It was always hard to explain to those that couldn't hear it, but The Hum was more than a sound. It was a transmission, a song told through the lines. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. It taught us. It transformed us. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave ex-Pylon Person/Child of The Hum #Pylons

Portal number 815.

Monsta brings all the pigeons to the yard

Two SF thrillers. Two dystopias. Two speculative horrors, built on the reality of how society mistreats disability and illness. Two authors out of the ordinary: @everdundas.bsky.social @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social

“Dundas is one of the most distinctive voices on the Scottish scene.” I’ll take that! Thanks to Barry Didcock and The Herald for including in me in this list of fellow fabulous writers: Martin McInnes, Anne Charnock, Rachelle Atalla, and TL Huchu ✨ www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

🎨 Visual Art Showcase 🗓️ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory Textile artist Fae Rogers works with themes of the body and the bed in soft sculptural forms. Fae repurposes fabrics and uses sewing techniques to create interactive artworks that encourage audience participation.

This is a sculptured vessel based somewhat loosely on a bladder campion flower. The dandelions on the cyanotype pattern are a symbol of resilience and community. I am struggling with a name for this piece- any ideas? #cyanotype #cyanotypesculpture #bladdercampion

ANTIDEPRESSANTS - OUT NOW suede.lnk.to/AntidepressantsTW

It's new @suedehq.bsky.social album day! 🎉 The coda is STUNNING www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WGK...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

"...So, it’s basically propaganda. However, the way it’s framed in terms of ‘the nation’ and in defence of British values is telling... This coordinated embrace of a British nationalism as a new social reality is part of a wider international shift towards authoritarian nationalism."

"persistence will take you places talent alone does not."

Ruining party vibes since birth

An article I wrote last year about not really relating to portrayals of autism on screen. Still don’t. I reckon a lot of us don’t. Maybe that’s a show that needs to be made.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

"We ought to be challenging publishers’ desire for a neat arc. Why must I be palatable? I would ask, questioning the industry’s tendency to sanitise suffering into something marketable"

I've fallen down a Sisters hole again (this is probably going to keep happening until this novel is done) I love this TOTP appearance (and the Simon Mayo intro) youtu.be/bLCiDFsm3ZU?...

When I worked reception

Perhaps the new Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, @thomascarthur.bsky.social, will step up to turn the tide on the crisis in provision of assessment services for neurodivergent adults across Scotland.

Maybe we inspired him

Oh yes please

"Everyone who has been moved by this story needs to reflect on why, and what it tells them about their own relationship with illness and disability."

"Publishing is attached to the idea of a narrative arc that peaks with healing... Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure." Excellent piece

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Ooft! 😅

“Why did it fall to two disabled creatives to build what the industry lacks?” This is a brilliant piece by the fabulous Haneul Lee on Ink and disabled creatives giving up their time to do activist work so we can access the industry we work in www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

This is brilliant - well worth a listen 🖤

Our Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Disabled Writers is open for applications! Four talented writers will be awarded nine months of mentoring from a published author-mentor and a tutorial with a literary agent. Apply by 2 Nov: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

“Eldritch is a word that often appears in Scottish poetry and literature that deals with odd or otherworldly sounds, sensations and experiences…” H.P. Lovecraft’s favourite word is a Scots one (beating e.g. “rugose”, “squamous”, & “batrachian”) #WyrdWednesday www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/11/scot...

Do you need a writing course to become a writer? The answer is in my author newsletter this week: dvbishop.substack.com/p/invaluable...

@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social's The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth was a great resource when I was writing my piece on Edinburgh’s 90s goth club Earth Inferno. Here’s a wee sneak peek:

❤️ #HailHail

Happy publication day!!!

It’s publication day! 🎉 'Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces In Scotland' is out now. I contributed a piece on 90s goth club Earth Inferno 🔥 you can order it from Historic Environment Scotland: stor.scot/collections/...

Some great tips

Slightly diminish a band: Faux Suede

Another scorcher today. Please remember to not stay hydrated. The machines need it more.

Slightly diminish a band: Moody Street Preachers

As the anti-migrant protests continue, stoked by politicians, the media and far right, there’s a toxic lie taking hold: asylum seekers are a danger to British women and girls.  My col. in today’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Aye, it's stunning

it’s 2 months since my debut was published, & since then it’s been called ‘a dark & gripping gothic tale’ (The Guardian), ‘pleasingly horrific’ (New Scientist) & ‘an impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ (New York Times) buy it for spooky season here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott

"the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc"

With clear evidence of a genetic predisposition linked to relevant biological pathways, these findings need to mark a turning point away from medicine's historic failure to correctly research this disease and meet its duty of patient care. #MECFS #DecodeME

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This is so exciting!

"I went to Kensal Green Cemetery and dug a small hole above where Devil lay. I wrapped Monsta in a blanket, said a lizard prayer - Holy, Holy, Holy - and down Monsta went with the Devil and the camera. I was fifteen years old when Monsta was buried and I was glad." @everdundas.bsky.social

The Christian right based in the USA is a global threat. They systematically use their absurd wealth to push propaganda internationally. They have it in for the rights of women, gay and bisexual people, and trans people. They will use any chink in the defence of any of these to attack all of them.

Many people repeating anti-trans talking points don't realise they've been seeded by far right Christian conservatives, who identified trans rights as a wedge issue about a decade ago, and have been relentlessly promoting the anti-trans moral panic ever since. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

"She might have been bullied,” Mary Shinter continued. “I mean, yes, she was bullied anyway. Repeatedly. But that isn’t the point.”

My battle to access the reproductive care I both needed and deserved was a crash course in medical misogyny. No one should spend years being denied medical care that can save their life just because they “might” want kids. /end www.disabledginger.com/p/what-my-hy...