Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was. Stalking is femicide in slow motion. Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.

Also apparently it's Disability History Month in the UK so I picked up this from the display, & we got to take it home - FOR FREE. Man, socialist policies are a living hell I tell you

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community. How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

The latest edition of the @thetls.bsky.social podcast features a fabulous, thoughtful interview with @cdrose.bsky.social about his @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social winner We Live Here Now!

Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'. Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

why can they not just fix it

Next up: www.maifeminism.com/disorderly-b... Federica Cavazzuti explores Japanese women’s photography arguing that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement. #feminism #photography #academicsky

“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.” Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.

Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quebec's Douglas Shearer revolutionized sound in film. During his career, he received 21 Academy Award nominations, winning seven times. From 1934 to 1945, he was nominated every single year. This is the story of a film legend. 🧵 1/11

Let's dive in...over this week we'll be sharing articles from our new Issue 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture. What better place to begin than the introduction by guest editors Elizabeth Orcutt and Dawn Woolley. www.maifeminism.com/intersection... #feminism #portrait #academicsky

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

Support for the Green Party in Calderdale is surging. We’re working hard to run candidates in three target wards in next year’s Local Authority elections, but we need your help! Please donate to our crowdfunder if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/local-elec...

Outrageously expensive windows have been installed throughout the house for only about thirty hours, but Clementine is already working her magic on the custom-sized screens.

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

It's been a decent week for @cdrose.bsky.social . First, he picked up the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his wonderful novel We Live Here Now, and now he gets to read a passage from my forthcoming novel The Coast of Everything. Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com

Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. (And so would I.)

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.

The new issue of @maifeminism.bsky.social, on feminist self-portraiture, is hot off the virtual presses. Please check it out and share! www.maifeminism.com/issues/focus...

Drax the Destroyer

Huge congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social and so emphatically deserved! Read this book.

Just going to keep re-skeeting till my index finger gets twitchy. Congratulations, @cdrose.bsky.social! This couldn't have happened to a more talented writer, or a better person. 😘

'This constellatory novel tests the bounds of the form while delivering all of its satisfactions: at once hilarious and deeply haunting, intellectually challenging and supremely entertaining.’ (Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize trophy, here cradled by winning author C D Rose, was designed by Cherrie Tong from the Goldsmith University Department of Design. It's based on the twirling pattern of Corporal Trim's walking stick in 'Tristram Shandy' (and 5th November is also, happily, Tristam's birthday!)

cuz he's the best

This popped up in my feed just now and I legit thought it was Zohran Mamdani. Do NYC mayors ever get biopics?

Sunday = fun day~ wild bears playing at a public playground, captured by someone just passing by~🐻

Media types: STOP CALLING HIM THIS, you obsequious, genuflecting toadies. (Bizarrely, they didn't even bother adding 'former' to the headline.) His name is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, nothing more, nothing less. EMBRACE THIS.

Holy crap I did not expect a follow from @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social for this. It actually makes the three hours of carving time and hand cramps worth it!

Yes...Ha Ha Ha...Yes! Conceived and executed by me, a sicko.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.' @cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

We publish *imaginary* research abstracts! The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read: Why Abstract fiction? The theme How to get started What to submit to us What *not* to submit journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2025/10/28/c...

Looks like the place were I currently reside has been left with no phone service and we've been told it won't be back until 2026 because #o2 decided to take a mast down without telling anyone and can't bother putting up a new one. And my steady evolution into Tim Robinson continues unabated.

In the word of Leonard Cohen, Halle-frickin'-lujah.

Sylvia casually hanging with Glenn Gould. That cat is so damn cultured.

This was a great pleasure to do. Many thanks to all.

Co-op garlic showing its fine (musical) taste.

The UK's system of government in two acts: "Hey, according to the charter, as Chief Constable, I’m supposed to get a pig every month! And 'two comely lasses of virtue true'." "Keep the pig. How many broads do I get?"

This is so full of hedging and avoidance that I had to read it several times. If a Labour government can’t say straightforwardly that it disagrees with the arbitrary deportation of people with the legal right to be here, then truly what is the point of it.