Anytime I am struggling and have nowhere to go, public libraries are my sanctuary.
A safe haven with warmth, restrooms, internet access, books, and the simple dignity of being able to exist in peace—without any expectation of spending money.
These are the books, old and new, I most enjoyed reading in 2024, or those I judged to be the best, or both. Might do a thread. NB. I go into a few in more depth on the next episode of Backlisted, our ’Winter Reading’ special. @backlisted.bsky.social
*As a career sci-fi writer with a fondness for props and gadgets, it's been pretty common for me to meet tech people who say, "Hey remember that thing you wrote about in that story, well I just built one of those"
*However, it's never the thing I had in mind, and always the thing he had in his mind
Dear hateful fuckwits,
I don’t quite have the right words to describe Rejection by @tonytula.com, but it really pierced me and it’s the closest thing to reading David Foster Wallace I’ve encountered since we lost him. It’s upsetting and hilarious and impressively deranged.
Great Circle
Five minds
Legends and lattes
I’ve been on the radio (BBC Wiltshire and BBC Gloucester) again and I’ve been talking books!
I recommended Great Circle, Five Minds and Legends and Lattes - all excellent books.
Books available in the shop and on our website
Me yammering on available on BBC sounds
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
Thomas Mann
I'm gonna make an online microwave simulator.
features:
- realistic microwave sound effects
- +30 seconds button
- rotating turntable with internal lighting
Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of Christmas by Tim Major for a festive caper. What are you reading at the moment?
Also as it’s the last one of the year - what was your favourite read of 2025? Tempt us!
I think I'm gonna write about final fantasy 7 rebirth.
You had infinity money and you made this game. I think I'm gonna write a series of questions I wish I could ask the team
Watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S4E16 “Bar Association” and remembered I got this poster a few years back
I'm reading Dracula and after a century of vampire fiction teaching me that Vampires burn in sunlight it was a genuine jumpscare when Mina and Jonathan strolling down a sunny street and bumping into the Count.
“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I don’t know how many more things I will get to create with the time I have left in this world, but I promise you this… i will make every attempt to make it a collection of obscure oddities your friends won’t have heard of.
Awful to see end of this key hospital in north #Gaza & patients and health staff sacrificed there. Israeli forces use over-the-top tactics in its war but Hamas equally to blame for abusing the sanctity of such facilities in first place. Innocents suffer www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
"The drone attacks are horrific. But the government’s actions against those who speak about them have become more dreadful."
#Amhara #Ethiopia
www.thereporterethiopia.com/43155/
🚨BREAKING🚨 #WHO #Israel
The moment @israeldefenseforce.bsky.social struck the Sanaa International Airport while Director-General of World Health Organization @who.int Tedros Adhanom, was present at the airport. Absolutely unacceptable specially knowing he was there to make peaceful negotiations!
🇪🇷n soldiers’ actions in #Tigray may amount to crimes against humanity, per Amnesty International’s findings.
@GenocideVC @UNOSAPG @hrw
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
The report ‘🇪🇷n Troops ‘Committed War Crimes’ in Ethiopia After Peace Deal” calls for accountability & justice for the victims of these atrocities in Tigray.
@UNOSAPG
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
Amnesty International’s report extrajudicial executions & sexual enslavement by 🇪🇷n forces months after the peace deal.
@marcorubio @hrw
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
Despite a peace agreement signed in Nov. 2022, 🇪🇷n soldiers continued to execute civilians& sexually enslave women in #Tigray
@SecBlinken
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
🇪🇷n troops have committed war crimes &/possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s #Tigray region, according to @amnesty.
@StateDept
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
🇪🇷n troops have committed war crimes &/possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s #Tigray region, according to @amnesty.
@StateDept
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
Despite a peace agreement signed in Nov. 2022, 🇪🇷n soldiers continued to execute civilians& sexually enslave women in #Tigray
@SecBlinken
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
Amnesty International’s report extrajudicial executions & sexual enslavement by 🇪🇷n forces months after the peace deal.
@marcorubio @hrw
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
The report ‘🇪🇷n Troops ‘Committed War Crimes’ in Ethiopia After Peace Deal” calls for accountability & justice for the victims of these atrocities in Tigray.
@UNOSAPG
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
🇪🇷n soldiers’ actions in #Tigray may amount to crimes against humanity, per Amnesty International’s findings.
@GenocideVC @UNOSAPG @hrw
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement
#EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
ictj.org/latest-news/er…‘committed-war-crimes’-ethiopia-after-peace-deal-report
