I've eaten my own bodyweight in supermarket Hot Cross Buns already over the past week or so, but still nice to get the traditional Good Friday bakery one this morning.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is $6 a gallon. But at least now the president doesn't have to stand next to any Black generals.

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

I had a dream within a dream, in that in my dream last night I was telling friends about the weird dream I'd had.

The steel pans taster was fun. I was on the triple guitar pans and OK at it until suddenly I wasn't*. And Horrible Boss had pulled a sickie (quelle surprise) so that was a bonus. *Hand-eye coordination, musicality and rhythm not my strong suits.

Staff conference today *yawn* but here's me with the keynote speaker!

Last year on tour, I asked bookstores who was the weirdest writer ever to come sign? Answer: The writer who made us set the books singly on the carpet in a checkerboard pattern and *slithered on their belly* between the books to sign."

Seriously, we should have as little to do with the U.S. as we can. This administration is insane, and it’s not worth wasting time or effort in getting a deal that will be broken by them as soon as it’s signed.

It's the parents who can't look after their own kids that have spoilt it for the rest, by the sounds of it, although a good point is made about how long orders can take with questions and special requests.

Surely the point of *those* books is not how bad they are, and how there are better/cooler ones, but that many kids fell in love with them, who maybe felt they didn't fit in the "real world" for whatever reason, and the creator of all that has revealed themselves to be an utter cunt.

from 2019

My chums are STILL not back in their flat - another 3 weeks apparently. And they're supposed to be visiting family in Australia soon. 😟

We've got some wellbeing blah blah blah at work on Friday and of all the activities to sign up for, the Steel Pans looked the least naff, and so I signed up for that, and now I see my horrible line manager has signed up for the same one. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!! 🤮

Goodwin is a dangerous fool. If more English people spoke more languages, they wouldn't feel his clearly damaging sense of insecurity abroad, would experience and appreciate other cultures more deeply, and would, in turn, understand much more clearly what being "English" or "British" is.

@bitsyvonmuffling.bsky.social I remember you posting something similar not so long ago - big screens for big purchases!

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Sorry I can buy 3000 cigarettes but if mollie wants to bring a little salami from Italy into the UK as a treat she will be arrested and thrown in jail???

Well done Keeley. #NeverInDoubt

Crikey, Super Sunday so far for the Brit women at the World Indoor Athletics. Can Keeley beat the Curse of the Big BBC Build Up and nab a third gold tonight?

Tell us your favourite... Tree: Lime (Linden) Flower: Snapdragon Season: Summer Tea: Lady Grey Coffee: Black Time of Day: Morning Genre: Science Fiction Dessert: Île Flottante

FFS.

Contentment ! Thank you to Hussain Sparkle Anila for today's #FoxOfTheDay

And they've still not been allowed back home. ☹️

A reminder that we don’t need billionaires to pay charity, we need them to pay their damn taxes. Billionaire philanthropy is PR to disguise their tax evasion. Don’t fall for it. Tax billionaires. Save our democracy. Period.

Went to the pictures this afternoon; cheap ticket, big big screen, lovely bit of daft sci-fi and Em and Ess snackage. Lovely.

I love how typos are so prevalent these days that I sometimes feel like I am trying to translate Future English.

Coooooooooooooooooooooool!

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

And Happy Persian New Year as well, hope Iran and Iranians will emerge from this dreadful war soon. #Nowruz

Eid Mubarak, to all celebrating! #EidMubarak

The weekly Kick Off is cancelled for tomorrow! Wahey!

Ugh, this has been (and continues to be) a looooong old week at work. I'm sure this time last week it was Saturday already.

Oof, some chums of mine are staying in a Travelodge at the moment because there has been a fire in their block of flats! Thank goodness they are both OK, but goodness knows what they will find when they are allowed back in.

Hello Had to ditch my previous account as was getting about 30 follows an hour, i suspect all fake. I had gone from 200ish to approaching 600 in 14 hours! Try and give me a follow if you remember me as I have lost all my contacts. Thanks x

One of the things about doing research, surely, is the not-obvious stuff you stumble across, as well as unexpected byways it can lead you down, where you spot hitherto unnoticed connections. I'd never trust an AI tool to do this for me since it simply summarises everything everyone has done before.

@marybartram.bsky.social *waves hello*

Happy Stab-A-Dictator-23-Times-on-the-Senate-Floor Day.

Louis Bielle Biarrey c’est notre prochaine Marianne je veux rien savoir.

I've lost fully ten years of my life watching that. #FRAENG

Was overall a cracking, bonkers #6nations, but not without a few disappointments: 1) the rubbishness of England, the last match notwithstanding 2) the tournament shorter than normal (only one "fallow" weekend) 3) most of the matches on ITV with the shitty in-play ad breaks 4) all the fucking mullets

Sorry Ireland. 😞

Oof, surely both teams can't keep this pace up for 80 minutes, it's exhausting just watching. #FRAENG #6nations

It's effing cold again. Watching the #WalIta match in bed with a hot water bottle and fleecy poncho, FFS.