How about an uplifting book for these trying times? Here are three copies of The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. Please enjoy. #KindleBookGiveaway www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Yep. Can’t say it better.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. More investigation is needed but still, the finds are incredibly exciting. buff.ly/Rq90dvU #ShareGoodNewsToo

Dem infighting is surging today so please remember this circle: 1) Calls to electeds in volume move the needle 2) Visit @runforsomething.net to run or support progressives 3) Apply purity tests during primaries 4) YOU CAN'T GOVERN IF YOU DON'T WIN. Go help win the general election. 5) Repeat

Now that it is cold and wet is a good time to help homeless folks near you. You can do the bare minimum and help one person.

Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood. By treating the mountain as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/gMsVXRW #ShareGoodNewsToo

If you support eating-- or at least TAXING-- billionaires, please pick up a copy. Buy a copy for an angry friend. It's short, punchy, stabby, brutal. It's cathartic. It's fun. It's only $2, which is less than a gallon of gas bc, again, BILLIONAIRES. Link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763731...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

It's been already 10 years since Alan Rickman left us, but his talent is still sorely missed.

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Just finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by @jasonkpargin.bsky.social. Fast paced, funny, a blast to read, with some interesting thoughts thrown in. Fun! Recommended!

Reminder to those who want to see LESS content about (fill in blank) and/or MORE about (fill in blank): One of the reasons Bluesky remains my go-to social media platform is because of all the ways we can control what I see and don't see. Some #BlueskyTips: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...

Winter Glossary Acedia: a melancholic sluggishness of mind/body Clinomania: a desire to stay in bed Apricity: the warmth of the sun on a cold day Latibulize: to retire into a den & lie dormant for the winter Abibliophobia: a fear of running out of reading material

Here's a lovely post (and video link) from Catherine Munro about Shetland ponies in winter. I highly recommend her lovely book The Ponies at the End of the World. Our Dartmoor ponies are tough and weather-wise too, but winters here are not so fierce!

I understand reading is on the decline in the United States. Maybe this will help! :)

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

The New Year's Party Continues! Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/StNiGd0

I love a good mystery and hope you do too. Ten copies available for U.S. readers of The Agatha Christie Collection for Kindle here in this #KindleBookGiveaway: www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... 1/

I love to curl up with a good mystery. I hope you do as well! A U.S. #KindleBookGiveaway for you today - three copies of The Agatha Christie Collection. Enjoy! www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

Forgot the critical element of this post. Learning, always learning. ##KindleBookGiveaway www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

That was fun! So many thanks to @tembrooke.bsky.social and @kithrup.bsky.social for the instructions and inspiration. Here are two more copies - enjoy! www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Doing my first U.S. #KindleBookGiveaway -- here are 3 copies of the first book I finished this year, The Secret Book Society: A Novel, by Madeline Martin. www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

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Let's do another U.S. #KindleBookGiveaway -- here are 3 copies of one of my go-to comfort books, Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

In September, The Lancet released a report: since 2010, humanity’s total burden of illness and early death has dropped by 12.6 percent, driven by declining deaths from the world's deadliest infectious diseases: all down by between 25 and 49 percent. buff.ly/2Jeoldi #ShareGoodNewsToo

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"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect." ~ Rob Reiner

That’s awesome! 🎉 Nothing beats diving into a new story! 📚✨ Can't wait to check it out! Keep up the amazing work! #WritingCommunity #SFF 💖

SFF QoTD: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." Source: The Peripheral by William Gibson 🚀🔮🌌 #BookSky #Scifi

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

I am only just finishing chapter 3 of There Is No Antimemetics Division and I’m prepared on this basis alone to say: it’s superb. even if the rest of it is just shopping lists and tax documentation, it’s already some of the most interesting and exciting sci-fi I’ve ever read

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The e-book of THE BRIGHT SWORD is currently $4.99 at Bookshop.org. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Streaming Sci Fi TV: Pluto TV Has Farscape, Stargate: SG-1, The Twilight Zone, and More Streaming On Demand for Free (with Ads) www.cancelledscifi.com/2025/12/08/p...

A somewhat shorter -- though not sweeter -- GIFTS FOR WRITERS this year, over at the blog.

As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors! Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

Heartbreaking, in all the best ways. You have 5 minutes, go and read it.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Moose Grizzly bear Antelope Fox Wolf

Wow.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen- Jackson Browne Yes The Eagles The Rolling Stones Peter Frampton

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My energy, always.

This coming Thursday I am at Waterstones Gower Street talking 10 years of Children of Time with Temi Oh. www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...