Ben Stockman

The cover for the upcoming book "Atlantis: Children of the Gods", by me (!) A sinister-looking man with long blond hair perches unnaturally, like a bird, at the edge of a tiered plateau. Waterfalls run off the edges, while at the top a mysterious red light glows. We hope this cover screams 'buy my book' (please buy my book)

Speaking of gods, I think we're probably close enough in time for me to be able to reveal this, the kick-ass cover of my first book which is coming out VERY SOON INDEED NOW

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The illustrator is the amazingly talented James Hutton who is not on here but you can find on insta as stitching_a_laugh_to_darkness
#Booksky #writingcommunity

The cover for the upcoming book "Atlantis: Children of the Gods", by me (!) A sinister-looking man with long blond hair perches unnaturally, like a bird, at the edge of a tiered plateau. Waterfalls run off the edges, while at the top a mysterious red light glows. We hope this cover screams 'buy my book' (please buy my book)

Speaking of gods, I think we're probably close enough in time for me to be able to reveal this, the kick-ass cover of my first book which is coming out VERY SOON INDEED NOW

Ye gods! Inject this directly into my eyeballs

I've been doing this thing for years without realising there were authors submitting their stuff to a website...? or that said website had some really shitty AI takes last year so now we don't call it #Nanowrimo because fuck AI, obviously, but... what do we call it now, people? #writingcommunity

I hadn't realised until just now that we're not calling it #Nanowrimo anymore but I'm still going to try and write 1667 words a day in November anyway! 1983 today.

Support independent bookstores, please.
Also, fuck Jeff Bezos right in the ear #booksky

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

The thing that surprises me most about this statement is that Facebook has a privacy and data policy beyond "you have no privacy" and "we're harvesting your data."

"I am afraid my rights might end."
"You betcha life, my Hindu friend!"
"What about us brain-dead slobs?!"
"All the immigrants took your jobs."

Why you should leave X A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

Here’s the truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely.

It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch who has declared his hostility to sane, democratic politics.

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Do you have a lot of annoying admin tasks or household chores you need to accomplish, but never seem to find the time for? Then may I suggest: setting aside a day to do nothing but write, you will be amazed at how many such tasks you can accomplish.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

We need to prosecute this fucking grifter

Once again Keir Starmer is nothing but a windsock, flapping in whichever direction the breeze flows, somehow blissfully unaware that the breeze is Farage's noxious eggy farts.

a man in a top hat and bow tie says the suspense is terrible and i hope it 'll last Alt: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, saying "the suspense is terrible! I hope it'll last."

Big Christmas Eve vibes here this morning

Not for the first time, I ask "how do we prosecute these thieving 'investors' and claw back every last ill-gotten dividend?" @goodlawproject.bsky.social

Thanks very much Ben, I'll reach out to them

Hi Ben! As a huge fan of your work I wondered if you might be kind enough to consider writing a cover quote for a debut fantasy/ adventure novel that I'm about to publish? It would mean a great deal to me to have your endorsement.

The first recorded use of the name "Redwood" in English dates back to the mid-1500s, though long before this it was used as an adjective in Scotland to mean "completely deranged".

Petition for a new council of Nicea to make the bible more like an action movie. Should read like it was directed by Michael Bay.

"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god. And he was PISSED you guys."

"Look out!" shouted Jesus. "It's Pontius Pilate, and he hath come to smite us in his chopper!"
Benjamin 10:22

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

OPTIMISM. Taxing the assets of the billionaire class is the only way out of growing inequality. Let's tax land ownership while we're at it, including everything owned by the church and crown.

Paging @andrewkeithwalker.bsky.social

The tower of St Mark's square in Venice with the words "No kings, No Bezos" projected onto it. Fuck yeah, Venice.

An eerily accurate representation of Bezos in a tuxedo with his pants down, sitting on a pile of Amazon parcels that extend right up his butt. Venice does not like Jeff.

Dummy Jeff Bezos sits in a gondola with his dummy bride, carrying a sign saying 'just married'. The cold, dead eyes of dummy Jeff are somehow warmer and less terrifying than the cold, dead eyes of actual Jeff.

Dummy Jeff floats past a ferry, clinging to an Amazon parcel and a fistful of money. The irony of this is that this will be how actual Jeff ends his days, clinging to his cash floating in the detritus of the world his company helped destroy.

I've always loved Venice, but I love it more now I've seen their reaction to the Bezos wedding.

@parthenoid.bsky.social Hi Sian! Would it be ok to DM you about a work-related thing please?

Preach! And the less said about who the next Doctor will be the better. In a show with limitless storytelling potential he sure has taken a lot of backwards steps.