Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

lol

It’s always a good day to remove all things Zuckerborg from your life.

Meta is using revenues from advertising scams to fund its AI push Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show - www.reuters.com/investigatio...

He beat the wrap.

*record scratch, freeze frame* Yep, that's me. I'm probably wondering how I got in this situation and also what the situation is and what's for dinner I hope its hamberbers *fade up: The Who - Baba O'Riley*

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Hang on - John Nettles was Paul in The Liver Birds?

There's no Alt-Text, so here: A US Congresswoman sits at a folding table in a marble hall. A large oaktag(?) sign hangs off the table. It reads: MIKE JOHNSON is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files. CHANGE MY MIND

RIP :(

A last shout for my Apollo piece on the demolition of the East Wing and the coming Trump ballroom, the third of a loose trilogy of pieces on Trump and classical architecture ...

Pondering life's important questions: if we hung the boat-maker's axe and the other replica axe on the wall in the snug above the bookshelves, would it put potential buyers off the house?

I call this one ‘Fuck, yeah, windowseat’! (cardboard barrier to keep the cat off while the paint dries)

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

It's publication day!Thrilled to see Gil and Bruegel going out into the world with so many kind words. buff.ly/vbnyB0Y “Tender, vivid, subtle and absorbing” Elizabeth Fremantle “Beautifully written, gorgeous to look at and very moving” Elizabeth Buchan “A triumph of a novel” Essie Fox

Am officially a year older and wiser than yesterday (allegedly) so of course I’ve spent the morning in my PJs browsing on a selection of truffles. Next I’m going to put a final FINAL coat of paint on the windowseat (because I can’t not), then I’m going to update the cursed novella*.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

well, at least there's this electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This is a superb piece of research journalism by @skynewsrss.bsky.social. It confirms pretty much everything we feared about the malign influence of Musk and 'X' on UK political discourse. The UK Government should be calling the platform and its owner out for what they are and leave it immediately.

genres are a lie perpetuated by big taxonomy become unknowable

Great course - can heartily recommend.

The aurora app got really excited last night so I ventured outside shortly before 1 a.m. to find 99% cloud cover (although the night was bright enough to distinguish colour), a glimpse of the full moon, and the ash tree having an everlasting bad hair day.

So far they’ve discovered “purest green”.

Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice

Today's word is COLOR. Today's quote from the new ebook edition of SUMMON THE KEEPER, a 1998 contemporary fantasy about people who close the holes between worlds and the cats who have to keep reminding them that the food bowl is empty. There's no point in saving the world if the cat is starving.

Today’s audiobook is The Picture of Dorian Gray. So far I’m team Boris (the artist).

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads). us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

That tawdry xmas ad from the fizzy drinks manufacturer only makes sense if - stay with me here - you read it as POST APOCALYPTIC SNOWPIERCER FANFIC.

The terrible thing is that it probably took them as long to create this AI slop nonsense as it would have to create a proper commercial, having to edit, fix and edit together thousands of different slop outputs into something that still looks shit.

This is excellent reading.

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'colour' #BookQW #Booksky Whatever this bear-dog-ape thing might be, it seems to know how to make Dan Mackmain see red. The Green Man's Holiday is now available. Check Wizard's Tower Press for links to your preferred retailer. wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

UK readers - we understand our distributors are currently having trouble with getting our books ordered through independent book shops. P&P included direct from us via this link while stocks last! www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social

So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.

It's Book Quote Wednesday, and today the word is "colour" (or "color", if you prefer). Because it's only 13 days until The Dead Man is out, let's have a quote from that, and we're talking about how mages perceive magic in the Mennik Thorn series. books2read.com/thedeadman #BookQW #Booksky

This is gold. I promise it's safe to click.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

"Hush, Horatio. Did you not hear the Dark Lord's call? Go now and summon the others, for it is the time of The Reaping. Soon we shall be bathing in the blood of our enemies." "I don't know, Max. I'm pretty sure that was just a can opener."

1. A broken box on a chair. 2. A brief struggle for possession. 3. An uneasy truce. Idiots.

Nik's job keeps taking him to places he'd really rather not be in The Dead Man, out in just two week's time! Have you pre-ordered yet? books2read.com/thedeadman

I'm not Scottish enough to make a "War and Piece" gag. But somebody should.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

just....enjoy this

Every time that Guardian message pops up about needing financial support from readers, I’m reminded how much better placed we all might be to do that if they hadn’t run so many false anti-Labour stories ahead of the 2019 General election which brought us The Liar Johnson and his oven-ready brexshit.

I concur. FUCK AI!!!