James Latimer is going to Bristolcon (still awaiting Wolf 2)

My (should be) iconic 10>2000, if interested: Snakewood - A Selby City of Stairs - RJ Bennett Blackdog - KV Johansen Senlin Ascends - J Bancroft God's War - K Hurley Goblin Emperor - K Addison Garden of Stones - MT Barnes Smiler's Fair - R Levene Hawkwood's Voyage - P Kearney City of Lies - S Hawke

This review of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK absolutely slayed me. Just sat here giggling. Well played Amazon reviewer. TBF, pretty much nailed my process. I feel seen.

The Wolf and the Wild King is a fantastic novel. Reviewed it here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

And you don't have to take my word for it!

This book is lovely and also cheap. Buy it, read it, rejoice!

Read it to be ready - though I'm not sure preparedness will save you! (I am, however, VERY READY.)

Just saw a ridiculous scam ad where an old man says he's had to stop carving his unique birdhouses because of "arthretis" with melancholy music and idyllic images that are annoyingly consistent - except his voice keeps changing! And the individually carved products are all identical and creepy...

Was very good.

"This trilogy is as close to perfect as books can get." @tkingfisher.com Pick up the complete CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy from @pennyvixen.bsky.social this #spookyseason ! After the events of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar returns to solve mysteries plaguing the Elflands...

Oh no. 😢

Nobody told the goddam cat about the clocks going back. 😏

Bristolcon was a blast as always, it was nice to meet @amis.bsky.social and @dbrook.bsky.social who were both excellent. Playing D&D was awesome and it's always great to meet up with old friends and make new ones, I highly recommend it.

Glad I got the earlier train because it's massively late and overcrowded, but wouldn't want this to happen to the last option!

Y'all should come to BristolCon next year, because you definitely didn't this year. 😝

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Just been to a sci-fi convention and I get outside after midnight and everyone's whizzing around on electric scooters and here I am walking like a 20th C schmuck.

BristolCon is quiet this year, but still nice to be with your people once a year. I even did a couple panels! 😧

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Skerritt, a durable character actor with roles in 'Picket Fences,' 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies.

I love this novella!

I also suddenly realized a few years ago that • carrot is a vegetable • one British slang term for policeman is “peeler” • therefore Constable Carrot is a vegetable peeler I don’t think this is ever explicitly mentioned in the text. A true pun-master, trolling us from beyond the grave.

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say Bioware is probably the reason a lot of people got into video games in the first place. The symbolism of Bioware being shut down is really something.

Good thing the cover of the paperback I bought didn't have the weird man on it - I wouldn't have!

Anyone know a good free (personal) email app I can sign up for to get away from Yahoo now they want me to pay for privacy?

My favourite Temu mobile ad has to be the one where the woman is cleaning the cooker hood with a cloth and the man comes up with his little fake pressure washer gun and sprays the whole thing down. Cut to a bunch of fake shots of grease and grime being blown away...BUT TO WHERE? AND THE WATER??? 🙄

Ebay has changed their privacy notice. #fuckai

I love hackney www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Breath and Bone ebook is on sale for a bit! How about a quote a day for the next two weeks? Link is to Amazon US but it's at all the usual suspects! www.amazon.com/Breath-Bone-...

Spending my evening with some 17th-century wills, which means encountering the archaic word "sperate," as in the opposite of "desperate." (Sperate debts are debts you hope to collect, whereas you have lost hope in desperate debts.)

Trying a Reacher audiobook again and finding the narrator a bit less annoying in third person, even though I much preferred reading the first person one. Not so interested in what non-Reacher folks are doing, though I can see what they add to the story.

Was out with somebody who asked their AI app where to we should go for dinner on a business trip and...okay, the answer was decent, and shortcutted the normal palaver, but we passed a few places on the way there we could have at least looked at. And how do we know it's even an honest broker?

This is as delightful as I remember. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

At least I've got Jen Williams on Long Story Short improving my overcrowded railway journey.

In another standing-room only British train and it beggars belief this is how to run a railway. People can't get to booked seats because of crowding, people without booked seats have to stand (or refuse to move) and they don't stop people getting on, can't add carriages or services, only apologize.

The Great Mosque of Samarra during fog, Samarra, Iraq

Looking at the bright sunny October day I'm beginning to wonder if this climate change malarkey has something to it...

Oh and this doesn't even cover the fact that you'll never have internet right away because you don't get enough notice of your moving date to notify Openreach in time!