Post a perfect album* from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm just a poster, skeeting into the void, saying that maybe you'd like my 'devilish dance through Victorian fakery" #spooky #sapphic murderfest. #books #booksky #LGBT #London

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is an excellent book.

When we talk about the lack of opportunities for young people, we rarely talk about local government funding decimation. The lack of cultural funding, third sector funding, place based funding, training opportunities - all of that has evaporated over 15 years www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is great so far (I've only listened to the first episode)

..and lots and lots of Marriott Edgar and AA Milne

"Tell me lies about Vietnam" by Adrian Mitchell

"I want to be a country singer..." by Tim Gibbard, which has stayed in my head more or less complete for 25 years after hearing one or two performances.

The whole of "Stop All the Clocks"

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Could you help us promote peace and nonviolent conflict resolution throughout British schools? We are looking for an experienced educator to support and develop our peer mediation work. The deadline is Thursday 20 November. To read the full job advert and apply, visit our website:

We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities. Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically. Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏

For ways to find patterns, The Foldline is an indie pattern aggregator shop, good for browsing: thefoldline.com And for reviews / project logs, Patternreview.com is old-school and Threadloop.app is modern / indie stuff - useful to see what pattern users liked.

So, straightway, the brave little feller, Not showing a morsel of fear, Took his stick with the horse's head handle And shoved it in the raven's ear. You could see that the raven didn't like it, For giving a kind of a caw, He pulled Albert inside the cage with him And quothed, 'Do that nevermore!"

I can

In honour of realising it's thirty years since I came out as bisexual, I used my 'Ugly Zines' class to make this advice to my 14 year old self 1/2

It's the year 2025 and I'm so tired of having to say: - immigration is good - racism is bad - bodily autonomy is good - policing bodies is bad - consent is good - overriding or ignoring consent is bad Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?

This letter is specifically about toilet provisions at Friends House which is a. Directly opposite Euston Station b. Has a cafe c. Would be delighted to provide you with a coffee and gender-affirming facilities, regardless of your religious beliefs.

On Tuesday 26th August tear gas canisters were fired near Ramallah Friends School and a parent was fired on by a sniper while trying to reach the school gates. Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

We are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge facing the threat of further violence and intimidation. Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Oh hey who wants a retelling of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes is an abrasive female scholar and Watson is a traumatized sentient spaceship who ekes out a living by making space tea? Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!

I am very much looking forward to reading this, by the author of the excellent Our Child of the Stars and its sequel.

But so many of the things I do with my husband - eating out, cinema, theatre, watching Leyton Orient, cycling and walking in the Peak District, birdwatching, driving for more than a couple of hours - depend on there being legally-usable toilet facilities for both of us.

Question for my fellow cis friends: if this comes in, are you going to feel OK using spaces and facilities that trans people are banned from? Because I'm not.

Oh you wanna check my driving licence? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my passport? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my birth certificate? It says 'male' on it. You wanna summon a gender prophet to read my soul? Sucks to be you, because that also says 'male' on it.

Once "future fair for all" and now "we revel in punishing our most vulnerable minorities" Fuck them

People desperately need to be listened to. We have life-changing experiences, and we don’t know how to metabolize them. We also desperately need to hear each other, because the doubts and fears that make us feel alone are often actually shared. Emily Provance – Swarthmore Lecture 2025

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books: Arthur Ransome C.S. Lewis Terry Pratchett Lindsey Davis Robin Hobb John Steinbeck Paula Danziger Ellis Peters Patrick O'Brien L.M. Montgomery

[OLIVER CROMWELL] How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother Grow up to be a hero and a scholar [THOMAS FAIRFAX] Sir Thomas Fairfax My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax... (Sorry not sorry)

Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project! #Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)? Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'? I want to hear from you!

🚨 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT Standing up to power is difficult and expensive To get this case off the ground, we need to show the EHRC that we are ready to take it all the way Please support our case by donating today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-a...

Song, Stone, Scale, Bone is still out in ebook & paperback if you’re looking for a weekend read (books2read.com/Song-Stone-S... ) & here’s a quick character thread…

My wonderful spouse's wonderful filk, with spoilers for Doctor Who and acknowledgements to 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'

The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

new octopus identified! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The deadline for applications for our Peace Lead post is fast approaching (8am 2nd June). Do have a look here if you think you or someone you know might be the right person for this important role.

This was the difficult, painfully and prayerfully discerned work of Quakers in Britain over the last few days (and building on years of work for peace in Israel and Palestine). Please read the full statement rather than just the headline.

Ongoing findings in the “we’re just going to watch Cheers instead” experiment: Cheers is still excellent. Nothing has ever come close. Like watching acrobats. And the theme song is, I just realised, about why sitcom works.

Que sera, sera! 🎶 Next stop…. Wembley Stadium. #LOFC #OneOrient

We're off to Wembley! Come on, Orient! 🎉 #LOFC

We got everything from signed books to handmade crochet beasts to a rare and precious 1st galley printing of Eye of the World (hi #wotskies!), original art, bespoke fairytales and cocktails just for you, and authors offering the shot to be a named character in their next work. bit.ly/genrefortrans.

I'm grateful for the rule about reposting this video anytime it crosses your timeline because it was only just now, on my 10,385th viewing, that I noticed his costume change includes the application of lipstick

The reading was the Declaration of Principles of the Interstellar Alliance (Babylon 5: babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Declara...)

I'm offering the chance to see your name used for a character in my 8th Green Man book, to be published October 2025. The winning bidder can choose from one of three options to be discussed in strictest confidence – no spoilers! - and will be thanked in Acknowledgements. Do check out all the lots!

Are you in London TODAY evening?