we don't make memes anymore but this has huge potential

"i don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush"

for 11 months of the year i claim i don't have a favourite taylor swift album, it's very complicated actually, then november hits and i realise once again that im a die hard evermore girly

i run an annual livestream of short presentations on niche interests. it's very wholesome and the invitation to speak extends to every living member of planet earth. this year's morl society is friday 28th november. sign-up form + more info: forms.gle/39oK5LokPh3P...

halloween has the right idea being on the 31st. you can look forward to it for the month, then move on. i propose we move bonfire night to the end of november, christmas to the end of december, and delay new year's eve until the end of january so it's not such a bust

it's nice to sometimes just feel happy about something

soon:

i am once again waiting for a delayed train on platform 13 and once again filled with a vague sense of dread.

Teen Vogue OUT: Marxism and Anal Sex tips IN: Lean In

Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said

i did twelve drawings in 31 days (including two i didn't post on here). not bad i think, especially considering how much of october i had flu

I have probably taken tens of thousands of my dog Bento at this point, but this picture of Bento finding an abandoned lobster trap on the beach will always be in the top ten. I repost it whenever I stumble across it. Just look how excited he is.

"the autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much, long limbs and frozen swims, you'd always go past where our feet could touch"

this isn't the main reason to be friends with your neighbours, but it is a great perk

went to a halloween party at a neighbours. left just after 11.30, in bed with a cuppa by midnight. i'm a happy pumpkin.

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

our actual trick or treaters were less recognisable than this. just a delightful hodge podge of spooky miscellany

some #inktober trick or treaters

spooky AI pinterest halloween slop decorations

just chucked a skeleton-on-string out the upstairs window and was heading out the front door to see how it looked, when i heard little gasp and "daddy that one looks scary, i think we should knock there!". so i had to quickly close the door again and wait with a big grin on my face

the October ep of @emma-vogelmann.bsky.social's podcast is on the Salem Witch Trials, disability and marginalised bodies.

Happy Halloween! For the scariest day of the year, I have remastered my first album! The Betrayer is an album made of horror stories, from rituals, to vampires, to Frankenstein's monster. So come listen to something perfect for today. Links below, starting with Bandcamp:

a niche photo account that uses alt text properly? delicious

i'm not sure they should've been driving

i keep having the idea to make myself a "cosy gym playlist" but every time i sit down to do it i'm like "what do you mean. what does that even mean?" so if you have suggestions please tell me

Little café readers

this is the week that we must shift our mindsets from shirley hughes autumn to shirley jackson autumn

this is the week that we must shift our mindsets from shirley hughes autumn to shirley jackson autumn

sexy stardew valley silo

My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social: Who Remembers Attention Spans? Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though? nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...

People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.

did a big #sheffield #photography walk today from meadowhall interchange, through concord, wincobank woods, firth park, five weirs walk and then back through town

spooky AI pinterest halloween slop decorations

making a halloween salt circle to keep away bad spirits* *a slug that keeps getting into the hallway

reposting to fix a typo? yes i will re-like, and no i didn't see a thing

cracking this look out again this morning. never felt so chic and unbothered in the rain

i went outside today. you can't make me learn what this means.

don’t own a ring camera lmao what r u doing

i mean i guess you could cure autism if you really want to. personally id miss infrastructure but thats just me.

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

the best posters really get the worst replies on here

Foggy Burrator woods last February, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

why have i had a dozen new followers in the last half an hour?

another #inktober. really enjoying drawing people

Happy Columbo’s Day

i was sick for a few days and im not even going to try and catch up. but here's an #inktober sketch

this is really horrifying

we need to bring back the Horrible Histories primary school trick where you describe in detail something done by the nazis, get the audience to agree that it's abhorrent, then reveal that it was actually 'our lads' last week

following a phone call today someone sent me an email with the subject "8/10 meeting" and on reflection this is obviously the date but for a moment i thought it was a rating and my blood ran cold