Matthew Stott

Got an email this morning saying my copy of the new Nathan Ballingrud book was out for delivery. 🤠

They did not delivery.😥

Just an insane place.

Are we certain they know what the word ‘ceasefire’ means?

You’re too much with the dogs, okay? Relax.

People using the term ‘reskeet’, stop that.

A whitey was booted! (Though they did have a good go at one of the few remaining non-whiteys.)

Celebrity Traitors spoilers😱:

Not the beeeest look that the first two people voted out at the round table are black…😳

Currently reading another novella in Wild Hunt Books Northern Weird line:

New publishing rule: hardbacks and paperbacks come out at the same time. Because I do not want to buy your hardback. Who wants all of these massive hardbacks clogging up the place. How dare you make me wait a year to get the version I want. How. Dare. You.

Watched the first ep of this. FUNNY.

This was a Good story.

He’s still out there, lurking. He’s shopping a book around to literary agents.

Got ill for a week and it shoved me out of my recent writing routine. I’d actually been writing semi-regularly for the first time in years. Then illness struck and not a word for three weeks. Until today. Hopefully back at it again. Got to finish this trash draft. Annoying little thing.

Currently reading. Great cover.

Furious that I need to buy new socks. You should be able to pick these things up for free. Fuming. 😤 Fucking socks. 🧦 😭

It’s weird how often ‘we’ll cut spending!’ Is a major political selling point, and how often voters think ‘yes, love that for us’. ‘Would you like us to slash funding to all of these things that make your life easier and more pleasant? Vote for us!’

A new Tron movie, starring Jared Leto. What a cursed sentence.

Reminded how good Ballingrud is and how terrific this thin book full of weirdness and darkness is.

The obsession with box office is bizarre. Did you invest in the movie? No? Then shush.

I guess I’ll take slow, kinda boring blusky over that boiling spasm of horrors.

Occasionally I take a peek at twitter, and it’s such an awful shit fire of a place, full of the very worst people. You’re just fed loon after loon.

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

There is only one, solitary party and leader that now stands willing to defend unequivocally the basic human and civil rights that have underpinned English law for centuries: @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social . That’s real patriotism! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Labour are scum: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Ah, here come the 27 extra versions of Swifts new album, with different front covers and an acoustic track on each! Such a scammy scamster. Another billionaire who apparently doesn’t have enough.

Gonna give this another read before part two comes out in a few weeks:

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

What on earth are Labour taking about. Useless, empty, pricks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The extreme crime of not moving out of the way when asked so I could get off the bus.

Yelled ‘are you demented?’ at a stranger. Not a question I’ve asked before. They neither confirmed nor denied.

UK, it’s really not the 1950s anymore, both parents work so have to use nursery services, sort it out, you’re pooring us.