Excellent!

One of the few positive unintended consequences of the reckless budget cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sending love and energy to everyone in the US protesting today. "Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #nokings

As an immigrant who has lived, worked, raised children and contributed to the UK for the last 20 years I am disgusted by Keir Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social "Island of strangers" was the last straw for me. Just officially joined @greenparty.org.uk

2025, the year that keeps making fiction reality... US has the lock on 1984 and looks like we're trying to grab up Minority Report over here in the UK. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Steal from me once shame on you. Steal from me twice...STILL shame on you. Steal from me four times and I'm gonna have to track you down!

Cybertruck is banned in the UK on safety grounds. Yet it has a 5* rating in the US? How? The US only considers safety of people in the vehicle. Everyplace else includes potential damage to other cars, pedestrians, damage to roads... This says more about the US than it does about Cybertrucks.

Protest works! Wow. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This place is a true wonder. So much work and love has gone into it and in turn it has taught countless people the lessons of this most sustainable way of growing food. Dartington Trust has made many bad decisions of late but this takes first prize for pure soullessness.

This made my day (month? year??) A lovely reader who told me she's been rereading Tell the Wolves I'm Home every year for the past 10 years sent me this photo in front of the little headless birchwood Jesus in @metcloisters.bsky.social He's still right there where I remember him!

Edible? Asking for a friend.

This is absolutely insane. I would encourage everyone to choose anywhere BUT the US for a visit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Wow. Finally they got one right.

Today we celebrate the right to read. #BooksellingIsNotACrime On Feb 9 Israeli police raided the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, seizing books and arresting Palestinian owners Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna. Today we will be donating 10% of takings to the Educational Bookshop.

What cartoon villain shit should the federal government prioritise today? Ahhh, right. There it is.

Thank you #bbcradio6. Joy Division’s Transmission was exactly what I needed to hear this morning.

Went to a wonderful talk by Wainwright Award winner Michael Malay at First Draft Books the other night. A history of England through four unloved species--eels, mussels, moths and crickets. Really moving talk about how we can be of service to nature.

📢 Over 2,700 people are demanding action from Hinkley—join them! 🐟 EDF promised a fish deterrent in 2013 but still hasn’t installed it, putting millions of fish & the wider ecosystem at risk. ✊ Sign the petition to hold them accountable 👇 win.newmode.net/hinkley-poin...

Okay, need to go write, but felt like I needed to post on US media coverage of yesterday's Treasury protest even if nobody reads this 🧵 And, yes, I know US media has been compromised for ages now. You don't need to tell me.

Poetic. Justice.

A small offering to calm your fraying nerves www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Loved this. Funny+warm+sad= the recipe for all my favourite films.

Hope. Poland ousted its far right wing government. In the US the USDA inspector general was physically removed from her job. Animal welfare will plummet. You do not need to partake in the barbarism. Vegan is rebellion. The right HATES vegans. #vegan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again, book research has brought me to something I don't really need but am now kinda entranced by. Witness the "Carny Generator"--Google translate for the secret language of carny folk. #writing www.mapville.com/carny/carny....

Please take a moment to sign this petition and help prevent this very ill woman being involuntarily transferred to a psychiatric facility. ME/CFS is not a psychiatric disorder. This move could lead to the death of this woman. www.change.org/p/prevent-fo...

Reposting for all the people over the years who have complained that they have been mislead by the title of my own book and are disappointed by the lack of wolf content contained therein. Yes, this has really happened. So here you go people. Wolves galore in these wonderful looking books! #booksky

I am getting so much terrible US news on my feeds right now. While it's important to know what's going on in the US, if you live in the UK, it's vital not to get too distracted by that stuff. Plenty of threats right here at home. Plenty that needs to be done here🧵

Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #womensart

And they said Frankie was irrelevant. Hah! #Traitors

And now for something completely different.

Ok, interesting. Just on FB and in only a 2 min scroll I saw 3 posts about Bluesky. 1) A boycott Meta post from Carole King with her new Bsky handle (41k likes), 2) a piece from Nerdist about the new Flashes insta replacement being developed and 3) a video interview with Jay Graber from Wired.

We all know Biden had flaws but I am grateful that, for his four years of leadership, I spent barely a moment thinking about him. He got on with his work. I got on with my work. As it should be.

Got family and friends moved from WhatsApp to Signal, grabbed any data I need to grab from Meta, but it's this crusty old lady rescue beaver called Agnes that's making me hang on to insta and FB for a few more days. I love her!

"That’s why we need to act now to secure the foundation of this digital future and make it enshittification-proof." www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

I hope some of you #booktok refugees end up staying here instead of going back. It's nice here.

Aw, David Lynch, goodbye you bright brave soul.

Ok--just opted out of seeing reposts and quote posts and Bluesky has immediately become a less anxiety producing place. Phew.

Hey, New York Times, how about not encouraging people to fly thousands of miles to one of the last wildlife havens on the planet? How about we leave the animals in fucking peace for once.

What a beautiful film.

Not sure this bodes well for my 2025.

Great piece by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social on the nightmare that is blurbing. I agree with every single thing she says here. rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/blurb-no-m...

Luigi Mangione and Altoona McDonalds are the names of main characters in a Eudora Welty short story and nothing you can say is going to convince me otherwise.

Yes!

Am I the last one to notice that Noel Fielding looks A LOT like Patti Smith??

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.