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This is so me.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

She looks like Cadfael is going to investigate her murder

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Guy who just started wearing bowties, looking disdainfully at room full of people not wearing bowties: "Normies."

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Publisher trick to subtly lure women into reading Lee Child.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I come from several generations of people who weren't farmers

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It spells "ketamine" if you keep going!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Naming them "Romeo and Juliet" is a little on the nose for my taste.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@calmtomb.bsky.social Noticed this today.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. Stop the fucking presses. Could they be any more patronizing?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is like putting a guy named Charles Pan Am Flight 103 in charge of air traffic safety.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Monkey's Paw, but it's a food-delivery app.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

So fancy that their bidet has a setting for still or sparkling.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Do these multitudes I contain make me look fat?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The novel that dares to ask: Is all as it seems?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

So, sometime later this summer, I’ll be putting out my first collection of stories. Contains the title story (a middle finger to the tiresome “scary clown” trope, some previously published work and five new pieces. This all feels quite weird, mostly in a good way.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The Group Chat of Theseus

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Naming them "Romeo and Juliet" is a little on the nose for my taste.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

figured out how to solve the crisis of AI in education

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Weird how men might mean either the best thing or the worst thing when they say pussy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I've always been someone who inspires strong reactions in people, one way or the other. Nobody's ever neutral or ambivalent. People either hate me, or they revile me.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If I was a maw, I would just not gape.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Due to age and inclinations, I assumed this was going to be about some tricky Martin Gardner puzzle or something.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's really creepy when you find lipstick on one of your glasses, but nobody in your family has lips.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe the real trade agreements are the allies we screwed along the way.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Show about a copy editor who doesn't play by the rules. On each episode, he gets fired from a new job.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is unfair, and speaking as a guest here, I vehemently object. Btw, here's a picture of some typical British buskers.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

for the potato fears not death

submitted 157 days ago • 591 comments

Great bad-break coinage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't got a clue what goujons actually are, but I choose to believe it is a French term for balls.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

my (first ever) interview with Big Echo on ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE, my debut collection of stories out this week from Wanton Sun www.bigecho.org/brendan-byrn...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

How... how many animals did you try it on?

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

people think "batcopter" combines the words "bat" and "copter" but actually it's "pter" which is greek for "wing" and "batco" which is Bruce Wayne's merchandising subsidiary

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The Social Media Feeds of Dorian Gray

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

tfw you are so successful you can say your latest novel is kind of eh in the acknowledgements and your publisher has to let you.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It's really disconcerting how small food portions are in the UK when you're used to eating in the US. As @sannewman.bsky.social puts it, you feel both cheated and judged.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Do I like pina coladas? Babe, they call me Mr. Pina Colada. That's my drink. I walk into any bar in town? They'll have a pina colada waitin' for me. I fuckin LOVE pina coladas. I once slammed 22—Hey! Where ya goin'? I thought you wanted to walk in the rain! Cause I fuckin' love walkin' in the rain!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment