Brian M. Milton
@munchkinstein.bsky.social
Short, rumpled Scotsman. Has a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left hand side.
Not on social media as much as he used to be but if he is, it will be occasional writing and a lot of stupid bollocks.
He/Him
https://munchkinstein.co.uk
Not on social media as much as he used to be but if he is, it will be occasional writing and a lot of stupid bollocks.
He/Him
https://munchkinstein.co.uk
Morning all. It's mid-December, be kind to your fellow sentient apes and stare at the sun while you still can.
December 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Morning all. It's mid-December, be kind to your fellow sentient apes and stare at the sun while you still can.
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Yo. Did you know that Iceland has 13 Santas?
They've got a Christmas cat (Jólaköttur) as well.
They start today, the 12th and last for 13 days each, so they overlap.
Let's count down the 13 Santas together.
They've got a Christmas cat (Jólaköttur) as well.
They start today, the 12th and last for 13 days each, so they overlap.
Let's count down the 13 Santas together.
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Yo. Did you know that Iceland has 13 Santas?
They've got a Christmas cat (Jólaköttur) as well.
They start today, the 12th and last for 13 days each, so they overlap.
Let's count down the 13 Santas together.
They've got a Christmas cat (Jólaköttur) as well.
They start today, the 12th and last for 13 days each, so they overlap.
Let's count down the 13 Santas together.
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I remember seeing him do Parliamo Glasgow when he was playing the Dame in a couple of Edinburgh pantos in the 1960s... Had the audience in fits!
RIP Stanley Baxter. At one point his TV show was the biggest on UK TV. A story goes that they were cancelled because so much of the budget went on his costumes! Boy, did he love to play dress up! Other than playing the dame he gave us Parliamo Glasgow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0rg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0rg...
upatra burd's
YouTube video by cb76kfc
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I remember seeing him do Parliamo Glasgow when he was playing the Dame in a couple of Edinburgh pantos in the 1960s... Had the audience in fits!
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Slides from a Home Office presentation for employers on “earned settlement” — note the case studies: they explicitly play the “good migrant” versus “bad migrant” narrative. Guess which category Sarah, the American, is placed in?
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Slides from a Home Office presentation for employers on “earned settlement” — note the case studies: they explicitly play the “good migrant” versus “bad migrant” narrative. Guess which category Sarah, the American, is placed in?
Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow - Mia Farra's farra, the marra & the barra
YouTube video by Cheeseford
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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You want niche? Oh, we got niche.
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
You want niche? Oh, we got niche.
Heading home from the work's Christmas do. Very much a summary of the trajectory of the company is that despite me working there for fifteen years there were six of us and I knew none of them.
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Heading home from the work's Christmas do. Very much a summary of the trajectory of the company is that despite me working there for fifteen years there were six of us and I knew none of them.
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Damn it. Spent all day trying to open the family advent calendars and failing. Windows 11 not installed.
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Damn it. Spent all day trying to open the family advent calendars and failing. Windows 11 not installed.
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From 23 January, Perth Museum will be showing one of the jewels in our collections – Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter 📜✒️
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From 23 January, Perth Museum will be showing one of the jewels in our collections – Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter 📜✒️
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This is great. Like Scotland.
I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Alexandra Stronach 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
ALEXANDRA STRONACH Bev Eats His Entire Wife The grimoire had to construct the simulacra from meat, bone, gristle, but Bev knew Nora would’ve had no truck with that; she was a committed vegetarian, eve...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is great. Like Scotland.
Aha, so their cunning plan is to tinker round the edges where the Right won't see, so won't vote for them, meanwhile making a noise about it so it sounds worse and the left won't vote for them.
Geniuses, each and every one.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Geniuses, each and every one.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Will Labour’s move to limit ECHR deter the far right or alienate progressive voters?
Previously sceptical MPs now want to modernise human rights law to prevent an overreach of the law and losing to the far right
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Aha, so their cunning plan is to tinker round the edges where the Right won't see, so won't vote for them, meanwhile making a noise about it so it sounds worse and the left won't vote for them.
Geniuses, each and every one.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Geniuses, each and every one.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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A heads-up, fellow UK-based #DoctorWho fans, the recent animated version of the mostly-missing William Hartnell story The Celestial Toymaker has now been added to the BBC Iplayer and it's a superb interpretation!
Parts 1 &3 are especiaĺly delightful. ❤️👏
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002md6r
Parts 1 &3 are especiaĺly delightful. ❤️👏
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002md6r
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A heads-up, fellow UK-based #DoctorWho fans, the recent animated version of the mostly-missing William Hartnell story The Celestial Toymaker has now been added to the BBC Iplayer and it's a superb interpretation!
Parts 1 &3 are especiaĺly delightful. ❤️👏
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002md6r
Parts 1 &3 are especiaĺly delightful. ❤️👏
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002md6r
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Ken Campbell bought a parrot instead of a computer and I think we should all have a nice long think about why he was right and we are wrong
...but then, his daughter Daisy once gave him the money to buy a computer, and the computer shop she suggested was next door to a pet shop. He went home with an African grey parrot called Doris instead – so maybe that was why
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ken Campbell bought a parrot instead of a computer and I think we should all have a nice long think about why he was right and we are wrong
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Today’s historical anniversary begins with a question:
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Today’s historical anniversary begins with a question:
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🎉Ernest H. Shepard was born on this day back in 1879!
