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We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

Purple Petunias, 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe #UnlockingWomensArt

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration. I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking! Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻

🔴Trump’s Downfall Will Come Much Quicker Than Anyone Thinks The growing backlash against ICE’s killing of Alex Pretti will be a turning point in public opinion towards the President, predicts @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Proceeds from the sale of the pattern go to communities currently being terrorized by ice-is.

I've uploaded the next episode in my video series based on my book Getting your Class to Behave. I hope people find it useful! Please share. Thank you! youtu.be/ACzoyXoYWXg

Having a practice with porcelaine paints as I'd love some delft tiles for a new fireplace - but they're very expensive. Thought I'd have go😬😄 Which is the better blue? Lapis for the flowers or Ming for the deer? 💙

Taster sessions for anyone interested in writing for children. #kidlituk

Set in the sinking sprawl of London Under, Failure in Time by @KittyMcMorgan is a time-hopping, heart-stopping MG fantasy. Journey with Failure and discover this dystopian vision of England's capital today: amzn.to/42H6c5d #KidLit

Now going to do this. A couple of links to help with the complaint The exact entry where the BBC omitted lines from the parents’ statement: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj... An article that references the omitted lines: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just in the door from the lovely folks at @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social This new edition will be available in Ireland and the UK from February 12 😊

Malorie Blackman champions public libraries: "Having a public library within walking distance... made me who I am." £27.5m Govt pledge is welcome, but we still need ambitious public library strategy backed by secure, long-term funding. #NationalYearOfReading2026 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #WomensArt

My new website - www.malorieblackman.co.uk - goes live on Thursday, 22 January. Do please check it out. 😊

My novel ‘The Ice Maiden’ is now available as a paperback on Amazon. 🌈🌈💗🥰 When Claire is sent to Novosibirsk to catalogue artefacts she believes that the Ice Maiden, A Bronze Age Princess whose remains were found in the Altai mountains, has compelled her to undertake an impossible task.

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart

The warning signs are clear. Can we get our politicians to act in time? Time to Defend Democracy 99-percent.org/time-to-defe...

As a resident of Birmingham, I would like to thank @rachelshabi.bsky.social for writing this balanced and clarifying piece about Birmingham's Macabi Tel Aviv fiasco.

This is terrible news. Access to books from birth genuinely changes lives. I can only hope that the Welsh government reverse this decision.

One of the things I love is to sit outside on the bench with a cuppa. So does shrew.

'Hare head Study' in bronze by Nichola Theakston, one of the UK's foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre #womensart

More superb reporting today from Sky’s Ridge & Frost on the shocking student loans scandal. Watch this staggering report. This has got to be fixed. We cannot allow young people to exploited in this way.

My advance copies of BRIDGE OF STORMS just arrived, & it’s looking good. Seasonally snowy cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social In US & British bookshops on 12th Feb (but pre-orderable today hint hint.)

Eduardo Kobra in Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil #StreetArt #mural #UrbanArt #art #artist #BuildingMural Each book spine is intricately detailed.

Skater girls of Ethiopia

UK-based Yemini artist Asmahan A. Mosleh, known for her hugely intricate mandala artworks #WomensArt

Introducing THE DAD TRAP! Any shares would be amazing! #KidLit #BookSky #LGBTQ #PrimaryEduSky @scholasticuk.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/books/review...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

🏺 Vogelherd, the OG horse, 40,000 years ago 🐎 (the detail you can see playing with this 3D model is insane) skfb.ly/6zJ8H

2025 was a special year when my #debut #middlegrade #RunningMyOwnRace was published by Nosy Crow. A lot has exceeded my expectations. Big thanks to everyone who has supported me, bought the book, read, reviewed, recommended or posted about it. Wishing you all the best for 2026❤️. #happynewyear

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

My favourite cross-linguistic homophone (a word in one language that sounds the same as a word from another language) is the Dutch word for a squirrel, eekhoorn, which is pronounced pretty much the same as the English word "acorn" (that squirrels of course love to eat).

This gives me real hope. In the last 24 hours you've donated over £20k to @calaisappeal.bsky.social Please do watch my Christmas message here: youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?... and donate here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature #WomensArt 🎄❄️

'Here We Come a-Wassailing' linocut print combining the Christmastide Wassail and the Orchard Wassail. The latter folkloric practice is done to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in autumn. I regret not including Ian McShane.

This is what living in a multicultural, multiethnic society produces. It is beautiful and economically successful and we must defend it.

I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.” open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Just spent a lovely hour talking to @jacquelyngill.bsky.social & @phoebefossil.bsky.social for their forthcoming podcast series which will be SUPERB @makeaplanetpod.bsky.social (you'll have to listen to find out my favourite kind of pie 🥧) www.makeaplanetpod.earth

🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!

Here's the blog post that prompted this discussion. I'm prepping a follow up with more recommendations. precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...

wow who was he up against

Sue Scullard (British Artist, born 1958) "Barn Owl", 2007. Wood Engraving, 10.16 × 7.62 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

When America Has Your Back . Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

Ed and Elodie are separated, in two different worlds, with peril closing in on both sides. As Ed battles with the truth of where and who he is, Elodie and Laurie journey to find the one person who can help bring Ed back, and help them to restore magic as it should be, to the world of the Artezans.