#Israel kills Palestinians in Gaza and has announced it will not abide by the terms for facilitating humanitarian aid, despite the #ceasefire agreement. This is reported by various news sites. Nothing on Australia's ABC News re this. Do they have a blanket rule: no negative reports re Israel? #Gaza

CS Lewis was the JK Rowling of his time. He's a racist, homophobic, misogynist (not original but I will die on this hill)

Terrance Dicks is one the best ever science fiction writers

the final book of the Gormenghast trilogy ruins it.

this one cranks

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fantastic stuff, a bit of gorgeous post-This Heat dub

Anyone still on X, get off now.
Look at what you’re funding.

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Wild question. The Sprawl from Neuromancer, Ursula Le Guin's ansible, the drummer beat implants from Halo Jones.

Guns 'n' Stone Roses

Psst:

A reminder for American writers: High tea is not fancier tea, it’s supper. It’s a more substantial meal with a main dish, rather than tea, biscuits, scones, little snack foods. And it’s high because it’s served on a high table — dining table height — not a low, tea or coffee table.

SF heads who i hang with - a good chat here by proper cool nerds who love science fiction

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

you can put together a double of good bits from their whole career, but you could also just get Here Come The Warm Jets and you'd probably be better off anyway.

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

Readers of my first book Tilting at Windmills may be interested to learn that the inner sleeve of @warringtonruncorn.com’s new LP depicts the ‘betong’ category of miniature golf course, as utilised in international minigolf tournaments to this day. Hats off to that dead town planner!

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I really wish I could block every single sports betting ad from every social media platform I'm on.

good grief. Uhm. Weird as hell. Stuff writes itself.

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pulgasari (1985)

Strong contender for best kaiju flick made by a director who's been kidnapped by Kim Jong Il and forced to churn out movies in North Korea

Directed by Shin Sang-ok - BOTD in 1926

yeah, it's an awful, awful moment - and it captures a really vile aspect of Australia as a colonial country.

THIS THING IS UTTERLY INCREDIBLE.

coming in from the colony here, I love this film, it remains terrifyingly relevant. I live a long way from the desert/outback regions, but the people are so very accurate. Also, the kangaroo hunt is horrific - and it still happens. There is a culture of hunting that is utterly monstrous.