Nick Coveney

About last night… absolutely pinching myself after my incredible launch party @gaystheword.bsky.social which has always been a special place from when I first moved to London 16 years ago. Signed copies available in store or through Gay’s The Word www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page... website!

This was just as embarrassing as I suspected it would be “I think I’ve probably got a limit. I probably won’t publish hate speech.” Probably won’t is sadly not born out by the many hateful and harmful books published in recent years. Publishing has several issues with monoculture but this is v off.

I won’t waste my time listening to this, I’ve seen his views on LinkedIn (since blocked). Classic white man who learns nothing as he progresses through life and is certain he is right. That’s me being polite.

⚡️ [BIG BISEXUAL THUNDERCLAP] ⚡️ London, I WAS A TEENAGE BISEXUAL will be back from the dead for a night at @pleasance.co.uk! Come kick off #PrideMonth on 1 June with a funny, spooky monster mashup of vintage horror & '90s teen movies about the perils of being bi. www.pleasance.co.uk/event/i-was-...

If you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.

(tapping my "almost all right-wing politics can be understood as eugenics" sign)

“Petty” and “vile” are pretty accurate words to sum up all ‘gender critical’ transphobes!

So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

‘Gender critical’ transphobes, and their extreme-right misogynistic stablemates, absolutely do NOT give a sh*t about women’s sports or “protecting women & girls”! They’re only interested in being cruel to trans people and “putting them back in their box”. It’s an obsession for them! 😣😖

It’s pretty funny to be called “elite” for supporting trans people by a cigar-smoking, champagne-swilling, yacht-owning billionaire, but hey, why shouldn’t we all bow to the opinion of someone not trans, not queer, not a doctor, not a scientist, but who’s really really rich?

This Friday, I, a spooky queer, shall be getting to chat about my spooky queer book at Nottingham Central Library as part of the Queer Up Duck festival. queerupduck.co.uk/the-queer-st...

My lovely orphan show premiered ten years ago today. So proud of it, love these actors so much, and by episodes 6-8, we were flying. Alas, the BBC Three online experiment at the time was… not great. Would that there’d been two more years. Still a lucky man. What an experience.

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

There is no bottom for Vance.

The sheer arrogance of elitist billionaire JK Rowling lecturing women about what working-class women think, while erasing working-class trans women, mothers of trans children and every working-class woman who supports trans inclusion! 😖 All while smugly puffing cigars on her super yacht! 😤

“The High Court found that there was “differential treatment” between young people with gender-related health needs and those who could access puberty blockers for other conditions.” The same is true in the UK, but the judiciary on TERF island are happy to discriminate against trans kids! 😣😖

It's a new week, Bluesky. Trust no poll. Trust no pundit. Vote early if you can. Vote in person if you can.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

My baby daughter breaks into a huge smile and a joyful laugh whenever I enter the room. I'm just going to assume this continues through the rest of her life and not listen to anyone telling me different.

i said that if I ever got to my third novel then I would permit myself a really gay one, and I am pleased to announce that I have packed a truly immersion-shattering number of homosexual warriors and wizards into this book KNIGHT DEVIANT releases in summer 2027 🫏🌼

Imagine if “families with concerns” had a say over whether a woman can have an abortion! If you remove bodily autonomy from trans people, whose bodily autonomy is next??? Trans rights are human rights. If trans people’s human rights are removed, everyone’s human rights are under threat!

These investigations into the ABUSE perpetuated by PARENTS in the transphobic ‘Bayswater Support Group’ are exactly why abusive parents SHOULDN’T be exempt from the LGBT Conversion Practices Ban -especially as it relates to trans kids! www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

I genuinely think being on Twitter alters your brain for the worse. Like crystal meth. There are barely any humans there, just that torture film from A Clockwork Orange, the only difference being you’ve pinned your own eyelids open.

?! The absolute batshittery of these dweebs.

Ah of course because what would we as Gay/Queer men know about the Gay rights & Trans rights movement compared to two cishet white women? As if saying “love your kids” is creepy, hyperbolic or worrying? These people are so obsessed with their own bigotry they cannot think about anything else

Just TERF novelists on Twitter being perfectly normal. Amanda once claimed my family would have “transed me” growing up and Lissa takes time out of her busy day to write tweets solely to make fun of non-binary people. Perfectly normal, human, empathetic behaviors.

transphobe authors worried by the idea that queer kids are capable of finding someone who will love them as they are telling on themselves as usual

Why do I look like a terrifying queer dictator, out to trans your kids and put pronouns in the drinking water!?

NO COMPLAINTS! NOT ONE! Because people who aren't TERFs tend to be decent and want everyone to get their best treatment.

Fruits of the letter of support for Sally Rooney and Faber. Currently at 480 signatories and counting. www.thebookseller.com/news/hundred...

Botanical horror, cosy fantasies and festive rom-coms. Plus brand new queer books from Travis Baldree, Andrew Joseph White and CG Drews! There are loads of new queer books coming out in October! See something you like? Grab a copy from proud-geek.co.uk online bookshop. #queerbooks #booksky

years of trying to figure out the most efficient tools for getting any writing done and I am ashamed to report the correct answer is a stack of notebooks, a flat nib and an inkwell, the monks were right. somewhat related but I might have to kill myself

Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?

Duncan coming through with an another incredible take here

Opening night was a Monster Smash*! I honestly love doing this show more than anything and I am so, so grateful for the team that has helped bring it to life. *far from a sell-out, but a terrific audience

It’s 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win My latest for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/09/its-21-days-until-the-us-midterms-this-is-how-we-win

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?? Labour, what the fuck are you doing? Fix this absolute stain on the country.

True story: I once had dinner at Rules and the man at the next table spent the entirety of his meal explaining to his date the ins and outs of the House of Mogh, Worf’s family line on Star Trek The Next Generation.

My inevitable slide into Onlyfans

Have had that horrible experience of being asked to change the briefest paragraph in one of my books so a particular foreign publisher could avoid arrest in that country’s massive LGBTQ+ crackdown. I had to decline and therefore not be published - you don’t negotiate with tyrants - but what a world.