Only a short way in and am so delighted by this book! The thing where every Jo Walton book does its job but is also just More, weirder and stranger and cooler than you expected... I love that.

I don't wear it, but technically I still have my leaver's shirt from leaving primary school back in the MISTS OF TIME

This is true and more people should say it

i deal with General Emergency Evacuation Plans at work plenty but next time i gotta talk about GEEPs you better believe i'm busting out this

this is great

Falling over, getting some sort of unlikely Victorian-sounding ailment, or fixing a fire alarm

Bananas, omg

Here to tell you all that when public transport works right, it is like magic. Actual magic.

I will just say that a close family member who works with AI, when asked how the data is secured, said "it isn't".

the joke i just retweeted is one of my favourite genres of joke, namely "fuckin' elite, if you happen to be the exact right flavour of nerd" 🤗

I knew it That mfer really did work at the Pizza Pizza

Super sad to have missed Vidukon this year for Reasons: this premiere alone is worth price of admission and I fully need to catch up on everythjng!! Ps star trek rules

Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo

Back in Blighty, fully regretting my life choices to "be at work rather than in a pool or on the beach", especially since I got home at 2am

Dear all, I'm proud to present the programme for NOSTALGIA AND RADICAL POLITICS, which is being held in person 15-16 June and online 26 June. We have 26 amazing speakers lined up!! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

if i were an octopus, i would be this octopus

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

Omg i thought i had done something to make this happen

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

i remember learning once that no single human being on earth has the combined set of skills to make a #2 yellow pencil from scratch and that fundamentally changed my perception of the world

Overheard someone at the airport say "thank you kindly" with no irony. Gonna miss you, Canada. You are pretty great.

One Man One Biscuit

OH the year was 1778...

Rocks and trees and trees and rocks and water

You've truly never gone souvenir shopping until you've done it with @entropical.bsky.social right behind you chanting "Buy something insane! Buy something insane!"

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

chat, if I am lucky I might - might! - fully clear all the immediate things off my desk before I go on annual leave on Friday! and celebrate getting a promotion, whoohoo!

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

On the plus side, having an appointment at 8am on a Sunday means there was no traffic getting here. On the downside, it is 8am on a Sunday and apparently we still live in Interesting Times.

I'm continually impressed at how motornormativity causes people to create a revisionist history of American cities where they sprouted up fully formed and filled with cars and parking spots. Motornormativity also causes these people to ignore the many places that have reversed car dependency.

The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place on this day 1932, organised by Manchester communist leader and Jewish anti-fascist Benny Rothman, secretary of the British Workers' Sports Federation. The Peak District was designated the UK’s first national park in April 1951.

i have one day off work between now and 2nd May and today I foolishly agreed to arrange a medical thing in the morning of that one day off, like an absolute numpty

I'll be speaking at a seminar on AI and expertise next Wednesday, following on from my work on AI, publishing, and disinformation risks - pages.thebulletin.org/2026-0422-ex...

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

My little fundraiser in Kieran’s memory is live now - www.warleywoods.org.uk/fundraisers/... Warley Woods is a beautiful place and it doesn’t get external funding!

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

truly, that this has happened to ANYONE makes me so happy, this would be pretty much everything bb me could imagine from the future

Fire deaths ARE quite rare: because we have improved and increased our knowledge of fire safety measures and implemented additional requirements through regulation. Fuck ALL the way off with this.

almost like the whole story was racist...

if I were having kids take the piss outta me this bad I would simply not admit to it in a national newspaper

omg this, there are plenty of working class writers struggling to get a break, and their difficulty isn't LACK OF AI, ffs

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Just wagered 90K on Polymarket that Polymarket would be legally declared an illegal scam betting site, collapse in a fiery bankruptcy, and fail to pay out any of its obligations

But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me, and makes every Sunday a treat for me...