I will constantly be that person who emails their MP about the failings of the government. I don't have the ability to protest in a way that won't negatively affect my health so I write emails, I post on socials I do what I can even if that's very little because it's better than doing nothing.

Unintentionally made like half the characters in my dissertation play Northern. I'm not a northerner, I'm a Midlander and yet I always default to the north in my writing for some reason.

Why are all the governments' "hard decisions" always to push people further into poverty instead of taxing the rich? It's always hard decisions that hurt vulnerable people. Most people getting LCWRA are already in poverty why are they taking more money off disabled people? Labour do better.

Went to bed early to fix the horrendous sleep schedule, it didn't work, I woke up at 2am and can't get back to sleep. I normally sleep 10+ hours....unless I go to bed before like 11:30 pm then apparently I wake up after a few hours. *sighs*

You know I've noticed that you can tell who the Robert Donat fans are/people who know a decent amount about Donat's life in the letter box reviews. This is particularly evident for the film Lease of Life.

Haven’t browsed iPlayer in a while and just discovered that they added several Le Carré TV adaptations. I had seen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ages ago but I didn't know it was on iPlayer along with Smiley's People. My watch list is now even longer than before.

Autocorrect just turned apologies to Apolitical in an email and I didn't notice until it was already sent. 🥲

You know why greens are so popular amongst us youngest, because they are the only ones offering hope. We have lived through decades of governments that don't care about our generation, who scapegoat us and make our lives harder. The greens are offering a better world, they are offering us a future.

We are watching the rise of fascism live-streamed through our phones, we are watching genocide live-streamed through our phones, we are watching horrific events live-streamed through our phones. Not a single person can claim they didn't know it was happening, no one can say "we didn't know".

Today's Smelt post: hey, you liked Ghosts, right? And you like Cunk? Well, Ben Willbond (Ghosts) and Joel Morris (Cunk) want to make a sitcom together. We can't afford to make it without your help. So why not chuck us a tenner plus fees, so we can make it? www.leadmojo.co.uk/smelt

I no longer get anxious about being on stage which is such a bizarre thing cause I used to be terrified every time, I love it but it was terrifying but now its not terrifying and I still love it.

What a joy this week has been. Exhausting but wonderful

I keep seeing people saying ICE are "doing their job" and "following orders", do you know who else was "doing their Job" and "following orders" the nazi's. They're kidnapping people, they're killing people, they're targeting the vulnerable. Don't you dare make excuses for them, they are fascists.

Are the Americans alright? No seriously are you guys okay because I'm not even over there and seeing the utter horrors going on in the US is terrifying. Don't let the fascists win.

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Okay but this is incredibly good.

Incredible scenes, I genuinely don't know how I managed it.

Happy to say we raised £601 for The Mix and SHOUT. We'd like to thank everyone who donated and submitted. We also like to say a special thanks to Peter Sandys-Clarke for doing the Q&A. I hope you all enjoy: youtu.be/RDwxM6liZgs?...

@benwillbond.bsky.social @lazbo.bsky.social The Lego Idea for a Lego Button House has finally reached 10,000 votes!!! Hopefully Lego agree to develop it 🤞🏻

I have a question for @celtx.com Why is the number of pages different between the celtx website and the print preview? The print preview is 80 pages, whereas the website is 77 pages. The number of pages also decreases at random sometimes, I assume its it reformatting but I'm not 100% convinced .

Thought I‘d give this art trend a try ^^ 💙❤️ #appletrend #acgas #fanart #art

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Such fun

Off to that Norfolk

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A birthday gift for @lazbo.bsky.social 🎉 Hope you have the most fabulous day today!🎈🎊 #bbcghosts #bbcghostsfanart

Happy pride month y'all

It brings me great pleasure to announce that we (me and Hannah) are doing a charity fundraiser Q&A with the one and only Peter Sandys-Clarke for the mental health charities The Mix and SHOUT, in honour of our dear friend Ben Thirlwell. The Just Giving link: www.justgiving.com/page/the-mix...

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ALL EYES ON THE MADLEEN FREEDOM FLOTILLA. ALARMS ARE ACTIVATED.

I’ve not seen such a blatant Them And Us situation since COVID. The emails are all in the language of shareholding and investment and speculation. They’re talking an alien tongue. Pay us. We can’t afford to play your silly games.

That’s why this hurts. Personally, I can’t invest in things. So I don’t. It’s too big a gamble. I just work long hours and make stuff and take my share home as earnings. I didn’t give permission for the money I earned to be invested speculatively. I can’t afford to do that. But they did it.

Every penny was sent with love and faith. It was intercepted and pissed into a hole by cavalier corporate gamblers. That’s different from a company folding and its investors not making their speculative cash back. There was no speculative cash. There was just our money. Unbound stole our money.

I have to face friends and readers who sent in money, sometimes quite big chunks of money, which didn’t come to me. People gave it in good faith, to support my work. Unbound gave it to strangers, gamblers, to waste. My friends’ money. That’s just shitty. Pay it back.

Money we need to spend on our families and homes and lives. Not megabucks. Easily raised small, lifechanging payments within our freelance incomes. Raise it. Pay it back. You shits.

If the shortfall was many millions, I’d maybe get it. Too big to fix. This isn’t too big to fix. The venture capital they raised to start the new company will be way more than £650K. But investing in wild AI spec tech attracts that sort of money. Boring old books is just thousands. Our money.

We didn’t invest it in anything. We didn’t gamble. We’re not shareholders in a project that didn’t work out. That was our money. Our salaries. Our livelihoods. It wasn’t a speculative investment. It was our earnings. It’s not a financial glitch. It’s theft.

What they’re trying to do is gaslight us that it’s impossible to pay this money back. They invested our stolen money in a project that probably won’t earn out. They put it on a horse. They gambled it. We didn’t give them permission to do that. It’s not impossible to make this right. Pay it back.

£650K. Thats how much they stole. If the people who stole our money raised that amount - it’s only the cost of a house, I bet they’ve got some spares between them, bung one up for sale - they could pay back the theft, and come out of this with some dignity.

Unbound stole our money. Unbound stole our money. Unbound stole our money.

And unlike a mainstream publisher, where only a small amount of the money that books earn goes to the author, this was a 50/50 split. That’s why we all did so much extra labour for them, publicity, marketing, fundraising, basic grunt work on our books.

Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.

He was doing this for the one he loved, he was protecting him. He had to remind himself of that and as much as it hurt he had to make sure The Captain was safe. #bbcghosts #capvers #art

Great Auk! :D #birds #greatauk #art

Enjoy this quick practice doodle, and the alcohol pun my German friends asked me to draw lol

I ain’t got a clue how its June now but Happy Pride Month everyone! Have some Capvers in honour! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 #bbcghosts #art #capvers

Things left unsaid #bbcghosts #capvers #art