A vote for Plaid Cymru in May is a vote for hope and new leadership that will always stand up for #Wales ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I see that Westminster is going through one of its periodic 'rats leaving a sinking ship' phases. Thankfully I am in Italy and can mostly ignore the drama.

Tim Allen was on the Board of the Sex Matters hate group before becoming Number 10 Comms Director. Hopefully Labour is realizing that it has no future in pitch-rolling for Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For the next few days I will mostly be at Sapienza University in Rome. The conference is taking place inside the Museum of Classical Art, which is full of stuff.

The players (and the coaching crew) can’t help what the team owner does or doesn’t do. But I just feel like putting this out here today.

Mission accomplished

Happy Superb Owl day to those that celebrate it

I see that McSweeny has quit. Presumably that is to allow him to devote all his time to making Streeting the next PM, and thereby maintaining the link to Thiel.

On board the Leonardo Express 🚄

Landed 🛬

Closing down comms

Boarded. Next stop Roma, where the weather is... Well, if you saw the rugby yesterday you will know.

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Through Terrorisation at Bristol Airport. Today at Starbucks I am ‘Cherlotte’.

We are delighted to announce that our ebooks are now available through Bookshop.org in the USA. American readers, go forth and support your local bookstores!

Searches if your local NHS Trust is using Palantir and emails them on your behalf, please take a minute to do this because we must fight this evil company getting a hold >> notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

In this new (free!) essay, Koneru Hanmantharao looks at a range of parenting examples across SF cinema and tv, showcasing a variety of scenarios... Read it here - and tell your friends! www.speculativeinsight.com/essays

Witches and Sylvia Townsend Warner literary fantasy conference coming up in May, and registration is now open! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lolly-will...

The best thing I can say about that is that England haven’t been tested in the slightest before their trip to Scotland next weekend.

"Cats to blame for octopus deity enshrinement delay" spoon-tamago.com/cats-to-blam...

Thus far in the Chwe Gwlad, two brilliant games and one farce

What do you call someone whose instinct, confronted by evidence that their policies are contributing to a massive increase in deaths, is to cover it up? And should that person be a Labour Minister? Or in prison?

Pob lwc #Cymru! ❤️🏉 Best of luck to the Welsh team in the Six Nations today 💪 #Wales | #GuinnessM6N | #ENGvWAL

Well that’s the Chwe Gwlad off to a cracking start. Italy, of course, had the ideal conditions to neutralise Russell. But Townsend dropped the whole of a world class backline and in the first quarter Italy scored in both corners. 🤷‍♀️

Hotel room photo for @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social

Am watching the rugby from Rome. I’m glad I have packed an umbrella. That rain is properly Welsh. 🌧️🌧️🌧️

Back at the Bristol DoubleTree. I have a room upgrade, the rugby on TV, and most importantly a cookie 🍪

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Whose bright idea was it to have no Swansea to London trains on a day that Wales is playing in Twickenham?

Breaking: We have brought more than 140 feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations together to urge our politicians to act and protect inclusive spaces from expensive lawfare ⚖️ Read more in @the-independent.com: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We'll have a table at this event tomorrow. Queer-authored & queer-themed books and zines only 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

@thecanaryuk.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social are not mincing their words about incessant transphobe and right-wing NHS privatisation advocate Wes Streeting.

One of the things we learned during our High Court case against Reform is its propensity, nakedly and without embarassment, to lie. Only the blissfully naive would take its explanation for this at face value.

A letter from Mr F arrives today, inviting me to vote Reform on 7 May. In it, he asserts that "immigration is out of control". Might one of our well-known TV journalists or commentators actually challenge him robustly about this lie, preferably before 7 May? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Plaid Cymru’s Crown Estate Wales Bill recently passed in the House of Lords. We now need the UK Government to make time for it in the House of Commons. If you believe Welsh natural resources should be in Welsh hands, urge your MP to call for parliamentary time for this Bill.

I spy a 99p ebook deal for the great The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna that manages to be one of the tensest stories I’ve read in a while! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

And we have lift off! Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3 by me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social will be out from @lunapress.bsky.social at the end of March! This one is .... green! (ooh! aah!) Pre-order here: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...

💥 GOOD. Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition… …after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir… …while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts… Stinks.

Found on Mastodon via @cstross.bsky.social, an LLM-generated map of Yorkshire

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We're still stuck at 1 percent of Hailey's goal. Can we get it to 10 percent today? 🏳️‍⚧️💖

Love novellas? In Wiz Duo #3, Ruthanna Emrys saves a young girl from an angry mountain, and Andrew Knighton investigates the death of an old friend. wizardstowerpress.co...

Well, that was decisive. Happy @historianmemory.bsky.social?

This looks “interesting” McSweeney’s dirty tricks are almost… Epstinian/Mandelsonian

Here we go! 🇫🇷🏉🇮🇪

Another IngramSpark impersonation is going around. "Tailored proposal" = fees, which the real IngramSpark doesn't charge.

Some hideous examples of how the TERFs go after cis women whom they suppose are trans

This is because Reform is desperately wishing they’ll get Streeting as the next PM, guaranteeing policies even more vile than Starmer’s

So I gather that Starmer has made a public statement in which he explains that he is the real victim of the Epstein affair, and that it is all the fault of those evil Lefties.