Richard K Morgan
@quellist1.bsky.social
Ageing futurist, still commits occasional fantasy. Novels, games, comics, streaming TV. "The High Priest of Violent Science Fiction" - Guardian
Wouldn't even need much of an update tbh........
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Wouldn't even need much of an update tbh........
We've scared droves of people away from holidaying in our country by mistake. How do we fix that?
- Make it more expensive for them.
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- Make it more expensive for them.
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The new plan makes non-U.S. residents “pay a higher rate to help support the care and maintenance of America’s parks,” the Department of the Interior said.
Trump Hits Millions of Tourists With a National Park Price Spike
International travelers will soon have to pay three times as much as Americans to visit the national parks.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We've scared droves of people away from holidaying in our country by mistake. How do we fix that?
- Make it more expensive for them.
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- Make it more expensive for them.
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Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
What I wouldn't give to have Dennis Pennis embedded in the WHPC.........
Press: "What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?"
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
Trump "Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land."
Yeah. That's basically how surrendering works.
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What I wouldn't give to have Dennis Pennis embedded in the WHPC.........
Man, I miss the 90s!
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Man, I miss the 90s!
And the award for driest deadpan humour in the field of archaeology goes to Martin Furholt of Kiel University by a country mile -
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
And the award for driest deadpan humour in the field of archaeology goes to Martin Furholt of Kiel University by a country mile -
Well, Atlantic, that's my subscription over.
I mean, fuck OFF!
I mean, fuck OFF!
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Well, Atlantic, that's my subscription over.
I mean, fuck OFF!
I mean, fuck OFF!
If I were anything to do with the Call of Duty franchise, I'd be scrapping zombie mode & introducing something called PUTINFESTATION - set of maps inhabited by grubby baboon-sized Putin creatures with flappy, useless little wings & ratty fangs & a long, lolling forked tongue.
"Gotta kill 'em all!"
"Gotta kill 'em all!"
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If I were anything to do with the Call of Duty franchise, I'd be scrapping zombie mode & introducing something called PUTINFESTATION - set of maps inhabited by grubby baboon-sized Putin creatures with flappy, useless little wings & ratty fangs & a long, lolling forked tongue.
"Gotta kill 'em all!"
"Gotta kill 'em all!"
Bit of in-depth lit crit for your delectation, hot off the (Italian) press......
Big(ged up) in Messina - Richard K. Morgan
Twenty three years I’ve been doing this for a living, and still, it always comes as a bit of a bit of shock to the system when you realise that not only have people read and enjoyed your work, but the...
www.richardkmorgan.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Bit of in-depth lit crit for your delectation, hot off the (Italian) press......
Hmm - No Man's Land got a 2 star review from a Goodreads ARC reader, apparently because it was "Harsh, furious and lascivious" 😳
I mean - you say that like it's a *bad* thing.......
I mean - you say that like it's a *bad* thing.......
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hmm - No Man's Land got a 2 star review from a Goodreads ARC reader, apparently because it was "Harsh, furious and lascivious" 😳
I mean - you say that like it's a *bad* thing.......
I mean - you say that like it's a *bad* thing.......
Tell me again how feminism is so passé and those battles are all won now........
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Tell me again how feminism is so passé and those battles are all won now........
Calling @lavietidhar.bsky.social - get this one out again, fast, in time for the season! You'll win the credibility stakes hands down!
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Calling @lavietidhar.bsky.social - get this one out again, fast, in time for the season! You'll win the credibility stakes hands down!
What with the nights fair drawing in and all, how about a little bleak, autumnal noir?
Are you sitting comfortably?
Right, let's fix that!
Are you sitting comfortably?
Right, let's fix that!
Client - Richard K. Morgan
The address was in West Erlsley – they often were – in a maze of rundown tenements and concrete walkways that stank of piss and the charred extinction of small conjuring fires. Pathetic remnants of b...
www.richardkmorgan.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What with the nights fair drawing in and all, how about a little bleak, autumnal noir?
Are you sitting comfortably?
Right, let's fix that!
Are you sitting comfortably?
Right, let's fix that!
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Down in that there London….
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Down in that there London….
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
Unexpectedly cool view from the hotel room. (Shame about the weathe)
My (perhaps unkind) thought is that if this is genuinely giving the writers a headache, then they need to hire better writers.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My (perhaps unkind) thought is that if this is genuinely giving the writers a headache, then they need to hire better writers.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
(But I suspect it’s bollocks - a space filler article about nothing real.)
Can think of half a dozen easy fixes right now, right off the top of my head.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
If I could give one message to my son going off to university (which, at 14, he's still a ways off doing), it would be this -
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If I could give one message to my son going off to university (which, at 14, he's still a ways off doing), it would be this -
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
"You will be taught to think critically and in the abstract. It's a handy toolkit. Master it if you possibly can.
But don't mistake it for a way of life."
In return for which, he will presumably hypnotise Putin’s girlfriend into growing larger breasts…..
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
"It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In return for which, he will presumably hypnotise Putin’s girlfriend into growing larger breasts…..
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
Didn’t I tell you about this guy? The Farage of the Left indeed!
So, eighty odd hours later.........
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So, eighty odd hours later.........
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Oh FFS!
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh FFS!
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
Next up -
Was Slavery Really All That Bad?
And if not, can conservative working practices bring it back?
Reposted by Richard K Morgan
In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
Zack Polanski IS the British Left’s Nigel Farage.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Zack Polanski wants to be the British left’s Nigel Farage www.politico.eu/article/zack...
Zack Polanski wants to be the British left’s Nigel Farage
The eco-populist aims to beat Reform UK’s charismatic leader at his own game.
www.politico.eu
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Zack Polanski IS the British Left’s Nigel Farage.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.
Two sides of the same bullshit snake oil salesman coin.