Mahmud El Sayed

Brilliant news! Congratulations!

When someone asks you, 'What Time Is It?' but you've just watched One Battle After Another.

Me: Time doesn't exist, yet it controls us anyway. Viva La Revolution! 🫡

Just bought Shadow Ticket. Can't help but think that this might be the last new Pynchon I get to read. Give the man his Nobel already!

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

Stage five of rejection:
"What will it take to convince you to recognise me as a once-in-a-generation talent?" 😂🫡😂

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How it started vs. How it's going (Maximus edition)

"There’s a difference between peace and liberation. You can have injustice and have peace. You can have peace and be enslaved. So, peace isn’t the answer - liberation is the answer. That's the white man's word - 'peace.' Liberation is our word."
- Kwame Ture

How it started vs. How it's going (Mew edition)

Horrible to hear, Stew. This kind of thing has become much more normalised, unfortunately. I dread to think where we are heading as a country.

Today I sat next to racists planning openly planning to murder people in a cafe How have we come to a place where racists can openly talk about murdering people in public with no consequence?

I had the worst lunch. Honestly.

Maybe @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social could cover the rise in the far right, in racist attacks and, you know, the effect on millions of British people instead of platforming them every night

I'd settle for @theguardian.com doing even basic coverage of racism in the UK

Bleed the radiator, sure. But why stop there? Uppercut the boiler. Stab the taps. GBH the pipes. Shoot the sink and throttle the shower. Show your home amenities who's boss.

"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us."
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

When a writer comes down with a cold and needs to ask themselves for some sick leave.

"Of course, Mahmud, I have the same faith in you that all the editors and agents have!"

"Thank you, Mahmud."

"No, thank you. Mahmud."

"A conjuror!" said Lanark with loathing. "A damned conjuror!"
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark

Yep, just look at the Afghan translators data breach. This government sucks at data security even when it's trying. I don't doubt that they'll hire Palantir or some other dystopian corporation to actually run it on their behalf.

That's nothing! I was looking for pictures of people playing baseball under a twilight sky and you should've seen the nonsense google images came back with (ba dum tss 🥁)

100% this! Additionally, the UK government is crap at data security (see the Afghan translators data breach, for example).

Good cop: No cap, you don't want to mess with my partner. He can be totes delulu. Now, can I offer you some Prime?

Bad cop: Not me thinking of waterboarding you with that blue raspberry sweetness. Womp womp.

Good cop: Yo chat, are you hearing this?

😂😂😂

Tron: Ares trailer: We came here from the digital world...

Me: Isn't this the plot from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

“I am completely half afraid to think.”
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

Forgot just how weird The History Boys is.

The UK recognising Palestine is too little, too late. We won't be bought off with symbolic gestures. Free Palestine. End the Genocide. Hold those in our media and politics who have been complicit to account. Otherwise, it's meaningless.

Not me on the tube reading Gravity's Rainbow. "Performative reading? Never heard of it."

It was simultaneously raining and sunny with blue skies today! Absurdist weather.

Looks gorgeous!

Trying and failing to explain my excitement to non-Brits.

Far-right protests sees "record" crowds. This is the top story on every UK news outlet. Yet every weekend far more people come out to protest for Gaza and it is never reported. Our media is actively complicit in the rise of the far right and the suppression of the left.

There ain't no asylum here,
King Solomon he never lived round here,
Straight to hell, boy.
Go straight to hell, boy.
- The Clash, Straight to Hell

Gonna start greeting people by shouting POSHANKA!!! at them ala Silksong.

"Being a grown-up sucks." - Smee, Alien: Earth

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