Chris Brookmyre
@brookmyre.bsky.social
Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
We popped into Topping's Edinburgh to sign some more Ambrose Parry stock for Christmas. (Other half of writing partnership out of shot.)
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We popped into Topping's Edinburgh to sign some more Ambrose Parry stock for Christmas. (Other half of writing partnership out of shot.)
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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
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So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
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It's 106 miles to Fossanova, we have a full tank of gas, half a packet of communion wafers, it's dark and I'm wearing a cassock... HIT IT!
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It's 106 miles to Fossanova, we have a full tank of gas, half a packet of communion wafers, it's dark and I'm wearing a cassock... HIT IT!
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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It’s weird how the news sometimes isn’t news. “Farage the school racist” was in the public domain five years ago, but it just wasn’t getting any traction. (Tweets below from 2020) Sometimes a story just has to wait until its time has come…
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s weird how the news sometimes isn’t news. “Farage the school racist” was in the public domain five years ago, but it just wasn’t getting any traction. (Tweets below from 2020) Sometimes a story just has to wait until its time has come…
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
Farage had school friends who went to a different school.
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Farage had school friends who went to a different school.
This thread is glorious.
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This thread is glorious.
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And with perfect timing, I am off to see Fright Years again next week.
And with perfect timing, I am off to see Fright Years again next week.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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And with perfect timing, I am off to see Fright Years again next week.
And with perfect timing, I am off to see Fright Years again next week.
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
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new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
I'm at Waterstones Nottingham tomorrow evening, talking with Marisa Haetzman about Ambrose Parry and Jack Parlabane.
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm at Waterstones Nottingham tomorrow evening, talking with Marisa Haetzman about Ambrose Parry and Jack Parlabane.
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
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I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
I'm heading to Waterstones Nottingham Thursday. Come along and hear Marisa and me discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening.
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm heading to Waterstones Nottingham Thursday. Come along and hear Marisa and me discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening.
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
Nottingham - home to fans of crime since the Twelfth Century. Come along and hear us discuss Victorian murders and modern-day misdeeds as we discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening at Waterstones on Thursday.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Nottingham - home to fans of crime since the Twelfth Century. Come along and hear us discuss Victorian murders and modern-day misdeeds as we discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening at Waterstones on Thursday.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
I'm heading to Nottingham this Thursday for an event at Waterstones, chatting to Marisa Haetzman about the latest Ambrose Parry novel, The Death of Shame, and maybe offering a preview of the new Parlabane.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I'm heading to Nottingham this Thursday for an event at Waterstones, chatting to Marisa Haetzman about the latest Ambrose Parry novel, The Death of Shame, and maybe offering a preview of the new Parlabane.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Grok says no-one knows more about 19th Century Edinburgh medicine than Elon Musk, but you can put that to the test next Saturday, as we're heading to London for the St Andrew's Book Festival:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Grok says no-one knows more about 19th Century Edinburgh medicine than Elon Musk, but you can put that to the test next Saturday, as we're heading to London for the St Andrew's Book Festival:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...