When I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing. lithub.com/the-way-of-w...

Contempoary artist Carrie Reichardt's mosaic in Aberdeen, Scotland, depicts a marching suffragette interspersed with pictures of the heroes of today #Womensart #Monday

This Sranger Things reboot looks a bit rubbish

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

I genuinely do not understand why there is not more love for this show. Yes, it's tied to a formula but engaging leads, excellent supporting cast and the setting make it a cut above. Now look, find room in your life for #Troppo , mate.

I mean.... Just.... I dunno man..... Jeez..... what now?.... Christ on a bike.... Really? They said that? .....Oooof......sigh..... join me for more #RealtimeNewsUpdates

English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, #TracyChapman, New York, 1988 #womensart

One of the most powerful images of the Iranian protests is that of an Iranian young woman burning Khamenei’s portrait, and lighting her cigarette with it. Photographer unknown.

Photographer Lee Miller's portrait of Marlene Dietrich in a Schiaparelli coat, Paris, 1944 #womensart

Culture!

@quietriotpod.bsky.social Uh oh. Fireworks are woke thanks to a fictional witch or a flag or ... I don't know... the color red, maybe? Thanks for your wonderful Wokey Dokey compilation. It gives me great peace for 2026 to know that I will never understand the world view of these loons.

Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Mixed feelings about this present. The giver took great pains to assure me that it was Kickstarted long before the unpleasantness, the artist and the Pratchett estate insisted Gaimian had nothing to do with the project etc. And it is beautiful. But but but.... sigh. Another struggle of art vs artist

@maxrushden.bsky.social Hey Max. Will the panel have any more views on how Villa's bench is so weak they cannot challenge for the title? #supersubs

most appalling beauty

Every year my admiration for my mother and grandmother before her (working in an even smaller space) just grows. How they ever cooked full on Christmas dinners for 8, 10 or even 12 people working in this sort of kitchen just amazes me. You can see the chaos I am causing cooking for 5

We love #joy and #savor every moment, The 10th Noel Carnival in #Syria.

Happy Christmas!

I know some Scrooges will say this isn't exactly Christmassy viewing but it's set on the 20th December onwards so it counts in my book....

Paging @clownf1st.bsky.social

Is it me, or are the nights getting lighter? #RecycleForChristmas

Went to a quiz, won the quiz, went back home, drank my way through the prize while watching Dr Who and the Green Death. I hope your Christmas is shaping up as nicely as mine.

Elizabeth Fraser, ethereal vocalist and lyricist for the influential Scottish band Cocteau Twins. #WomensArt

Scenes in last night's #TalesofArgosa when our Mage, seeking Bestial Communion with a goat (long story), inadvertently summoned a deadly 3 foot slug-demon. Thanks to @davepaters.bsky.social @willoughbywrite.bsky.social @filmfan68.bsky.social and @clownf1st.bsky.social for playing through the madness

The indulgence of two advent calendars. And one reason to like the 15th of December.

Really poor here, from the BBC. Weak, fearful, hypocritical. I've been an embarrassingly heart-on-sleeve supporter of the Beeb in the past but they are making it so damn hard.

Would recommend. Half escape room, Half sci-fi LARP. Very professionally done, even found my glasses which I lost trying to hide from an alien guard. theatreweekly.com/punchdrunk-u...

December's #FullMoon is known as the #ColdMoon. Artwork by Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist #womensart #ArtAdvent

Happy Birthday Dr Who! Still a quote I find more and more resonant. #doctorwho

Born on this day #BOTD, Icelandic singer Bjork is 60 years old today. Here with fellow artist PJ Harvey. #WomenArtist

Goodnight.

Happy 60th birthday to Peter Kember and Jason Pierce who were both born in the same hospital on this day in 1965. Here they are together in Spacemen 3 performing Revolution youtu.be/qdQn7c62zHM

I cannot support this suggestion strongly enough. But hey, if you want Hauer but feel you’re too highbrow for these then find The Legend of the Holy Drinker. Damn, that man was beautiful.

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday

Flying visit to the old adopted home town. Brighton, may you never change (too much)

"November's long chains of wet boots and rain" Sigh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAP...

One of my students today announced that I gave off "grandfather vibes". How's your day going?

Deuteronomy 8:3 says that man cannot live by bread alone. Increasingly I feel that I will take that bet.

The Lovers (mid 20thc) bySurrealist painter Remedios Varo #WomensArt

I'm not sure what came over me, but I thought I'd do this tonight....

I'm not sure what came over me, but I thought I'd do this tonight....

Stripe Dublin r/brutalism

Not now, million year old skull rewriting human evoution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cannot understand how I missed 'Troppo' before now.

Day 23, #8: Welcome To The Occupation "Listen to the Congress Where we propagate confusion, Primitive and wild, Fire on the hemisphere below" Listen to him, indeed. song.link/y/XARqoTAJFuM#8: #REMtop30

An odd second career after the success of Fist of Fun. #ThatsOneForYouTeenagers

The Seventh Doctor being iconic