James King

Like (so it seems) every other author on the planet, I too am now getting those fake "We Are A Book Club, Honest, Plz Pay Us To Read Your Novel Thnx" emails. These are scams, folks, don't fall for it. Don't engage. Delete & Block!

And I'm sure he won't be advancing any opinions that would be helpful to his other employers: Microsoft, Anthropic and Goldman Sachs

King Prince Charles is visiting the Vatican today, presumably to request Prince Andrew be moved to a different parish after some trouble.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

what the fuck are you talking about, she made a whole community of friends online and was stabbed to death by two of her classmates

This is an amazing capture, wow

Delicate glass sculpture of lungs with red bronchial tubes

Kit Paulson, Lungs, glass, 2020. The alveoli are shaped like flowers

Had to block people absolutely pure raging at me over this. Only Bluesky would see this and take it a) 1000% seriously and b) 10000% personally. Actually, so would Threads. You wanna be Threads, fucko?

Seeing plasma in colour: new imaging from ST40 - Tokamak Energy Current experiments on our ST40 spherical tokamak are offering new visual insights into plasma behaviour, thanks to a high-speed colour camera capturing footage at 16,000 frames per second. What the c...

Inside a fusion reactor
tokamakenergy.com/2025/10/15/s...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Tories can't spell the name of the country they want to be in charge of:

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

Domino toppling meme; the tiny one at the beginning says “accidentally only studying captive wolves” and the end one says “grown men losing their shit about eating soy”

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

Rebel Britannia 12th October 1819:

This Sunday's Rebel Britannia by @rebelbrit.bsky.social tells of Richard Carlile, free speech hero, who read the whole of the banned The Age of Reason into the court record, which could then be legally published ...
open.substack.com/pub/rebelbri... open.substack.com/pub/rebelbri...

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Two headlines in a row Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

The new writer scam hotness is the email that purports to be from a book club that meets on Zoom, who invites you to discuss [title of yours plucked from an AI database], and who needs you to pay a "small reservation fee" to participate. Gotten three just today. Fuck that noise, plonk it into spam.

The Lie of “Freedom of Speech Is Not Freedom from Consequences” Evasive clichés excuse violence, enable authoritarianism, and degrade liberal values.

The Lie of “Freedom of Speech Is Not Freedom from Consequences”
open.substack.com/pub/helenplu...

History shows that when democracies face crises, strengthening and reinvigorating democratic participation is essential to prevent democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism. This is not that.

Crucial consideration around the introduction of ID cards.

Digital ID cards are intrusive and unwanted Digital ID cards are intrusive and unwanted - Scottish Greens oppose Starmer’s authoritarian and intrusive digital ID plan

You can read more about the @scottishgreens.org's view here: greens.scot/news/digital...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Starmer to unveil digital ID cards in plan set to ignite civil liberties row ‘Brit card’ already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration

This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.

Hard to think of a single policy that will unite every single disparate interest group in the UK against a government at once than mandatory ID cards.

As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.

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