Glad people are divesting from Disney+ but I, do wish this had happened on mass due to it's complicity in genocide in the same way people have reacted to the free speech issue. Not that it's not important - but I'm seeing people being more vocal about solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel than with Gaza.

The LFF Critics' Support Fund - helping low income journalists to attend the London Film Festival due to a lack of institutional support - is back for a third year! Find out more and apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Graham Linehan ruined his own life by walking down a path of hatred but forgetting to first become a billionaire writing beloved children’s books and THEN walking down a path of hatred

£2000 - £12,000 available from the Arts Council to Develop Your Creative Practice. Online application in link below. Please share :)

I don’t understand Yvette Cooper’s moral universe where we are supposed to feel more threatened by protesters spray painting war planes than our own government’s steadfast support of a regime who everyday find more horrendous ways to murder people .

Perfectly expressed.

He is and I'm seeing him!

Aw man, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson gone in the same week. Genius gets bandied around a little too much but it wasn't hyperbole for those two. So grateful I got to see them both perform.

This is incredible. The biggest, worst theft I’ve seen so far. Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.

Four short movies directed by nascent filmmaking duos offer snapshots into the Brazilian state of Ceara, a land of abundant heat and sand dunes Live from Cannes: dmovies.org/2025/05/14/d...

A beautiful sight! Was a privilege to be among them. Solidarity with the trans community today and always.

A request for my friends and followers: It's highly likely that a lot of burner transphobic accounts will pop up here today, gloating over the Supreme Court ruling. PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE. It just encourages them. Give them the ignore, report, block treatment. And tag @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

Respect and best wishes to #trans people today and every day.

If anyone can show me how you grow the economy by targeting people who need assistance to wash below their waist, please reply.

Went to the Rock&Roll Public Library, looking like a (rock&roll) librarian! It's on until 22 March at Farsight Gallery by Tin Pan Alley if you're in central London. Nice!

That win, and those remarkable speeches, will infuriate the worst people in this country and the world. Good. #NoOtherLand

Walter ganhou!! Brasil ganhou!!

I’M STILL HERE becomes the 5th Latin American film to win the #Oscar  for Best International Feature Film and the first for Brazil. The others are: -THE OFFICIAL STORY 🇦🇷 -THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES 🇦🇷 -A FANTASTIC WOMAN 🇨🇱 -ROMA 🇲🇽

Debuts or indie writers with a book out, brilliant list of festivals to target. Get in touch with them at least 6 months before and offer your event. It helps to demonstrate the ‘why now’ of your work along with a catchy title. Please share :)

Please share :)

film still #41 Britt and Gwendolyn. #severance

Love this, congratulations on the book Misha!

He’s got Turret’s Syndrome

UK and Irish people, if you're feeling drowned by US centric posts, mute a few terms and your feed will be much more pertinent to our mess rather than theirs. You will still definitely see what's going on over there and be able to sympathise but it brings our news and interests to the fore.

Everyone should watch this, and I hope Mo Amer comes to the UK to do stand up soon.

This season of MO on Netflix is excellent. So so good. Love the 🇵🇸 storytelling that Mo and Ramy are doing. And through comedy? *chef’s kiss* Studies have shown that audiences build more empathy w/fictional characters than they do with real people. Film and TV are so important.

Love it or lose it…my rallying cry for libraries: www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

Love this, and relate to so much of it!

Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

“On the dirt roads of Arkansas I first met Robert Burns…” Currently on the BBC iPlayer: writer, poet, & activist Dr Maya Angelou goes on a pilgrimage to the home of Robert Burns (originally broadcast in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns’s death) #BurnsNight www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Please imagine I’m saying this in a strong Scottish accent: For #BurnsNight, I bring you Haggis Flatbreads from that Queen of Scots cooking, Sue Lawrence! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

Oakeshott, who recently emigrated to Dubai with her children, explaining how "integrating" there was "not really challenging" as it is "90pc expats", beams in to complain about too many immigrants in London. Could not make it up. ~AA

Ahhh the nazi salute on national television. Right on schedule I suppose.

Recommend not watching one second of inauguration madness -

Remembering maestro David Lynch www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

I’ve gotten a lot of well-meaning replies about how misogynistic men in tech are the product of women’s rejection, and I have to point out that misogyny is systemic. Men who are married are misogynists and so are men who have never struggled to date. We live in a patriarchy that depends on it.

Say their names, they mattered. This is so recent and awful.

I assumed Stephen Fry already had a knighthood tbh coz ✅posh✅vapid✅bootlick.

Crying! So ridiculous!

Thinking of these 20 Just Stop Oil protestors spending Christmas in prison - here’s to a brighter future where profits and dividends are not considered more important than the fragility of our living planet #juststopoil

Erm, the "abridged" version of It's a Wonderful Life is cinematic sacrilege. No! 👎

This.

Brazilian press coverage of the petition for Gisèle Pelicot to be given the Nobel Peace Prize. The more of you sign & share the petition, the more her bravery and clarity about sexual violence will be amplified mediatalks.uol.com.br/2024/12/20/a... The petition: www.change.org/p/give-the-n...

"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Workshop with Dean Atta about writing the body. What stories does your body ache to tell about you? And which parts of your body would you love to write an ode to? Online from 7th Jan. Concessions available. Link below. Please share.

Another grey day cheered by the warmth, humour & spirit of my Observer & Guardian friends & colleagues on the picket line. Bravo to everyone who has worked so hard to organise these 4 days of action, especially @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social & @carolecadwalla.bsky.social #savetheobserver 💪🏼🪧