hate to go out shopping and accidentally encounter a fascist march 😢

this continues to be the song of the day 🥶

sniffling into tissues on the train and trying to project the vibe of “i’m not ill, i’ve just breathed in a lot of presumably toxic dust in the last week and my body is expelling it at mach speed”

it isn’t snowing where i am which means i’m off to speak to some students (scary)

We're coming up on five years of Cursed Morsels, which feels absolutely wild! If you don't know us, our whole thing is anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and pro-queer short horror and Weird fiction. If that sounds like your thing, grab something(s) from our store! www.cursedmorselspress.com

have a song of the day youtu.be/LUwX4HPSzgQ?...

re giving blood: if anyone is nervous about donating for reasons of being trans, i can only speak for my experience but it was completely fine. they ask on your first donation if you’re on any medications & when i mentioned T they then had a few other pre-screening questions

If you're a new donor, it's quick and easy to sign up here: www.blood.co.uk You can also use that link to look for a donor session near you, if you're already registered and just haven't been for a while.

There's something special about using AI to make a poster featuring Durham miners. There aren't any Durham miners these days, and AI slop is risk to the livelihoods of artists and designers. Terrible look @zarahsultana.bsky.social - if something is worth being designed it's worth paying a designer

Today's RtG talk brought up lots of connections to earlier speakers who joined us so here is a little thread of some of the people mentioned and the talks they did for us! First up, Rebecca Duncan, a decolonial Gothic scholar, who spoke to us on the South African Gothic youtu.be/lOCfD4mz5YM

Tomorrow's free talk is about decolonising the Gothic! We're joined by Haleh Agar for 'Talking back to the coloniser: Reimagining Jekyll and Hyde' (in an Iranian context) 10am and 7pm GMT online 10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 7 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

AI is really ruining the art of badly photoshopping something

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

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soon may the wellerman come your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb so much to do, so much to see to bring us sugar and rum and tea we'll take our leave and go you'll never shine if you don't glow

PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚 Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath. 📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

listen, it’s either performative reading in a cafe or hinge, the options are limited

@nlisn.bsky.social is collecting case studies, to showcase stories from our network and show others like us that they are not alone. Share your story with us, big or small, about what you’ve learned, the support you’ve found, or how the network has made a difference. nlisn.org/case-studies/

honestly even if you're reading performatively (???) keep doing it lol, buy books, take pictures of yourself reading books, let the reading make your brain better

Libra: Big changes are in store for you at work this week! (A slightly faster printer.)

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.

printing this photo to put on my fridge

New online talk Sat 15 Nov, 8pm FEARLESS GIRLS, BRAVE WOMEN - THE FOLK TALES THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW Book now for £5 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fearless-g... Janet Dowling digs deep into their origins and finds that some of our well known stories about women are not quite what they seem

our green away kit is so deeply cursed. i’m choosing to believe that’s why we’re terrible

having a wild saturday night (thinking about my dnd characters)

my name is ozymandias now. yeah no the king of kings is part of it. look on my deed poll, ye mighty, and sign here

[looking at the broken statue of ozymandias in the desert] estrogen could have saved her

reached my reading goal for the year today so now i’m going to reread frankenstein, as a treat

my favourite thing to do is respond to outraged “people are scamming [public body] to get free stuff!!” comments with “everything should be free anyway so i don’t care”. it really bothers people, for some reason

Happy Halloween! Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.

The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt

We will be closing our representation statistics survey at some point in the next month, and we have already heard from more than 1000 neurodivergent librarians! #librarians #neurodiversity lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Solidarity with striking BL workers!! A backbone of our national research & knowledge infrastructure and they deserve better!

Researchers from the University of Nottingham are looking to speak with autistic transgender/gender diverse adults about their experience of healthcare. Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email [email protected] #Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch

thinking about her this morning youtu.be/jGPx4ancGhg?...

i’ve been read to filth 🦙

Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496

went out charity shopping for a black leather jacket and came home with green corduroy trousers, such is the way of the universe

i have mixed thoughts on GdT’s frankenstein but it probably has my favourite representation of the creature in film

British Industries: Steel, 1924 (London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork), by Richard Jack, 1866-1952 (National Railway Museum).

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/ www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

what’s funny is that in every other circumstance, the media and government LOVE to vilify football fans. and yet

I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org

A must read blog about a landmark decision for gender recognition, just published by the High Court today. Once again, @goodlawproject.bsky.social paid all the costs. goodlaw.social/78iw

Miss Major's interview with the Trans Oral History Project was already on my syllabus for today. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

god what a great week for bisexuals everywhere #strictly