Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
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Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
· Jun 19
Come for the developer journalism, stay for the long running SFF review series, photographs of inner London birding, and well, the randomness of a crapaud in the big city.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
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TODAY ONLY the publisher of the #ebook edition of this antifascist cyberpunk #sf trilogy is offering ALL THREE BOOKS for $3.99. This promotion is to try and interest libraries in the books for their #ebooks stacks but also is today available to anyone. The 3 books are normally 30 dollars!
The Eclipse Trilogy: Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona
The Eclipse Trilogy: Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona - Kindle edition by Shirley, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Eclipse Trilogy: Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona.
www.amazon.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A juvenile common gull takes off from one of the old pier pilings at Point Pleasant, on the Wandle delta.
#birds #birding #gulls #wandle #wandsworth #photography
#birds #birding #gulls #wandle #wandsworth #photography
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A juvenile common gull takes off from one of the old pier pilings at Point Pleasant, on the Wandle delta.
#birds #birding #gulls #wandle #wandsworth #photography
#birds #birding #gulls #wandle #wandsworth #photography
Well this is tiny…
My Planck 2TB SSD arrived this morning.
My Planck 2TB SSD arrived this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Well this is tiny…
My Planck 2TB SSD arrived this morning.
My Planck 2TB SSD arrived this morning.
Happy "There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen" Day to everyone who celebrates it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Happy "There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen" Day to everyone who celebrates it.
The Hurlingham Club fireworks were quite spectacular tonight, with added lasers.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Hurlingham Club fireworks were quite spectacular tonight, with added lasers.
Recent Reads: The Butcher's Masquerade. The 5th of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series continues the mayhem. As the crawlers are hunted by outside factions, Carl learns more about the system he's going to bring down. The result: a bittersweet level victory. Late-stage capitalism is a bitch.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Recent Reads: The Butcher's Masquerade. The 5th of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series continues the mayhem. As the crawlers are hunted by outside factions, Carl learns more about the system he's going to bring down. The result: a bittersweet level victory. Late-stage capitalism is a bitch.
When you advertise thing, aren’t you meant to name the product?
Spotted on a late-night District line tube.
Spotted on a late-night District line tube.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When you advertise thing, aren’t you meant to name the product?
Spotted on a late-night District line tube.
Spotted on a late-night District line tube.
I rather liked this picture from last night’s @tomrobinson.com gig in Camden. A lovely evening of songs, storytelling, and righteous anger.
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I rather liked this picture from last night’s @tomrobinson.com gig in Camden. A lovely evening of songs, storytelling, and righteous anger.
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Hello, heist fans! This Sunday, Nov. 9, I’m teaching a virtual heist workshop! You can still register today, but you need to hurry!
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hello, heist fans! This Sunday, Nov. 9, I’m teaching a virtual heist workshop! You can still register today, but you need to hurry!
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
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We’re having a blast at the London show- if you’re in the uk you could still catch them!
Tom Robinson, Adam Phillips & Gabrielle Sey playing Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio live on tour - video by Andy Simons youtu.be/w4auXmg1a94
Last 4 shows:
Wed SOUTHAMPTON - The Brook
Thu LONDON - Cecil Sharp House
Fri BIRMINGHAM - MAC
Sat STURMINSTER - Exchange
See: tomrobinson.com/gigs
Last 4 shows:
Wed SOUTHAMPTON - The Brook
Thu LONDON - Cecil Sharp House
Fri BIRMINGHAM - MAC
Sat STURMINSTER - Exchange
See: tomrobinson.com/gigs
Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio (live on tour 2025)
YouTube video by Tom Robinson
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We’re having a blast at the London show- if you’re in the uk you could still catch them!
Off seeing @tomrobinson.com at Cecil Sharpe House. A glorious acoustic set!
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Off seeing @tomrobinson.com at Cecil Sharpe House. A glorious acoustic set!
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we 'met on the net' (and readers, *he* emailed *me* and on discovering we lived in the same town, asked if I'd like to meet up for a drink and we have spent 33 years arguing about if it was a date: peak social media!)
love you @sbisson.com !
love you @sbisson.com !
Thirty three years ago today I made this USENET post. That afternoon I ended up inviting the person who emailed me about it along to a book signing I was going to that evening.
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
Hydrogen and voting
groups.google.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
we 'met on the net' (and readers, *he* emailed *me* and on discovering we lived in the same town, asked if I'd like to meet up for a drink and we have spent 33 years arguing about if it was a date: peak social media!)
love you @sbisson.com !
love you @sbisson.com !