The celebrated, beloved illustrator contributed to Punch magazine for decades and illustrated many beloved books, including the Winnie-the-Pooh books as well as "The Secret Garden" and "The Wind in the Willows".
The celebrated, beloved illustrator contributed to Punch magazine for decades and illustrated many beloved books, including the Winnie-the-Pooh books as well as "The Secret Garden" and "The Wind in the Willows".
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🎉Ernest H. Shepard was born on this day back in 1879!
The celebrated, beloved illustrator contributed to Punch magazine for decades and illustrated many beloved books, including the Winnie-the-Pooh books as well as "The Secret Garden" and "The Wind in the Willows".
The celebrated, beloved illustrator contributed to Punch magazine for decades and illustrated many beloved books, including the Winnie-the-Pooh books as well as "The Secret Garden" and "The Wind in the Willows".
It's December and so time for the annual "How's your writing hobby going, Brian?" blog post.
Pleasingly, the answer is"No bad, cheers."
munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
Pleasingly, the answer is"No bad, cheers."
munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
2025: The Year of the Distracted Success – Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsense
munchkinstein.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's December and so time for the annual "How's your writing hobby going, Brian?" blog post.
Pleasingly, the answer is"No bad, cheers."
munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
Pleasingly, the answer is"No bad, cheers."
munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
Every time I've seen this today I've had to blink several times to stop seeing it as a bride with an overly goth bouquet who is despairing as their father refuses to ask where the church is.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Every time I've seen this today I've had to blink several times to stop seeing it as a bride with an overly goth bouquet who is despairing as their father refuses to ask where the church is.
Opposing the far right by doing absolutely everything they want is now so much of Starmer's answer to all questions that I'm expecting him to hire Tommy Robinson as an advisor soon.
Appeasement doesn't work, we had a war about that. You'd also think a human rights lawyer would have some sort of empathy.
Utterly moronic. Shameful.
Utterly moronic. Shameful.
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Opposing the far right by doing absolutely everything they want is now so much of Starmer's answer to all questions that I'm expecting him to hire Tommy Robinson as an advisor soon.
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I've done a full post of my year in review - award elegibility, things done and stuff seen. Bonus picture of a peacock!
emfaulds.com/news/end-of-...
emfaulds.com/news/end-of-...
End of 2025 roundup and awards eligibility post!
Awards eligibility 2025 and a review of author events during the year and some photos of the things I saw.
emfaulds.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've done a full post of my year in review - award elegibility, things done and stuff seen. Bonus picture of a peacock!
emfaulds.com/news/end-of-...
emfaulds.com/news/end-of-...
Two new trees and a Santa down on this morning's run, says a sad wee voice in the opening apocalypse montage.
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Two new trees and a Santa down on this morning's run, says a sad wee voice in the opening apocalypse montage.
Being me, I'd be tempted to go the other way:
"With luke warm regards."
"With barely warmed over a roaring candle regards."
"With regards wafted over a trangia stove on an Argyll hillside in March."
"With just heated enough to be harbouring e. coli regards."
"With luke warm regards."
"With barely warmed over a roaring candle regards."
"With regards wafted over a trangia stove on an Argyll hillside in March."
"With just heated enough to be harbouring e. coli regards."
Signed, "Yours, turning up the bunsen burner flame under the stoppered test tube full of my regards"
Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Being me, I'd be tempted to go the other way:
"With luke warm regards."
"With barely warmed over a roaring candle regards."
"With regards wafted over a trangia stove on an Argyll hillside in March."
"With just heated enough to be harbouring e. coli regards."
"With luke warm regards."
"With barely warmed over a roaring candle regards."
"With regards wafted over a trangia stove on an Argyll hillside in March."
"With just heated enough to be harbouring e. coli regards."
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When margarine was banned in Canada, it was bootleggers in Newfoundland who kept Canadians supplied.
The manufacturing of margarine is even enshrined in the Newfoundland Act.
This is the story of Canada's Margarine Prohibition Years.
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The manufacturing of margarine is even enshrined in the Newfoundland Act.
This is the story of Canada's Margarine Prohibition Years.
🧵 1/12
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
When margarine was banned in Canada, it was bootleggers in Newfoundland who kept Canadians supplied.
The manufacturing of margarine is even enshrined in the Newfoundland Act.
This is the story of Canada's Margarine Prohibition Years.
🧵 1/12
The manufacturing of margarine is even enshrined in the Newfoundland Act.
This is the story of Canada's Margarine Prohibition Years.
🧵 1/12
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Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
🧵👇
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
🧵👇
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Sure this list is bigger each time I see it)
(Sure this list is bigger each time I see it)
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Sure this list is bigger each time I see it)
(Sure this list is bigger each time I see it)