Paul Stephenson
@prsbooks.bsky.social
Sci-fi/horror author and designer. Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, Darkness Rises. he/him. Trans rights are human rights. Fuck AI 'art'.
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Boing boing.greg.technology
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boing.greg.technology
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Boing boing.greg.technology
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It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!
New from me: New Sunset, a severe price drop (okay that's putting it mildly), and at least two Staind references.
It's been a while
New Sunset, a severe price drop, and at least two Staind references.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New from me: New Sunset, a severe price drop (okay that's putting it mildly), and at least two Staind references.
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oh my god
if you've never heard the end credits song for Aliens Infestation on the Nintendo DS
I beg you to stop and listen right now
it's important
I beg you to stop and listen right now
it's important
[OST] Aliens Infestation (Nintendo DS) [Track 16] LV426 - Ending Theme
YouTube video by Sega-Mag
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
oh my god
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Good morning to everyone who won the North London derby yesterday. ☕️
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Good morning to everyone who won the North London derby yesterday. ☕️
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🎶"... Someone to hear your prayers, he's filled with air."🎶
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎶"... Someone to hear your prayers, he's filled with air."🎶
Found out I accidentally deleted my entire website while trying to be sneaky on renewal costs with my hosting company. Trying to restore it and I'm now having conversations with an AI bot that might as well be in an alien language. Isn't technology fun!
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Found out I accidentally deleted my entire website while trying to be sneaky on renewal costs with my hosting company. Trying to restore it and I'm now having conversations with an AI bot that might as well be in an alien language. Isn't technology fun!
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Christ I wish Labour would just skip the foreplay and get rid of the useless prick.
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Christ I wish Labour would just skip the foreplay and get rid of the useless prick.
Fuck it, I'll play. Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(This is the opening lines from Blood on the Motorway, available now in all evil bookstores, and the good ones too)
(This is the opening lines from Blood on the Motorway, available now in all evil bookstores, and the good ones too)
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fuck it, I'll play. Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(This is the opening lines from Blood on the Motorway, available now in all evil bookstores, and the good ones too)
(This is the opening lines from Blood on the Motorway, available now in all evil bookstores, and the good ones too)
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I suspect they know no one actually gives a shit about continuity in Bond films but they now have thousands of people taking about Bond films
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I suspect they know no one actually gives a shit about continuity in Bond films but they now have thousands of people taking about Bond films
lots of funny ha ha responses to this but to me the solution is blindingly obvious - I always assumed in my head that James Bond is as much a title as 007, the two are the cover given to the agent when they join the service. It's why there's been 6 entirely different people who are Bond.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
lots of funny ha ha responses to this but to me the solution is blindingly obvious - I always assumed in my head that James Bond is as much a title as 007, the two are the cover given to the agent when they join the service. It's why there's been 6 entirely different people who are Bond.
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Lieutenant, don't jerk me off!
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Lieutenant, don't jerk me off!
Starting the day off listening to Swans so either I'm gonna fuck this day right up or end up rocking back and forth on my chair, weeping. Can't wait to find out!
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Starting the day off listening to Swans so either I'm gonna fuck this day right up or end up rocking back and forth on my chair, weeping. Can't wait to find out!
Couldn't help but read this in a very particular voice
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Couldn't help but read this in a very particular voice
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A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
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Went to see the Inside Number 9 stage show last night — if you're a fan at all, I HIGHLY recommend it. Laughed so much my sides ache this morning.
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Went to see the Inside Number 9 stage show last night — if you're a fan at all, I HIGHLY recommend it. Laughed so much my sides ache this morning.
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
kindness is free. for an ad-free kindness experience, upgrade to kindness+ starting at $15.99 a month
Back to normality after a week in Canada, but I've got a cold, I slept like shit, and my to-do list looks like the fucking Declaration of Independence.
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Back to normality after a week in Canada, but I've got a cold, I slept like shit, and my to-do list looks like the fucking Declaration of Independence.
Holy shit, new Conjurer, new Psychonaut *and* a surprise new Rolo Tomassi ep all dropping the same day? In this economy?
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Holy shit, new Conjurer, new Psychonaut *and* a surprise new Rolo Tomassi ep all dropping the same day? In this economy?
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I never realised how small sumo wrestlers were
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I never realised how small sumo wrestlers were