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We create. They can only destroy.

We are all in a state of constant panic and terror. It’s important to take a second when you see something online that triggers you to ask yourself “am it really triggered or am I just experiencing nonstop psychic damage from the world and my brain sees this as an outlet for my fear and rage.”

If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽 We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚 (And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)

Whatever is going to happen is going to happen whether or not we are scared or brave, anxious or calm. So we might as well show up however we can, the best we can.

This was FANTASTIC - highly recommended to anyone looking for a beautifully constructed take on a dystopian future. I found it far more moving than expected ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

One of our best living children’s authors, Hilary McKay, described this as “the mango ice cream of science books”. This proves that she actually read the book and wasn’t just blurbing it as a favour. If you want to know what she meant, let me know and I’ll send you a link to a FREE kindle edition

Attn: @youaregood.bsky.social

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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

And The Dude, who DID abide

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Have you been watching on at all the fun @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been having in the media and thought “wouldn’t it be cool to be part of that?”. Well … come and join the team. Please share to help spread the word. greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...

New Fairytale of New York lyrics just dropped... 😮‍💨 Grace Petrie 👏

It's your birthday, Duane.

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

My response to anything over the next two weeks

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.

the americanisation of the british right wing is just pathetic, like you can’t even be your own kind of wanker any more war on christmas (lol), bathroom bans (we don’t call them bathrooms here), DEI (we didn’t used to put those letters that way round), even 15-minute cities (what the actual fuck)

Capitola Beach Capitola California USA February 27th 2024

This is genuinely the best podcast I’ve listened to this year! @trufelman.bsky.social has done such a fascinating, immaculately researched deep dive - it is absolutely worth the listen. Every single episode had a reveal moment that made me gasp, laugh or immediately text my friends in recognition. 💕

For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.

This is very sad and also absolutely correct. All the flowers for @robinince.bsky.social and shame on the BBC.

Please stay home if you’re feeling sick. If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask. There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers. Help break chains of transmission

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

They want to market it to me as a productivity tool and to my boss as a way of getting rid of me and you can't sell it both ways. I'm not spending money on the fun toy that wants to destroy me.

In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war

It was a very long time before I realized why there weren’t/aren’t many trash cans in public in Britain

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000. Extraordinary. Hope is here. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Explaining to my Canadian wife that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursdays because Thanksgiving is the Thursday of holidays

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend? I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill. #GoodGifts

Not going to lie, you'll probably see me post these a lot over the next month. It's the first time I've created a design with such a clear time limit to breaking even. Like, who's buying a gay christmas tree pin in January?

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Blue sky and brutalism. 💙🤍

When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

This was absolutely inspired by listening to @alexsteed.bsky.social repeatedly call listeners to action! ✊🏻

Here's mine in Kingswood, S Glos...

We have some good neighbors.

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men.”

i would enjoy chores more if they unlocked some cool loot like a new hairstyle or a weapon

WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk