Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Well, I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, but absolutely devoured the Regicide Report from @cstross.bsky.social
A wonderful conclusion to my favorite government science fiction and one I'll keep revisiting.
A wonderful conclusion to my favorite government science fiction and one I'll keep revisiting.
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Well, I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, but absolutely devoured the Regicide Report from @cstross.bsky.social
A wonderful conclusion to my favorite government science fiction and one I'll keep revisiting.
A wonderful conclusion to my favorite government science fiction and one I'll keep revisiting.
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Yer da caws the cunt *Sir* Keir Starmer!
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Yer da caws the cunt *Sir* Keir Starmer!
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Yer da wanks tae deepfakes ae Nigel Farage!
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Yer da wanks tae deepfakes ae Nigel Farage!
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if you are able to stop shopping at amazon, today's a good day to do it
buy your books your favorite local indie bookstore or from bookshop.org or seriously use your library! all are excellent alternatives to amzn. (Do you know how easy it is to request your library to carry a book??)
buy your books your favorite local indie bookstore or from bookshop.org or seriously use your library! all are excellent alternatives to amzn. (Do you know how easy it is to request your library to carry a book??)
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 PM
if you are able to stop shopping at amazon, today's a good day to do it
buy your books your favorite local indie bookstore or from bookshop.org or seriously use your library! all are excellent alternatives to amzn. (Do you know how easy it is to request your library to carry a book??)
buy your books your favorite local indie bookstore or from bookshop.org or seriously use your library! all are excellent alternatives to amzn. (Do you know how easy it is to request your library to carry a book??)
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How you know AI didn't steal @cstross.bsky.social's Laundry Files novels:
January 28, 2026 at 12:26 PM
How you know AI didn't steal @cstross.bsky.social's Laundry Files novels:
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Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
January 28, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
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Outside The American embassy in Copenhagen. 1 flag for each Danish soldier who died along side American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.
January 27, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Outside The American embassy in Copenhagen. 1 flag for each Danish soldier who died along side American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.
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No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.
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I was rereading This Is How You Lose The Time War as well as Holy Fire and I just realized that today is the book birthday for @cstross.bsky.social's The Regicide Report. Now to find my tablet...
Last book I read: @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence. Go, Archie! 🐕🦺
Last book I read: @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence. Go, Archie! 🐕🦺
what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
January 27, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I was rereading This Is How You Lose The Time War as well as Holy Fire and I just realized that today is the book birthday for @cstross.bsky.social's The Regicide Report. Now to find my tablet...
Last book I read: @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence. Go, Archie! 🐕🦺
Last book I read: @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence. Go, Archie! 🐕🦺
Similarly, I believe in the personal right to keep and arm bears. Preferably polar bears. I hear they're good at dealing with ICE. 🐻❄️🔫
I am abruptly a supporter of the personal right to own and use firearms. 😛
January 27, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Similarly, I believe in the personal right to keep and arm bears. Preferably polar bears. I hear they're good at dealing with ICE. 🐻❄️🔫
Memo to self: do not get into a slapfight with Menhit, she will get excited and the claws will come out:
January 27, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Memo to self: do not get into a slapfight with Menhit, she will get excited and the claws will come out:
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When companies say "connecting you with a live agent" means that I could also connect with a dead one?
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months
January 27, 2026 at 9:06 PM
When companies say "connecting you with a live agent" means that I could also connect with a dead one?
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months
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There were a few hours there last night when it felt like the administration was in damage control & they were signaling "It was never meant to go this far."
Then you can really hear the moment Stephen Miller's coffin creaked open and he came out screaming "DOUBLE DOWN" before drinking a child dry.
Then you can really hear the moment Stephen Miller's coffin creaked open and he came out screaming "DOUBLE DOWN" before drinking a child dry.
January 27, 2026 at 8:02 PM
There were a few hours there last night when it felt like the administration was in damage control & they were signaling "It was never meant to go this far."
Then you can really hear the moment Stephen Miller's coffin creaked open and he came out screaming "DOUBLE DOWN" before drinking a child dry.
Then you can really hear the moment Stephen Miller's coffin creaked open and he came out screaming "DOUBLE DOWN" before drinking a child dry.
