This is remarkable.

A prediction for tonight's match from @cjadrien.bsky.social, who really likes his football: cjadrien.substack.com/p/the-viking...

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

If everyone could buy enough copies of my book that I can afford air conditioning that would be great. A Feast of Folklore is out this week! Buy here: share.google/9exGEoJ26syq...

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

This is the President of the United States!

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

Golden Dawn book gets a mention in the Tablet this week:

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

This is very good, and what always strikes me as particularly extraordinary is that British Universities aren't even asking for extra support from Government, pretty much all that's needed to avert crisis is for them not to regulate as heavily.

Probably the best picture I'll ever take of a Cormorant. Taken in 2024 at the Radyr Weir on the River Taff. Looks like something from the Jurassic period as a Cormorant dries it's wings on a huge tree stump as another looks on. 🪶 #birdingwales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK

tolkien’s translation of sawles warde is now available to the public after 63 years of public nonexistence academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

NEW TOLKIEN JUST OUT: delighted to see “JRR #Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” edited by Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... Chuffed to have played a minor role in this 1/3

Très bientôt, Victor Battaggion, @annebesson.bsky.social et moi vous proposerons un bel ouvrage richement illustré, pour parcourir la fantasy et l'histoire ! La campagne Ulule démarre le 11 juin ! Abonnez-vous sur Instagram pour recevoir toutes les infos : chimeres.revue

Regular PSA for academic authors to sign up for @alcs.co.uk who will find moneys gathered for you. Free to sign up, one time membership fee deducted from your first payment. Even just a few publications can add up to a nice little something once a year

Taking American border control seriously.

“At times Beyond Black reads like Kafka’s Metamorphosis in its determinedly domestic treatment of the extraordinary.” A few years ago I wrote this about Hilary Mantel’s ghost story of commuter belt Britain, and how it touched on things very personal to her:

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This year's #BradfordLitFest programme is here! Don't miss our authors @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, Vince Cable, Mike Pickering and @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social at this year's festival. Browse the programme at the link below 👇 #booksky

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

AI emails are really easy to spot: they’re prolix and sycophantic, stressing the personal nature of the approach to the point of cringe, and they vary the conventions of email communication in ways an idiot would think are clever or interesting

Ahhhhhh…. The glorious Romanesque portal of Lincoln Cathedral 😍😍😍😍

Nigel Farage is a danger to Britain. An elected MP, a party leader and a powerful voice giving licence to racist rioters and Tommy Robinson with incendiary remarks. #FarageRiots

Really can't cope with the fact that Nottingham's now departed VC (now VC at Leeds - god help them) wasted £80 MILLION on a building it is now selling at a crushing loss (£14m), and is attempting to recoup some of that by sacking 100s of academics and decimating the institution. Absolutely criminal.

Did you know that there was a trans Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only? I didn't. She was outed by the News Of The World, but told her own version of her story to Playboy. (NSFW photos in this article are pixelated) www.playboy.com/read/tula-fi...

HEAD OF STONEHENGE! #goals

Bamberg never ceases to be charming

Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy. Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027

Are you working on the history, culture, or literature of medieval Norway? If so, consider submitting an abstract for this upcoming volume edited by @marycoconnor.bsky.social and me! #MedievalSky #OldNorse

Things are kicking off here in Sydney. Staff introduction and tour before the media and social media previews, and then exclusive members' talk and tour. Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard opens at the Australian National Maritime Museum 28 May!! www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/...

So sorry to hear of the passing of Maureen Duffy, a wonderful author and a tremendous force for good in the world of authors' rights. RIP.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

Farage shouldn’t be able to control the media in this way, promoting himself when he wants to and running away when’s he’s in the shit. Stop letting him call the shots. Empty chair him. End the interview if he lies/wont answer. Refuse to be his propagandists. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

Middle-earth was born in a meeting of minds – and I'm proud to be part of a pioneering new book about this most formative of Tolkien's early friendships. bit.ly/jrrt-gbs #Tolkien #GBSmith #poetry #myth @stuartdlee.bsky.social

🎉 Happy 80th Birthday to @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Professor of Children’s Literature! The Southbank Centre is throwing a birthday bash event tomorrow, find out more 👇 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mic...

Currently reading a book that rigorously enforces in-text author-date referencing based on edition, resulting in amusing phrases like 'as Plato (2001) argues...'

Was a werewolf really loping around Hull in 2016? Since Alice Cooper mentioned it ... it *must* have been true? Join me at @forteanlondon.bsky.social on 26th May to look at a 21st century cryptid. tinyurl.com/mwzudwc3

Wild God. Painted, mouthblown stained glass. 2025. This panel was inspired by Exmoor, its deep, dark woods, the bolving of its stags, the call of its owls, the dank of its mossy banks and the thrilling fear of what lies just out of the corner of your eye in a landscape that breathes old magic.

I suspect that within a year or two MPs will increasingly hear from A level students and parents finding that degree courses they want to take have vanished. Those who banked on being able to stay home for cost reasons, especially those living in areas with only one local uni, will be badly hit.

In 2021, @luciaakard.bsky.social and I ran Medieval Consent: A Symposium. We are so happy to release the co-edited Special Issue! scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol61/is...