In other news it's time to crack the two eggs that have been sitting in the egg basket for some time, stopping me from buying more eggs before I've checked whether those two final eggs are still good, so they can't get mixed in with fresh eggs, but I can't face cracking a possibly bad egg

At home folding so much laundry. I'm camped out on a quilt among piles of laundry, taking little naps intermittently like some laundry goblin

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

I have no idea where this came from, but

Please get my books from libraries. Get SO MANY books from libraries. I promise you, authors appreciate it so much!

Cat School by @roserobbins.bsky.social is so good. Big recommendation for parents, teachers, librarians... A book I would've needed as a child to encourage me to think about what school should be, and how to navigate friendships of any neurotype. It's so funny and caring and USEFUL.

Keep calling this AI crap out. It works

Also Anne Frank herself wrote about multi gender attraction, let’s not forget that bit just because most schools edit it out

I'm quite proud that I managed to buy and install a blackout blind for the bathroom window today. Had to saw it shorter and it was quite a battle to install, but I did it and now maybe my flat can boil a little less?

WiFi struggling with the heat, but we got tapes and vinyl. Ha

The switchover was BAD. People driving with a paper map and a car GPS and then sometimes several early smartphones talking out loud AT THE SAME TIME because "they like the choice" was a bad time

Friends who come round with a substantial salad and chilled pink wine on a too-hot day where you just had to close down part of your small business and then cried about pottery and nearly knocked yourself out putting up blackout blinds are good friends

For those who don't know (other white ppl?), this is more administrative racism; pseudofolliculitis mostly affects Black men and other people of color, so ending permanent shaving wavers will make the armed forces more white

Something about gen Z rediscovering all the real world things I somehow lost breaks my heart. Why did I ever let them go? Pottery. Printmaking. Vinyl records. Mixtapes. Sketchbooks. I'm feeling such grief, and I know I just need to get back to it, but I'm so sad about the years without it all.

Made my announcement for @betonmond.bsky.social betonmond.co.uk/2026/07/10/e...

Magnified Sand from around the world. magnifiedsand.com No other description necessary.

if you want to fight back against these forces in your personal media diet, try as much as you can to visit, share and support your favorite and beloved publishers DIRECTLY (sign up for a newsletter, visit their homepage, etc.) and financially support them if you can

related, I have sent this @drewmagary.bsky.social column to so many people lately. it really speaks to the moment of what ALL publishers — of any size, content type, funding model — are up against right now

I made a list of projects that I'm currently on and it's thirteen. Time to put a week aside to finish one or two of them I say

My dad was a poet so I could never really join in when the other boys would argue about whose dad could beat up the other dads, but I was confident that my dad could make your dad feel seen in ways that would quietly devastate him.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

For this week's free TF, it's a special collaboration with @edzitron.com of the Better Offline podcast, in which we discuss THAT SoftBank presentation. You know, the one. With the metaphors.

I... I've been running the Aircon on fan instead of cooling all day, it's just been blowing hot air and I didn't notice and I'm sorry but I'm taking tomorrow off

Playing bass ukulele with my feet in a bucket of cold water. I did do some work also but

This weekend I will be tabling @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social in Peckham, London! Come see the finest contemporary, art, and indie comic creators melt into sweaty puddles in another totally normal heatwave. It’s free to attend. Very excited for it - been ages since I’ve tabled in London!

It's amazing how brazen apps are these days in forcing users to give them needless access permissions. I'm grimly digging through settings and disabling them again every time, uninstalling things, refusing, and it's getting ever more ridiculous.

I feel my money is just melting away. Blackout blinds are expensive. Getting the most value out of buying them by choosing nice colours with my niece.

Just imagining some potter's family all DO ME NEXT DO ME NEXT DO UNCLE QUINTUS TOO

Stop it with this integration and assimilation nonsense. It’s my direct lived experience that no level of integration or assimilation is enough for 20% of the population and nothing anyone does will be good enough for the British racist hardcases

A Paradise Built in Hell by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is one of the most important works on how communities respond to crisis I have ever read. Everything Rebecca writes inspires me, but this one has had a major impact in my life and how I report.

Politicians keep underestimating how much people care about the bins.

I'm having to close sales to the EU again for our little card game company. It sucks. But there's no profit margins left under the new regulations...

Zadie Smith nailed it here. bsky.app/profile/writ...

UK government not acknowledging that their creative sector is world class is bizarre. One thing we've really been exporting with massive success forever. It's ridiculous

Did you know in the UK you can get organised with your community and publicly speak up in council, question their policies, have a speech, things like that, as a group You can do that

Even viewed from an entirely mercenary perspective, (which is reductive) this doesn’t make financial sense. The creative sector in the UK is incredibly successful and one of the few successful industries for global exports, so why stop people training and joining it?

Happy to be back home and my plants are all watered and some grew new leaves over the weekend.

some tips for actually doing this: -shitty is better than incomplete -you are the ONLY one who can do what YOU'RE doing -people LOVE seeing the artist's hand in their work, esp in the age of genAi -the more you say "this sucks," the more you believe it. the opposite is also true

‘I presumed kids’ books were written by people who were white and dead’: new children’s laureate Patrice Lawrence

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

🥳 We are delighted to announce that the brand new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate 2026-2028 is the marvellous @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social We're so excited that Patrice is taking on the role and love that she will be focusing on how stories can help to build communities. #NationalYearOfReading2026

GOOD NEWS www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Can anyone identify this beauty, which I found on our bin-lid a few minutes ago?

Today's the day! We're announcing our brand new @waterstones.bsky.social #ChildrensLaureate today. Stay tuned 👀

Got a starred review from Kirkus for the third Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody book, which is amazing! THE PELICAN AND HIS BLIMP, illustrated by Tim Miller, out in October: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Last day of holiday, tomorrow I'll dive straight back into London heatwave and business meetings. Did I get any writing done? Nah. I sure did resting

Somewhere someone is already watching every document they are sent as a video podcast with an AI generated ventriloquist wearing nothing but one talking sock

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

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