Justin Lee Anderson
@justinleeanderson.com
Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social #Edinburgh, @afc.co.uk and @scottishgreens.org
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If you’ve read the first three books of The Eidyn Saga and want to read more about all the left-wing politics / societal inspirations and metaphors that underlie it, there’s a discord for that: discord.gg/GhQT8cUBE
How I'm walking out of 2025
December 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How I'm walking out of 2025
If you’ve read the first three books of The Eidyn Saga and want to read more about all the left-wing politics / societal inspirations and metaphors that underlie it, there’s a discord for that: discord.gg/GhQT8cUBE
December 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you’ve read the first three books of The Eidyn Saga and want to read more about all the left-wing politics / societal inspirations and metaphors that underlie it, there’s a discord for that: discord.gg/GhQT8cUBE
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I need to find someone else who has read The Damned King by @justinleeanderson.com because I am having a moment of "Okay, but if that's how it goes, what was even the point of everything before the last 50 pages?!?" Book four is due in July, so it's not REALLY the end, but ... #reading #booksky
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I need to find someone else who has read The Damned King by @justinleeanderson.com because I am having a moment of "Okay, but if that's how it goes, what was even the point of everything before the last 50 pages?!?" Book four is due in July, so it's not REALLY the end, but ... #reading #booksky
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Labour-leaning friends, & your Labour MPs:
What will it take for you to say ‘I do not support this’?
You’re supposed to be better than this.
There is no compassion in this Labour government.
What will it take for you to say ‘I do not support this’?
You’re supposed to be better than this.
There is no compassion in this Labour government.
Go to prisonersforpalestine.org to support the campaign
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Labour-leaning friends, & your Labour MPs:
What will it take for you to say ‘I do not support this’?
You’re supposed to be better than this.
There is no compassion in this Labour government.
What will it take for you to say ‘I do not support this’?
You’re supposed to be better than this.
There is no compassion in this Labour government.
There will come a day in the future when these people are looked back on like misogynists of the 1920s, white supremacists of the 1960s, and homophobes of the 1980s. Preferably sooner rather than later.
Judge Alexander Kemp faces mounting criticism over 314-page judgment in NHS Fife trans row after multiple mistakes and allegations he may have misused AI
Calls to investigate ‘errors and AI’ in Sandie Peggie ruling
Judge Alexander Kemp faces mounting criticism over 314-page judgment in NHS Fife trans row after multiple mistakes and allegations he may have misused AI
www.thetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
There will come a day in the future when these people are looked back on like misogynists of the 1920s, white supremacists of the 1960s, and homophobes of the 1980s. Preferably sooner rather than later.
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It makes me glad to see Rob Reiner is being praised not just for his amazing movies but for his activism as well. Not just for amazing art but for being a good person.
But hey, enough of my yakkin’.
But hey, enough of my yakkin’.
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It makes me glad to see Rob Reiner is being praised not just for his amazing movies but for his activism as well. Not just for amazing art but for being a good person.
But hey, enough of my yakkin’.
But hey, enough of my yakkin’.
Never done one of these before, but seeing quite a few of them, so what the hell? If you're thinking about the best things you read this year, here's two to consider that you might want to, I dunno, say nice things about over Christmas dinner, or remember come awards nominations next year! :)
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Never done one of these before, but seeing quite a few of them, so what the hell? If you're thinking about the best things you read this year, here's two to consider that you might want to, I dunno, say nice things about over Christmas dinner, or remember come awards nominations next year! :)
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I really sometimes have to wonder, do people know that other people are also people? Even if they have different skin colours or come from far away? You know they’re still, like, human beings, right? You’re still supposed to care if they live or die. Do you know that?
December 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I really sometimes have to wonder, do people know that other people are also people? Even if they have different skin colours or come from far away? You know they’re still, like, human beings, right? You’re still supposed to care if they live or die. Do you know that?
Huge love to the victims and their loved ones at Brown University and Bondi Beach today.
December 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Huge love to the victims and their loved ones at Brown University and Bondi Beach today.
19. Never had an AOL address.
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
19. Never had an AOL address.
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Please take the time this weekend to make a complaint to the BBC.
This is getting intolerable.
This is getting intolerable.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Please take the time this weekend to make a complaint to the BBC.
This is getting intolerable.
This is getting intolerable.
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Doing some cute calligraphy
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Doing some cute calligraphy
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I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Saw Blair Witch on Halloween and there was a guy in a Scream mask dotting about the audience beforehand. Great atmosphere. Also, Endgame, where the audience was electric and I may have shouted “Yes!” out loud when Cap caught Mjolnir.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Saw Blair Witch on Halloween and there was a guy in a Scream mask dotting about the audience beforehand. Great atmosphere. Also, Endgame, where the audience was electric and I may have shouted “Yes!” out loud when Cap caught Mjolnir.
Glass Onion said “Fuck Elon Musk, he’s a moron”. Wake Up Dead Man says “Fuck manipulative MAGA and the hypocritical Christian Right.” I think Rian and I can be friends.
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Glass Onion said “Fuck Elon Musk, he’s a moron”. Wake Up Dead Man says “Fuck manipulative MAGA and the hypocritical Christian Right.” I think Rian and I can be friends.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
*Too* niche, apparently! 😆
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
*Too* niche, apparently! 😆
December 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.
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The Project Hanuman audio book is out next week on the 16th. It's narrated by the really very excellent Zehra Jane Naqvi who hit the tone perfectly
I'm very excited, so here's a preview from the first chapter. Available wherever you get your audiobooks #audiobook #scifi @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
I'm very excited, so here's a preview from the first chapter. Available wherever you get your audiobooks #audiobook #scifi @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Project Hanuman audio book is out next week on the 16th. It's narrated by the really very excellent Zehra Jane Naqvi who hit the tone perfectly
I'm very excited, so here's a preview from the first chapter. Available wherever you get your audiobooks #audiobook #scifi @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
I'm very excited, so here's a preview from the first chapter. Available wherever you get your audiobooks #audiobook #scifi @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
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December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
I mean, nobody’s going while this regime is in place anyway, but just in case anybody was thinking about it… 😐
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I mean, nobody’s going while this regime is in place anyway, but just in case anybody was thinking about it… 😐