@slimyswampghost.bsky.social New sculpture in Bristol (uk) made me think of you. Good luck with the film 👍🏻 Super news.
Decided to try to make audio recordings of all my postal work journals. About 200,000 words written sporadically since 1988. I've been releasing 25 mins of randomly selected entries in podcast form as regularly as I can. Here's a trailer for Episode 18 which is available now from the usual places.
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
The Shadow Year is on Fantasy Book Review's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of all Time. www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fant...
@dannythechurch.bsky.social Just finished The Hollows. SO much fun! Might even have rekindled my reading mojo. Thanks.
99% of the world is dead. In a small Minnesota town, 1 woman writes the monthly local paper but it’s actually an epic horror story mailed to your door. THE END TIMES. Brilliantly conceived by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social , published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social. 1 issue in and I already love it.
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
FICTION: “This small monograph was compiled by members of the St Philips Folklore and History Society in order to record that which would otherwise be lost...” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/10/30/f...
FICTION: Local Legends
I’ve extracted the text from the booklet The Boiled Egg Lady and Other Local Legends of East Bristol which I found on an online auction site earlier this year. It doesn’t seem to have been reprinte…
precastreinforced.co.uk
If you're after suggestions for a short story or two to read for Halloween, here's the list I put together for A Personal Anthology a couple of years back. Not all horror or weird fiction, but mostly. open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
A Personal Anthology, by Ray Newman
At the start of 2023 I set myself a target to read 365 short stories, which I’ve now done – and which is why Jonathan asked me to contribute to this ongoing project.
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New episode: art for art's sake, DIY culture, working for nothing, free bottle of pop, greedy buggers, punk rock, job killers, the cost of idealism, taking strike action, Mr Briggs' Toyota Yaris shows.acast.com/round-about-...
Money and Finance | Round About Town
The Privilege of DIY Culture
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Fascists catching bullets is just civilization's antibodies kicking in.
The Telegraph has finally found some unemployed people it sympathises with
On Britain. Shame we are outside the customs union - we will have to rely on diplomacy and some unpleasant trades with Trump to deal with the tariff threat. Security and defence co-operation with France, Germany, Poland, the rest of the EU is now absolutely critical.
Introducing Decarbonize Your Life, Heatmap’s comprehensive guide on high-leverage actions you can take right now to help the planet. Read on for how-to's on everything from EVs and solar panels to sustainable food and e-bikes. 🧵
Decarbonize Your Life
A complete guide to making your everyday decisions count in the fight against climate change.
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Seriously, fellow British peeps, go and vote on the 4th. Don't take it for granted that the Labour landslide victory is a done deal and your vote doesn't matter. Brexit was such a catastrofuck because half the people who had a right to vote on it couldn't be arsed because OBVIOUSLY it was done deal.
Good point! Though Scarry had form on this: “Animal cannibalism in the beloved works of Richard Scarry” davegilson.com/scarry.html
Dave Gilson | This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef
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There are more good talks coming up as part of British Library's fantasy exhibition, including this one on Thursday. You'll find the full schedule at this link, where you can also access recordings of some of the previous talks from November and December: living-knowledge-network.co.uk
Really glad the PM has brought in the genius behind my fucked Twitter feed to chat about tech. He's clearly got a lot to bring to the conversation.
