I did not know that!
Very impressed by this piece.
At long last: my latest short story “Parasocial” is LIVE! I’m so evilly proud of it. And delighted at the gorgeous design and illustrations from Issues. Go read it (and die of secondhand embarrassment):
A Future Tense Fiction story by Monica Byrne about what goes wrong when a celebrity decides to license his image to a hologram start-up.
How old are you in Internet years without telling your age? ARCHIE and VTTRek
It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO
That's like when East Midlands decided that all the trains from St P that stopped first at Bedford were too crowded, so they'd stop stopping at Bedford. Oh, how we laughed. Fortunately that was about 6 weeks before I stopped commuting to London ...
Just delete all the semicolons. That's all it takes, right?
Do you miss having your eyebrows groomed? Really?
I'm sure you've seen it before, but the longer form version on his blog post is very good, IMO: acoup.blog/category/col...@bretdevereaux.bsky.social)
Posts about This. Isn’t. Sparta. written by Bret Devereaux
I believe today is Christmas delivery slot day for Waitrose ...
I once turned around a strained relationship with a colleague by just being unBritishly effusive about his work. He was Italian; he thought I didn't respect him because I treated him the same way British men of a certain age do: I took the mickey. What he needed was somebody to be positive at him