If you write or edit (or read) crime fiction, chances are good you've heard that Down & Out Books has imploded. Part of their 'farewell' message said: "No further payments will be issued." This is, frankly, bullshit. Yes, indie presses die quickly... 1/x 🧵

P.S., Eric, pay all your fucking writers whatever's remaining on the books.

#Noiratthebar in #vancouverbc coming soon.

This Thursday…

Suicidal There is no way whatsoever we can dodge catastrophic climate breakdown We are actually turning away from serious action on emissions and heading instead towards an Eocene hothouse theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

Paging Mick Harris…

RIP Anthony Jackson.

Tomorrow — hope to see you out! #noiratthebar

Tonight in #Vancouver - #NOIRATTHEBAR.

#noiratthebar

just found the plans for the new White House ballroom

Hi BC Hydro, when you try to recover a password for logging in to your BC Hydro account, you get this. FYI

Huh. J. Myles of TIR

In the #WashingtonDC - #dmvevents area? They have a #NOIRATTHEBAR to knock you out. James Grady, George Pelecanos, KT Nguyen, EA Aymar, Austin Camacho, Mark Bergin, Christopher Chambers, and Christina Kovacs.

I have largely been away from here, just too many fake accounts for a while. I kept getting redirected to Threads. Let me tell you: I never found Twitter to be the cesspit of anger and stupidity the way Threads is. It went from innocuous & dull to kookooland quickly.

Whatever, Clickbait.

RIP Jimmy Cliff. What a voice.

These people are deeply anti human. For all the talk about social erosion and the doom loop etc, Silicon Valley is run by the biggest degenerate misanthropes on earth. They hold nothing sacred, ascribe to the cult infinite growth and view anyone not in their club as faceless NPCs