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Well that’s my evening sorted thanks to the new book from @cstross.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Well that’s my evening sorted thanks to the new book from @cstross.bsky.social
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The Regicide Report by @cstross.bsky.social
what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The Regicide Report by @cstross.bsky.social
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Just finished this and my god was it a lot of fun! Good chewy creative conceptual mischief. Some pretty good scares, too. Total brain candy.
Morning Womble, taking lots of deep breaths today. Current read/obsession is THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by Qntm.
January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Just finished this and my god was it a lot of fun! Good chewy creative conceptual mischief. Some pretty good scares, too. Total brain candy.
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It’s out everyone!!!!
Happy publication day to @cstross.bsky.social for The Regicide Report, out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Really, this has everything I could have wished for to complete/ pause this series. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi... #BookSky 💙📚
Review - The Regicide Report by Charles Stross
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14) Charles Stross Publisher, 27 January 2026 Available as: HB, 336pp, audio, e Source: ISBN(HB/ PB)...
bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:04 PM
It’s out everyone!!!!
I *should* go to the Burns Night sesh at the Edinburgh Literary Salon in a couple of hours—it's just up the road from me—but current feels-like temp is -7 ℃ with winds gusting to 65 km/h and driving sleet and I am 100% DON'T WANNA
January 27, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I *should* go to the Burns Night sesh at the Edinburgh Literary Salon in a couple of hours—it's just up the road from me—but current feels-like temp is -7 ℃ with winds gusting to 65 km/h and driving sleet and I am 100% DON'T WANNA
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Just got it. Normalization of deviance as a bureaucracy deals with monster at the head of government is just the kind of escapism I'm looking for.
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just got it. Normalization of deviance as a bureaucracy deals with monster at the head of government is just the kind of escapism I'm looking for.
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PICT (UK Parliamentary ICT) requires the use of VPNs, I just checked. And, bless them, they’re incapable of rolling out any changes with less than a year’s head start. I think legislation-hungry MPs should be the guinea pigs here, by being blocked access from all PICT systems.
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 PM
PICT (UK Parliamentary ICT) requires the use of VPNs, I just checked. And, bless them, they’re incapable of rolling out any changes with less than a year’s head start. I think legislation-hungry MPs should be the guinea pigs here, by being blocked access from all PICT systems.
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This is where the Home Secretary talking approvingly about the Panopticon really ought to tip people off.
Labour is and always has been an authoritarian party that views human beings as interchangeable economic and social units to be categorised and controlled.
Labour is and always has been an authoritarian party that views human beings as interchangeable economic and social units to be categorised and controlled.
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 PM
This is where the Home Secretary talking approvingly about the Panopticon really ought to tip people off.
Labour is and always has been an authoritarian party that views human beings as interchangeable economic and social units to be categorised and controlled.
Labour is and always has been an authoritarian party that views human beings as interchangeable economic and social units to be categorised and controlled.
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VPNs are standard in the workplace, for remote workers or satellite offices.
Together with other attacks on kids using tech (social media, phone access...), this will limit employment opportunities for under 18s.
They will be voting before they can work. This will have an impact on how they vote.
Together with other attacks on kids using tech (social media, phone access...), this will limit employment opportunities for under 18s.
They will be voting before they can work. This will have an impact on how they vote.
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 PM
VPNs are standard in the workplace, for remote workers or satellite offices.
Together with other attacks on kids using tech (social media, phone access...), this will limit employment opportunities for under 18s.
They will be voting before they can work. This will have an impact on how they vote.
Together with other attacks on kids using tech (social media, phone access...), this will limit employment opportunities for under 18s.
They will be voting before they can work. This will have an impact on how they vote.
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Loved The Regicide Report by @cstross.bsky.social - an awesome conclusion to the Laundry Files. Highly recommended.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Loved The Regicide Report by @cstross.bsky.social - an awesome conclusion to the Laundry Files. Highly recommended.
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
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Gosh, 90s homophobes blitzed their homophobia with a bit of febreze & turned into 20s transphobes? That is the most shocking news that EVER shocked
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Gosh, 90s homophobes blitzed their homophobia with a bit of febreze & turned into 20s transphobes? That is the most shocking news that EVER shocked