Eyewitnesses report that "RSF forces selected women and girls at gunpoint when entering shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near El Fasher University; gang-raped at least 25 of them and then forced at least 100 displaced families to flee amid gunfire" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Conservative feminism is a contradiction in terms, there will be no further discussion

I passed! Look out Nigel Farage this elder daughter can’t WAIT to vote against you

I studied SO hard for the life in the UK test and then it was so suspiciously easy that I won’t be able to relax till I get my results, elder daughter syndrome is the worst

Lauren Elkin, whose book “Flâneuse: Women Walk the City” is profiled on the Resources page of the “Project Pedestrian” website, contributed a radio essay to the BBC on the types of pedestrians one encounters on urban sidewalks. @laurenelkin.bsky.social

This is how you blurb

Insane. Tearing down the White House without legal authorization in order to build a palace ballroom for himself. It will of course need to be demolished.

This is very good. Really enjoyed it. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social are on a roll at the moment. Blackout, Harriet Armstrong, Gloss, Zombie Proust, Celina - many houses would give their eye teeth for a stable like that.

feel like a bunch of you could write an amazing novel with this as the first sentence

Here's a question for a rainy day: I'm as confused about wellies as I ever have been. Am I meant to bring another pair of shoes to change into when I get where I'm going? Because we don't all live in the Cotswolds and muck around in the fields all day?

Just overheard an American explaining why he loves London architecture, "bc there are all these old buildings, & then you'll turn a corner & there's this Brutalist masterpiece, I mean how does that even happen?" his British interlocutor took a beat to gather his patience before saying "...the war?"

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

When you get to the hotel two hours before check-in and the room is READY 💯

looking at a lesson plan from ~15 years ago I cannot believe how autistic it was and I had no idea - teaching university is not actually an excuse to info dump, 2010 Lauren

doing freelance teaching is hardly ever worth the admin, I need to remember this in future, everyone has the best of intentions and then I'm the one spending half of my half of a workday trying to sort it all out

Spot on.

Apparently there’s a rumour going around that I’ve just had a baby, to explain why I never go anywhere or answer anyone’s emails

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

All these young writers imitating Joyce and Proust - don’t you find it terribly distracting? It just makes me want to go and read Joyce and Proust instead

Apart from Diane Keaton dying I had a very lovely 47th birthday

“With her baby in her placenta.”

Best essay title ever?

Had to restrain myself from commenting on the glowering mugshot of the felon-in-chief and also from asking everyone if they’re excited about season 3 of the Diplomat

After four unsuccessful attempts, we finally got J to the American embassy to renew his passport, nearly a year after he went into burnout and could no longer leave the house. Big win! (Vive la résistance, down with fascism, free Palestine)

After several years of refusing to watch Bluey, calling it “that show with the weird dogs,” my son has finally fallen under their spell

The Eurostar to Paris during fashion week is really 💯 don’t worry if you see me staring at you it means I like your outfit

Just overheard an American describe London as being “like a small New York” 🙄

Completely heartbroken about the attack on Heaton shul yesterday but it only underscores the fact that Israel’s g€n0cid@l war is making Jews LESS safe. It needs to end yesterday. Free Palestine. Free the hostages. Fuck people who hurt other people.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

And I don’t want an alcoholic chat show host in charge of the military but there you go

If I get one more invitation to a SEN coffee morning…

I can’t believe Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries are acting like this shutdown fight is business as usual, a disagreement over policy

I remember being told, when I had my kid, that within a couple of years I’d be back to work full time. He just turned 7 and I’m still waiting, because there is next to no support for parents of autistic kids - esp those who can’t go to school

Dreamt I went to Parker Posey's house and told her she had a ghost

Hard to pinpoint the precise moment at which the American democratic project was over but this is a close contender

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

where might I find a real live Italian tutor, please? I think I am reaching the end of Duolingo's usefulness and I need to be able to have actual conversations...

Here some people who know what they're talking about talking about autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Paracetamol is like

I have an extra ticket to this if anyone needs it - get in touch!

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

Dreamt that Bernie Sanders was the MP for Marseille

my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

a good flâneur.euse has sharp sidewalk awareness www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...

I went to New York for the weekend and now I am very tired 🫠

First spotting of the US paperback of SCAFFOLDING out in the wild, at @barnesandnoble.com on Long Island

Fired for literally just quoting Kirk’s public words, with no additional commentary. “To quote Kirk is to dishonor him” is such a wild claim. (See also its corollary: all the pundits praising him never quote him.) The political press corps has been making its brokenness so absolutely clear.

Are any of your books on Libgen (check on libgen.la)? If they are, they've been used to train AI without your permission and without payment. It's not too late to add your name to this class action for compensation before the end of today (US time). graphicpolicy.com/2025/09/09/j...

I miss RSS so much - and I read so much more online when it was better organised in a reader. Now I just have a zillion tabs open that I never look at