Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 19hJeffrey Archer finally did a great service to literature. 030
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm currently enjoying a dirty Sainsbury's pizza because I cycled 30 miles today and I feel like it. 120
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Frankenstein. It's Frankenstein. 200 years of nonsense about Frankenstein. Much of it is people identifying other bad critical writing about Frankenstein and then adding their own shitty take to demonstrate their "superior critical faculties". 031
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just when you thought you couldn't adore Richard E. Grant any more... 110
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Goodbye Dame Esther Rantzen. You were our local celeb. You were supposed to present our A Level certificates but you had dysentery. We got Murray Walker instead, and he was brilliant. So thanks for that. RIP 010
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This morning I learned that Piddington is an actual place and not just derisory shorthand for a certain type of middle-class gammon. Nominative determinism is powerful. 000
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Huh. So *that's* what two million cake-eating Doctor Who fans spontaneously climaxing sounds like. 000
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It has its detractors, but I think 2FA is brilliant. I get to rediscover all sorts of former favourite websites and services - and suddenly realise I can't really be fucked logging into after all! 230
Reposted by Andrew LawstonPhineas @phineas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Batman’s Aff His Nut By Robert Florence 213344
Reposted by Andrew LawstonNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t. 61261351
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's very funny that Harper Collins is dropping the Walliams backlist. But it could also just be a contractual/commercial decision rather than a sign that big news is about to break. Don't misunderstand me, I'll be the first to post ghoulishly about it if I'm wrong. But manage your expectations. 110
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026His family are wrong, and shame on the media for reporting their unfounded bleating, really. I eyeballed the fucker and this was 3,000% him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'Putney pusher' investigation ongoing after suspect's death, police sayThe family of Nicholas Brandram said there was no forensic evidence linking him to the incident. 010
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Putney Pusher also pushed me. And now he's dead. Make of that what you will. Seriously though, about a week before the bus thing he smashed into me on the towpath to Putney while I was walking to work. I was on the phone to Mel and she heard me give a confused yelp and a "What the hell, dude?" 140
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Over the last few days I've seen several people raging about the fact that Gen Z apparently think Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett novels are "cringe". I've not actually seen the Gen Z posts in question, but... 110
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So, idly working on another translation, this time from 1897. An American woman of mixed heritage is described as a "R**sk*n" several times in the space of a page. The context is that the hero is furious about the racism she's encountered. But... can I knowingly include this slur? #writing 010
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I just had my first "smells like AI" review. Quite apart from anything else, the book was published back in 2020, before all this bullshit kicked off. My books don't make any money as it is. I'm having a real "why bother?" moment. 120
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Note to self: 8:30am on a Sunday is probably too early to start ranting about CBeebies cartoon Duck & Frog being a sad indictment of the gig economy's dystopian hellscape, inuring children into becoming insecure wage slave drones. Suffice it to say, Frog is the real hero. 021
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Oh look, just shoot one of the fuckers. I know, I know, but really. Nothing of value would be lost. 010
Reposted by Andrew LawstonAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It would be wrong to speculate about the political leanings of those men in black shirts. 20645117
Reposted by Andrew LawstonOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet 2642461265
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I recently overheard a girl in the pub say this of East London, on hearing that Jude Bellingham lived there. 110
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I just heard that my old boss's cousin is leaving his EastEnders role, and that's going to have a significant impact on our hilarity at this Christmas's piss-up. 000
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I dislike the term "box office bomb/disaster" when applied to films like Solo, Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny and most recently Supergirl. If a film makes a 9 figure sum, it's clearly NOT a box office disaster. It may not be profitable, but that just makes it a budgeting disaster. 242
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Bill Oddie, Sam Neill, Dolly, and now Tim Curry. Can this summer just fuck off already? 060
