Fixer Optional

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Spare some attention for a couple of unprocessed cyberpunx? Genre content guaranteed uncomfortable, journalistic pieces guaranteed worse.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

(Stopping the big 50 Years Of Thatcherism tombola to look at the latest card) “Entrepreneurship classes for the unemployed” (Everyone groans at my shit)

We lost a real one the other month, Abi writes... fixeroptional.co.uk/2026/10/20/p...

Voice of Sid the Sloth btw He was also Luigi in the Bob Hoskins Mario Leguizamo's got range

There's a guy in my current WIP whose character bio in my notes just reads "what if Eric Sparrow was a wrestler"

Banger thread

Fuck that, we'll put her out We don't have a budget or many connections, and she's not the genre we usually handle, but this censorship crap can't be allowed to fly. Sally, hit us up. We can offer you nothing but we're game if you are

Napalm Death Cab For Cutie

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

And I mean, it is not like we don’t know how to prevent billionaires and billionaire criminals buying up the means to cripple and direct democracy. We know very well how to do that, and anyone who makes any headway advocating for it gets crushed by our politicians and media outlets, acting together.

One from the vault. This felt like the first time when we really found our voice as a collective fixeroptional.co.uk/2026/03/10/y...

(rob zombie living dead girl voice) LEMON DRIZZLE

Just Bleed Guy is a spirit that left James Ladner's body when the UFC started implementing rules. The man went on to become an accountant, but the spirit still haunts places of extreme and horrific entertainment, where sportsmen fear to tread

Come to think of it, getting a french press really improved my life as a coffee drinker. As I eye my tired old laptop, my mind wandering to how I'm going to possibly afford a replacement in this market...

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

Ever wonder why big car companies pay two percent tax while the guys on the assembly line pay forty?

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

10/10 thread

My horrible violent novella got accepted to #SFINCS4!!!! Honestly stoked I made it this far, I was pretty late to submit something so I'm just happy to be on the list. I hope I meet some cool writers during judging.

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

I MEAN

Interestingly, I've noticed AI fans approach almost every interaction like this. They're hilariously thin-skinned, seething at the indication that you're not going to fawn over them. Makes them easy to spot early, at least.

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us Title: Nil's Shroud Genre: cyberpunk/splatterpunk Word count: I can't remember, like 29k-ish Funniest moment: The number three adaptor (you'll get it if ya read it) 🔗: fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud

Keep forgetting this shit cuz we hate marketing, but I (Abi, half of FxOx) wrote some sickass cyberpunk novellas you might like. FFO: Gibson et al, Palahniuk, outlaw comics

“Story after story has emerged where senior civil servants or politicians, who are meant to hold Palantir to account, have instead held alarmingly cozy relationships with the company.” https://www.wired.com/story/the-uk-government-faces-a-reckoning-over-palantir/

Reason 2 why we use a creaky old unmonetised platform instead (reason 1 is "fuck you that's why", reason 3 is we don't think you should pay to hear our shower thoughts)

no, see, that's in fact extremely NOT what you are, that's just a cute poetic metaphor. this is an extreme diminishment of what a human is (also dualism again, "you" aren't only inside your skull but also the skull and all the other body parts)

Skill issue. Right wingers have been attempting to make art, many of their films have been very heavily publicised, as have a few of their books. The only tyranny at play is that of public taste. No one wants shitty art, sorry.

We keep yelling about this. More people are noticing

The bots shoot anything that don't have a uniform.