US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent’s decision to lift sanctions on Iranian oil at sea shows just how badly Trump’s war has failed. Iran will get $14 billion from the deal, the first time the US is buying Iranian oil since 1996. Trump’s Omnishambles: lives lost, billions wasted, now he’s paying Iran.

Very very sorry to hear about Nicky Brendan. Dawn and Xander both gone?! Doesn’t seem possible.

Any indie bookshops in London need an experienced staff member for a couple of days a week? #books #bookshop #help

Name your fav movie score or soundtrack. For me it has to be Reservoir Dogs.... OR Disney's Robin Hood.

If you know anyone who’s dreading putting together their wedding speech - send them my way! www.mathew-owen.co.uk If you can re-post this I’d really appreciate it 👍

Just for the novelty, Just for the kicks, Hijinks and laughter, Weird pick and mix, Just for the moment, A nudge and a wink, A step from the serious, A random unthink. #thingstowriteabout novelty

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "A Bridge Evening at the Abbey, Part Two:— Cook's Bridge Sandwiches" #OldFoxCommunity (Cook, Violet the kitchen maid - both at the Abbey) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/bridge...

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

An oil shock just forces a simple choice: Subsidise fuel or Subsidise getting off fuel Most governments pick the first That’s a mistake! A quick 🧵

– Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Divine Comedy’ #NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook

The second best Irish phrase I’ve heard, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.” My number one favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you’ll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”

Another one of those people I honestly thought had died ages ago. RIP Len Deighton. His were some of the first 'grown up' books I read when I was really too young to get the most from them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy #StPatricksDay everyone. See if you can split the Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ☘️📚🍺

Your usual no-fun reminder that alt text is not for jokes unless you are explicitly explaining a sight gag. If someone who has never seen the color of Baja Blast opens your alt text on a photo of some pee that looks weird, calling it “a lab sample of Baja Blast” in the alt is royally confusing.

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

A silhouette of a stag in a pink landscape. A new addition to my shop. Available now on Folksy... folksy.com/find/item/86... #Stag #Landscape #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #bsnm

FIREFLY IS COMING BACK AS AN ANIMATED SERIES. ahem. If you like that kind of thing.... deadline.com/2026/03/nath...

Morning Bluesky.

Highly recommend freeing up some time in the next few days to watch (FOR FREE until March 18th) The Importance of Being Earnest on the National Theatre YouTube page. youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

Ooooft. RIP Phil Campbell who died yesterday aged 64. He played guitar on some of Motörhead's finest works, including my favourite album of theirs, 1916. Here's a gnarly VHS rip of my fave track from that record. youtu.be/WBUo4VkyVOk?...

A new artwork for all the bird watchers and nature lovers. A grey heron, an unmistakable tall bird. Find this on Folksy... folksy.com/find/item/86... #Heron #GreyHeron #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #ShopIndy #bsnm

National Theater streaming "The Importance of Being Earnest" featuring Ncuti Gatwa for FREE on YouTube! (until Mar 18) 🎭💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=obX-...

Traditionally the collective nouns for ghosts are an ambush, a stare, a whispering. In the county a risk of ghosts, a procession of ghosts and an unsettling of ghosts are common as are a nagging of ghosts and a disturbance of ghosts.

I think about this a lot.

I'm going to guess Ed Davey has never visited Scotland, or taken money out while here, because if he did he'd see not only that we have otters on our £10er notes but that they're quite positively received. 🦦💷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.

You know what the Strait of Hormuz DOESN’T cut off? Wind turbines. UBI. public transit. Taxing billionaires and redistributing it to the regular people who created that wealth. Solar panels. A plant based diet. Bike lanes.

Proofreading used to be classed as manual labour.

A filth of leaves, she said, a froth, she said Of sudsy flowers, and there’s your mawkish Spring. Oh, barebone tree, what has it done to you? Black field, you’re gone but for remembering… —Norman MacCaig, “Green stain” THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) #poem birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Witches of Scotland seeks justice for nearly 4,000 accused witches (mostly women) from 1563–1736. Founded in 2020 by Claire Mitchell KC and Zoe Venditozzi, the campaign works to secure legal pardons, a government apology, and a national memorial.

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.

30 years ago this month, we started our own label, Rock Action and released our first ever single, the double A side 7” - Tuner / Lower. 30 years on, we’re marking the anniversary with a video to accompany Tuner, featuring rare footage from our early days through to now.

For those that need a couple of minutes of calm this morning. Listen to Yo Yo Ma's cello singing to the birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUUS...

Rabbit Moon You think you see the Moon a white disc in the sky swooped for you into the shape of a heart. Too much yearning had you run free but the barn owl was always a weapon – just feathered in the language of love. Another night, a different moon. I might have held you. #poetry

Nikai is using the extra hour of daylight for extra howls.🐺🎶

#bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SI...

This Man by Grim17. Release date is getting CLOSE! #lofi #averagewhiteguy #newmusic #thesemen

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

A reminder that moving to renewables reduces our dependency on global fuel supply. We're not there yet, but just now 58.4 per cent of our demand on the grid was being met by renewables. grid.iamkate.com

And this includes anything ‘dunking’ on it, ‘satirising’ it, or ‘can you tell the difference?’ pieces. They’re all ways to get you to engage with generative Ai.

Wait, I meant to follow this up and my brain went bzzzzzpppfft. French Pear, Strawberry Champagne, and Unicorn Dreams are all back in stock! veronicafoaleessentials.com.au

The world would be a better place if people read more books

Don't suppose any of my followers on here are involved with a London bookshop and would be interested in having me pop in to sign some copies of The Notwitches? I'm going to be in town towards the end of the month and would love to visit a few stores. My DMs are open if so!

Join us in store on SATURDAY 28TH MARCH for a signing with the lovely JOSEPH LIDSTER who will be signing copies of his new Doctor Who novelisation of ALIENS OF LONDON. If you cannot make the signing in store, you can PRE-ORDER yourself a copy here: www.thewhoshop.com/books-magazi... #DoctorWho

Bluebells flower from April onwards. Millions of bulbs may exist in one bluebell wood, causing the blue carpets we so keenly associate with spring. folksy.com/find/item/86... #bluebells #flowers #spring #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #bsnm

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape. This original artwork is available in my Folksy shop... folksy.com/find/item/85... #Landscape #Trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm