Hello lovely bluesky #kidlituk if you have read and enjoyed Murder at Christmas, please could you give it a decent score on the river site. Currently struggling against a 2 * review, cos my books are written in present tense. 🤔

It’s happening! @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social are offering signed copies of SOME BODY LIKE ME! And they ship everywhere and anywhere. Snag yours now! wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some... 🩵🤖

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Maybe you'd like 30 seconds of Leon purring? Maybe you would.

I finished her and she is so darling

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

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The Government (in the form of the Competitions & Markets Authority) have dropped an investigation into collusion between 7 of the biggest housebuilding companies, which shared info on sales & offers, after receiving a £100m payment. Full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

I worked harder on this book than any before it. My ex-publisher then failed to pay me what they owed me for it & did their best to ruin its chances of survival. That robbed me of a year of my life & ruined my health. After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

It's Remembrance Sunday and let's remember that the black and brown people fought and died as part of the Allies too. In my new novel - Nate Yu's Blast From the Past I feature a ghost from the Chinese Labour Corp because it was important for me to tell readers about this often untold history.

Was in Lidl during the 2 mins silence today, only clocked it due to a staff member running down the aisle shouting 'Two minutes silence!' with all the confidence of someone who knows we are all looking at tat in the middle aisle. Two mins silence occurs. 90% of shop continues chatting about scented

This is all I've got

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I'm proud to announce my latest pin design! These are for everyone with split pronouns who gets tired of people only referring to them one way. My lenticular pin shows different pronouns at different angles! Please share with anyone who might like one 💖 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4396... #SciArt

'I was just about to drop off, when suddenly, 'tap, tap, tap' at the window, you know who it was? Bleedin' Ozymandias! Stark naked save for a cold sneering visage. He was hanging on the window sill, I could see his trunkless legs all white, saying 'Peter, look upon my works, Peter, and despair!'

As a Welsh rugby fan, it is truly strange to be thinking 'gosh Joe Marler's a bit bloody brilliant' and yet #CelebrityTraitors

Was the #CelebrityTraitors first 'yourself'? le gasp

*macca voice* Ozymandias Legs over there but his body is here in the sand Sneer of command. Look at his works, kings. Not much is left of his power and glorious reign. Nothing remains

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look on my works, ye Mighty, and

Once upon a desert sandy As through winds the trav'ling man he Spied the face of Ozymandy Lying, simply lying there Suddenly there was some writing Pon the plinth that he was sighting That the sand and time were blighting Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.

I can't believe this is real. But it is.

I wrote a piece last week about how the Far Right since Trump/Brexit have normalised discussing in public previously unacceptable things. Tonight’s Peston show: “Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black and Asian people a racist or realist?”

Reminder that food banks have the ability to buy food in bulk and can make the most out of the economy of scale so cash (if you have it) is always preferred. But also, they're not going to say no to your pantry items. 💚

Can confirm, the degree to which research has gotten wildly harder in the last decade is huge. I'd be sunk if I hadn't compiled my massive Moore/Morrison interview database when I started Last War in Albion. That shit simply wouldn't be findable now.

Teehee

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Is Charles Emerson Winchester III from M*A*S*H related to Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural? In this 25,978 page fanfiction, I will

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩 Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

I love that every post about Drew Struzan is showing me how many beloved bits of my life beyond the obvious also have his hand on them. That Goonies stalactite hang! The Muppet Christmas Carol!

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

Every past version of you was trying to protect your truth until you could live it safely. That’s not wasted time. That’s loyalty. Transitioning later in life is how you repay that loyalty, by finally giving yourself the freedom you always deserved.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

I did not grow up watching RR but I love that is it this human leading a revival. Joy all round

Apparently what I do in the middle of the night in a sleeping pill fugue is now "create bad little graphics on canva"

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Within the first year of my daughter’s life, the Lionesses have won the Euros and the Red Roses have won the World Cup in front of sell-out crowds and huge tv audiences and it’s so wonderful to know she will grow up thinking that of course women play sport and of course everybody watches it

Final time! Reckon Canada will pull this off but expecting a tight one. I will be cheering them both and generally getting excited.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone wanting to watch the Bronze final of the rugby world cup, it's live on iPlayer and is already dead brilliant. No idea why it's not on terrestrial like every other game has been.

My phone has updated and now the lock screen has a new font and it's different from the home screen font so now I have to put my phone in the bin

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1. Starsky and Hutch (Watsonian or Doylist, you pick) 2. Virginia Woolf 3. History of queer rep in children's books

So much of my childhood was this fuzzy 'that's a joke I don't get, laugh politely'. Only Connect the other week, someone did the Eggbert Nobacon joke and that's when I learned what the joke was, and it wasn't that there was a famous person whose name sounded a bit like Eggbert Nobacon.

Beach rescue