Kieran M

Songs From A Toxic Box, by Cancel The Astronauts 12 track album

The band I'm in have a new album coming out on Friday. Friday! A bit of Scottish indie pop, what's not to like? Over on our bandcamp, you can have a listen to a couple of songs and maybe even buy a copy...? Could happen.

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

This. Always this.

YouTube video by POV Travel Cheapest Capsule Room on a Gorgeous Overnight Ferry in Japan-21h Trip | Kyoto Maizuru to Hokkaido

Very relaxing. This one in particular inspired a lot of the decor in MFWVM's Dahlia.

This one stemmed from a pandemic-borne love of POV travel videos. It's a whole genre. At first, I only watched ones from places I'd already been, cos anything else was spoilers, but soon I found the oddly satisfying niche of guys silently walking round ferries travelling between Japanese islands.

Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines The ticket blepped out the machine like a tongue. Laughing to himself, giddy with jetlag, Rory used both hands to take hold of it. One hand would be impolite in Japan. Written in English: Midnight Fer...

New story day! Many thanks to Macabre Magazine for publishing Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines, which is about the dangers of bringing a wheel of cheese aboard a boat.

The Lightning Dancer — Part One By Deborah L. Davitt

Here's a direct link to part one of this week's story, The Lightning Dancer by Deborah L. Davitt. Loved this one!

Delighted to be doing some reading for The Daily Tomorrow, and the quality really is as good as Jeffrey says - some outstanding stories in the pile, not least this week's, starting today. Read for free!

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Baffled that different writing apps can't agree on word counts. If our fancy adding machines can't even reliably add a few thousand words together, what's all this built on? You're telling me they *guess*? Truly we have built ourselves a house of cards. How many cards? There's no way to know!

YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

This is just stunning.

Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines The ticket blepped out the machine like a tongue. Laughing to himself, giddy with jetlag, Rory used both hands to take hold of it. One hand would be impolite in Japan. Written in English: Midnight Fer...

New story day! Many thanks to Macabre Magazine for publishing Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines, which is about the dangers of bringing a wheel of cheese aboard a boat.

Read my short story, Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever, for free over on The Daily Tomorrow...

workshopping a new emoji

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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YouTube video by Larry & Paul UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this.

So would you do us a favour and share?

UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

Life is the thing that happens when you wish you could be writing

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Oh! And I thought you were just trying to give me a massive head!

And, for @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social subscribers, a few words on what the hell I was thinking when I wrote GMHSF

The final part of Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever...

you're gonna wanna see this

Skullhamster! Call your band that.