Reposted by Andrew LawstonSimon🟦❤️♥️🧸 @simon0161.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Goodnight Ms Parton. You were a true icon and beautiful ray of light that the world needed so much. So sad to wave you goodbye 😢❤️♥️ 0266
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My travelcard's run out two days before pay day and TfL had shut the Piccadilly Line anyway, so I cycled to work and back. From Kew Bridge to Uxbridge, which will probably be my autobiography's title one day. I saw a kingfisher, an enormous rat, and a lot of geese. 010
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Every time I think I've written the worst pun I'll ever devise, I somehow manage to prove myself wrong. The new job's going to mean my next book will be a long time coming, but the puns alone will make you wish it was even longer. I promise that. 180
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I mean, whatever your views on Meghan and Harry, and personally I go out of my way to avoid having any, we can all agree it would be objectively hilarious if she now didn't actually book the gig. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMeghan in talks for role in Netflix series The Gentlemen, BBC understandsThis would be Meghan's first significant acting role since her marriage to Prince Harry. 010
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Luck is important. But the thing is: the harder you work, the luckier you tend to get. I work hard, but I'm demonstrably very bad at capitalising on lucky breaks, through modesty and whatnot. These days I'm still working hard, but I also have one eye ready for the next time things go right. 020
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Another old friend is going full TERF in real time on a certain other platform. I didn't see this particular one coming, I'm genuinely depressed by it. 100
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026To hit my first major newjob target, I need another £69k. Nice. 000
Reposted by Andrew LawstonIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat" 274124082097
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Kinda bummed. My phone screeched a little bit after the main screech so it was already too late to be hilarious about it on Bluesky. 120
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Tomorrow marks one month in the new job. It's been an adjustment and the impostor syndrome is real. But I have also done a (very, to the point of marginal) low six figure sum in revenue. Not bad in a "career" I thought I'd try out for six months back in 2004... 040
Reposted by Andrew LawstonEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls 747651200
Reposted by Andrew LawstonStephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Them: I will die on this hill. Me: When? 1305
Reposted by Andrew LawstonAndy Black @andyblack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Oh man, when you do a good book dirty stuffing it horizontally on top of all your other books... #booksky 85914
Reposted by Andrew LawstonJosh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is just to say I have eaten the sailors that were in the ship and which you were probably saving for Ithaca Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so Greek 9980261
Reposted by Andrew LawstonIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The 'ex' nazi standing down from standing as a Tory councillor candidate only for Kemi to make him a special advisor instead 25512
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I made a joke over the weekend about Zendaya being in everything but I just now remembered that I unthinkingly included a reference to her in my last play. 030
Reposted by Andrew LawstonLore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride? 602051365
Reposted by Andrew LawstonRich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator. 4719215
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It's amazing how The Odyssey remains so relatable. After all, it's a story about someone seeing Zendaya everywhere, which pretty much sums up 2026. 1193
Reposted by Andrew Lawstonb3ta @b3ta.com · 27/07/2026Looks like i'm back on my bullshit Artist: Moon Girl Technologies b3ta.com/board/11429738 05112
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026An audiobook! Chantecoq and Wilhelm's Spy, Volume 3 - The Day of Reckoning. Written and set shortly before (but published shortly after) the outbreak of WW1, this is Chantecoq's finest hour, after the struggles of volumes 1 and 2. I hope you enjoy. www.amazon.co.uk/Chantecoq-Wi... #writing #bookskyamazon.co.ukChantecoq and Wilhelm's Spy: The Day of ReckoningChantecoq and Wilhelm's Spy: The Day of Reckoning (Audio Download): Arthur Bernède, Andrew Lawston, Andrew Lawston: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals 120
Reposted by Andrew LawstonAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]" 21766140
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I now work in Uxbridge, in the office 5 days a week after 6 years of home/hybrid and my commute is ~75 mins each way. It's great - I walk 30 mins through a park to a tube station, read on the train, and have Indian street food for lunch. It's only been a week, but life is, provisionally, good. 020
Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Mel's reading my play. There is giggling. I THINK in the bits where there's supposed to be giggling. 011
