ICYMI: my thoughts on the cosy season ☕️🍁🍂

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Not missing work - hope you're all extremely busy.

When I moved to a new city six years ago, I joined a local book club. The first person I saw when I walked into the meeting was a woman with purple hair. I sat down next to her, struck up a conversation and this summer I went to her wedding

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

Advent calendar day 5.

I don't mind missing the boat. I've seen Titanic.

Forgot the second #Ashes test was starting today, remembered when I saw someone posting on here that England were doing ok, turned on the TMS commentary and… bam! Two quick wickets. 😒 🏏

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.

Remember when that ship was stuck in the Suez Canal? That was a fun time

Tag yourself I’m “Gallery HaLLL”

The alt text is the icing on the cake 🧁

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Went into my phone camera roll to share a picture of the book I’m reading, only to find that my 4yo has taken 77 pictures of random stuff, including one of me in the shower 🙄

True but I’m normal

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.

ASMR? Pff. If you want a shiver down your spine, try listening to “Hey Jude” by The Beatles and rewinding to hear the “better better better BETTER OOH na na na na na na na hey Jude” bit again and again

I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Nature is healing 😍

42=6x7 Coincidence? I think NOT

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

"And one of these days these boots they're gonna walk all over you."

be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers

ICYMI: my thoughts on the cosy season ☕️🍁🍂

Just listened to 'Anatomy of a Cancellation' on BBC Sounds, all about Kate Clanchy and the furore around her book 'Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me' a few years ago. It's a multi-faceted account, absolutely fascinating and sometimes profoundly frustrating. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

so the bad news is nearly all contemporary authors (even ones who seem 'successful') are not making bank from their books. The good news is that you, as a reader/book buyer/reviewer, have the chance to make a real impact on your fave author(s) book sales and bank balance! Even if you're poor too!

Or just use this one simple trick that the taxman hates: live in the North! You can basically get a magnificent mansion here for less than a million, and you don’t even need an astroturf lawn!

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Do you want to know why cosiness =/= rosiness and The Terror is the best cosy read? Of course you do! hesperleveret.com/it-just-aint...

What really makes it for me is the stroke of the brim before kicking hapless plastic guy in the side of the head.

People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?” There’s only one way, my friends. If your file name looks something like this: Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx Then, and only then, is it time.

Absolutely terrific piece by Naomi. If you have the slightest of feelings for The Beatles this will resonate.

If the horrors persist, you have to persist back to assert dominance.

An illustration of Agaricus muscarius from Illustrations of British mycology, Anna Maria Hussey.

This quiz has been tormenting me since yesterday morning. I think I finally got them all .. and now I’m sharing it so you can be tormented too!

It’s the coldest frostiest morning of the year so far, and I’m listening to the wickets clatter in Australia. It feels like it’s the start of winter ❄️🏏

I 🤍 cheap supermarket flowers. Picked up a clearance bunch for £7.50, added some £2.25 gypsophila, and now my kitchen and dining room look fabulous for under a tenner

Me too, bus stop. Me too.

Oh no it's very easy, you just use the correct unit for the correct thing

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Sometimes it seems like publishers are obsessed with putting out debut novels and we don’t see so many follow-up books. Thing is, an author’s debut is often… not that great.

It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.

Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye www.facebook.com/groups/arche...

Oh sure, everyone’s always in favour of sequencing Hitler’s DNA, but splice it into a velociraptor and suddenly you’ve gone too far!!!

Ignorance is when you think Frankenstein is the monster. Knowledge is when you know Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is when you realise Frankenstein *is* the monster after all. And true enlightenment comes when you learn that the real monster was Lord Byron all along