I'm VERY excited to be joining the @terrorcamp.bsky.social crew next month for this online event!

Hello Dublin, it's nice to see you again.

"Yes, this gang stole from the most famous museum in the world but it’s in the name of training their AI software so it can do good doodle of jewels and maximise shareholder value so we are powerless to stand in the way" waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l... #Louvre

If this is how one of the world's most famous people is treated, we can only begin to imagine* what captive Palestinians have experienced. * We don't actually need to imagine. There are countless, corroborated accounts from Palestinians and Israelis. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

One of the reasons to venerate secondhand bookshops: books with their own life stories! Dedications from long-forgotten aunts, strange marginalia, frantic underlinings and old shopping lists masquerading as bookmarks. What could be more wonderful?

Comics! Antarctica! I loved interviewing @twirlynoodle.com for this article about her Eisner-nominated graphic novel adaptation of 'The Worst Journey in the World' about Captain Scott's final expedition.

It's always reassuring to discover that extremely successful writers are as desperately plodding and uncertain as you are. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

What a very precise way of discovering what I was doing 45 years ago this week: spending my pocket money on my first ever copy of 2000AD. The start of a weekly fix of Thrill-Power that's lasted way longer than most things in my life: a good investment for 14p. Thank you @2000ad.bsky.social!

Unsolicited Crick pic.

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Useful thread for UK authors—like me—who had their books stolen to train AI and had hoped for even a few crumbs from the Anthropic settlement.

For the 75th anniversary of Peanuts here’s a link to an essay I wrote about Charles Schulz’s deep love of Krazy Kat www.michaeltisserand.com/ottimliffs

This is the alternative universe I'd like to move to, please.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

One of Bristol's best kept secrets: Beese's cafe, where they send a ferry across the river to pick you up for coffee and cake (or a pint). Easy to forget you're still technically in the city.

I expect the ID card thing will be dropped within about a week with Labour claiming "It was only ever a suggestion!" but until then, why not register your disapproval (if you disapprove). petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

As someone whose partner has ILR, I can't begin to tell you how frightening this racist bullshit is. Fuck Nigel Farage, his media outriders, and politicians of other parties cosying up to 'legitimate concerns'.

I'm loving this glorious 1959 poster by artist Jean Fortin, advertising Air France flights to Morocco.

Respond to the UK government's consultation on late payments & poor practices for freelancers. The National Union of Journalists has template responses to help. This is an important opportunity for every freelance journalist #StopTheFreelanceRipOff nuj.org.uk/resource/stop-the-freelance-rip-off.html

For no particular reason, here's a stained glass window of Bob Marley as St George, about to slay the racist dragon of Babylon. Taken at his house at Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica.

For no particular reason, here's a stained glass window of Bob Marley as St George, about to slay the racist dragon of Babylon. Taken at his house at Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica.

Looking forward to talking #Heiresses at #Bristol @bookhaus.bsky.social with @paulclammer.bsky.social next week - Wednesday 17th September, 6pm. See you there? www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e134...

Can anyone on here recommend an audio transcription platform (I don’t mind it not being free but don’t have a budget for a person to do it right now, because the audio is 1h long and that would be £££) that transcribes in Haitian Kreyòl?

So, I got the government's emergency warning – now I have to start building a shelter in my front room and wrap the bodies in black bin liners for collection, yes?

This is a really great piece. I never saw Slender-billed Curlews outside of museums. Writing the paper that declared them extinct was a sad and unexpectedly emotional thing. As scientists we dream of discovering new species, not writing being the ones to declare them lost forever.

This is worth reading if you’re wondering where you stand as an author whose work was ripped off by Anyhropic. Looks like, as I was worrying, that I’ll probably not get a payout since my work wasn’t registered with the US copyright office.

Thrilled to get a copy of @monisharajesh.bsky.social's new book 'Moonlight Express' - and even more so to be in conversation with her about it at Stanfords Bristol on 30 September!

Finishing the week on a high, with an unexpected contact leading me to a new manuscript letter confirming a theory I've had about one of the subjects of my current research project. A small piece in a big jigsaw, but one I'm delighted to have. Win!

Remember, STATUTE LAW and NHS rules REQUIRE trans people to live as their preferred gender FOR YEARS, IN PUBLIC, to prove they deserve legal or medical transition. This makes that impossible. It is exterminatory.

Sick of all the transphobic bullshit in the media, so I'm in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to remind myself that yes, there is kindness in this world. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

At M Shed in Bristol, which is always wonderful, but it will never not be shocking to see your own personal life experiences as museum exhibits.

Had to cancel a trip to London at the last minute, so am treating myself to a day in cafes writing instead. Feels glorious.

New exhibit at my local library. What a lovely thing. Thought you'd enjoy.

I just can’t accept the idea that we’ve already lost the fight against generative AI in creative spaces and should just roll over and acquiesce. It’s morally lazy and irresponsible. Keep pushing back and doing the right thing!

I have a set of these and they are absolutely gorgeous.

Particularly looking forward to being in conversation with @paulclammer.bsky.social @malikalnasir.bsky.social Desha Osborne, @blackedinburgh.bsky.social Sudhir Hazareesingh @corinnefowler.bsky.social Malachi McIntosh, Casey Bailey & @paullashmar.bsky.social 😀

@twirlynoodle.com Hello, I've just tried to contact you through the Worst Journey website, but there seems to be some kind of tech issue. Can I DM you please? It's for an interview request. Our mutual friend @tchotchke.bsky.social can vouch for me (I hope!) Thanks 🙏

The high cost of fast fashion: an eye-opening piece by @mattcarr.substack.com on the youth collective Desierto Vestido, fighting to expose the toxic crisis of thousands of tonnes of Western clothes being dumped every year in Chile's ecologically fragile Atacama Desert. lab.org.uk/desierto-ves...

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

What’s happening in Gaza is horrific and must be resisted This comic has been made alongside and as part of #CartoonistsForG4za, use the tag to see more from other artists A donation link will be in the last post of this thread 🙏🍉 1/13

The loss of any specialist online media is always a sad thing, but the Polar Journal has been an excellent reporter of Artic & Antarctic affairs, so its closure will be very keenly felt - especially when these regions stand in the very frontline of the climate crisis.

Loved this essay by @paddyclarke.bsky.social in @thequietus.com on the radical, transgressive nature of morris dancing, and why it's so much more interesting than hackneyed clichés would have you believe. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Scrabbling around in boxes to find where I'd stored an important document, I stumbled across my tour leader days collection of business cards. Feast your eyes on the now defunct joyous art of the Syrian tourism business card.

I just booked my car's MOT & service, after having had the reminder on my desk for nearly four weeks. I would like a medal and permission to go back to bed please.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

A terrible decision that will affect access for students in full time work, carers and mature students. Signed as a writer and Bristol alum.

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.

Name a non LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

I found a 1957 book of old photos of Bristol, and it has this extraordinary newspaper cutting about growing up in extreme poverty in the 1890s, when there was still coal mining in the city. The street where the shoeless children got poor relief is now one of Bristol's gentrified hipster hangouts.