I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

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How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

I think this isn't very complicated: when misogynists need to make an argument that women are sub-human half persons, they argue that any kind of sexual attraction to women is a weakness, because otherwise all the heterosexual men might have to worry about what those sub-humans think

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Nobody noticed Uggi 🙁

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

I am sensing a market niche for a HEATED RIVALRY-style steamy romance about rival Eurocrats

This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)

My husband is in Brussels and he wanted to buy a book for the flight home. He found a bookstore that turned out to only sells books about the European Union.

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I'm waiting for someone to come to my house to film a TikTok video for my Icelandic publisher 💀 What a luxury it must have been to be a writer when you could get away with people only knowing your voice through your writing!

THIS good lord this

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@hildur.bsky.social, my fluffy friend Grace says hi to her fellow fuzzball Uggi and has graciously posed with The Night Guest. She sat patiently beside me as I read it with great delight and anxiety.

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Ég fór í Kiljuna að tala um Irpu

Ég fór í Kiljuna að tala um Irpu

For twenty years I've heard the same reframe and for the same twenty years I've had a fairly popular ocean science blog that tracks how long readers spend on each page and the long wonky pieces have the best retention and are still read years later.

That horrible time is upon us now, when we Icelanders are forced to watch spring starting to arrive in other countries but we still have about 3 months left of winter.

I love that two of you weirdos have saved Uggi’s little toebeans ❤️

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It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

From my archives for #SCAPE day. I got to travel to Iceland for the first time in 2021 right after vaccinations were available. The national parks were very empty. This is a fall morning in #Thingevellir National Park. #UNESCO world Heritage site. #Photography #OMSystem #EastCoastKin #Iceland

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Iceland might be reconsidering exploring whether to join the EU or not. I think all that shit with Greenland has a lot of people who were against it thinking that we should probably start to lean towards Europe rather than the US.

That horrible time is upon us now, when we Icelanders are forced to watch spring starting to arrive in other countries but we still have about 3 months left of winter.

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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE?

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

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T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

I’m starting to think I made a mistake not staring pensively into the distance in my author photos.

JUST LOOK AT HIS LITTLE SNOW BOOTS 😭

THREAD. 3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

Doing the final check on this manuscript before we send it to @kristintemple.bsky.social again. I’m going to see if it reads OK and Uggi is making sure it smells OK.

I have revised my stance. Next to Tunis alphabetically is Túbal, a single namebearer born in the 1860's, after a metal smith in the Old Testament. His dad was a goldsmith who didn't want the child to become a carpenter. Cited source is Túbal's daughter, Soffía. mannanofn.arnastofnun.is/nafn/5950

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A very happy welcome back to bookstores to maybe the best grimdark medieval horror ever

Well I do not have time to write this and I'm not English BUT HOWEVER