Debbie Moon

‘The Pitt’ heartthrob Noah Wyle was announced as PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive — nearly 30 years after ‘ER’ costar George Clooney was first crowned.

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Uh-oh, it's The Thin Red Line all over again...

I honestly believe that after receiving a political awakening from Baby in Dirty Dancing, a radicalised Johnny Castle eventually evolved into Bodhi in Point Break almost 30 years later.

Hear me out, I have an idea ⚡️

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

If you're still pondering, a few tickets are available for my online salon with Jon Evans on Interintellect tomorrow, Tuesday October 27th. We'll be talking technology, history, mythology, Renaissance, Vikings, the works! buff.ly/gghx8lI

qntm discusses revisiting the Antimemetics Division, the influence of programming on his fiction, hostile systems, scientific realism, information scarcity, and why imagining a genuinely good future may be more difficult than imagining the end of the world. Read the interview below!

Readers! Reviewers! Come join our ARC team! The Bat is growing - and our ARC reader list is growing too. We've got new titles coming up from Disco Barrington, Brennan LaFaro, TC Parker, JL George and more... and we need your help to spread the word Interested? Email info@nefariousbatpress.com

Here's my 2nd-ever episode of Waffle's After School Club for #CBeebies, and I got to write the HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!! 🎃 Available to watch now on BBC iPlayer, or tune in to CBeebies this #Halloween Saturday at 12:25 lunchtime!!! 🐶🐾 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Kind of a lot of words just to say "My husband is bad in bed..." 1819news.com/news/item/la...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Niiiiiiice...

Thanks to everyone who braved the storms to catch Ghosts this weekend. You’ve officially made it the number one movie in the UK!

People on the next table talking about going to see Wicker. ‘Olivia Colman was great in that show where she was married to a vicar” “Rev, it was called, starring Tom Holland’s dad. Him from Spider-Man.” “No, that wasn’t it. It had that woman with the big nose, who was in the last Indiana Jones film”

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

For sale! Lovely things! For today and tomorrow, everything in my Etsy shop is half-price, even the Japanese prints and watercolours! In some cases, that represents hundreds of pounds of reductions! Just dm me for the coupon code! etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

The bizarre and true story of the low budget 2000s horror film that was marketed with zombies - in spite of, er, not having any zombies in it... buff.ly/7xk3Oqe

🤨 From Viz 😂

Hello #Birmingham! The Christmas special live Film Stories show is now on sale. Mockingbird Cinema. 7.30pm, 2nd December 2026. Tickets and details right here... buff.ly/SuGdLaF

...now I wonder if the entwife thing is a 1930s Oxford professor looking around the faculty meeting thinking "Wow, kind of a sausagefest in here."

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

Rik Hoskin has a new series of Hercules books out now, for fans of mythical romps!

New Scientist gets me excited for a second before I realise it's cut off.

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Asking for a few friends: does a 'distinctly British' approach to AI include paying for the use of our work? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Cats.

Really enjoyed WILDWOOD, which has shades of Labyrinth and Narnia but is very much its own thing, and is appropriately clear-eyed about the failings of adults. I'll even forgive those terrible pitched battle tactics... Note that it's a 12A and probably too scary for very young children, though.

Yeah. When you think about it, it's stunningly easy to get people to like and admire you. Why are the super-rich incapable of it?

Bilbo: “Sod you then. I’m going to Greggs for a sausage roll.“

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1232647: Your voice is unique. Use it with pride. Using anyone else's voice (including AI slurry, language outside your natural range, or anything you don't feel comfortable using) will only weaken your writing and make it sound inauthentic.

'I don't do politics' always gets presented as 'I live in a higher ethical state than you' and it's pretty much always 'My politics are why I have relatives who won't talk to me.'

One happy story in this - a friend was entering a novel competition, was devastated to find she’d left a typo on page one. Agent judge said “oh it was fine, instantly gave me confidence it wasn’t ai”:)

what in the cat conclave is going on here

"A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Out next Thursday, 2.15pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Aww, many thanks @wanderinggaia.bsky.social!

Because it was ProWritingAid's "donation" that kicked off the whole NaNo "no, no no, the plagiarism machine is GOOD actually, and if you don't let it steal your work you're ABLEIST" thing, so far as I recall.

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?