Whilst in Edinburgh, got to do a very cool thing and enjoy the summer solstice -- and its sunset -- atop Calton Hill there. So here's a shot from that. Please enjoy. Or don't. I'm not your parent. Not until I get the time machine working anyway.

Might as well do these pics as a thread -- maybe I'll post one per day as I process 'em -- anyway, here's the play of light and dark on in Glencoe, Scotland.

First photo out of the gate from my Scotland and Ireland trip is this tentacular puffin on the Isle of May —

It also thinks *I* have opinions on black currants, which I do not

I mean to be fair, we already did a whole book together!

Also: totally going on tour. Here’s the first batch of dates. Adding a week to them and will post when I have that all sauced up.

Took this photo in Edinburgh last night — and quite like how it turned out.

MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE

keep it in your pants, Whole Foods, damn

I have this in my office!

UPDATE: MC Pee Pants has also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

BREAKING: Boyz 4 Now have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

happy THE CALAMITIES IS ON NETGALLEY DAY to those who celebrate

I do not know why WANDERERS is a dollar ninety nine at all the electromagic ebook marketplaces but it is! So come get your peri-apocalyptic book about crumbling American dynasties and AI and plagues and rock and roll and the CDC and also hope amidst the chaos! Tell everyone! Black Swan says hi!

My manifesto:

Good morning instead of enjoying clickbait let’s enjoy this click beetle

Why is BOOK OF ACCIDENTS five bucks on digital? No idea, but it is! Not just on AMZ, but Bookshop and Kobo and such. So if you like creepy coal mine demons? Missing serial killers? A family returning to what might be a haunted house? A teen boy who can feel and see other people's pain? Go grabby.

Bluesky before Claude code/Bluesky after Claude code

oh SHIT mods are asleep and I found the FORBIDDEN Bluesky we're all over here talking about eating the tomb bread and drinking sarcophagus juice, it's wild

well I’m going to need this image for probably the rest of my internet life, however long that may be

GOOD MORNING, skypals. I took this photo and quite liked it. Maybe you’ll like it too, I don’t know.

A fox came to my front door the other day, and here is that fox.

collabs have gone too far we need to stop with the collabs case in point, this real product

psst new CALAMITIES cover for the UK edition

a bunch of half-demon garbage people have a messy blood-caked horror-fantasy adventure in THE CALAMITIES, out in August

Listen, if you need an AI booster to block, here's one. (I tried talking to him, but later he says that when you use a hammer you're "You're stealing the work of skilled carpenters" which, you know, is about as unserious a comment as you can get in trying to support AI as a tool.)

I do not know why my suburban folk-horror evil apple cult book BLACK RIVER ORCHARD is on sale across the e-book mongers for a mere dollar ninety-nine, but hey, if you want it, there it be. At the very least you'll accompany me on my WEIRD AMERICAN APPLE JOURNEY.

Ahh yes, nothing says “let kids be kids” like “using fancy calligraphy to sign checks.” Why, I remember when I signed my first check at the age of 8, using a fountain pen made of whale femur and ink from a Humboldt squid