I hast materialised in the Netherlands! First stop was to visit the pillar biters of St. Bavo's church in Haarlem, part of a much larger choir screen made in 1517. They supposedly represent hypocrisy, as the local proverb puts it: 'Who is a pillar-biter in church, shits devils in his own house'...

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Zoom Movie Night tonight! 🍿✨ I possibly maybe had something to do with the choice... 🤷‍♀️

I've had the pleasure of reading an early draft of this and it's brilliant! Get pre-ordering, creatures: tr.ee/EZN3ZGPFkg #Suede #AsOne #RodgeGlass

Congratulations @simonguy.bsky.social ✨

A lady walking by was like “wow! Your flowers are so beautiful! Happiness! Happiness! Happiness!” And hell yeah to that.

Me but with James Dean

Props to Starmer for winning a super majority and then for managing to fuck over disabled people, the elderly, trans people, and be complicit in genocide whilst having all the charisma of a zone 6 estate agent.

Naaah, he will be remembered as an anti free speech, dishonest, genocidal, authoritarian, racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic transphobe who created problems when he had the opportunity to solve them. @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social is undermining its own credibility here.

& small solstice fire that rears horse candles lit as dark falls & moon's constancy

James Dean drinking milk in Rebel Without A Cause is my gender, sexuality and religion

I'm of the generation which had no social media and got to wander off without parental oversight for hours on end but jeez I would have loved an online forum where I could have discussed books (etc) when I was under 16 1/ www.thebookseller.com/news/childre...

An aspiring Telegraph columnist is “thrilled” that her four-year-old daughter is autistic, due to all the hand-wringing articles she can get out of it about her horror at not getting exactly the child she wanted, throughout the daughter’s teens and even well into her adult life.

Are you beach body ready. Is your meat-wrapped skeleton prepared. Are your flesh-covered bones visually correct for coastal deployment.

So it seems I'm a James Dean fan #BasicBitchAye Any other Dean fans amongst you fabulous creatures? Hit me up with bio and doc recs, please! Here's my thoughts on Rebel Without A Cause: bloodonforgottenwalls.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/r...

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

While Spader season has reached it's end with Cronenberg's Crash, I have a new obsession I'll be sharing soon! It seems I have a thing for people called James... 🤷‍♀️ (points to anyone who can guess which James...)

A very belated end to my Spader Season with Crash (1996). I saved the best for last, of course. I love this film but hadn’t seen it in years. I still love it (and the book). [1/3] #JamesSpader #SpaderSeason

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Anyone that lauds the notion of politely disagreeing has never been directly effected by the things they’re disagreeing about.

Trans people : Can we continue to live please? TERFs : No, we want you dead Centrists : Have you guys tried sitting down and chatting about this little kerfuffle?

This “we used to just politely disagree with each other” bullshit seems to ignore most of the history of lgbtq+, women’s rights, civil rights, blah blah blah

Does the King know about this? Don't buy it. projectslingshot.com

If you don’t love me at my failed, you don’t deserve me at my no matter, try again, fail again, fail better💅🏻

“[Spark] knew what the world thought of women like her, who prioritize their artistic and intellectual development over marriage, men and motherhood” — @drjamesbailey.bsky.social on Muriel Spark’s eternal pursuit of the literary life – via @literaryhub.bsky.social 💙📚 lithub.com/an-intellect...

I think it's also part of a myth in our society that fame=wealth. The majority of musicians, actors, and writers don't make a living wage, but the handful who make $10m a project throw off their perception.

Our education system has let us down, all over the world. Parents have let children down. The idea that art is frivolous, that it's not something that can be a real job, that it's not WORK, is toxic.

"Art is work. The work is the art."

I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.

But, but trans people were created by liberals in 2015!?? 🤪🤣🌈

Help improve A&E services for #autistic & #ADHD adults! We are looking for people (18+) from across the UK who have needed #emergency #medical #care or been a patient at A&E to complete our anonymous survey. The survey takes 15-20 minutes. Accessible alternatives also available. 🔗 edsurvey.link

This is a really bloody lovely audio portrait of two Autistic people and their relationship, by @everdundas.bsky.social (expertly read by Ashley Storrie). #Neurodiversity #microbiome www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We have plenty of courses on craft, but right now authors need more support post-publication, writes Betsy Tobin.👇

We think everyone should have the same rights to mobility, in all areas of our lives. What does that mean? Read our new explainer to find out more: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.

We wish you the deep and perfect peace of a rescued baby goat snoozing in his dinner next to his best friends.

“I went over expecting to treat a broken leg, but came away raging at a broken society.”

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

I was so shocked when I went to Oxford: "How is everything so flat??? It's unnatural"

No visitor to Edinburgh is ever prepared for the hills, steps, inclines...

The new EHRC guidance is a joke. It defines the protected category of sex by biology and then relies on enforcement based on appearance. The GRC has effectively been nullified. It's involuntary disclosure carries criminal penalties but then requires Anyone having a GRC to constantly out themselves.

Let's play a game and see how many trans people are quoted about having their basic human rights stripped from them by a genocidal government in the various genitally-obsessed bigot media outlets in the UK today, shall we?

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

They should stick this over the finale end credits.

A new article about Ernest Hemingway and how he might just be allowed back into polite society. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/a...

Don't we all have a "strange affinity for goblins"?

I swear I'm not responsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is absolute horseshit. First, don't use Claude. You don't NEED AI to assess if something is AI. That's ridiculous. Second, just read the damn thing, talk to the author, and talk to the judges. Third, take things down when warranted. It's basic due diligence. I just...cannot. *waves hands*

I cannot wait for it to turn out that they fed all the entries into an LLM and the LLM awarded the prize to the most LLM-like story.

What will inevitably happen with this is that the entire conversation will centre on whether or not people can tell if something is written by AI, thereby conveniently obscuring the much more important question: what were the criteria by which this writing was judged as exceptional?