bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.

It's an art form. A mixture of pantomime, athletics, theatre and storytelling. And wrestling works best when it isn't trying to be 'real'.

At @allgoodbookshop.co.uk this Friday, we're doing our own creation - the Mystery Talks! Two speakers talking about things they're passionate about... and you only find out the topics when the talks begin! allgoodbookshop.co.uk/mystery-talks

If they do, I honestly feel it would be a smart move for the Greens to insist on by-elections. Make it the norm.

Me: Dril. Dril. Dril. People on my table: Dril. DRIL. DRIL. Everyone on the canteen, banging tables: DRIL. DRIL. DRIL. DRIL.

Love this experience by one of the basic income pilot participants in Wales. They got £1,290 a month after tax for two years (about $1,862/mo), and at first they planned to not get a job, but then after getting into the pilot, they changed their mind, because why not do more to get more money?

Whedon: i know you're all excited for the return of the most feminist man of 1995 Angela Carter: weren't you outed as a sex pest? Whedon: like i said Whedon: the most feminist man of 1995!

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Anatomy of a X/Twitter social media frenzy. One infulencer posted incessantly about the "Dublin Zoo Scandal" on Friday, it was picked up by other bad faith actors who ran with it. This is manufactured outrage by people who literally do not have anything better to do with their time than promote hate

At @allgoodbookshop.co.uk this Friday, we're doing our own creation - the Mystery Talks! Two speakers talking about things they're passionate about... and you only find out the topics when the talks begin! allgoodbookshop.co.uk/mystery-talks

One of the businesses lost in the Glasgow Central fire yesterday was Union Street Tattoos, run by Fidjit. She does some really important stuff - I've followed her since she spoke out about abusers and rapists in the tattoo industry. She's set up a GoFundMe. gofund.me/385fe7e3e

Random email Sunday evening about The Crooked Medium "...fabulous, couldn't see where it was going, and absolutely loved the two main protagonists - such an understated but so real warm and loving relationship Thank you!" #books #booksbooksbooks #reading #writing #Victorian #LGBT #spooky #sapphic

a lot of comments this morning about the rate at which old buildings in Glasgow go up in flames so I just want to say: as a bystander with no direct knowledge of this fire, but a good bit of knowledge about old buildings burning, i don’t think this one is sketchy. www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/co...

This is genuinely adorable.

i agree with the assessment that everyone needs to read my book. Read My Book and Much Will Be Revealed To You

X is a fascist propaganda website.

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

The revelation of the existence of gay people doesn't necessitate therapy. Treating queer people like they shouldn't be part of society, though, is monstrous.

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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

But it IS the point as Labour are not going to solve any financial insecurity by staying where it is - solidly right wing. Economic insecurity now only has solutions considered left wing - renationalise services, social housing, regulating business and taxing excess profits

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

Okay, now Omid Djalili doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival makes sense in hindsight.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

GB News has never made a profit because it doesn’t exist to make a profit. It exists to exert pressure to push broadcast news channels further rightwards. It is about further poisoning the information environment. That’s why it exists.

Yep Hadley Freeman reprinted this lie in her Guardian column, and refused to apologise for it. The Graun printed the most graceless retraction possible, never retweeted it or apologised z

holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff

The other day I saw a tiktok from someone who said their wife died by suicide but they said she self exited and I just cannot. We gotta fix this shit. Fix these fucking censorious apps. I cannot hear people describe immeasurable pain and loss using these terms.

Judging art by how it is misinterpreted is misguided. By that measure, Lolita is a failure because JK Rowling found it romantic.

200 different gay fuckin nerds: Okay but you know we cancelled Adam Baldwin right you know we fucking HATE Joss Whedon right??? We cancelled them 20 years ago and we'll do it again if we have to! Neil Gaiman, peering in thru the window thru little binoculars: Uh oh

Hey chums! I know a lot of you would be a great fit for this!

Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong attachment to a blue studio pottery mug she was given last Christmas. She reports that she is beginning to feel intensely anxious about the effect on other mugs that she owns.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

When I read about one of the proposed stories for season 2, where Inara gets kidnapped by the Reavers, I was glad it was cancelled before its time.

I swear if we get Fillion doing a cutesy door knock for the fucking nazi or the sex pest you'll be able to hear his good will detonate from orbit.

Is it a shame Firefly only got one excellent season? Sure. But it then got a feature film which tied everything up in a rewarding bow and it’s kinda frustrating how some have spent 20 years thinking it was a failed Season 2 pitch and not one of the all-time great cathartic series finales.

I loved Firefly. We don't need more Firefly. Let's make new stuff to like instead.

In the 90s Europe put a levy on CD-Rs which was paid to the recording industry because they might be used to copy music. AI companies should be made to pay in a similar way. Music streaming is <8% of revenue. Library lending ~2%. Public art resale <4% Etc

It's World Book Day and if you fancy helping an independent cooperative bookshop during a tricky month, this is great timing...

Thank God for the House of Lords, standing up for the people against the elected representatives of the people.

The directors who should have X-Men projects (Coogler, Wachowski) are the very directors who will never get them because they have too many successes racked up to be controllable.

Strongly recommend this - Nick is doing some really fun and interesting stuff.

The sight of Matt Goodwin being sad has understandably galvanised the nation to make it happen some more

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

This isn’t even counting their ties to the current U.S. regime, the dismantling of the Department of Education, the destruction of public health, & all the government grifting. Many are so corrupt that they aren’t in the Epstein files because they were running a competing trafficking organization.

WWE has conducted some of the most heinous actions ever committed by an organization that isn’t considered a criminal empire. The quality of their storytelling is irrelevant because they are morally bankrupt & should have been dismantled decades ago.

It's World Book Day and if you fancy helping an independent cooperative bookshop during a tricky month, this is great timing...