Checked, and I'm on it! I'm glad someone was paying attention enough to notice.

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

Free short science fiction for you to read!

Well Tester: an empty planet, a borehole, and the devil himself...

And a reminder @diabolicalplots.com has loads of other free stories on there for you to dip into.

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

That Quatermass only had four serials is one of the great losses of our time. I sneakily worked several more into the worldbuilding background of my Captain Artemis alternate-60s stories.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I would 100% love an ongoing TV series of Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus, but I also don't think I'm good enough to write for something that wonderful.

Completed, and shared to a couple of Discords I'm on.

Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall by Jendia Gammon: 9781937133108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Delve into the gnarly guts of a long-dead mall in this gloriously weird and whacked-out romp, where friendship, 80s music, and food court slushies are your weapons of choice against spandexed supernat...

This is my middle grade debut and it’s distributed by Penguin. More info: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804064...

A great lineup! I'm hoping to tune in.

So far it's come up twice for me and I've been lucky-- the publishers both agreed to a reciprocal clause. One editor was a bit huffy, like "don't you trust me?" and I was like "oh, I trust *you*, but maybe not your successor, 10-15 years down the road..."

I've just read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @stephengrahamjones.com, and The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net, and streaming networks should be adapting those rather than making yet another GoT or LOTR prequel/sequel.

UB40 - Red Red Wine (Official Video HD Remastered) YouTube video by UB40VEVO

By chance I found the official video for UB40's Red Red Wine, which I'd never seen before, and wow. It's a lovely, incisive little silent movie, a relationship drama that packs a lot into 3 minutes and leaves no easy answers but a general good feeling.

youtu.be/zXt56MB-3vc?...

I am now officially General Secretary of the Global China Dialogue Organizing Committee for the Global China Academy.

Which means that I'm co-organiser of the GCA's annual workshop. Still, sounds grand, doesn't it?

globalchinaacademy.org/fiona-moore/

Get your Canadian stories and Canadian art right here! And... sorry 😀

Surprised no one's mentioned Emma of Normandy-- married to both Aethelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, so became Queen of England twice.

Lost Horrors: How The Eerie Telly Of The 1970s Birthed Liminal Dread - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Philip A. Suggar on how empty corridors and power cuts shaped modern liminal dread Plus a close look at The Lighthouse at the End of the World.

1970s TV couldn't afford monsters. So it made the corridors terrifying instead. Philip A. Suggar on liminal dread, power cuts, and Mr. Primrose's thresholds.

@felipeazucares.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

Also, don't get me started on the fact that, while Tolkien's record on female characters isn't great, the Jackson movie somehow manages to be worse.

The problem I have with the Jackson LOTR films is less that he wrote out Tom Bombadil than that he wrote out pretty much the entire environmentalist text and subtext of the books, so there's a whole cohort of people who think LOTR is just a series about Men fighting Orcs.

Tolkien: here's my story about heroes who live sustainably, never take more resources than they need, are kind to each other, and lead by supporting and nurturing their followers.

Tech bros:

Drogon is rather miffed.

As was said about Tony Blair: “Either he knew, in which case he is too wicked to be Prime Minister; or he didn’t know, in which case he is too stupid to be Prime Minister.”

Journo With A Shotgun.

Thank you! I am fortunate enough to have a very good charity secondhand bookshop near me and I often look for treasure there.

I get around the space problem by... having a lot of shelves...

Miniature Showcase: The Streets of Ankh-Morpork When I started branching out into custom kits, one of the projects I really wanted to do was to do a book-nook of a street scene from Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. Which…

On my blog this week: that time I made a 1:24 scale street scene of Ankh-Morpork, complete with rats and sausages adoctorofmanythings.wpcomstaging.com/2026/04/15/m...

We'll see if it's one for the rest of us.

A blue shading to purple card with a picture of Fiona Moore at the centre and three pictures, of a miniature cabinet, a cat and some flatbread with eggs, at the bottom. The text outlines my recent work which you can find at https://drfionamoore.com or by following @drfionamoore on social media

Updated my calling card again, now with extra kitten picture.

Seriously? Someone said this in *2026*?! We've had enough time now that it's fairly clear what these things can do and while they are certainly changing some things in some industries we are not talking spinning jennies here.

"But then prices will come down and it'll be a win for consumers!" No, what consumers will get will be underpaid, and consequently overworked and under-resourced, plumbers, leading to half-arsed jobs and more problems down the line. 2/end

Lately I've been bothered by the techbros' blithe "train as a plumber!" solution to white-collar job losses. Because yes, society will always need plumbers, but plumbing work is not exactly infinite, and you will wind up with an overcrowded market. Not good for either supplier or customer. 1/...

All respect to Neil for keeping up the fight for us to have human authored stories.