Stephen Gallagher
@stephengallagher.co.uk
Doctor Who. BUGS. That creepy monster thing you might remember. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe www.stephengallagher.com
Pinned
In other news, I can now lose the dressing from my hand surgery of 2 weeks ago and Guillermo del Toro's put in a bid for the film rights
December 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In other news, I can now lose the dressing from my hand surgery of 2 weeks ago and Guillermo del Toro's put in a bid for the film rights
Evidence-based
Jacob Elordi in ‘Frankenstein’ is neither a monster or a creature — he’s a golden retriever
Allow me to present my evidence.
decider.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Evidence-based
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
I'm no fan of violence but I guess the consensual battering of a couple of Influencers is a different matter. Not sure if it's a throwback to more or less innocent times, but I was stirred to revisit the Boxing Booth scene that ends in an unmasking to launch The Kingdom of Bones. This was the runup:
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm no fan of violence but I guess the consensual battering of a couple of Influencers is a different matter. Not sure if it's a throwback to more or less innocent times, but I was stirred to revisit the Boxing Booth scene that ends in an unmasking to launch The Kingdom of Bones. This was the runup:
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Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Every (translator) knows this, the problem may be trying to convince editors and publishers
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The poor redaction job (real or plausibly deniable) is a VERY weird silver lining to decades of treating computers like they're magic boxes, unknowable and unregulatable, mysterious in saeculum saeculorum.
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The poor redaction job (real or plausibly deniable) is a VERY weird silver lining to decades of treating computers like they're magic boxes, unknowable and unregulatable, mysterious in saeculum saeculorum.
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Obama's published his reader list for the year so Trump, not to be outdone, gives us his:
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Obama's published his reader list for the year so Trump, not to be outdone, gives us his:
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Do share. And I mean do.
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Do share. And I mean do.
In the 70s a group of us formed a student SF society in Hull. Our slogan was, "Rewomble you're a member".
We move onwards with Santa to look at some fantasy novels www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...
Santa Womble Goes On A Quest! — Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! For today’s stocking filler I have a selection of fantasy books you could gift to your loved ones or you know I won’t judge you having one or ten for yourselves. It is Christmas after all ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In the 70s a group of us formed a student SF society in Hull. Our slogan was, "Rewomble you're a member".
Not to be the nosy householder but… Three blokes in the layby across the road, standing around this piece of kit… It was flashing red, now the little light is flashing green. Appears to be pointing at the empty horizon…
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Not to be the nosy householder but… Three blokes in the layby across the road, standing around this piece of kit… It was flashing red, now the little light is flashing green. Appears to be pointing at the empty horizon…
Great ingenuity on the part of Wallis Simpson. Who'd have thought she had it in her
Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Great ingenuity on the part of Wallis Simpson. Who'd have thought she had it in her
Here’s the way it’s going to have to go
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Here’s the way it’s going to have to go
First sales figures are now in, first tranche of cash with my gift-aided top-up has gone to MSF. Still flagged for pre-Christmas delivery but I'll make this the last time I bother you. I will pass on anything more that comes in. Big thanks to all for support, and to whoever gave the five-star rating
🧵 This year’s stocking-filler chapbook in aid of Doctors Without Borders is The Adventure of the Seven Unnatural Women, a Sherlock Holmes story written at the invitation of J R Campbell and Charles Prepolec, editors of the Gaslight series of Holmes anthologies
December 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
First sales figures are now in, first tranche of cash with my gift-aided top-up has gone to MSF. Still flagged for pre-Christmas delivery but I'll make this the last time I bother you. I will pass on anything more that comes in. Big thanks to all for support, and to whoever gave the five-star rating
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
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If the industry rumours are true about Walliams using ghost writers, a sane publisher would sign the (clearly very successful and competent) back room hack(s) up, come clean, throw the same publicity machine behind them, and have a fantastic line of popular kids’ books ready for next year.
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If the industry rumours are true about Walliams using ghost writers, a sane publisher would sign the (clearly very successful and competent) back room hack(s) up, come clean, throw the same publicity machine behind them, and have a fantastic line of popular kids’ books ready for next year.
As the one-time owner of the lowest-scoring entrant in the end-of-term dog obedience test, I find that this hits home
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As the one-time owner of the lowest-scoring entrant in the end-of-term dog obedience test, I find that this hits home
I've been going though a box full of decades-old location and historical research papers from the original research on Victorian Gothic (retitled The Kingdom of Bones on publication); tons of papers, faxes, maps, interview notes, brochures, and this:
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I've been going though a box full of decades-old location and historical research papers from the original research on Victorian Gothic (retitled The Kingdom of Bones on publication); tons of papers, faxes, maps, interview notes, brochures, and this:
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Come on, ‘The Mancunian Candidate’ was right there.
Andy Burnham, the man who would be king
The Greater Manchester mayor has made no secret of his Labour leadership ambitions, but faces significant obstacles
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Come on, ‘The Mancunian Candidate’ was right there.
Since Trump regards any offer of an olive branch to signify the grovelling of inferiors the BBC's reply should be, "We refer you to the response in Arkell V. Pressdram (1971)"
In filing a claim against the BBC he probably won’t win, Donald Trump is trying to exert leverage so the broadcaster’s executives capitulate, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since Trump regards any offer of an olive branch to signify the grovelling of inferiors the BBC's reply should be, "We refer you to the response in Arkell V. Pressdram (1971)"
Just cut out the bits that reflect badly on Trump and let us see the remaining three minutes
Mandy's Christmas special postponed - British Comedy Guide
The Christmas special of Mandy, the sitcom starring Diane Morgan, has been pulled from BBC Two's festive schedule.
www.comedy.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just cut out the bits that reflect badly on Trump and let us see the remaining three minutes
Only ever translated a couple of short stories, but having once volunteered to edit a friend's memoir I can say that it's twice the chore to tidy up a piece of prose than to generate it. Like building a wall where every brick requires another trip to the builders' yard
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Only ever translated a couple of short stories, but having once volunteered to edit a friend's memoir I can say that it's twice the chore to tidy up a piece of prose than to generate it. Like building a wall where every brick requires another trip to the builders' yard
This just popped up in my YouTube algorithm: based on the novel series by @andylaneauthor.bsky.social (loosely, he says, but that still counts)
Young Sherlock - Official Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This just popped up in my YouTube algorithm: based on the novel series by @andylaneauthor.bsky.social (loosely, he says, but that still counts)
From the great JG Ballard: "Richard Pearson is visiting Surrey to close down his late father’s home and settle his affairs and, everywhere he looks, the flag of St George is flying 'from suburban gardens and filling stations and branch post offices'. How nice, he thinks, how festive."
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From the great JG Ballard: "Richard Pearson is visiting Surrey to close down his late father’s home and settle his affairs and, everywhere he looks, the flag of St George is flying 'from suburban gardens and filling stations and branch post offices'. How nice, he thinks, how festive."
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Oh, wow!
Congratulations @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
VERY well deserved!
"Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights..."
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Congratulations @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
VERY well deserved!
"Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights..."
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
December 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Oh, wow!
Congratulations @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
VERY well deserved!
"Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights..."
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Congratulations @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
VERY well deserved!
"Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights..."
wwnorton.com/books/978132...