Don’t cross picket lines, don’t be a scab, get your coffee somewhere else and let *$ know why. #NoContractNoCoffee

It is my favourite trope! You learn SO MUCH about the characters when it's done properly. Brilliant writers will make it so you don't quite know how it will pan out and the tension is EVERYTHING 💖 My personal fave is in @scriblit.bsky.social's Cursed Under London. Rent-free, dog-eared, beloved.

Only One Bed is characterization! It's tension! Every choice says something! Does someone sleep on the floor? can anyone sleep at all? does someone get up with a blanket for the person on the floor? do they go to bed on opposite sides & wake up cuddling? ENDLESS VARIATIONS to tell a story!

Helloooo I make cute accessories and thingsss :3 please check it out! ૮₍ ˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶₎ა Chocolett.com

My Backerkit holiday shopping campaign launches on the 18th! Follow to get a reminder to grab some gift set bargains and colourful wrapping paper! 🥳 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #artShop #ShopIndie

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

Find your inner Stella today

Can someone dial the Unprecedented Times meter back down to a respectable number because I’m tired.

You guys make fun but Jeremy Strong is gonna nail this.

Making camouflage nets for the War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Dorothea Lange, 1942 In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Her negatives were impounded by the Army; she did not see them until 1964.

extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"

“unless you are a celebrity or have somehow secured a large advance, your publisher is unlikely to invest much money, time or effort in selling your book”

Get in bird feed, the union is bird posting. 🪶

I'll be at MCM Birmingham in TWO WEEKS and I've randomly decided that I do badges now, and will have them with me for the first time ever (as well as books, obvs). Here's some silly little prototypes hehehe (final versions may differ in both text and art, and will certainly include holo finishes)!

It took me a long time to design pronoun pins because I wanted to create something really special, that I'd never seen before (also, the shape variations for each pin make them a relatively expensive investment). I made these: colour change 'mood' pronoun pins! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

In case anyone other than me needed this today 🫂💖🫂

Unions PEO, Pasedy, SEK, DEOK reach agreement with employers and government on automatic cost of living adjustment covering additional 55.000 Cyprus Agreement comes after joint actions and #strike It pays to be union. Higher wage and better conditions @epsu.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social

✊ This #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we stand in #Solidarity with disabled workers. Disability rights are trade union rights. Together we fight for equality, accessibility and respect for all - https://gftuet.org.uk/courses/disability-equality-for-all-trade-unionists #GFTU

Lovely folks going places, please mask and take care of yourselves (and grab a spray on your way to the station): bsky.app/profile/unis...

Saline nasal sprays offer so much potential as a public health intervention to reduce viral illnesses. Easy to use, relatively cheap and widely available.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

"Underground Women" Lillian Dring, 1986. Ref 2007/23, London Transport Museum.

This series is quality BBC - first 5 mins are just beautiful Once Upon a Time in Space, Series 1: 1. America First: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hyt8

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍 Berthoud Pass, CO last night

ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

Blahaj is coming out of this pretty bag to wish you a good Trans Awareness Week. ✨🦈🏳️‍⚧️ #art #cuteart #transawarenessmonth

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

You have about 24 more hours to bid on a set of signed books and stickers from me, or any of the other 280+ items in this year's Peacetober Art Auction! This fundraiser will help support 25 Palestinian family campaigns in Gaza: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Waterstones is now championing a Children’s Game of the Season, the first one being Hero Slam from Jamie Smart, the author of the Bunny vs Monkey comics for younger readers....

“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).” How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!

Out today! Super excited to share a new essay with you: “The Duchess Who Invented Science Fiction,” a silly and sincere ode to my beloved Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century duchess who teaches us to 1. think speculatively and 2. wear ridiculous outfits. compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-du...

It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Flaming Embusen" by Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/cWeeU24

BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!

illustration, excerpt, family computer magazine (1986) archive.org/details/fami...

Some really great queer/trans audio drama recs!

In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. (Stan Lee 100% thought he was the reason for the season.) carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...

I have MORE #buyastrangerabook day action! Bike fans! @mrstevious.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Potholes and Pavements : A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker. It looks ace. If you'd like a copy, just get in touch. UK only

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Things being blatant doesn’t stop reality bending around them any more, but it’s worth noticing where all this stuff creeps in from, and it’s never organic.

Post your last saved meme without any context

See what good you can sprinkle into the day? It could be a grand gesture, a handwritten letter to a long neglected friend, a bunch of flowers for a neighbour, or something tiny, a smiles, a passing compliment or a conversation with the person waiting for the bus with you. Opportunities are endless

Any #MonsterRomance readers in the audience? There's an interesting study on rhetoric happening: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oh FFS

I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers. So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.

This is my last and longest of three aurora threads, for the final substorm I saw from Columbus Ohio USA. It was by far the most brilliant and the strongest (at one point visible *south* of us)! It started ~11:30PM local time and lasted a full half-hour. Just unbelievably stunning! 1/10

Honestly, this 🧵. I may be shouty and critical about a lot, but in my life, every day, I'm reminded and reassured by the kindness and warmth of most British people. Even in my benighted county. I shout because I will fight those who want to make this not the place that welcomed me 20 yrs ago. 💖

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction