my 2026 reading list is out with dazed www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

church gate nails, just in time for christmas

delighted to announce that i have a crush, just in time for the festive season. the best time to have one! this will end terribly but i will deal with that later

it turns out that staying out drinking until 3am is akin to being flayed the next day

writing something on scent and christianity and accidentally wrote ‘scentury’, which i am choosing to think of as charming :-)

forget about my favourite jumper every year and am beside myself when i discover it again

liverpool football club what if this was my last straw

have started playing a game called the blueberry lottery. it’s where i eat blueberries and don’t know if the next one is going to be the worst thing i’ve ever eaten

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove... Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

my nails don’t even look real

a good photo of some absolutely shite football

don’t understand why we have ai nonsense when we have not fixed basic things that need urgently addressing, such as how to peel a boiled egg in a way that doesn’t make you feel like you’re going cuckoo

system update (dyed my hair)

learning that a lot of perfume historians have real beef with the novel perfume, because it promotes a sense of savagery in scent

wearing wide leg trousers and just got an errant tree branch stuck in them

saw this guy

two matches in four days - my throat is in shreds

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rest in peace my kindly-faced king

me @ me

feeling feelings never felt before

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

completely and thoroughly revived by a return trip to anfield. every player acted clinically insane despite it being a friendly. god bless the footy

if you missed it when it came out then here's a reminder to tune in to our most listened to episode so far! host Jess @jesswhite.bsky.social spoke to David Hering @davidhering.bsky.social about film writing, Eric Rohmer and French New Wave. open.spotify.com/episode/2wbT...

keep mixing up patricia highsmith and patricia lockwood’s names in my head, and have created a third, more powerful patricia: patricia locksmith 🔐

only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago

too long for post

getting changed in the street with papa

Liverpool retire No 20 shirt in honour of Diogo Jota after forward’s death

got jealous of my plants when i was watering them because i want someone to dump loads of cold water on me too

still randomly crying about diogo jota’s death

that fan has been doing overtime

rest in peace diogo, ynwa

there are one million ends to a phd but an acceptance of corrections and deposit to the library database really does mean that it’s DONE

the tools / the art

thomas crewe’s review of the new ocean vuong is so refreshing to read sorry

The baby of a brain-dead Georgia woman, who was kept on life support for months, was delivered Friday, according to the woman’s family, reigniting debates over the medical consent and end-of-life decisions for pregnant women since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

uit 15 oktober

pleasant way to end the weekend - getting my duvet on the couch and finishing an extremely beautiful book

today in church the deacon dropped a pen, then a piece of paper at the pulpit and said ‘the lord is testing me in new ways today’

luvli nails

stood outside in the rain, hungover, for two hours for my beautiful football men

When you got no plans today

A new substack from me on The Six Worst Cinema Audiences of My Life. A journey through cinema hell which many of you will recognise: t.co/oJsheCJd8n

Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...

if you watched eurovision then you’re a bitch

Pope Leo XIV is an American with Peruvian citizenship, but his identity may have been most deeply molded by his connection to the Augustinians, which has fewer than 3,000 members. The group expects Leo to emphasize missionary outreach and the importance of listening.

late but this is what i read in april

i knew @jimenagorraez.bsky.social was my favourite publicist

small warm light in old building