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If only someone had written a really gay sci-fi horror book built around the central theme of how nostalgia is a weapon wielded by a fascistic and capitalist state Anyway, read PROPHET. Me and @hjm.bsky.social are super proud of it.

Hanging out at Barrett’s with Xtin

Napoleon Bonaparte box set! "Each in a color that evokes an event in the emperor's life"

They've lost the 9yos

This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight

ah I see Farage has invoked the old swan chestnut

I am calling for a moratorium on new tote bags. We all have more than enough tote bags already. Stop giving me tote bags at conferences. I do not want or need any more tote bags.

In PROPHET, @sinblache.bsky.social and I took great delight in making our villains as two-dimensional and frankly awful as they are irl

“The computer acts like a computer” is such a profound and such a mundane result, all at once. It’s far more shocking that reasonable-sounding people have argued that massive datasets contain within them a secret truth that only will be revealed by… multinomial logits

Thanks to bff Xtin for alerting me to this joyous photoset

We eating dessert out of the demon core. (Don’t sleep on Bakea in Mungia, once they get a Michelin star you’ll never be able to get in)

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

I heard "unfortunately you can't not do this thing in fiction" & have been determinedly not doing it since

quentin blake, photojournalist

Re: last RT. See also: Frank O’Hara

But most of all, I loved how Redford held a phone. How he righted wrongs with a phone. How he made holding a phone so fucking sexy, so morally righteous.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

cApItALism BReeDS inNovATIOn

Storm over Surbiton

My brother just filmed this over surbiton oh my GOD

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

This is an extremely plausible dream for me to be in. 10/10

The second pair of pinholes from the Radio Telescope. Understanding that exposure was steady at about 25 seconds allowed me to start fiddling about with bit of glass in front of the pinhole. More in ALT I’d like to take photos that look like what the object does, or what the object sounds like.

Snorky *shudder*

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

rantch

apparently, yesterday was National Hummingbird Day, and it reminded me of something I saved off the other place a few years ago - someone (I’ve lost who, sorry) made this KC-135 Hummingbird feeder! It got me thinking about a fighter-sized bird.. 1/3

Forget "policemen look young" I've now reached the age where I'll chat to some fresh-faced person at a film festival, assume they have some junior role, then find out they're a studio head.

list of things that don't make anyone else think of anything else

Graham Greene, bungling literary futurist.

I’m very pleased to announce that my new Curlew #linocut prints are now available! - limited edition of 10 prints - handmade original art - plant-based inks - no AI involved! - A4 size paper, easy to frame - ready to send to you now in plastic-free packaging. Head over to katiefullerart.etsy.com

What do the virtual pet games of my childhood have to do with the ethics of being mean to LLM chatbots? Arguably, a lot, as I explore in my latest piece on cute virtual dogs, AI-powered waifus, and campaigns against (digital) animal abuse:

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

I'm reading Prophet by Helen Macdonald and @sinblache.bsky.social and they appear to tricked me by hiding a dysfunctional gay romance inside an episode of The X-Files, and frankly more of you should be doing the same.

Me, at the time: well now this is a commendably smooth and well-organised group photo session; I suppose film people are really good at taking direction. Me, now: WTF I AM IN THIS PHOTO

This has perked me up.

Really makes you think.

Also this gorgeous Puffin paper bag

A rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol. September 24, 1941, Phoenix.

This is amazing. I love crop art

H IS FOR HAWK PREMIERE in TWO MINUTES aaaaaaaaaaa

Holy shit palisade peaches 🍑 I had no idea they were so delicious I am FURIOUS

What’s with Colorado and tents

So THRILLED am on my way to Colorado this very moment theplaylist.net/2025-telluri...

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