Kev McVeigh

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

It feels somewhat apt to be reading Jenn Ashworth 's near future eco gothic story 'The White Lady of Morecambe' on a night when Storm Boelo is battering Morecambe in the present.

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

Two things have been bobbing around my brain since Pictcon. 1 How long do Selkies live? 2 Do I know anyone who can point me to respurces on early 19th century submersible craft?

Glasgow

First time I've seen a @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social displayed in the Science Fiction section of a bookshop but I note that @niallharrison.bsky.social and @chloroformtea.bsky.social have favourably reviewed The Mulai by Munir Hachemi so add it to the list TBR.

By someone absolutely not related to me. This is a really moving novel set in the classical music scene. Good to see it available again.

For #DoctorWho folks, Elizabeth Sladen's daughter is posting on Instagram about some weird generative AI videos about Elisabeth Sladen and Jon Pertwee...

"If you come over as being a bit Morrissey people won't like you" wasn't the line I expected to hear on an eco fiction panel

"There's a sort of rebel weirdo aspect to fans" Pannellist at Fantasycon

This has great "Good day, SIR" energy

No spoilers, but the Traitors' cloak really suits the newest recruit.

Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

Birds of a feather

Simon Clarke was 10 months old at the time of Live Aid so that's some memory he's got going there...

“Connect a moment with someone on a bus, in the woods, on the porch of an abandoned house, and you find the world you’ve been looking for.” That sums up how Andrea Hairston's works describe community building as organic, unstructured, warm supportive spaces.

When Americans ask me what I like best about The Fall... my usual answer is this

Just thinking, if you haven't done something for 28 years is it really a central part of your culture and traditions?

An old ruin... and some Roman walls

There seems to be a spate of reports on AI bros warning about their creations this week. Oddly there was less attention paid when a number of women in the industry said similar things a year, two years, even five years ago (notably a lot of them were Black and Brown women).

One of my favourite shots from last year's Lancaster Jazz Festival, the wonderful sax player Camilla George

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?"

Two gorgeous covers by Amin Qutteineh and Caitlin Mattisson for two excellent collections by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

A while ago I couldn't find my copy of Joanna Russ' The Female Man so I bought a new one. This weekend i found the missing copies. Yes, I already had it twice. So now I have three

Overhearing a deep discussion about the place of Cheddar on pizza The main opponent makes good oints

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

This time next week at 06:55 I'll be one of 1200+ people stripping off and running into the North Sea for Mental Health charity MIND. If you can spare a few quid it will be hugely appreciated www.justgiving.com/page/kevin-m...

Just for clarity

This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.

Common sense!

Sonny Rollins would have been 96 today. I saw some related sights in NYC a year ago

For the day shift, I wrote about Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars"

I often think there should be more reviews of shorter SFF so here's my latest, on KSR's 1985 novella "Green Mars" almostwisdomreviews.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/g...

I had a great time at the first Pictcon and immediately signed up for number 2.

We have 99 people coming to PictCon2 the SF convention in Scotland (Perth) about Scottish Science Fiction. Do you have your ticket yet? We will be releasing the programme this weekend. Date: October 17th; Guest: @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Sorted out a book shelf to put a favourite author's books in one place and in order, mostly because I mislaid one I wanted to check. 32 volumes, 22 signed.

Looking at tourist/interesting places I've not yet been to that are manageable for a short break. Never been to either Oxford or Cambridge, mid or S Wales, E Anglia, New Forest/ S Coast, Any suggestions?

Just seen Man City fans saying "Why do we need Enzo Fernsndez when we have Nico O'Reilly?" I think you answered your own question there.

As it was her birthday a couple of days ago, a longish review of Judith Moffett's The Ragged World, because I doubt anywhere else is likely to notice these forgotten greats of environmental SF. almostwisdomreviews.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/t...

Yesterday was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 228th anniversary. Here's views of Casa Magni in San Terenzo where she lived for a few months in 1822.

I reviewed a novel that's sat on the shelf for a couple of years, Grace Curtis' Floating Hotel wp.me/peM5HN-5g