No one has claimed this freebie yet! UK readers, what are you doing?

This one is free and still available to UK Kindle readers! bsky.app/profile/amis...

My books are no cheaper today than they are any other day (sorry!) but they're not *that* expensive, are well worth the money, and are fun reads, so treat yourself! books2read.com/patricksamphire

Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Leopard Elephant Giraffe Giant Anteater Giant Otter

Bid now to get a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen sent to you (with international shipping included) AND raise money for a really important cause! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #creatives4sudan

It’s wild that the account just doubles down when called out:

"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives." "Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent." "[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment." #USA #Healthcare #Suicide

This week's Friday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which is out now in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And if you haven't read the first cozy-spooky novella in this series, you can grab that, too: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience ❤️🦇❤️ #romancelandia

All this long weekend!

Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender

It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts. Are you going to tell them? Or shall I?

It is fucking infuriating how many of the motherfuckers who ripped us away from Europe now live in Europe. Russian bribery to divide Europe is the most likely explanation.

“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners” Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this was formalised by the time of Jesus as leqet, shikheha & peah. leqet = anything you drop when harvesting (ever done apple-picking? any that are on the ground or that you drop when picking belong to the poor). shikheha = any you forget to take inside. peah = the corners of each field/orchard.

Discuss.

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

The Tories are named for an Irish word, 'Toraidhe'/'Tóraí' meaning highwayman, or robber. So we could help you out again by renaming UK Labour the "Sleeveens" from 'Slíbhín', meaning conman, honourless person or habitual liar.

I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”

in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/... @nhsengland.bsky.social destroyed kids lives by forceably detransitioning them. This should be front page news (It won't be of course). Please share this widely. Cc @pinknews.bsky.social, @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social or @goodlawproject.org

they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA

temporary new intro post! Hey, i’m Matt! i’m an Australian fantasy and romance author better known by my pen names: Devin Madson (Orbit) and Rebecca Ide (Tor and Saga) i will do a proper post soon (probably) but for now, this thread here is all about my books, so check it out! ⬇️

My dad told an apocryphal story about a PhD defense where someone on the committee went off the rails on questioning and the advisor butted in with “Now is neither the time nor the place to get answers to the questions that have been troubling you all your life.”

Honestly, they would have been better off staying as an independent grouping of MPs rather than the ego-driven clown show of rumours, briefings, and legal threats they ended up with.

“It is hoped the study will launch a new academic revolution to replaced “lived experience” research with what Dr. Hoyland’s team call “the infinitely sexier art of guesswork and speculation”.” 😄 😄 😄

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

don’t mind me, just watching this on repeat for an hour at a time

Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is not good news. Fewer people filling vacancies where they're desperately needed and fewer people paying to study here. Not a surprise, but massively counterproductive.

Sigh. Of course.

Everyone in the press is obsessed with the same framing again and again where the "gender criticals" get a free pass to say whatever they want, dehumanise people as "trans ideology" or as the BBC now loves to do, refer to one minority by how they were born. No trans voices. Ever.

This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*. Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers. & yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This week's Thursday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which comes out just 2 months from today in the US (& 2 days later in the UK)! Preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen And snap up book 1 now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: … Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

This path leads to chaos.

When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”

This is such a cute romance and great way to relax after dealing with the family..

Ooh, if you're in the US, you can snap up the gorgeous paperback edition of Wooing the Witch Queen for 50% off at @barnesandnoble.com online today through Sunday! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the... #romancelandia

I read Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis! A charming, low angst and low stress romance novella in a pretty gaslamp fantasy setting with lots of women, family relations, sapphic background characters, and fey antagonists ❄️

Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.

Looking after my one year old nephew. He took a nasty trip running around & started screaming. His ankle looked dislocated so I called an ambulance & held his leg still trying to keep him calm. Paramedics had to stop themselves laughing when they told me it was his sock twisted

Whenever I see campaigns such as this, I'm reminded of the 2021 tweet from Surrey Poilce

Once again, an illustration that the political debate on migration in the UK is completely detached from reality

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds

My D&D book of playable New Zealand native wildlife is on sale and if you by before the 6th, should arrive in time for xmas. Includes 18 playable species, tons of monsters, and a mini-adventure to kick off a campaign. DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... Lulu: www.lulu.com/shop/kelly-w...