European smoking health warnings hit different, Exhibit A: Toddler Putin contemplates death

One thing I’ve learnt across the years, folklore is often the land’s long memory. The ghost soil of place holds our collective stories like a battery. It discharges them as mystery to be encountered, as wonder. – Dr. M. Benn, Woden College, University of Weychester, 1982 #Folklore #LandscapePunk

I don't think it's a coincidence that Peter Thiel wrote his infamous 2009 libertarian manifesto six months after Barack Obama and Democrats swept into power. badfaithtimes.com/peter-thiel-...

@bookishsff.bsky.social Hello! I wondered if this might float your boat (and if so it's now on Gardners and returnable) bsky.app/profile/bens...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

The absolute state of this. www.thegua rdian.com/business/2026/mar/08/great-britain-has-only-two-days-of-gas-stored-as-iran-war-disrupts-supplies Further down the article, “It is categorically untrue that the UK only has access to two days of gas supply." What are you playing at @theguardian.com ?

Ah yes, just like that time that Farage made the 'mistake'of saying he'd take up a rifle if Brexit was stopped. After all, who among us has not made the common mistake of threatening gun violence?

Share a TV show that raised you (Also explains everything I've written since) #BookSky #WritingCommunity

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Everything is connected, everything is one www.popularmechanics.com/science/a703...

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

Charles Darwin: studied everything, hated every last bit.

Quelle surprise

A better world has always been possible but a handful of immoral rich old white guys don't want to relinquish their 2000-year-old grip

Absolutely amazing "angry/ bemused local man" photo journalism here: www.mylondon.news/news/transpo... cc @apiln.bsky.social The judge wig was quite the choice.

For all their banging on about protecting women and girls, Farage and Reform have been remarkably quiet in the last few days.

The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.

I know what we're supposed to do with that knowledge. We're supposed to root them out of power, protest, clamour, and prosecute every last immoral exploiter. We need to make being a billionaire socially unacceptable, and tax them out of existence.

The conspiracy has always been in plain sight - wealthy, immoral assholes trying to cut up the world and sell it to their wealthy, immoral chums, piece by piece.

PSA

If you've got Kindle unlimited you can now read my book for free (or just £5 if your Kindle remains tethered) #BookSky #WritingCommunity

If you've got Kindle unlimited you can now read my book for free (or just £5 if your Kindle remains tethered) #BookSky #WritingCommunity

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Remember all those hateful and completely incompetent goons we all sacked the last government over? Well now they work for Nigel Farage.

I have a massive collection of (pretty much all of the) X-Men tpbs going from about 1990-now, it is starting to be a problem, I cannot fit another bookshelf in my flat #nerd

@elizabethchap.bsky.social Hi Elizabeth! Would it be okay if I DM you about a work thing please?

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Very exciting to be able to say "You can order my book from any Waterstones or Foyles now" www.waterstones.com/book/atlanti... #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Very exciting to be able to say "You can order my book from any Waterstones or Foyles now" www.waterstones.com/book/atlanti... #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Just a small number of books have arrived 🤦‍♂️might build a fort?

No part of me is surprised but all of me is enraged

Been meaning to post some #WIPsnips from the children's book I'm working on, and this snippet seems pretty apt for #Thanksgiving #BookSky #WritingCommunity

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

OPTIMISM

I've long believed that consciousness is the logical underlying root of the universe and that this the only thing that makes sense of psychic phenomena... so it's exciting to see a scientist finally propose just that: phys.org/news/2025-11...

Fairly obviously we should do this: 38d.gs/bojo_all_df ...and then fire him out of a cannon.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Do you like books, #mythology, weird shamanic powers, gods, monsters or all of the above? If so you can now buy my novel 'Atlantis: Children of the Gods' which is out today! www.amazon.co.uk/Atlantis-Chi... #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Do you like books, #mythology, weird shamanic powers, gods, monsters or all of the above? If so you can now buy my novel 'Atlantis: Children of the Gods' which is out today! www.amazon.co.uk/Atlantis-Chi... #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Morning, everyone

Just saw an ad from a UK government account on insta that began with a burning bin and thought "surely they can't be this self-aware?!" No. Fire safety ad.

To paraphrase: they know they shouldn’t have included AI answers at the top of search and that it is rapidly devaluing the whole brand, and that other AI tools are better at that job too, but they can’t just remove it because it would be an admission of failure? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

let me be the first to say we should not do a nazi jurassic park

"If we tax the rich they'll leave"

Speaking of gods, I think we're probably close enough in time for me to be able to reveal this, the kick-ass cover of my first book which is coming out VERY SOON INDEED NOW