David [insert spooky name] Bamford
@davidbamford.me
He/Him. Glasgow. Queer. Writer. Con-goer and -runner. Eastercon co-chair 2027. Likes horror, SF/F, queer culture, punk/sludge/hardcore/doom metal, kittens. Conservatives/bots/TERFs/nazis/arseholes need not follow. #ThePhobiaFiles is at davidbamford.me
If you’re wondering why everyone is absolutely screaming about Lily Allen’s new album WEST END GIRL, it’s because every single straight woman and gay man I know has at some point been hugely disappointed and let down by a man. Lily is laying bare what the girls and the gays have lived with for years
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If you’re wondering why everyone is absolutely screaming about Lily Allen’s new album WEST END GIRL, it’s because every single straight woman and gay man I know has at some point been hugely disappointed and let down by a man. Lily is laying bare what the girls and the gays have lived with for years
Hope everyone has a great time at World FantasyCon! Sadly we won’t be there but please enjoy this picture I took of the sky in Glasgow this morning:
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Hope everyone has a great time at World FantasyCon! Sadly we won’t be there but please enjoy this picture I took of the sky in Glasgow this morning:
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No bookshops. No publisher. 500 copies sold since October 24th.
Thanks to everyone who has shared this cosy book and, of course, to everyone who has it in their TBR 🦉
Thanks to everyone who has shared this cosy book and, of course, to everyone who has it in their TBR 🦉
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
No bookshops. No publisher. 500 copies sold since October 24th.
Thanks to everyone who has shared this cosy book and, of course, to everyone who has it in their TBR 🦉
Thanks to everyone who has shared this cosy book and, of course, to everyone who has it in their TBR 🦉
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Did you know if you are an attending or online member of #WorldFantasy2025 you can get a bunch of free eBooks right now (including two that feature me)? Just log in and look for the Members Only Content button!
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Did you know if you are an attending or online member of #WorldFantasy2025 you can get a bunch of free eBooks right now (including two that feature me)? Just log in and look for the Members Only Content button!
Paging @chrismccartney.bsky.social there is a queer rockabilly/punk band called Super 8 Cum Shot who you should probably listen to. 👋🏼
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Paging @chrismccartney.bsky.social there is a queer rockabilly/punk band called Super 8 Cum Shot who you should probably listen to. 👋🏼
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evergreen
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
evergreen
We went to see Suzanne Vega last night. She was ace. But this morning the realisation hit that the last time we saw her was 11 years ago.
Here’s what happened in my brain immediately after:
AAAAA OMG I am running out of time & have so much I wanna do & everything is happening too fast heeelp
1/
Here’s what happened in my brain immediately after:
AAAAA OMG I am running out of time & have so much I wanna do & everything is happening too fast heeelp
1/
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We went to see Suzanne Vega last night. She was ace. But this morning the realisation hit that the last time we saw her was 11 years ago.
Here’s what happened in my brain immediately after:
AAAAA OMG I am running out of time & have so much I wanna do & everything is happening too fast heeelp
1/
Here’s what happened in my brain immediately after:
AAAAA OMG I am running out of time & have so much I wanna do & everything is happening too fast heeelp
1/
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[INT, Boardroom, Sandwiches UK PLC]
CEO: So, it’s the most exciting time of the year at last - we’re replacing our everyday sandwiches with special Christmas-themed ones
DIRECTOR: Tastier ones?
CEO: Oh my goodness, no
CEO: So, it’s the most exciting time of the year at last - we’re replacing our everyday sandwiches with special Christmas-themed ones
DIRECTOR: Tastier ones?
CEO: Oh my goodness, no
November 18, 2024 at 1:44 PM
[INT, Boardroom, Sandwiches UK PLC]
CEO: So, it’s the most exciting time of the year at last - we’re replacing our everyday sandwiches with special Christmas-themed ones
DIRECTOR: Tastier ones?
CEO: Oh my goodness, no
CEO: So, it’s the most exciting time of the year at last - we’re replacing our everyday sandwiches with special Christmas-themed ones
DIRECTOR: Tastier ones?
CEO: Oh my goodness, no
Always baffles me when restaurants are like ‘we’re LGBTQAI+ friendly’ like - ma’am I just came here to EAT
No wait - I mean what are we SERVING tonight?
No wait sorry I mean I promise I’ve got great table manners I will leave NO CRUMBS
Wow maybe dining out is just hella gay
No wait - I mean what are we SERVING tonight?
No wait sorry I mean I promise I’ve got great table manners I will leave NO CRUMBS
Wow maybe dining out is just hella gay
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Always baffles me when restaurants are like ‘we’re LGBTQAI+ friendly’ like - ma’am I just came here to EAT
No wait - I mean what are we SERVING tonight?
No wait sorry I mean I promise I’ve got great table manners I will leave NO CRUMBS
Wow maybe dining out is just hella gay
No wait - I mean what are we SERVING tonight?
No wait sorry I mean I promise I’ve got great table manners I will leave NO CRUMBS
Wow maybe dining out is just hella gay
Ah yes, ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials is perfect for my Halloween playlist, because it’s about *checks notes* the grinding poverty visited on English towns in the wake of Thatcher’s government.
Hmmm.