Thirty three years ago today I made this USENET post. That afternoon I ended up inviting the person who emailed me about it along to a book signing I was going to that evening.
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
Hydrogen and voting
groups.google.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thirty three years ago today I made this USENET post. That afternoon I ended up inviting the person who emailed me about it along to a book signing I was going to that evening.
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
We have now been married over 21 years.
Love you @marypcbuk.bsky.social!
groups.google.com/g/alt.callah...
The digital release of Anjuna 25 dropped today. Twenty five years of excellent electronica, shaping up into 142 tracks!
anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/album/anjuna25
anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/album/anjuna25
Anjuna25, by Various Artists
142 track album
anjunabeats.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The digital release of Anjuna 25 dropped today. Twenty five years of excellent electronica, shaping up into 142 tracks!
anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/album/anjuna25
anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/album/anjuna25
#birdoftheday is a #closeup. Here's a fledgling European robin down on the Wandle Delta over the summer. It might be the adult I photographed in the same place last weekend...
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#birdoftheday is a #closeup. Here's a fledgling European robin down on the Wandle Delta over the summer. It might be the adult I photographed in the same place last weekend...
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
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I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
<looks at weather forecast for the rest of the week>
17C on Guy Fawkes? It should be crisp frosts and morning fogs...
What fresh hell have we made?
17C on Guy Fawkes? It should be crisp frosts and morning fogs...
What fresh hell have we made?
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
<looks at weather forecast for the rest of the week>
17C on Guy Fawkes? It should be crisp frosts and morning fogs...
What fresh hell have we made?
17C on Guy Fawkes? It should be crisp frosts and morning fogs...
What fresh hell have we made?
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All of this courtroom drama would’ve been absolutely peak yesterday on national sandwich day
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All of this courtroom drama would’ve been absolutely peak yesterday on national sandwich day
Just buy these. Beyond The Burn Line is the mashup of post-anthropocene fiction with the X Files that you didn't know you needed. But you do.
Ebook editions of my recent novels (Beyond the Burn Line, War of the Maps, Austral etc) are just £2.99 at the moment. Or, so I'm told, $2.99 if yr in the US. Lots of links here:
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk/print.html
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk/print.html
In Print
Book Cover Catalogue
www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just buy these. Beyond The Burn Line is the mashup of post-anthropocene fiction with the X Files that you didn't know you needed. But you do.
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Got any questions about all the latest GitHub, VS Code and Copilot news? Jared Palmer, Pierce Boggan and I will be hosting an AMA tomorrow. Looking forward to chatting with you www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...
From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: AMA on GitHub Universe releases tomorrow (November 5)
Explore this post and more from the GithubCopilot community
www.reddit.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Got any questions about all the latest GitHub, VS Code and Copilot news? Jared Palmer, Pierce Boggan and I will be hosting an AMA tomorrow. Looking forward to chatting with you www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...
Am I weird in realising that the LPth anniversary of @marypcbuk.bsky.social and my first date is within a few days of the 22nd anniversary of our engagement?
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Am I weird in realising that the LPth anniversary of @marypcbuk.bsky.social and my first date is within a few days of the 22nd anniversary of our engagement?
And this is what you'd get if there was bear spray allowed on the Tube. If there hadn't been bear spray in that Walmart, there wouldn't have been a bear.
As cute as the tube mice, but a lot bigger. And it would steal your burgers.
As cute as the tube mice, but a lot bigger. And it would steal your burgers.
Shoppers at the Branson Walmart were stunned after a black bear wandered inside, picked up a can of bear spray, and accidentally sprayed it down an aisle before walking back out through the front doors. Several people were treated for coughing and irritation, and the bear was safely guided away.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
And this is what you'd get if there was bear spray allowed on the Tube. If there hadn't been bear spray in that Walmart, there wouldn't have been a bear.
As cute as the tube mice, but a lot bigger. And it would steal your burgers.
As cute as the tube mice, but a lot bigger. And it would steal your burgers.
Here’s a rather lovely piece of SF art you most likely won’t have seen (because it’s part of our collection!): Jim Burns’ pencil and ink wash study for the first of David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo novels, The Middle Kingdom.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Here’s a rather lovely piece of SF art you most likely won’t have seen (because it’s part of our collection!): Jim Burns’ pencil and ink wash study for the first of David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo novels, The Middle Kingdom.
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"They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars."
-William Gibson
-William Gibson
March 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars."
-William Gibson
-William Gibson