Kev McVeigh
@kevmcv.bsky.social
Reader, dilettante, intermittent blogger, agitator.
"McVeigh is an extreme example" - Paul Kincaid
"McVeigh is an extreme example" - Paul Kincaid
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
I sometimes feel that travel writing describes a world less accessible to ordinary people, with less money, fitness, time or gimmicks. Not so @monisharajesh.bsky.social in the wonderful Moonlight Express which depicts the peculiar charms of night trains and how easily democratic they often are.
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I sometimes feel that travel writing describes a world less accessible to ordinary people, with less money, fitness, time or gimmicks. Not so @monisharajesh.bsky.social in the wonderful Moonlight Express which depicts the peculiar charms of night trains and how easily democratic they often are.
Ghostbusters
Without saying Lord of the Rings, name a fantasy film.
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Ghostbusters
Some shots from my holiday road trip. Lunch at The Brick was great.
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Some shots from my holiday road trip. Lunch at The Brick was great.
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I'm fundraising for St John Ambulance doing 12 Reads of Christmas. That's 12 books read in December... any suggestions?
I'm fundraising for St John Ambulance doing 12 Reads of Christmas. That's 12 books read in December... any suggestions?
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November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I'm fundraising for St John Ambulance doing 12 Reads of Christmas. That's 12 books read in December... any suggestions?
I'm fundraising for St John Ambulance doing 12 Reads of Christmas. That's 12 books read in December... any suggestions?
Hope, creativity, community, all intersect in revolutionary acts of radical joy.
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hope, creativity, community, all intersect in revolutionary acts of radical joy.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Dubliners
Janelle Monáe
Mogwai
Thea Gilmore
Azu Tiwaline
Eclectic tastes here.
The Dubliners
Janelle Monáe
Mogwai
Thea Gilmore
Azu Tiwaline
Eclectic tastes here.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
U2
Peter Gabriel
Lilith Fair
Perfume Genius
Spoon
U2
Peter Gabriel
Lilith Fair
Perfume Genius
Spoon
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Amon Amarth / Sabaton
David Bowie
Flaming Lips
Bauhaus
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Amon Amarth / Sabaton
David Bowie
Flaming Lips
Bauhaus
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Dubliners
Janelle Monáe
Mogwai
Thea Gilmore
Azu Tiwaline
Eclectic tastes here.
The Dubliners
Janelle Monáe
Mogwai
Thea Gilmore
Azu Tiwaline
Eclectic tastes here.
From the Anti Racist Cumbria Summit on Friday, two of the brilliant comedy guests Desiree Burch and Nish Kumar.
October 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
From the Anti Racist Cumbria Summit on Friday, two of the brilliant comedy guests Desiree Burch and Nish Kumar.
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
Where i was last Sunday at sunrise. 1295 of us having a refreshing dip in the North Sea raising money for Northumberland Mind.
October 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Where i was last Sunday at sunrise. 1295 of us having a refreshing dip in the North Sea raising money for Northumberland Mind.
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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Sums it all up really
October 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Sums it all up really
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Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
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100% this. Now also wondering "if I stick a 'Palestine Action' sign on illegally & obstructively parked cars, will they get towed away?"
There are weekly, if not daily, criminal offences occurring at every pelican and zebra crossing I use around me, more dangerous (and indeed, occasionally terrifying) than holding a placard, and yet I never see a police presence at any of them
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
100% this. Now also wondering "if I stick a 'Palestine Action' sign on illegally & obstructively parked cars, will they get towed away?"
Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant at Joe's Pub, NYC
October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant at Joe's Pub, NYC
Previously on my road trip... i discovered i was booked to stay just a couple of doors down from the Baltimore motel room where Omar shot Brother Mouzone in The Wire s3.
October 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Previously on my road trip... i discovered i was booked to stay just a couple of doors down from the Baltimore motel room where Omar shot Brother Mouzone in The Wire s3.
Some cultural highlights from NYC.
October 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Some cultural highlights from NYC.
Struthio!
the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich
September 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Struthio!
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I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.
Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.
Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag
Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.
trib.al
September 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.
I was thinking of the late Kit Reed today. Talk of the rapture had me pondering SFF where a portion of the population simply vanish, as in her novel Where (2015), but it's also 8 years today since she died.
I wrote about her work for SFRA Review.
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I wrote about her work for SFRA Review.
almostwisdomreviews.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/k...
Kit Reed – a retrospective
(Originally commissioned and published in SFRA REVIEW 325 Summer 2018.) Introducing Kit Reed’s 1998 retrospective collection Weird Women, Wired Women, Connie Willis vividly evokes that sensati…
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September 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I was thinking of the late Kit Reed today. Talk of the rapture had me pondering SFF where a portion of the population simply vanish, as in her novel Where (2015), but it's also 8 years today since she died.
I wrote about her work for SFRA Review.
almostwisdomreviews.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/k...
I wrote about her work for SFRA Review.
almostwisdomreviews.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/k...
A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory is the BEST album released on 24th September 1991.
Nevermind what anyone else says.
Nevermind what anyone else says.
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory is the BEST album released on 24th September 1991.
Nevermind what anyone else says.
Nevermind what anyone else says.
Name your top 5 rappers.
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Scenes from the Enchanted Highway in North Dakota. Giant scrap metal roadside sculptures by Gary Greff. These are absolutely incredible, look at the human figure below the pheasants.
September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Scenes from the Enchanted Highway in North Dakota. Giant scrap metal roadside sculptures by Gary Greff. These are absolutely incredible, look at the human figure below the pheasants.
Hmmm maybe
Hot take: I've actually been thinking for a while that we're currently going through a science fiction golden age.
September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hmmm maybe