Is anyone working on how to make building work silent? Does anyone know how to make a drill emit not a single whining thump?

People got super mad the last time I posted about this but China mandating social media influencers in medicine, finance and legal must have actual expert knowledge is a good way to combat misinformation. We should consider the benefits of experts being expert and not some guy with a podcast again.

The Hunter's Funeral Procession

maybe big shot creatives shouldn't reach beyond their grasp, maybe limitations in tech and finance create an environment that pushes them to be...well, CREATIVE and figure out a way to execute their vision within possible means, where other creatives and the environment aren't exploited MAYBE

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

I understand that the choices I've made in my life mean I'm nothing like Mary from Party Girl (1995) but her clothes, her beautiful clothes she sold to make rent, a tragedy to me personally who loves clothes

Perhaps the cure to my sore throat is black sesame ice cream and perhaps it isn't but I should keep eating it just to make sure

An open letter on the proscription of Palestine Action – defend the right to protest against war and genocide! protestisnotterrorism.uk/2026/01/12/g...

they're gonna keep making us fight for it, so this issue we're asking: fact, fantasy, or fiction, what expressions of gender make you feel fierce?* [email protected]

The more I've learned how to cook, the easier it has become to make delicious meals even when I'm tired. Just made a miso fish ball soup, with assorted veggies and rice, to nourish me as I once again am struck down by a sore throat

Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co We have 🐸 poetry in the language of a pond 🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale 🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction 💀 Queer Texan hauntings 🪐 Plannet-hopping poems 🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction All for sale!

The orange came out beautifully! My partner loved it 🍊 extending the life of clothing through visible repair felt like a good way to start 2026

AOP is open for submissions until the end of January! Guidelines and submission form here: andotherpoems.com/submissions/ (art by Alan Scales on Unsplash)

Sneak peek at a design for my first long-sleeve shirt 👀

Last day of the year, I have cleaned my room, put on fresh sheets (always fresh sheets for the new year), made brownies for later treat consumption, and now I am repairing my partner's denim jacket by embroidering an orange to repair the hole

Forced myself to go to the library to do some writing, not an ideal desk as it definitely caused some neck pain, but I wrote for an hour and half with little self editing. And to get a good desk, you must be there when the library opens it seems, but I will still try to keep up the habit this year.

My mother was trying to have a serious conversation about astrology over Christmas and was explaining that Neptune was leaving Pisces. All I could say was "Oh, and are they taking the kids?"

So far, for festive gifts I have made: gingerbread, salted miso brownies, an almond spice cake, and now a basque cheesecake. Any more requests before the end of the year, I'm putting off poetry homework

As of June 2025, the European Accessibility Act came into full effect, requiring commercial eBooks sold into the EU to be accessible, legally requiring alt text. If entire industries can change their workflow to incorporate alt text, you can take 30 seconds to 2 minutes to describe an image.

🌾 Winter Solstice, Birth of the Sun God, & my own day of birth ☀️ ❄️

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Feral Hearts Two odd beings find tenderness, or a quiet kind of love that doesn’t need naming. What they find together may be love, or safety, or simply the relief of being seen. The world around them mirrors this truth: bones feed roots, insects thrive, and so-called unwanted beings persist. -

I've never lived with a cat before so it's been a fun new experience with my flatmate's cat Chakka. She was doing a lot of screaming and it turns out, standing on my flatmate's eye during the night and was banished to the living room, where she was being so sad and pitiful and allegedly unloved

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is open for entries in both categories: The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Good luck! magmapoetry.com/competition/

a trans (book) for all seasons kithbooks.com @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social @nivikthejackal.bsky.social @le-transexual.bsky.social

Honestly people trying to "reclaim" Harry Potter by getting their fanfic publish or queering it or whatever as if that's going to somehow spite JKR are annoying. All you're doing is keeping those books culturally relevant because you can't let go of something you read when you were 8. Grow up.

In the group chat trying to convince my friend to be an elaborate aquarium guy and build himself shrimp berghain in the tank

4 sonnets! All about my bed, it's assembly, disassembly, reassembly and uses in between

In the midst of everything, some good personal news: the worm is out of the bag! My debut collection Folkish will be published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social this spring ✨🪱 It's full of ghosts, worms, saints, and folklore. It's also absolutely furious. I hope you guys enjoy it. 💚

Attempting to write sonnets, specifically inspired by how Marilyn Hacker approached the form - quoting here from the Yale Herald "Hacker explained that the experience of writing a sonnet is comparable to 'moving into a small room and discovering there is space for all the furniture'."

My partner forgot the word dachshund and instead said 'i enjoy um you know... the low spaniels'

We have to get rid of the things that no longer serve us (lipbalm in a metal tin that welds shut between uses and is now completely unopenable)

😡 this means: no jury trials for robbery; for serious assaults, including SA; for fraud; for breaching protective orders. The kind of work I prosecute and defend on a daily basis. ✍️ The CBA are against this and so am I. Write to your MP and tell them this isn’t how you fix our broken system.

A good description of a frequent experience I have of reading fiction and non-fiction supposedly meant for adults that is written like YA

Check out the #Creatives4Sudan auction to raise £££ for Sudan Solidarity Collective through skills-sharing & gorgeous arts! I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Jamming out to 70s Ethiopian jazz funk and making tea cake, a pretty good way to dissuade the winter blues from roosting inside me

Right. I'm having writer's block so I'm starting a little joy project. I'm going to write a little 1000-word essay every week for the next 16 weeks. Just for the joy of it, but yes, it would be nice if some other people read it too. Week 1 here: medium.com/@kaylatmf/we...

You have to take photos of your friends, on cameras not phones, and print them out and put them places where you can see them, framed or unframed, doesn't matter, it is important that images of your friends don't just live in your phone

There he goes

I have tried to read two modern gothic novels recently and they were just so badly written, I have had to sooth myself with Shirley Jackson

I have the privilege of being back at the Barbican, this time as a Barbican Young Poet. It's marvellous to have poetry homework!

Modest proposal: in the same way that you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a feminist if you're racist / gc / right wing, you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a writer if you use commercial genAI for anything.

From the pages of Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps --

Just saw Frankenstein on the big screen, highly recommended finding a screening if you can, damn limited release but my god it was spectacular, truly everything I wanted and more

For Halloween, I did a double feature of The Vourdalak and Lovely, Dark and Deep, the linking thread of family and the forest 🍃 I liked the fairytale quality of The Vourdalak, with it's puppetry and the way Sdenka's jewelery made her movements sound like bells in the wind

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

A new era of monochrome chapbooks are coming soon from Thirty West & we're ready to read. Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks from Halloween (10/31) until New Year's Eve (12/31). Together, we shall stop at nothing to escape the mundane in 2026. thirtywestph.com/submit

Been dealing with the minor horrors of having a body (post surgery infection) and been forced to unpack a lot of mouldering ideologies around blame, desirability and relationships

A very good thread about trans rights, Your Party, and the difference between a policy and a principle

Release the demon inside you that says you must have the Objectively Correct emotional experience with a piece of art