Oh well, there’s always ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries.
Hmmm.
Oh well, there’s always ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries.
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ah yes, ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials is perfect for my Halloween playlist, because it’s about *checks notes* the grinding poverty visited on English towns in the wake of Thatcher’s government.
Hmmm.
Oh well, there’s always ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries.
Hmmm.
Oh well, there’s always ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries.
Currently reading, among other things, THE GONE-AWAY WORLD by @nickharkaway.com - a book which I described to a friend as being like if China Miéville and Dylan Thomas wrote a book together set in a post-apocalyptic North of England. It’s big, it’s staggeringly smart, and it’s laugh-out-loud funny.
October 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Currently reading, among other things, THE GONE-AWAY WORLD by @nickharkaway.com - a book which I described to a friend as being like if China Miéville and Dylan Thomas wrote a book together set in a post-apocalyptic North of England. It’s big, it’s staggeringly smart, and it’s laugh-out-loud funny.
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Deftones
Touché Amoré
Converge
La Dispute
Lingua Ignota
Rage Against The Machine
Skunk Anansie
Deafheaven
Deftones
Touché Amoré
Converge
La Dispute
Lingua Ignota
Rage Against The Machine
Skunk Anansie
Deafheaven
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
The Clash
Marillion
Frank Turner
Drive by Truckers
Justin Townes Earl
The Specials
Anthrax
Brandi Carlile
The Clash
Marillion
Frank Turner
Drive by Truckers
Justin Townes Earl
The Specials
Anthrax
Brandi Carlile
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
- The Clash
- The Damned
- Stiff Little Fingers
- Joy Division
- New York Dolls
- Everything But The Girl
- David Bowie
- Supertramp
- The Clash
- The Damned
- Stiff Little Fingers
- Joy Division
- New York Dolls
- Everything But The Girl
- David Bowie
- Supertramp
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Deftones
Touché Amoré
Converge
La Dispute
Lingua Ignota
Rage Against The Machine
Skunk Anansie
Deafheaven
Deftones
Touché Amoré
Converge
La Dispute
Lingua Ignota
Rage Against The Machine
Skunk Anansie
Deafheaven
It is #NationalCatDay! Lemme see them cats! 🐈⬛ this is George 🐾
October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It is #NationalCatDay! Lemme see them cats! 🐈⬛ this is George 🐾
I lived in Manchester for 13 years and I can say with confidence that Blur are better than Oasis, The Smiths and The Stone Roses.
Cry about it in the comments byeeee
Cry about it in the comments byeeee
October 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I lived in Manchester for 13 years and I can say with confidence that Blur are better than Oasis, The Smiths and The Stone Roses.
Cry about it in the comments byeeee
Cry about it in the comments byeeee
The latest instalment of #ThePhobiaFiles - STATUES - is now live. Get into it at the link in my bio or below.
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STATUES
Soulless, empty eyes, staring at nothing.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The latest instalment of #ThePhobiaFiles - STATUES - is now live. Get into it at the link in my bio or below.
www.davidbamford.me/2025/09/30/S...
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Imagine the horniness of Anne Rice writing a version of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern… that’s the book I’m reading.
Name that book!
Name that book!
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Imagine the horniness of Anne Rice writing a version of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern… that’s the book I’m reading.
Name that book!
Name that book!
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August 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Every day I think about how fire Jay-Z’s verse is on Beyoncé’s ‘Deja-vu’. That is some under-appreciated shit. Say what you want about him but the man is a machine.
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Every day I think about how fire Jay-Z’s verse is on Beyoncé’s ‘Deja-vu’. That is some under-appreciated shit. Say what you want about him but the man is a machine.
Watched the season finale of FOUNDATION last night and, without giving anything away, to say I was open-mouthed in shock is not an understatement. Absolutely brutal.
September 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Watched the season finale of FOUNDATION last night and, without giving anything away, to say I was open-mouthed in shock is not an understatement. Absolutely brutal.
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Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.
Dunno what’s happening to the years lately.
January seems to be 85 weeks long.
You blink and it’s May.
You sit down for 5 minutes and it’s mid-September.
I mean what next? Christmas?!
Oh wait-
January seems to be 85 weeks long.
You blink and it’s May.
You sit down for 5 minutes and it’s mid-September.
I mean what next? Christmas?!
Oh wait-
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Dunno what’s happening to the years lately.
January seems to be 85 weeks long.
You blink and it’s May.
You sit down for 5 minutes and it’s mid-September.
I mean what next? Christmas?!
Oh wait-
January seems to be 85 weeks long.
You blink and it’s May.
You sit down for 5 minutes and it’s mid-September.
I mean what next? Christmas?!
Oh wait-
I know for a FACT I read somewhere fairly recently that Robert Jackson Bennett was a supporter of AI and had trashed/called people idiots for not doing so. Now I can’t find it anywhere - can someone point me in a direction please?
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I know for a FACT I read somewhere fairly recently that Robert Jackson Bennett was a supporter of AI and had trashed/called people idiots for not doing so. Now I can’t find it anywhere - can someone point me in a direction please?
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bumblebutt
September 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
bumblebutt
This thread is diabolical. Excellent work.
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This thread is diabolical. Excellent work.
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It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop