I am not distracted. He is a racist & a pedophile & a con man & a thief & a rapist & a wannabe dictator & I can see them all at the same time b/c they're all part of the one monstrous, disgusting whole. Stop telling me not to be distracted by one side of a polyhedron of evil. I see it all.

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

Me, quoting Larkin: Sexual intercourse began in 1963...between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP. Son, 17: What's an LP? Me: [dissolves in a shower of dust, blows away]

#caturday afternoon snooze watching USA v Finland.

At this point we should start tallying who of them *isn't* in the Epstein files.

This. Every how and then I ask myself, IS it just because I’m getting old? But my children are suspicious of gen-Ai too, and I can’t help feeling that if a middle-aged woman and her teenaged daughter *agree* on something being bad, it’s probably pretty bad.

As men rant about the dangers of destroying reputations by releasing the Epstein files… Remember that one of Gisele Pelicot’s rapists appealed because he felt the burden of being labeled a “rapist” was too much to bear. He lost. They added to his sentence There’s always hope.

These all feel remarkably similar, when rummaging around ones travel bag in twilight. Could lead to some fairly uncomfortable outcomes.

It was never a big factor in choosing not to be a parent, but the persistent precarity of my finances, both when supporting a layabout husband and as a single person, mean at least one less child grew up in poverty. Reform is an ass.

I can’t be the only one who thinks that continuing with titles like ‘Lord’ and ‘Sir’ make this country look ridiculous and stuck in the past. And I can’t imagine any circumstances where I could bring myself to bow and call someone ‘your majesty’ like some sycophantic serf. I’d rather be beheaded.

NEW: I spent hours combing through the references to #MeToo in the latest tranche of Epstein files. I found Epstein closely tracked the fallout of #MeToo, joked about being in a "pariahs club," and advised men accused of misconduct behind the scenes 19thnews.org/2026/02/jeff...

The chiffchaff was back today - @shrunkenshrubbery.bsky.social reminded me that he'd mentioned a small blonde bird that he couldn't identify a few weeks ago, so I guess this one overwintered.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

nothing to see here?

Women are supposed to disappear after 30. Sophia Chang does an excellent job explaining why style matters as we age. “You may not like what you see, but you *will* see me, motherfucker.”

Hey I don’t really read fantasy/ dystopian but my kid has been reading a lot of it (she read the Hunger Games and the Divergent series and is reading the Maze Runner right now) Id like to get her a good small series for her birthday (she’ll be 14) any suggestions?

STOP NAMING THINGS AFTER LORD OF THE RINGS. READ ANOTHER BOOK

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

It’s not democratizing talent to steal the skills others have developed and leave those people out in the cold. People develop artistic skill at great personal cost and in all conditions. I don’t think artists should starve. That’s why I’m against LLMs.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Berries - here's @shrunkenshrubbery.bsky.social 's blackbird from December.

You see, the reason why he did that is because he is a vile racist. It's okay to say that, @nytimes.com

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Someone tell my cat Angel he's not allowed to have guacamole maybe he'll listen to you.

Do Bluesky, you cowards!

If I ever get cats I will get three and call them Uszka, Paçzki and Pierogi, and collectively they will be The Dumplings

when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.

Timeline cleanse: my dog Sybil vs this pot of yoghurt

ITV Retro has put all of the science-fantasy series “Sapphire and Steel” (1979–1982) on YouTube. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Stars David McCallum and Joanna Lumley and very cheap production. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphir...

Thinking about Big Bertha, the world's oldest cow from County Kerry, who died just before her 49th birthday after calving 39 times over her life (another record) - she also raised thousands for charity, lead the St. Patrick's parade in Sneem, and had her birthday and wake in a local pub

To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

I’m an old(ish) man, and I’ve seen a decent amount of weird stuff. But this? This is new. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

I tried to help a woman in a parking lot; she had a flat tire with an audible leak, but refused to accept this diagnosis because ChatGPT said that wasn’t the problem. There was an AutoZone full of Fix-A-Flat *right across the street* but nooooooooo. Anyway, AI makes you stupid, film at eleven.

I need people to stop saying “internalized racism” when they mean “unconscious racism”

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

We know a song about that, don't we children?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAD2XR5Db7U&list=RDfAD2XR5Db7U&start_radio=1

“Don’t move. You’re sticky and messy. Frankly it’s embarrassing.”
*aggressive lick*
“There. You’re welcome.” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

@nicmiller.bsky.social this reminds me of your piece on cookbooks, all the convenience foods that used to be popular. The frozen orange juice concentrate used to turn up so often!

A great read from @nicmiller.bsky.social (I’m also on a downsize mission just to thin out the least used books and giving them good homes is a big consideration.) tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/on-collectin...

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this - when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing

"It's October 2026. PM Rayner takes over from PM Streeting. Morgan McSweeney still runs number 10 and his focus group, consisting of himself, says 'do more racism' as the first small boat full of Minnesota residents ends up in Bexhill"

How is this man, this fucking empty beige envelope, this ambulant shoebox, so unbelievably disappointing in literally everything he does and says. No wonder he keeps repeating his father was a tool maker.

What British values would those be, and how far do they overlap with Faragist flag-shagging?

The Home Secretary's view is that if a care worker & spouse come to the UK in 2022 and have a kid in 2024, then it's fine for that (British-born) child to stay in poverty until 2037 *even if their father/mother stays in work throughout*.

Now disqualify Peter Thiel from government contracts.