Image of Emily, Jason and myself.
An enormous honour to be chairing a session at @hayfestival.bsky.social this year with the wonderful @emilygarside.bsky.social and @jaseokundaye.bsky.social!
#HayFestival2026.
I learnt the error of my ways long ago
I was kind of going for... mirror dimension Andrew Tate!!
Tonight we're feeding the frogs pronouns and then making all videogames into lesbian walking simulators.
Me. Reading a book called 'gay life and culture' in front of a painting with a massive pink triangle.
Sorry.
I can't come out tonight.
I'm preping for the demonic woke gay revolution.
Just finished reading Queer as folklore by @sachacoward.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the way he wove the storied together. It's also nice that it validates my theories as to why neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ people are overrepresented in artistic spaces! Really good book!
When you're in your 20's if you don't shave and let your hair grow out you can look sort of rakish and byronic... in your 30s people start crossing to the other side of the street.
So. Safe to say a trip to the barbers is on the cards for this afternoon.
The only time I'd say it was useful, was asking it to summarise the interaction between alzheimer's and a nephrostomy bag, for my father's care.
Knowing it was still hallucinating BS but at least I could use it as a springboard for learning?
And... I can't believe I'm admitting this... I used it to give me compliments at a particular low point.
I try to avoid it now.
But in the past when designing escape rooms I'd ask it too list words that rhyme, with particular number of syllables, or that have particular synonyms... fir certain cyphers... which is admittedly an extremely niche use case! 😅
The dark comedy of Alzheimer's.
My dad today: Sacha...?! But... what happened to you? You were a nice boy. *Wild hand gestures* You look like a... a.. polar bear?!!
It works great on a violin tho...
Too late I fear!!!! Lobotomies, get your fun and free lobotomies!!!
AI is a tool.
It can be useful.
In the same way a hammer is a tool.
It can be useful... but not if you're a dentist!!!
*Hands you a note in class when teacher isn't looking*
"AI is making you less smart, less creative and more anxious"
Hadrian, Antinous, Me.
Problematic murder thrupple.
Me. At the British Museum. Behind me are the marble busts of Emperor Hadrian abd Antinous.
Me.
My boyfriend.
And my boyfriend's boyfriend.
Seriously @manchesterup.bsky.social lucked out with me. Marketing landmine... I mean goldmine.
Me in my bathroom looking manic. Wearing yellow and red, the same colours as my book with the same logo on the tshirt. The book is blurred and upside down. I am dishevelled.
Bugger! World book day! Sugar sugar bollocking bugger balls!!! Marketing.... Ok. All my author friends are doing it. Get with it Sacha!!! Dress as my book? Yes. Hold book? Yes. Look approachable? ...
#worldbookday
Me: MIKEY! You know that's not appropriate! Read the room!!
Mikey: Mow
Making a t-shirt for every neurodiverse gay man who is struggling right now and remembers how much that one English teacher was rooting for them...
Thanks @caelan.bsky.social.
Publishers have been informed. This is sadly the world we live in.
Shelby. We arm wrestle at dawn!
Yaaaay... they made an AI slop fake of my book.🫠 Please dont be tricked. No idea who Shelby is but I imagine they're not even a real person. X
Yes. The ISBNs of both versions should be linked.
The bear understood. As the bear's own cat has him firmly under his claw!
There was a poor bear who wrote a book...
Which then becomes an epic gay love story when he wrestles and falls in love with Gilgamesh and they kill demons together!
They dont carve them like they used to...
