happen

No need for the gun if you follow the nun

'How to focus on writing your book' original drawing. This and a few other artworks are now up at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined. “What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

Not sure how much reach this will get, but I'm going to give it a try. Publishing friends, I really need to find some additional work as a copy editor or proofreader. Ideally for SFF, because that's been my bread and butter for almost a decade, but I would consider other opportunities as well.

You shouldn't care because it might happen to you someday. You should care because it is happening to others RIGHT NOW.

Gotta check the perimeter

NOPE . as your online auntie don’t you ever You fight circumstances, fight misunderstandings, hell god and the elements but the minute you have to fight for love DIP That means there is a winner and a loser And nobody who puts you in that situation intends to lose So they want you to

Help

favorite dumb comics thing is how some american guy doing too much coke in the 80s would invent a terrible superhero like "sandwich boy" as a joke and then some british guy doing too many sedatives in the 90s would be like "sandwich boy can create a 'reality sandwich' and is thus a living god"

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

always remember that the NYT was more offended by Jamelle Bouie calling out Nazi sources than they were about *using* Nazi sources.

Good morning 🫡

joke’s on you, I WANT TO LIVE HERE

Thirty years from now when everyone is saying they were always against the genocide in Gaza and always supported trans rights and always supported immigrants and always supported dismantling racism, young people will never believe the backlash faced by people who ACTUALLY supported those things.

Part of living productively and responsibly in a society is not letting other people use your fear as an excuse and a shield to commit violence against other people.

If June has taught us nothing it's the difference between these two images. Maybe.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.