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Unsurprised. She’s been insane for about 10 years at least.

In Hookland, nephomancy – divination by cloud – is more commonly know as cloud-telling. For those who learn the art, the sky becomes a book of signs, a constant floating by of omens. To look up is read a thousand promises and warnings.

Definitive evidence that the [town] witch trial of [year] did not take place in [year] as a joint arraignment as written in the two surviving narrative accounts. More soon 👌

Suing my institution because nobody checks the weekly events newsletter

Wonder what Alice Sullivan made of Gussie Grips flashing a merkin and screeching obscenities in Holyrood during a debate on the Gender Recognition Act? Is that unacceptable disruption?

MY FRIEND A TEACHER IN PRISON FOR A LOW LEVEL SEX ASSAULT

Literally demanding it should be illegal for people not to like them. Totally incapable of accepting any responsibility for themselves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh and now she's on Radio 4 complaining again about being cancelled so I've had to turn it off. The BBC is such a disgrace.

I’m so silenced! Says Alice Sullivan, in the national press. Every time. You are not entitled to a platform.

Desperately sad about this. An exceptional actor who suffered beyond words. And stop telling people to talk, as if it’s a solution. He did talk. Openly and honestly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

God the doomerism on this website about pretty much everything.

Today. Starting to get a bit bored and wanting to achieve things. Good sign.

Now we just need this boxing match to go ahead tbh

🧵 1/? Going through the recording: 6:00 Cass: "there was a fair amount of noise [...] about the fact that I wasn't an expert in this field, but that was a deliberate selection that NHS England made because people who were working in the field were so polarised*" * read: support trans rights

Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan. spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days. We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.

Good news!

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Don’t these people have jobs? I mean who has time?!

I suppose I only want to live life with the best aspects of my ways of being in future. The autistic ability to organise and keep myself well via particular routines. The ADHD desire for novelty and fun and spontaneity.

If you’d spent the first 35 years of your life - and then 2016 and early 2017 - like I did, you too would celebrate every good thing and never apologise for being on an even keel. So yeah I’m in my personal jacuzzi.

Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

Seen several hoopoes just walking around our resort! Magic.

The only thing that dictates ‘biology’ in this sense is what a doctor assigns you at birth based on your genital presentation. That’s it.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

Chef’s kiss

Morning. Red Sea looking very blue today

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Real masculinity is shitting yourself to death somewhere outside Berwick on Tweed

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

Arranged for Kylie to be Christmas no 1 for all the huns and gays in my life 🦄

Deep fried ice cream. Brought back memories of working in a chippy in the late 90s and going all out on most ridiculous battered and deep fried thing we could eat during the two weeks the awful bosses went abroad on holiday. /1

I dislike reading on Kindle but there’s no other way to practically read a book a day on holiday. Ugh.

There is always some satisfaction watching a predator get revealed but knowing how long the infamous whisper networks have told us about this again suggests an industry that needs a long hard look at itself for not wanting to lose some sales

‘This provides Court of Appeal authority for the protection of pro-trans beliefs under the Equality Act’. This is key.

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

HONK

Pool/pool

It’s like Blackpool but 200% cleaner

The final nail in the coffin

Two hour hammam massage 👌

This is my favourite bit of the Allison Bailey appeal. If you don't like legalese, just skip to parragraph 77.

When you're running the BBC website in 1533

Oh my god

Bearing in mind what Edward Said had to say about who has "permission to narrate", it would be good to hear from Arabic speakers in general and Palestinians in particular about their word and concept for "uprising", what it means to them, and what they make of the Western debate about that word.

A new essay from me on the contentious topic of the sexuality of James VI and I - an attempt to get past the old ‘did he or didn’t he’ by looking at the king’s style as read by his contemporaries and subsequent historians. King James - QAF. main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/qu...

Elagabalus-level shit happening

Working class kids deserve to go aboard too?