Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Guardian After TERFS mounted a campaignto ban trans women from the bathing ponds at London's Hampstead Heath--which have always been open to them--a public consultation drew 38,000 responses, __86%__ of which favored keeping the Ponds trans-inclusive.

So happy to share the gorgeous cover of the new release of my romantic dual-time thriller, Every Secret Thing, never before published in the States - coming this autumn from @readlandmark.bsky.social You can pre-order now from your favourite bookseller or @bookshop.org tinyurl.com/4kpfhe2c

I WANT a strong edit, because an author's whole deal is that we fall down the rabbit hole of what we're trying to do, and the thing about rabbit holes is that when you're in one, you can't see daylight. I *want* an outside perspective, someone who functions as my ideal reader & is kind but direct.

Happy pride month. In 2024, NASA created a pride flag made of various space imagery. For weeks, it was the most-liked image on Bluesky. Under the Trump administration, NASA was forced to delete it. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-story-of...

YAY!!! 🎉

It could be that the milk was raw

We all know the answer to this one, though. Debuts don’t have track, so publishers, with appropriate hype, can get big sell-in numbers from bookshop buyers, maybe even some foreign deals etc, and move on to the next debut without track. Painless profits for them.

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Raw milk is a lot like normal milk, if you kept it in open-top containers in the men's room at Heinz Field

Nobody who has ever spent more than ten minutes around actual cows could possibly want anything to do with raw milk

This is also my process for researching as a historical novelist 😊 and the bibliographies and footnotes of those articles and books lead me to 10 primary sources which mean travel to an archives ❤️

Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892 – 1980) was an American cryptanalyst and author who deciphered enemy codes in both World Wars and helped to solve international smuggling cases during Prohibition. #CelebratingWomen

Actually, I’m a working writer and I don’t use AI because I enjoy all the parts of the work that are me doing the work.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Pelley had to know that Nick Bilton was going to fire him over being told to his face what a nothing hack he is, and I honestly respect that he a.) forced the issue and b.) managed to elicit such a whiny termination letter on the way out

thinking about @rianjohnson.bsky.social’s amazing storyboards today for no particular reason

Unsigned: can’t even own up to it. As if we can’t already see the six in their white hoods plain as day.

Scott Pelley will never pay for a drink in my presence.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

I live in downtown Toronto and all I wish is for it not to happen on a Saturday or Sunday before 9:00 am because I hate waking up early on weekends and there will be no sleeping through that noise

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Dear @aircanada.bsky.social: If you're going to make us wait on hold for hours, please give us a radio station to listen to instead of the same 4-chord-4 minute instrumental on eternal hellscape repeat. And yes, I already tried the "have an agent call me back" option - still waiting after 6+ hours.

Introducing the Montréal Victoire: the first Canadian team to bring the Walter Cup home to Canada. Your victory was a milestone for women’s hockey — and a proud moment for all Canadians. 🇨🇦

A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

Swedish television did the opposite once and accidentally aired a debate in the Swedish parliament with the subtitles from a children's tv show.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

A more accurate response: "Unlike many writers working today, I used AI tools during the process for the book that involved the stringing together of statistically probable sentences, most of which were appropriated from other peoples' intellectual property"

To quit writing you actually have to be writing in the first place

Friends...it's the start of Pride Month, so I'd like you to meet the amazing ribbon eel. Ribbon eels (likely) all start out male & then all become female later in life. And they rock both ways.

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Mrs Baker writing out an algebra problem on the board, and I helpfully pointed out she'd written it wrong. She went BERSERK. Just full on "Class, let's all mock the speccy twat smartarse". "Oooh, KJ thinks I've got it wrong!" she announced to the class in a mocking voice. "KJ knows best!" /1

One of the best things about being alive is that there are dogs. Remember, if you're having a tough time, there are dogs.

Tip to my fellow queer adjacent folks. You don't need to buy merch for pride. Just be an unholy banshee when people say shady/bigoted shit in your presence. It looks good, works for any sized body, and can be used year round.

Happy Pride Month! Besides there being new content scheduled for literally every day of this month, I'd also really like to try to highlight one of the lists on the site every day. Today's is a major LGBTQReads fave: Romance by Trope/Archetype: lgbtqreads.com/romance/by-t...

HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY is on at 99p! Get in quick! -Starred reviews from Library Journal and BookPage -USA Today bestseller -Talia Hibbert says "a rollicking tale of murder, mayhem, and vengeance with a gorgeous romance about an adorably awkward hero and the rogue who sweeps him off his feet."

every company from june 1st until june 30th

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Is there a pianist in the house? Audience member steps up to perform in La La Land in Sydney

I might show them Victor Borge playing absolutely anything.

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

baseball is always some guy who is a physically perfect specimen being guided day and night by world class trainers, nutritionists, and doctors hoping to beat a record set by some guy named Pickles Bitch in 1937 who lived on cigarettes and moonshine and did not exercise other than baseball games

Pro-tip: don’t name your Bluetooth speaker ‘Bomb’.

Never forget that Andy Kim was on his hands and knees helping clean up the capitol rotunda after the Jan6th insurrection. He's one of the good guys.

We don't need more billionaires in politics But we need actual trans allies who will publicly and consistently defend us and support our rights even more. With those in shorter supply than ever it is kind of impossible to overstate how big taking this kind of stand is. Dude is WALKING the walk.

When I say I won’t read your Substack this is what I mean:

every day is a reminder that political fascism is just personal narcissism squared