New Mgla single out, album must be coming soon. I've been waiting all year for this 🖤🤘🏿

Reform's accusation that Starmer is inciting violence by referring to some of their policies as racist would be hilarious and ironic if it weren't actually just a sad reflection of how far political discourse has fallen into the gutter

Slowly on my way back 💪

The Crystal Palace Park sphinxes looking on with the indifferent bemusement of the ancients as work progresses below on the restoration of the terraces

Well, now I want an edition of The Hobbit with Tove Jansson’s illustrations. www.blackgate.com/2025/05/28/t...

Was in central London today with the kids. Passed a guy in a mayhem t-shirt pushing a pram. I was wearing an Ulver t-shirt. A glance and a smile said it all

Listening to Sweetheart of the Rodeo (possibly best album of all time IMO). My 4yo asks "daddy why does that man have a broken heart?" 💔

One of my favourite things about Bluesky is watching @michaelwhelan.bsky.social post all my favourite book covers and talk about his process and feelings about them. What an absolute legend ❤️

JFC Labour. Fix the economy, get growth going, get the NHS running better (waiting times etc), process immigration cases more efficiently under current rules. Shut up about immigration and get on with what those who voted for you want, not what you imagine the electorate will want in 3 years

Bravo

Why is everyone talking about the rapture on here

Gotta get off ILR into citizenship before the next election. Hmm but knowing Farage and his ilk I'll be safe because I'm a gainfully employed white man that isn't very "other"

Every week BBC reports all kinds of details about the maybe someday policies of Reform and it makes the headlines like it's actually happening. No wonder opinion polls show them so high. Would be nice to hear a little more about, idk, the government's policies? Next election is years away after all

Used the magimix slicing disc attachment for the first time today. To slice onions. I beheld the precision of the result with tears in my eyes. Beautiful

The better I get at "roast potatoes" the closer I come to an uncomfortable truth: we are frying them under the cover of oven cookery. No regrets

Oh fuck, you're still sad? buff.ly/Sj0VQJ8 Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us. (Everything Is An Emergency, by Bess Stillman)

Just realised that once my pre-order of No Life Forsaken arrives my Steven Erikson shelf will spill over into a second shelf by one book. Most unsatisfactory

Someone on the AWS billing team is stupid like a fox.

It's so so so so gooooooood

First time in about 18 months that I've run anywhere other than laps of the park across the street. Back to Crystal Palace Park, where I love to run. I can now declare this long couch-to-5k period over and just go running, cautiously. The knee feels good

@sentimentbot.bsky.social 👋

Chris Philp on World at One today talking about the now-axed Rwanda policy and referring to Australian success with stopping the boats 12yrs so. As someone who lived there at the time I was and am ashamed at the country's treatment of refugees. There was international outrage. Wtf r u talking about

Because no software is sophisticated enough to tell one small, scared, balding, middle aged, angry British man from another

We feel guilty about it, but we do enjoy a bit of chaos

New "Der Weg einer Freiheit" album! Don't know how I feel about it yet after just one listen. It's very them, but different, which is also very them. #blackmetal

More unsolicited fantasy book reviews! This time "The Riddle-Master of Hed" by the late Patricia McKillip. It's the first in a trilogy, this volume first published in 1976. She has won loads of awards. This trilogy appears in Gollancz's Fantasy Masterworks collection. I liked it.

No thrones, no crowns, no kings? Personally I'd rather see no borders, no nations, no presidents 🤷‍♀️

In a moment of indecision between books I picked up Deadhouse Gates again. There is so much in here on a re-read 🤯

It wouldn't be a Sunday roast without me burning something

Article about my favourite band, Summoning, on ultimate guitar: www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/fea...

"'Poetry in motion' - how pole vaulter Duplantis inches higher and higher" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/... 🆙📈

Lunch today: Punjabi chole 🌶️

Me back at work today after two weeks off

Best shot I managed of the blood moon super moon lunar eclipse moon tonight in London

The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.

PSA: it's Italian week at Lidl

“I’m not sure I want to give way to the right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

My wife is going back to uni. She got invited to the student group chat and IT'S ON SNAPCHAT 😂😂😂😭

Unfortunately I think showing division and raising tension is their goal 😭😭😭 From www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The youngest slept through the night last night for the first time 🥳

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...

"the importance of shadow in malazan... this isn't just about compassion" - new video out by A Critical Dragon aka AP Canavan. Can't think of a video I've learned more about malazan from than this. Nice to see AP putting out content again ❤️ youtu.be/Hug0OQavNUk?...

Trailer for the Red Sonja remake is out. Doomed for oblivion I suppose but fantasy fans have come to expect that, even if they're good (eg the DnD movie). Looks suitably ridiculous, think it'll be fun. www.polygon.com/red-sonja-19...

With Reform UK saying it would be reasonable to pay the Taliban to return migrants to Afghanistan, how many Britons this would be acceptable? Acceptable: 17% Unacceptable: 61% % acceptable by party Reform: 35% Con: 23% Lab/Lib Dem: 7-13% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

What to read next? I have a paper book on the go so I'm choosing my next audiobook. Next Wurts & Cook are paper only so they're out. It's either more Hobb, start Gene Wolfe, Donaldson, Tad Williams or Feist + Wurts.

More unsolicited fantasy book reviews! I took so long to get around to writing a review of Royal Assassin that I've now finished Assassin's Quest so I'm going to review them both together. This is obviously books 2&3 of the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. Here goes!

Whenever you meet a king early on in a fantasy novel you know they're gonna die soon and there will be some non-trivial issues with the succession

Every comeback has to start somewhere 🏃‍♀️🤕👵

In case you didn't know, a PSA:, No Life Forsaken, Steven Erikson's new book in the Witness trilogy, is available for pre-order. Ships October 25

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