This ⬇️

Same. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

I cruised through the seventies, eighties, and nineties sustained by a steady IV drip of sci-fi, so I’m not about to say computers will never become creative sentient entities, but pretending true artificial intelligence is already here is pure fiction.

Reading the news these days

I'm a little nervous about what's about to go down in this museum.

Approach self publishing with as much confidence as this child, although maybe with a snappier title. #writing

Never use a pencil when angry

When you need the perfect car to tootle over to the Vicar's garden party in the countryside.

"What station stop do we need for this train?" "LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH" "Too late, we're two stations later by the time you finished saying the name."

mood

When you ask your child to set the table. (Child is in her twenties)

Forget gratitude journals. To fit my gAI angst I'm starting a creativity journal, looking for human creativity in the wild.

No means no Chad

Advice for today from a WW2 leaflet. MORALE HOW TO PLAY YOUR PART Forget yourself in helping your neighbours. In days of tension this casts out your own fears and worries.

Some churches follow Biblical teachings

Goal for today, step out into the light.

"Using 24 hour notation for telling time is too confusing. Just give me an old fashioned clock with hands and I'll understand better," they said. "On it," says Yeates Dublin. #clocks

Traffic jam in Scotland

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

Highland cattle getting frisky. I mean, what else is there to do on a rainy day?

When its a windy day and you have the windows open to air things out, your toilet paper may decided to unroll itself from the bathroom into the bedroom.

I love this quote from Benjamin Disraeli, ironically found while traveling myself. Memory is a funny thing. "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

On days when I don’t have the energy to create, I can look around and draw strength from the creations of others. I can’t do much to change the darkness in the world, but I can seek out and celebrate the light that shines from creative humans.

I did not expect to find a full set of The House on the Prairie books on the shelf of a Paris cafe.

Fire Tower is my new favorite board game. It has the perfect blend of strategy, luck, and fast moving game play paired with pleasing graphics and well designed pieces. You can be losing by a mile then the wind shifts and everything changes.

At a museum you’ll see all kinds of creativity in motion. Every leap in how we feed, dress, shelter, and amuse ourselves started with someone not content to settle for what is but considering what could be and willing to try, fail, and try again until life was a bit better than it had been before.

Are museums dry, dusty relics of the past, irrelevant to our nonstop digital world? Not so fast. Museums are a celebration of human creativity over the ages. Throughout history, we’ve been confronted with unsolvable problems, which the best and the brightest of us go on to solve

In 2025, I’m embracing live performance. So far, I’ve been to two musicals, three concerts, and seven plays. The creativity I’ve experienced is like IV fluids chasing away the dehydration of dread. Real people pushing the bounds of the expected to create living, breathing works of art.

WW2 poster

The perfect cross cultural night out. Korean street food (British pub style), England brewed pints of ale, and a Japanese inspired card game.

My daughter brought along a little light reading for our recent trip together. She bound the book herself. I so love this kid.

The perfect reading location does exist.

Who the devil lives in this old castle?

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Behold the Yorkshire pudding burger, with puds as the bun. Not pictured is the gravy boat. Portion of the person trying to figure out how to eat this monster provided for scale.

Only a good guy with autism can defeat a bad guy with autism

Admitting when you're wrong is good actually. You ought to try it. A simple "my bad" or "I misunderstood" does wonders for one's credibility.

Mood

Truth! #writing

I recently watched the Godfather movies for the first time ever and now I'm really bummed that I didn't see them before my daughter's wedding last year. What a wasted opportunity. #movies

At the pub ready for women’s rugby. Go England.

My #FridayReads is The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi. The latest in the Old Man's War just came out but makes a good stand alone too. I adore the main character and especially her relationship with her alien assistant.

You gotta love a weathered fish ladder in Wetherby

The one I spent driving my teenager home from a doctors visit where the doctor said she was fine but she threw up all over me in the car and then we spent hours at the ER, me covered in vomit I tried to clean off with paper towels.

Can you proofread your writing and put your feet up in the garden at the same time? Yes! Mobile technology is the best. #writing

And people who don’t have to write non-fiction for money don’t realise that it takes a hour to do a good 1,000 words on a topic but four hours to do 250 words of the same quality.

Trans rights are human rights