Alan Baxter

They've changed the guy playing Vesemir too!

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."

IG mr.funkys0ul

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Graphic with text as per the post. Graphic shows a computer screen with bin bags.

Macquarie Dictionary has announced 'AI slop' has been chosen by its committee and voted by the public as the word of the year for 2025.

AI slop refers to low-quality content created by generative AI which often contains errors and is not requested by the user, according to Macquarie.

I've updated the page to hopefully make that clearer and disabled the buttons. Sorry about that!

Not available from me until publication on Feb 13th, sorry! I don't have a way to set up pre-orders directly through my site.

Three books on a table looking fucking awesome together. The Gulp - Five Tales of Horror The Fall - Five More Tales From The Gulp The Rise - Another Five Tales From The Gulp Cover art is all original oil paintings by Halinka Orszulok.

The 3rd volume of Tales From The Gulp, The Rise, is coming on Feb 13th. Gotta grab 'em all! The Gulp and The Fall out now. Pre-orders for The Rise are live now for ebooks, print coming any time soon. Or if you're in Aus, excellently priced signed paperbacks through my website from Feb 13th onwards.

This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?

Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?

And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?

You know you've been married a long time when...

Me: This word search says the first word you see defines your 2026. First thing I saw was marriage.

My wife: Huh. Getting married again?

Me: Or maybe 2026 is the year marriage finally finishes me off.

My wife: Here's hoping.

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its im asuming a bookstore with those words in the front on a poster

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what

j.paulmonter All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. cinema_nasties Al defenders are so embarrassing drrachelbarr Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention to.

Frames from Star Trek: DS9. The Klingon, Kor, meets Jadzia, who is the new host of the symbiont, Dax. Kor grabs Jadzia in a hug and says, "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" (Curzon being the previous Dax host.) Jadzia replies, "I'm Jadzia now." Kor simply says, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend." Then there's a Klingon flag in trans flag colours that says, If Klingons can get it, so can you.

It really is that fucking simple, friends.

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Reddit, man...

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YouTube video by Alan Baxter First look at THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3

I got the first proof copy of THE RISE. It looks great! In this video, I see it for the first time and talk a bit about the series and this new book in particular. It'll be available for pre-order soon. Releases Friday 13th Feb '26. I hope you'll give it a go!

#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

I frequently get on a soapbox about writing "rules". There's only one rule: You have to write.

Everything else is advice and your mileage may vary.

Congrats!

You're the backwards-facing splinter as we slide down the banister of life.

Ha! Thanks man - that guy was even freaking me out in the end.

Thanks man!

Thrilled to get an early copy of The Rise by @alanbaxter.bsky.social - we’re returning to The Gulp and I’m excited!

I hope you dig it!

Well, fuck Anna and fuck her Archive. Thieving shits.

More ambedo, less doomscrolling.

Ha!

The Gulp, The Fall and The Rise side by side on a wooden table.

aaahhhhhh they look great together!

YouTube video by Alan Baxter First look at THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3

I got the first proof copy of THE RISE. It looks great! In this video, I see it for the first time and talk a bit about the series and this new book in particular. It'll be available for pre-order soon. Releases Friday 13th Feb '26. I hope you'll give it a go!

#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

Oh, no tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering, Charlie Brown.