Merry Christmas and/or Merry New Book Day to all who celebrate!

I'm watching The Holiday for the first time and I think we can all agree when I say: fuck you Jasper leave Kate Winslet alone!

Merry Christmas Eve! I am currently sitting in bed under a duvet and four blankets. Pigs in blankets have got nothing on me.

I have not been on Bluesky for a while. I have some DMs which I cannot access due to the weird UK age rules etc. All I can see is the number. Not the person who messaged, nor the message. Please email me instead. Or DM me on IG.

I have eaten an entire brie triangle in one go AKA the Christmas season has truely started.

Me: I'm so tired. I'll go to bed early so I get lots of sleep! Brain after two hours of sleep: how about we wake up though? Me: and then go back to sleep? Brain: AWAKE FOREVER

The outlook notification email has changed. Who ARE YOU, imposter icon? You're telling me I have an email, you, thy god of lies?

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈

This is your annual reminder that should you buy a box of Celebrations but have no-one to eat the Bounty bars, I will take on this delicious burden. For I am a warrior* in their name, and shall accept my terrible fate. *I take psychic damange each time someone says they are rubbish.

I'm recovering from a terrible cold and I would like to feel better now, thanks.

Tomorrow I'll run a creative writing workshop for the always lovely philosophy undergrads at Nottingham. I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!

Rest in power, Alice Wong.

My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g... '“This is a terrible idea” I said. My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'

I am at #wirralbeerfestival for my partner's birthday, but also because BEER.

How dare the rain tbh.

There is someone using a leafblower machine right outside my office. SIR, I AM TRYING TO DO BRAIN THOUGHTS.

Liverpool, if you could just stop raining for about 20 mins so I'd get home unsoaked that would be great.

A review of mine came out with @ijps.bsky.social today. Hurrah! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TJHIB...

If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. *covered in 1000s of owls*

Here is my face.

Today!

I'm so excited to be giving a poetry reading as part of Hannah's Bookshelf's (North Manchester FM) Poetry Special on Saturday! You can listen live from 2 pm via the radio if you're based in Manchester, or online if you live elsewhere 🦉 hannahkate.net/north-manche...

This means that bar two life admin things, the move from Dublin to Liverpool is almost complete!

All my boxes just arrived from Dublin! It's mostly books *cuddles books*

Me in my twenties: going outside. Absurd and ridiculous. Me in my thirties: having an absolute blast reading a book about the English civil war. In the distance you hear me shouting "Cromwell! Honestly!" It is only 9 pm.

New episode of A Meal of Thorns! Scholar, writer, and CRSF organizer E.F. McAdam is on the podcast to discuss Hiromi Kawakami's UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD (tr. Asa Yoneda, @grantabooks.bsky.social/ @catapultbooks.bsky.social)

I'm genuinely amazed by the response to my post below about Cavendish. For anyone interested, I'm currently reading an excellent biography about her called Pure Wit. It's by Francesca Peacock.

Last night me and my partner watched the 2025 version of War of the Worlds. My god it was bad. I laughed so much at said badness that I've added it to my list of so bad it's good movies which include gems such as Zombeavers and Sharknado.

I'm teaching Margaret Cavendish today and it is great fun being able to talk about an author's epistemology, metaphysics, AND her fiction in the very same seminar.

Queers assemble! For it is almost the most sacred of days: Practical Magic rewatch day.

Today: a lecture and a seminar on social contract theory, office hours, a research talk by a new colleague, attempting to replace my blood with tea.

A little 🦀 update.

I think I've trapped a nerve in my back. Is there anyway to make it go away bar waiting it out with painkillers? I've tried all sorts of stretches to no avail.

Slowly but surely more and more pumpkins are appearing outside of my neighbour's front door. It began with one small pumpkin. Now there are five. The latest one to appear is the size of a human head. Will I come home to more pumpkins? Will their flat just become one big pumpkin? AM I A PUMPKIN?

New Possible Worlds and Other Stories marketing strategy just dropped. Buy my book, or the fluffy round pig will be SAD.

It is me and my partner's anniversary today. 16 years!

CFP: The Leeds Analytic Philosophy Graduate Conference, 20-21 April 2026. Abstract submission deadline 15 Nov 2025. Each speaker will present for 30 minutes followed by a 10-minute faculty response and 20-minute general Q&A. More info: philevents.org/event/show/1.... Spread the word! #philosophy

New Possible Worlds and Other Stories marketing strategy just dropped. Buy my book, or the fluffy round pig will be SAD.

He bides his time.

The plumber has fixed the leak. Pumpy the cursed pumpkin demands 50 new hats.

You can now enrol on my late '25 & early '26 workshops. In each class I teach you botanical/bird illustration or casting nature finds in silver, along with how creative activity alters our brain chemistry to improve mental health. You also get 30% off my etsy shop 1/2🧵: workshops.emmamitchell.uk

My department (Computer science) is recruiting a postdoc (18 months) on any topics related to trust and AI (could be a philosophical project or a more empirically minded one). Belgian postdoc salaries are competitive. To apply: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-...

Me and my partner are half convinced the jolly looking pumpkin toy we bought a few years ago is cursed. Each time we moved him in our old Dublin flat a leak appeared. We had three leaks; upstairs shower, toilet, a pipe. I briefly moved him around in our new flat and OUR SINK HAS SPRUNG A LEAK.

A crab tales update!

A dagger to my heart.

It's absolutely chucking it down and I feel like the sky is bullying me.

Many thanks to Blake Hereth for oragnising a beautiful memorial for @helendecruz.net today. I miss Helen deeply, and it was beautiful to be able to honour them. Thanks to all the speakers and those who shared memories of them.

I got my covid booster and flu jab in the same arm. Please pray for said arm.

Today: rest, get the flu jab and covid booster, shiver, then rest some more.

New office plant friends! What should I name them? I was thinking of Cyril Citrus for the lemon tree (that's right, left to my own devices after teaching yesterday I did indeed buy a whole entire tree). I've no idea what to call the flat cactus. Maybe Bob?