Matt Gibson
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Programmer. Photographer. Ambulomancer. Occasional amateur occult researcher. Non erratum sed designatum. #Bristol
Yes, I only want it because it looks like it belongs in Blake’s 7. So?
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
Pan Macmillan have revealed the cover to next year's SF release from me: The Eighth Face. Creepy clone monks living in a crashed-spaceship monastery, horrible things from the sea, a past revealed in things cast up by the tide... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...
The Eighth Face by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What hides beneath the waves of an alien world?A gripping sci-fi mystery from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky, featuring rebellious clones, deep-sea
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Oh yeah, *great* thing to leave next to a litter bin in a country currently plagued by fires.
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
BLOG POST: Every day there's some news story or other that makes me realise we're living in a sci-fi future. What's weird is how life just goes on. precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/n...
New Worlds
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story tha…
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Why. WHY would you attach a £475 price tag on a leather chair you were trying to sell by using a paddle tag *punched through the leather*!? Argh.
Went for a wander into #Bristol this morning, ended up watching the police and harbour's master teams forming a boat-based pincer movement to extract a rogue swimmer from the water and lead her off in handcuffs from the landing stage by the Nova. Odd. Hope she's okay.
Christ, I thought I turned off those government alerts the last time they shocked me awake to tell me something I already fucking knew.
Pero’s Bridge in Bristol has experienced a problem…
Just went for a lunchtime walk. Now have Mad Dogs and Englishmen stuck in my head. Can’t think why.
Oh no! Motion detected on my rear courtyard camera while I’m away from home! What kind of ruffian dares invade?! Oh.
Things you can say in a swingers club as well as in a restaurant review for Kent Online.
From this morning’s launch. #bristol #balloonfiesta #bristolballoonfiesta
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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How to Wallow in Obscure Knowledge — Basic Instructions
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
Ray Radlein@radlein.bsky.social · last mo.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
Well that probably explains why my bathroom lights have been on the fritz. Sigh.
Currently reading: a fantastic edition of Ice Station Zebra, priced at five shillings and thruppence and still holding up well 62 years on.
