The Sluice autumn/winter edition - guest edited by me launches Saturday @ Aye Aye at Broadside 123 Allison St. Glasgow G42 8NE. I'll be introducing the event & alongside local writers Kate Taylor, Sara O'Brien and Lucie McLaughlin, we'll be performing a selection of work on death on All Souls Day.

“Increasing the minimum wage will just push the prices up of everything.” My brother in Christ, I don’t know where you have been for the last 5 years, but they have done that anyway whilst minimum wage has remained the same.

👻 This Halloween, while the media is intent on whipping up fear of a tiny group of trans+ people trying to live their lives - we're saying 'Not in our name!' If you agree and want to see the focus move back on to the real challenges all women face, sign our letter here: notinourname.org.uk

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

There is a special circle of hell reserved for people who write their LinkedIn profile in the third person

Sluice Magazine: The Death Issue — guest-edited by Dr Sarah Wishart. Exploring grief, transformation + what remains. Launch: Sat 1 Nov, 6–8pm Aye-Aye Books @ Broadside, 123 Allison St Glasgow, G42 8NE @sluiceart.bsky.social #sluicemagazine #artistled #death #sluice2025 #death

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows. But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished. Solidarity with the survivors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Insomnia is absolutely kicking me to hell and back today. I am going to retire to the sofa with some Diane Keaton if I can only decide what to watch.

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Finally at #BOARC for a few focussed days writing - been a lot going on recently and the need for some time pushing back the tides of admin and work and recovery from the recent day job - and just thinking of the writing. Also Bidston Observatory is all it promised to be!

Ohoho. Whilst on the subject of films to obsess over: looks like Archive have also got the ffing cremaster cycle uploaded. In case any of you have nothing better to do today: archive.org/details/crem...

she’s an Irish citizen who lives in Ireland, she’s not… you can’t tell her what to do

lads. this is embarrassing.

Just had an email from someone who works as a trainer in schools/mental health spaces on how to work with autistic &neurodiverse young people talking to me about our film #Excluded - to know this project continues to both have a life and to be useful just is the best www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBnK...

14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies Judges: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

I have this in the Herald today (archive version in comments) ‘When context is missing, minds are easily swayed, and humanity often forgotten.’ www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Our Friday read for paid subscribers is the inimitable Maddy Costa, writing about Emma Frankland's (@notyetarobot) new show No Apologies, a 'radical misremembering' of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged Concert, which begins by asking what if Kurt Cobain was a trans woman?

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

“For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value ... When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.”

Anyone else been meaning to get round to cancelling their Spotify for all the reasons - can heartily recommend these guys tunemymusic.com/home to transfer your playlists out. I know streaming in general has its issues but was able to sort out cancelling finally in under 20 mins

The Hidden Artist Refuge in Remote Iceland: LungA School's Lasse Høgenhof speaks to ICRN co-founder @smlpptt.bsky.social about the school and Seyðisfjörður Community Radio 💖 leguesswho.com/news/COSMOS-...

Susanna Rustin is part of a group at the Guardian that held meetings on how to make the Guardian even more anti-trans. transwrites.world/guardian-wri...

a generational divide that puts my Gen Z students on the same side as the septuagenarian Catherine Mackinnon? sure, Jan

@transactualuk.bsky.social have created a guide to responding to the EHRC Consultation on the application of the Supreme Court ruling on “biological sex”. Bookmark, share, and respond (close to the deadline) if able 🙏🏻 Guide 👉🏻 transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

"More than two in five counselling sessions delivered by Childline last year were about issues of sexuality and gender identity." [Times]

“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people’s experience in history” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1938 - 2025

Let me be clearer. I was former head of UK Foreign Office humanitarian affairs, incl policy on war crimes, genocide. I helped craft policy for international criminal court. I’m in no doubt these are war crimes. Disproportionate, indiscriminate, collective punishment by an occupying power.

Generous profile on me and the work with @forcedents.bsky.social from Jana Perković. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/thea...

Four Tet & William Tyler announce collab album -- listen to their 11-minute spectral take on Lyle Lovett's "If I Had a Boat" www.brooklynvegan.com/four-tet-wil...

Rather looks like the #CoopBank has been hacked again - am sat in the airport now unable to access and transfer funds around - wondering whether to cancel trip

RIP George Wendt. Today I Learned he hosted an episode of SNL directed by Francis Coppola, for which the musical guest was Philip Glass. m.imdb.com/title/tt0694...

There should be resignations at the top of the EHRC because of the way they have wantonly and purposefully misinterpreted this ruling.

Finally getting to pack - been a frantic week what with one thing & another. Will be taking 48 hrs+ to get there - first to Reykjavík + then 730am on Thursday out to Egilsstaðir then to Seyðisfjörður! But unlike Ben Stiller - on a bus not a long board... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fZ...

Film #2: Overview Siblings of children with life-limiting conditions share their powerful perspectives in our second #BecauseWeCare film. youtu.be/JysuiVrzH-8?... #ChildHealth #EmpathyInCare @clairecassidy.bsky.social @drannar.bsky.social @alisonmurray.bsky.social @sarahwishart.bsky.social

Count down on.... I've a bunch of things in the #SluiceExpo and will be co-directing like a boss at the inaugural #SluiceFilmFestival - if you're in Seydisfjordur end of May - come say hi! sluice.info

Submissions are now open for the inaugural Working Class Film Festival on @filmfreeway.bsky.social taking place 8th - 10th May 2026 at The Showroom, Sheffield. filmfreeway.com/TheWorkingCl... #film #filmfestival #submissionsopen #filmfreeway #workingclass

On common sense.

BBC here sounding like they're starting a WhatsApp group, going to get some cans in, maybe hire a minibus if enough interest?

Dude it's wild. They've legislated on what a lesbian is (www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...) "The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women..."

I mean I’m a fairly femme cis woman but I don’t carry any ID on me that shows my gender. How could I *prove* I am a woman, if I had to, in a way that isn’t just “well she looks like a girl, fair enough”?

Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

The film from an amazing project I was involved with last year is online. :) #becausewecare #childhealth #collaborativeresearch @sarahwishart.bsky.social

#BecauseWeCare project is on our latest podcast. The project was about siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. Listen here: tinyurl.com/4yzpenhn @paedpallcare.bsky.social @alisonmurray.bsky.social @drannar.bsky.social @annabelhowell.bsky.social @sarahwishart.bsky.social #ClaireCassidy

[World-building primer]

If you're an artist working in moving image - don't forget - tomorrow is the last day you can get the early bird discount to submit your short film to the #SluiceFilmFestival filmfreeway.com/SluiceFilmFe... with the prospect of your film screening at the most remote cinema in east Iceland....

Today we've launched an open call for artists working in moving image for the first year of #SluiceFilmFestival happening in the most remote cinema in Iceland - and delighted to co-directing with Karl @sluiceart.bsky.social - find out more and submit on #FilmFreeway filmfreeway.com/SluiceFilmFe...