🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

So I just did a total refresh of my personal website, including the launch of my new newsletter - “Uncommitted” Here’s the first issue! www.mattstratton.com/newsletter/w...

Oh hey look WE CAN CHANGE THESE THINGS WITH THE POLITICAL WILL

The best analogy to the conversion therapy Bill would be a Bill that banned smacking children "unless the adult believed that the little blighter deserved it."

My beautiful horse. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Hello! It's my birthday! It would be a lovely birthday present if you told a friend or ten about my back catalog and/or directed them to my webshop where they can buy signed paperbacks (US only) or DRM-free ebooks and audiobooks (worldwide)! scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

i won't live long enough to read everything i want to read that was actually written by people, who have thoughts, feelings, and experiences that i care about. there is far too much great human writing to waste time reading bot-slop.

I had a fantastic time last week at @devbcn.bsky.social: the community were amazing, the organisers were super friendly and accommodating, and we had some great conversations at the Aiven booth and after my talk. 🧵

We. Can. Build. A. World. Where. We. Do. Not. Mock. People’s. Physical. Appearance. (Or ability! Ahem!) This includes size. AND clothing choices. Hair. Makeup. Even, yes, body modifications. What matters, for the 28295282th time, is people's words & actions. What they say & do.

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Amazon's Prime days are June 23-26 so I'm going to discount all books in my own store to $3.00 during this time! This includes the new Rachel Peng, everyone's favorite permanently pissed-off cyborg. theagahfstore.bigcartel.com/category/books #book #books #author #authors #scifi #booksale

The Knife and the Serpent ebook is 99 cents this week! Multiverse adventure awaits www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHV9N2R...

@booksonthehill.bsky.social publish a series of books designed for dyslexia-friendly reading. They published "The House on the Old Cliffs" a few years back, and today they put out another of my works, "The Roar of the Crowd," a story very dear to my heart. www.booksonthehill.co.uk/product/the-...

Daniel is a genius youtube.com/shorts/a2gk6...

I wrote about my project building a community search tool (search.notanother.pizza), using Kafka and Postgres, for the Aiven blog read the full story here aiven.io/blog/prototy...

Did you already know this? 🤔

counterpoint we should write books like bascule’s sections from feersum endjinn

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

This past weekend was the @pydatalondon.bsky.social confertence, now that the dust has settled (and I’ve had some time to recover from a packed weekend) I’ve written up my highlights from the event. hughevans.dev/my-pydata-lo...

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

The recent rulings in the supreme court I think are not just a sign of a roll back of rights but a sign that the legal establishment in the UK is more and more comfortable with simply ignoring international human rights norms and having no expectation of being held responsible for failing them.

🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Oh will you look at this. /grabby hands

Bi Visibility: Bi Bi Bi - A Bisexual Comic Book Anthology is LIVE on Kickstarter! Exploring: Gender Identity, Bi Erasure, Demisexuality, Bi Rep in Media, Tabletop, Sports, Frankenstein, Post-Apocalyptic, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

support your (non?)local queer gender weirdo join my Patreon you give me money and I give you stories a new story every month even! I don't mind being a little transactional sometimes the cute dresses don't buy themselves you know also I like to purchase food and stuff patreon.com/timpratt

This Pride Month you can support some random tranny by checking out her books or supporting her on Patreon.

Just under 5 years ago, The Guardian censored these words of non-binary academic Judith Butler arguing that transphobia is fascism. Butler has quite obviously been proved right. A good day to share this widely.

Bi men: "I don't know if I count as queer because I don't think I've had sex with enough guys, and I don't really want to take up space in the queer community that I haven't truly earned. I guess I'm a heteroflexible ally." Straight men: "Eating pussy makes you gay."

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

Parliamentary debate on Code of Practice - @sarahowen.org.uk describes code as ‘fundamentally trans exclusionary’ and cites worry of drop in European LGBT rankings

Been a while since I've posted something sufficiently clear, but here we are: if you don't support trans rights get out of my follows. Because this.

Stuck on this ridiculous island? Why not retreat into a fictional past that makes sense? Gay historical romance 99p! --1920s, uptight cop x stroppy graphologist, conspiracy shenanigans --Regency, scammer fashionista x newly rich introvert, everyone's out for something On sale in the UK!

happy pride month

1. A civil servant who helped draft the GRA confirms that it was intended that trans people count as their acquired sex for all practical purposes and that ideas like 'biological sex' never entered into it. Why didn't the Supreme Court ask for evidence on the intention of the GRA when weakening it?

This is the last stop on my tour before the @pydatalondon.bsky.social conference next week, the last few tickets are available here ti.to/pydata/pydat...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcj-... is very good at explaining face blindness. Especially the grumble about people in movies! For me it's also compounded by not remembering things like eye colour, hair, beards, glasses - possibly because of my aphantasia.

AMAZING NEWS: the British Film Institute are adding some episodes of Philosophy Tube to their Archive of National Importance. Future generations will have the chance to see the show long after YouTube is gone. This is a HUGE honour, I can’t really think what a higher one would even be??! 😮

Oh hey, check out @podcastle.org ’s latest episode, out today! podcastle.org/2026/05/19/p... 🎉🥳 “Mail Order Magic” is the most personal story I’ve ever written, so it means a lot to have this audio version narrated by a friend, the amazing @tinaconnolly.bsky.social . ❤️

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Some of you may have heard me wondering about the "intrusive of" that started appearing in phrases like "not that big [of] a deal". Now @lynneguist.bsky.social has looked into it at separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-..., and I know a lot more about it!

Oh, *for some things* watching it being done is useful. For some things. For many others it isn't, give us text!

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

📢 Introducing my new daily word game, Keywords! "If Only Connect was presented by Mavis Beacon*" Like Wordle? Like Connections? Like stuff? Then there's a vague chance you'll enjoy this. Find the five connected words of increasing length by typing into the boxes. *one for the young'uns there

coding agents are unreliable as hell. you’re right to be suspicious of them so i wrote 2000 words about how we let our brand design lead ship to our next.js app anyway, and it turns out the answer is the same answer we’ve had for 20 years: guardrails, hooks, CI, shift left dev.to/mattstratton...

📢 PyCon UK cancelled for 2026 Sadly we've been unable to find a Conference Director, so there won't be a PyCon UK this year. If you (or someone you know) would be interested in taking on that role for 2027, or if you'd like to know some more about it, please get in touch at [email protected].

we all know I have no life, so:

I wrote a book called Pagans! It was Waterstones SFF Book of the Month this February! It's not available in the US (sorry) and the sequel is planned to come out early next year (2027). www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

Just seen this and Pagans is an incredible read. Alt history police procedural in a 21st century UK still split between Saxons and Celts. Enjoyed it a lot.

Launching at Eastercon, Book 5 in Chaz Brenchley's epic Outremer series, this time with added magic carpet! wizardstowerpress.co...