So! I am being brave and taking the plunge and attending my first printers’ wayzgoose! If you can afford to lend a hand then I would really appreciate your help! ko-fi.com/loreandordur...

Mine's on the way [smug]

this is the kind of shit that used to send me spiraling about my career prospects but you know what? I started a magazine about it instead. @darkertimes.bsky.social, where everything we publish is AI-free and actually edited!

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

My dad was a poet so I could never really join in when the other boys would argue about whose dad could beat up the other dads, but I was confident that my dad could make your dad feel seen in ways that would quietly devastate him.

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

Still on twitter? You're part of the funding model for the generation of child porn.

In April, I had the miraculous opportunity to do an eco-writing residency for SE Asian writers on Cempedak Island eco-resort. Over the past year, they made a villa accessible for me, &trained staff in access. My resulting eco-horror story was published today: www.cempedak.com/post/rahim-l...

How Do I Become A Children's Author?

It's reduced oestrogen makes you angry, has he never talked to a woman? [rhetorical, obvious]

Damn

"Can you give us an example of a time you had to adapt and accommodate rapid change?"

Oh ffs

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

Started watching Project Hail Mary and I’m fucking delighted, I had no idea I was about to watch Jim Henson’s Arrival

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

Our lores run deep in the UK

It’s ALWAYS projection. If Trump accuses someone of something, it’s because he’s done it or is planning to do it. This is almost a law of nature at this point!

Also worth noting this is effectively Reeves calling Farage's bluff on behalf of the rest of parliament. He SAID he's going to resign. But now what he hoped would be 'his' media minutes are already going to a man in a bin costume instead. So Reeves is like: c'mon then. You resigning or not?

Watching 'Dance With a Stranger', Miranda Richardson playing Ruth Ellis, it gets to the end and the hanging and a women behind me says to her friend 'thas weird, she got off in the book' AND SHE WAS RIGHT In the end www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

UK government not acknowledging that their creative sector is world class is bizarre. One thing we've really been exporting with massive success forever. It's ridiculous

Moral decision making is like building a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. Conversely, when you consistently avoid doing it day after day, the more difficult each subsequent decision becomes. This is the case with people on Twitter.

oh, this is fun. Farage spent decades failing to become a member of parliament. Here's a proposal to stop him *ceasing* to be one

don’t be embarrassed about making art are you kidding me ????? there’s people proud to say they “made art” by using ai and you’re embarrassed to make art with your human brain ???? come on now

If he was at all sincere about taxpayer money he'd pay for his own people to pass his yearbook round, show us he gets all the popular people signatures

If you still have doubts that Farage doesn’t give a fuck about the electorate and the British tax payer, the average cost of a by-election in the UK is about £300k.

Very pleased to have been hired to do the election poster for Nigel's new Clacton campaign

Supposed to be moving house next Friday. Never stay in one place for too long*, everything accretes *21 years. Big mistake. Huge.

This is not a statement, it's a party political broadcast. Why is the BBC airing Farage lying, unchecked? Why put this out live when you don't know what lies he's going to tell? Why not wait until he's put it out, and then broadcast it with analysis that fact checks it... or not broadcasting it?

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

Have checked and parliamentary prodecure nerds seem pretty sure: if Farage resigned, triggered a by-election, and won, the old investigations could all resume. So unless they're wrong (and I don't think they are), there's no procedural get-out-of-jail card here.

"Darren has two successful HMOs in his portfolio already. He hopes this 3 bed terraced house will be his third, as an exciting 10 bed multi-occupancy." Yeah well I'm equally excited to add Darren's name to the list of people going up against the wall, when the time comes.

Good Afternoon

*Farage voice* My corruption is my family

I gave away all of my classic swears for a charity auction so I'm now replenishing my stock. Had to start with a brand new arse: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h... 10% of all proceeds from the shop goes to SalivaryGlandCancer.uk

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Big day today when Le Pen’s future is decided after she used EU funds to pay for her domestic campaigns. Funny how Farage did exactly this but no UK authorities have done anything about it.

This really is the ultimate Toxic American Exceptionalism article: Yes, we cheated, but we're proud of it because we think hypothetically you would have cheated too because we are fundamentally incapable of imagining the rest of the world functioning differently from our warped ways and mind set.

What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30.

Oh yikes.

Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious

I think the media should stop adding "the rapist denied raping" statements without including the fact that most rapists say they didn't do it. like, of course, he denies it. most rapists do!

ICYMI, I made a comic about heat waves. It was stressful and emotional to make, but as @katharinehayhoe.com tells us, we have to talk about this.

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

Once again wishing terrible things on the 'designers' of Microsoft products

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

Me, appendix at 15, daughter (and me) at her slash and grab birth

In response the BBC has sent a grainy picture of the gate into an industrial estate & a note saying “we left the money with a neighbour”

Good things can come out of Thetford. Sometimes.