★★★★ A fun and fact-filled trip through Eighties pop: Justin Lewis: Into the Groove is a welcome follow up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/justin...

Ok, now you have my interest in this whole NY mayor thing. If you've done a rap video alongside the author of my most-stained, thumbed and used recipe book (Curry Easy Vegetarian), then I'm going to be well-disposed towards you.

So hey, let’s start off 2025 maybe making somebody’s life better in a small tangible way. What is a small practical thing—object, lifehack, whatever—that solved a small annoyance for you? For me, did you know you can buy clips with elastic specifically to hold the corner of your fitted sheet on?

I didn't know this music at all, but I love this artwork (by Sinéad Smyth) and now I'm listening to it as well and it's also v lovely and evocative so that's nice

This is the only Christmas thread you need

Time to be mesmerised by a dangerous storm. earth.nullschool.net

My top 10 SFF of the year are up at @nytimes.com today, with one notable lacuna because I only managed to read it after I filed, so take it from me that METAL FROM HEAVEN absolutely belongs on this list & would have been if I had my shit more together, demonstrating why lists should be taken w/salt

Rendlesham. A coach trip from London to the uncanny. Saturday 28 December 2024. Booking now. minimumlabyrinth.org

Hey, @maryrobinette.bsky.social is on the latest episode of _The Allusionist_ talking about animal communications. It's a fascinating subject. Well worth your time. www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

So Wired Magazine did a profile of me! www.wired.com/story/murder...

Gorgeous. 'Yellow Trees and Boulders in Landscape' by Emerson Everett Glass.

Tickets now on sale for this year's coach trip from London to Rendlesham Forest on Saturday 28 December 2024. Book online at minimumlabyrinth.org. Possibly the most atmospheric, immersive experience we've ever created. A journey back in time to 1980. A pub lunch. And Britain's answer to Roswell.

Rich Cochrane's haunting soundtrack to Bluebird is now on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A gorgeous bowl made by Gaby Kingham from Lee Green Open Studios.