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This sweet and innocent face belongs to a dog that has learned how to pull individual books off the shelves and rip the covers up. At 5am. 5...a...m... Puppy adolescence can sod off any time it likes.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1) Blake's 7 (with a side order of Robin of Sherwood and Sapphire and Steel)
2) the interaction of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
3) small mammals

Climate report. Picked my coat up this morning. Old dog leaps to her feet, tail wagging. 5 month puppy just looks bemused. In 14 weeks I've needed a coat for walks maybe 5-10 times? (This is Odd, standard schnauzer pup currently hitting adolescence hard).

Want to see how big the Trans Rights march in Belfast yesterday was? Here you go...

Video via @imamammie.bsky.social

It is in the incongruities of Dick’s novels that salvation is to be found. Even at his battiest, he retains a sense of humor. Obviously, it is less easy to see the joke when one is living through it. Dystopias may sometimes be grimly funny—but rarely from the inside. @himself.bsky.social

So has any politician ever said "actually we're taking some of the options off the table"?

I fear there's going to be a hell of a lot of "UK and US" coming up. Apparently our govt believes Trump will reward bootlicking. BBC News - UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration
www.bbc.com/news/article...

How fortunate that on the very day that Trump champions illegal ethnic cleansing he has a phone conversation with a famously principled lawyer who no doubt told him that he's breaching both international and moral law. No doubt at all. I'm sure they just forgot to mention that bit of the call.

"Our loves are not given, but only lent
At compound interest of cent per cent."

Paying back both interest and capital today. It was worth the cost of the loan.

In 2025 I am resolved to defend the use of 'less' with countables whenever it seems appropriate to do so, civilly, firmly and with citations where necessary.

It's just occurred to me that there's a logic to Labour. They can only lose my vote once regardless of how many different policies that would each lose my vote they adopt, so once they've started being intolerable they might as well keep going and hope for some right wing votes in return.

Introduce yourself with :
One book: Dhalgren
One film: LOTR (with caveats)
One album: Fundamental (Pet Shop Boys)
One TV show: Robin of Sherwood

The Last Pantheon hardcover novella is in the house!

This is about two Silver to Bronze* Age African Superheroes and their feud.

Written by me and the late Nick Wood, with all proceeds going to his estate.

Limited to 60 copies.

*Normies, this is superhero time, not regular Bronze Age.

Regrettably Bluesky often feels like that moment in a waiting room when a stranger says something to you and you answer civilly only to realise they were actually talking to the person next to you and now they are both complaining to each other loudly over your head about how rude people are.

2/2

In 2016, Nick and I co-wrote a novella called The Last Pantheon.

NewCon Press is reissuing this in an illustrated hardback and paperback.

*All* the proceeds go to the family. I've waived all my entitlements and this should help the family in these uncertain times.

Pre-orders are open.