Jon Courtenay Grimwood
@joncg.bsky.social
Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
'Imposters posing as No 10 staff,' is possibly accurate, if not quite in the way No. 10 mean...
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
'Imposters posing as No 10 staff,' is possibly accurate, if not quite in the way No. 10 mean...
Pretty certain there's a vat grown clone of Bond in some fragile trillionaire super villain's lab just waiting to be be awakened. Either that, or Q's been working on this for the best part of a decade, and just forgot to mention it earlier.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Pretty certain there's a vat grown clone of Bond in some fragile trillionaire super villain's lab just waiting to be be awakened. Either that, or Q's been working on this for the best part of a decade, and just forgot to mention it earlier.
Not the result we wanted, or frankly deserved, but less grim than it could have been...
ScovNzl
ScovNzl
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Not the result we wanted, or frankly deserved, but less grim than it could have been...
ScovNzl
ScovNzl
Having failed to turn lead to gold, Alchemist John Damian promised James IV fly from Stirling to France (and had to be scooped up off the turf below the castle walls).
I feel an equivalent is the least the OpenAI board can do.
I feel an equivalent is the least the OpenAI board can do.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Having failed to turn lead to gold, Alchemist John Damian promised James IV fly from Stirling to France (and had to be scooped up off the turf below the castle walls).
I feel an equivalent is the least the OpenAI board can do.
I feel an equivalent is the least the OpenAI board can do.
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For reference this wasn't a guest or a correspondent, this was the anchor, Emma Barnett.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
For reference this wasn't a guest or a correspondent, this was the anchor, Emma Barnett.
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BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
Hive mind: Is a 160,000 word novel still viable for the bigger publishers - or are we now firmly in the world of small, perfectly formed, etc? (Which I'm obviously also happy with!)
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hive mind: Is a 160,000 word novel still viable for the bigger publishers - or are we now firmly in the world of small, perfectly formed, etc? (Which I'm obviously also happy with!)
Containing perhaps the best press conference you will ever see...
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Containing perhaps the best press conference you will ever see...
It was also astonishing the number of tribes that Columbus suddenly 'discovered' to be practising cannibalism, after Queen Isabella announced this would be reason enough for enslaving them.
The US government is packed from top to bottom with racist violent settlers since they first washed ashore.
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It was also astonishing the number of tribes that Columbus suddenly 'discovered' to be practising cannibalism, after Queen Isabella announced this would be reason enough for enslaving them.
Not sure whether it's sweet or appalling that the UK press have managed to convince themselves that it's a one bad apple thing...
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Not sure whether it's sweet or appalling that the UK press have managed to convince themselves that it's a one bad apple thing...
Orders five. Sends four back as they're too expensive...
INNOVATION: New Scottish Seating System for WINTER season?
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Orders five. Sends four back as they're too expensive...
Be v surprised if the same doesn't apply to Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, Gaiman, etc
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Be v surprised if the same doesn't apply to Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, Gaiman, etc
Frankly, if they don't reverse the polarity they're doomed.
Technobabble thread. Add your favourite!
“Delete all heuristics” is such sci-fi treknobabble I’m almost in favor of it. They should reroute power through the primary sensor array while their in there, maybe cycle the variable shield harmonics?
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Frankly, if they don't reverse the polarity they're doomed.
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Reposted by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Great advert for Wales…
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Great advert for Wales…
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Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
Priam: Hindsight is all very well. However, outsourcing the wooden horse made perfect sense at the time.
Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Priam: Hindsight is all very well. However, outsourcing the wooden horse made perfect sense at the time.
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So. The weird thing about the trial of Soldier F is not that he was acquitted. It is that he was not charged for the correct crimes.
The Saville Inquiry found that he definitely killed Michael Kelly, Bernard McGuigan and Patrick Doherty, and possibly also William McKinney...
The Saville Inquiry found that he definitely killed Michael Kelly, Bernard McGuigan and Patrick Doherty, and possibly also William McKinney...
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
So. The weird thing about the trial of Soldier F is not that he was acquitted. It is that he was not charged for the correct crimes.
The Saville Inquiry found that he definitely killed Michael Kelly, Bernard McGuigan and Patrick Doherty, and possibly also William McKinney...
The Saville Inquiry found that he definitely killed Michael Kelly, Bernard McGuigan and Patrick Doherty, and possibly also William McKinney...
He's his very own Old Etonian ChatGPT...
Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
October 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
He's his very own Old Etonian ChatGPT...
'Exile to Highland town...?'
FFS.
FFS.
King Charles may be planning to send Prince Andrew to a castle in the Scottish Highlands, according to reports 👀
Prince Andrew faces exile to Highland town amid pressure to give up mansion
www.thenational.scot
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
'Exile to Highland town...?'
FFS.
FFS.
Had my Covid jag late yesterday Boots, £98. (In previous years it was free, what with being antique), and the nurse mentioned some patients are getting jags done every six months, and a few every three.
Feel crap, but hey. Write dizzy, edit vaguely sentient...
Probably works.
Feel crap, but hey. Write dizzy, edit vaguely sentient...
Probably works.
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Had my Covid jag late yesterday Boots, £98. (In previous years it was free, what with being antique), and the nurse mentioned some patients are getting jags done every six months, and a few every three.
Feel crap, but hey. Write dizzy, edit vaguely sentient...
Probably works.
Feel crap, but hey. Write dizzy, edit vaguely sentient...
Probably works.
Long lost sequel to Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat finally discovered?
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Long lost sequel to Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat finally discovered?
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Premium newsletter: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW more for Broadcom by the end of 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months - and to do several impossible things at once.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/
www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/
OpenAI Needs $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months
Hello readers! This premium edition features a generous free intro because I like to try and get some of the info out there, but the real indepth stuff is below the cut. Nevertheless, I deeply appreci...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Premium newsletter: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW more for Broadcom by the end of 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months - and to do several impossible things at once.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/
www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/
Now, if he'd like to announce his conversion to Catholicism and that he's taking the surname Stuart...
BREAKING:
King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week
First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation
King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week
First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation
King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
King and Pope to make history with prayers together at Vatican
Charles and Leo will be the first British monarch and pontiff since Henry VIII was excommunicated to join together for a holy service
www.thetimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Now, if he'd like to announce his conversion to Catholicism and that he's taking the surname Stuart...