Pro tip: If you are “a writer” it’s ok to eat a chocolate brownie for breakfast then read/write on the beach because, um, it’s research for a book character (in this case a gluttonous, hedonistic wannabe writer). #writing

Pretty excited that I have an advance copy of @garthnix.bsky.social’s first adult sci-fi book, Massif. I’ll write a review of it here soon. It’s out in September. #scifi #booksky #bookreview #books

Looking at your SO when it’s past bedtime but there’s only one episode left to stream in the series

Happy Return of the Living Dead Day (my own personal horror depicted here) #booksky #film

Theodore Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” speech is a great reminder for writers and for anyone who’s putting themselves out there, striving, bravely trying, even in the face of critics. (*Just update the language to be gender neutral and remember he said it in 1910). #booksky #writingcommunity

Just some news from the onion

Starmer is just one in a long line of British leaders from whom the public demanded a lot. Like when Winifred here got asked what she wanted King Charles to do. #UKpol #GBpol

China Mieville’s new book is coming out in September. Called “The Rouse”, 1300 pages (If I get a few more followers I may be able to review an advance reader copy 🤔) #booksky #weirdlit #writingcommunity

Just another little bird treat for you. Check out this rainbow bee eater I saw at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland 😍 #Birds

Most of the way through this collection of cyberpunk stories by @trnapper.bsky.social and it’s a ripper. Shows us the dark, desperate, oligarchical future we need to fight to avoid. Looking forward to reviewing the full book shortly. #currentlyreading #booksky #cyberpunk

Alright, a special treat. Check out this bird I saw (a red backed fairy wren, endemic to Australia). That is all. #birds

Watched it for five minutes and it did NOTHING.

“Menu” was an insipid and derivative read - 1 star. Would be cool if airlines followed through on their “literature” promise and included books in these plane seatbacks. Airplane “little sky libraries”? These are good ideas. #booksky #books

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy Hubble’s view of Wolf-Rayet 124

Whoah, Amazon, I ordered this classic cyberpunk book I’d been meaning to read, new (apparently) and what arrived was a photocopy of the cover with a few tattered pages of footnotes sticky-taped inside! I got cyberpunk’d! #booksky #currentlyreading #books #cyberpunk #fiction #writingcommunity

I regularly daydream about this classic comic panel (but violence is never the answer)