Richard K Morgan
@quellist1.bsky.social
Ageing futurist, still commits occasional fantasy. Novels, games, comics, streaming TV. "The High Priest of Violent Science Fiction" - Guardian
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Down in that there London….
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Down in that there London….
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
My (perhaps unkind) thought is that if this is genuinely giving the writers a headache, then they need to hire better writers.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My (perhaps unkind) thought is that if this is genuinely giving the writers a headache, then they need to hire better writers.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
If I could give one message to my son going off to university (which, at 14, he's still a ways off doing), it would be this -
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If I could give one message to my son going off to university (which, at 14, he's still a ways off doing), it would be this -
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
In return for which, he will presumably hypnotise Putin’s girlfriend into growing larger breasts…..
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
"It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In return for which, he will presumably hypnotise Putin’s girlfriend into growing larger breasts…..
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
So, eighty odd hours later.........
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So, eighty odd hours later.........
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Oh FFS!
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh FFS!
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
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In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
Zack Polanski IS the British Left’s Nigel Farage.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Zack Polanski wants to be the British left’s Nigel Farage www.politico.eu/article/zack...
Zack Polanski wants to be the British left’s Nigel Farage
The eco-populist aims to beat Reform UK’s charismatic leader at his own game.
www.politico.eu
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Zack Polanski IS the British Left’s Nigel Farage.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Or - this is an oligarchy hellbent on inciting the public anger flashpoint that will allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act before the midterms and cement their grip on power for a generation or more.
Honestly, I would *love* to believe they’re just careless people, but…….
Honestly, I would *love* to believe they’re just careless people, but…….
‘They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.’
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Or - this is an oligarchy hellbent on inciting the public anger flashpoint that will allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act before the midterms and cement their grip on power for a generation or more.
Honestly, I would *love* to believe they’re just careless people, but…….
Honestly, I would *love* to believe they’re just careless people, but…….
Veins of Autumn -
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Veins of Autumn -
And as Halloween approaches, we bring you actual footage of Tim Homan, Kirsti Noem, Stephen Miller and Robert F Kennedy Junior crossing into the Chicago city limits......
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And as Halloween approaches, we bring you actual footage of Tim Homan, Kirsti Noem, Stephen Miller and Robert F Kennedy Junior crossing into the Chicago city limits......
Fun bit of news -
Prepare for Your Voyage Beyond the Black Ocean — Warcradle Studios
As our Studio team has continued to grow and go from strength to strength, we feel like we’re in the right place to do Firestorm Armada justice. You heard us correctly, Firestorm Armada is now under a...
blog.warcradle.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fun bit of news -
Adios Madrid…..hasta pronto!
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Adios Madrid…..hasta pronto!
Appears my 14 year old son has adjusted perfectly to Spanish dining.
Breakfast -
Breakfast -
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Appears my 14 year old son has adjusted perfectly to Spanish dining.
Breakfast -
Breakfast -
Super annoying fucker too…
For verily I say unto you that whenever two or three of you SF writers are gathered together, there shall one of you pitch a great idea for a tale, and yea, the others shall shake their heads and say “Nah, Dick already did that in a short story in 1967” 😡
For verily I say unto you that whenever two or three of you SF writers are gathered together, there shall one of you pitch a great idea for a tale, and yea, the others shall shake their heads and say “Nah, Dick already did that in a short story in 1967” 😡
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Super annoying fucker too…
For verily I say unto you that whenever two or three of you SF writers are gathered together, there shall one of you pitch a great idea for a tale, and yea, the others shall shake their heads and say “Nah, Dick already did that in a short story in 1967” 😡
For verily I say unto you that whenever two or three of you SF writers are gathered together, there shall one of you pitch a great idea for a tale, and yea, the others shall shake their heads and say “Nah, Dick already did that in a short story in 1967” 😡
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Man…that guy is such a workaholic.
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Man…that guy is such a workaholic.
For those who argue there nothing new under the sun, I give you -
Tiramasake!
Tiramasake!
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For those who argue there nothing new under the sun, I give you -
Tiramasake!
Tiramasake!
Well, the woman does have form.
I mean, she'd already married Edgar the Bug from Men in Black, so you can only be so surprised at any further lapses in judgment.
I mean, she'd already married Edgar the Bug from Men in Black, so you can only be so surprised at any further lapses in judgment.
Hines walked into her first meeting with Donald Trump very skeptical and walked out a true believer.
Cheryl Hines Reveals How She Fell Under Trump’s Spell
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star detailed how she became entranced by Donald Trump the first time they met.
trib.al
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well, the woman does have form.
I mean, she'd already married Edgar the Bug from Men in Black, so you can only be so surprised at any further lapses in judgment.
I mean, she'd already married Edgar the Bug from Men in Black, so you can only be so surprised at any further lapses in judgment.
just a sliver of moon with your sunset, sir?
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
just a sliver of moon with your sunset, sir?
Death stares at me from the walls of……hmm, Avila, actually…… #feelinLorca
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Death stares at me from the walls of……hmm, Avila, actually…… #feelinLorca
More seriously dramatic local skies - in this case somehow turning the monastery of EL Escorial from a hulking immobile stone fortress into some vast, lithic battleship crashing its prow and conning tower through the waves of an earthen ocean in mid storm…….
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
More seriously dramatic local skies - in this case somehow turning the monastery of EL Escorial from a hulking immobile stone fortress into some vast, lithic battleship crashing its prow and conning tower through the waves of an earthen ocean in mid storm…….