Patrick Ness

18 years and this week alone I’ve had three DMs cursing me over Manchee. It’s only Tuesday.

Your racist uncle at thanksgiving dinner.

If you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.

I genuinely thought this was about the Brazilian election, but no, it's about... Bill Maher. This is madness. We're looking it right in the face.

It’s just the Buffy Bot saying “That’ll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!”

Babies, like cats, do not deign to a clock change.

It’s just the Buffy Bot saying “That’ll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!”

James Blunt is the worst ever Faithful, and everyone still does everything he says. Oh, celebrities.

So, do I have this right? We're stockpiling food and supplies because Cliff Richard is releasing a reggae single?

It’s pretty funny to be called “elite” for supporting trans people by a cigar-smoking, champagne-swilling, yacht-owning billionaire, but hey, why shouldn’t we all bow to the opinion of someone not trans, not queer, not a doctor, not a scientist, but who’s really really rich?

We’re now in year seven of JK Rowling playing the victim and finding pseudo-progressive justifications for bigotry. Not an interesting thought in her head

It’s pretty funny to be called “elite” for supporting trans people by a cigar-smoking, champagne-swilling, yacht-owning billionaire, but hey, why shouldn’t we all bow to the opinion of someone not trans, not queer, not a doctor, not a scientist, but who’s really really rich?

I’m still really proud of the song we wrote for the final episide, as sung by Sophie Hopkins and accompanied in the scene by Sam Sweeney and I. m.soundcloud.com/blairmowat/t...

My lovely orphan show premiered ten years ago today. So proud of it, love these actors so much, and by episodes 6-8, we were flying. Alas, the BBC Three online experiment at the time was… not great. Would that there’d been two more years. Still a lucky man. What an experience.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

My baby daughter breaks into a huge smile and a joyful laugh whenever I enter the room. I'm just going to assume this continues through the rest of her life and not listen to anyone telling me different.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Just posted my ballot to America. It would be nice, one day, for these to stop feeling like life and death.

My baby daughter breaks into a huge smile and a joyful laugh whenever I enter the room. I'm just going to assume this continues through the rest of her life and not listen to anyone telling me different.

You wait for one open letter, and two come along at once! Some great names on this New Statesman statement. The support from this and the 800 who've so far signed the authors and illustrators statement is quite heartening. And it's pissing off the most unsurprising people.

Just bumping this again in light of my previous posts. Get off twitter. It’s past time.

transphobe authors worried by the idea that queer kids are capable of finding someone who will love them as they are telling on themselves as usual

I genuinely think being on Twitter alters your brain for the worse. Like crystal meth. There are barely any humans there, just that torture film from A Clockwork Orange, the only difference being you’ve pinned your own eyelids open.

I once wrote a “hero” article about Martina for the Guardian. I used to admire her so much. But she’s fallen down that rabbit hole where all she can hear are the bots, AI accounts, and Russian posting farms affirming her descent into trans panic and hate.

Beginning to think I may not finish the Peter L Hamilton books in time for our panel at ComicCon on Sunday. (Not a slam; I love an epic)

Tom Holland is not in fact naked in Chaos Walking. We digitally erased a thong.

810 signatures and counting.

My actual congressman!

Sometimes even I doubt my commitment to Sparkle Motion.

The TERF to racist pipeline is ever so short.

Currently 738 signatures. And all the expected people sneering about it over on the other place. Success, I think.

There are four episodes of the Traitors left, and there are still 600 people in the house. Gonna be a bloody couple weeks…

THE DISAPPEARERS really is that good. In ambition, execution, polyphony, history, guts, heart, sex and life, nothing else on the booker list touches it. And WHAT a tonic to read a masterpiece about gay men by an actual gay man, and not someone else using us as therapy sex puppets. What a writer.

A British person will snort into their brandy if you mispronounce Cholmondeley but will storm ahead with saying Mitchigan, Orri-gone and Maryland as the land of Mary.

Fruits of the letter of support for Sally Rooney and Faber. Currently at 480 signatories and counting. www.thebookseller.com/news/hundred...

The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.