I don't mean to brag but on Twitter I once fooled Joyce Carol Oates into thinking that Viagra was named after a mix of Latin (via) and Irish (grá) meaning "with love."

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

Turns out the thing I need to get my first full night's sleep in weeks is missing a stunning auroral display

This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.

Elon Musk is too chicken to fly in one of his own rockets

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Under this partition, Israel controls all of the arable farmland in the Gaza territory.

Michael Prescott, author of the BBC/Trump dossier, is not a neutral voice... bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

The problem often isn't a lack empathy - it's who people choose to reserve their empathy for

To find out more about the raid on Taranto, listen to the History Hack podcast with @navalairhistory.com who talks about the operation. ▶️ historyhack.podbean.com/e/166-histor...

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if you voted in Seattle you gotta make sure your ballot counted now

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery? Of course. Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church. Here she is:

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

I know it's far from being the most significant part of this chart, but I do find myself gazing at the 5 percent of Green voters who 'tend to oppose' net zero...

Anything can be a thankless task if it's not appreciated

Every day he's been in office, he's pandered to racism, demonised refugees, and essentially told REFUK voters that they're right. If he's worried about what that's done, he should quit.

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)

Just have the Timelords give him another regeneration cycle, smh

can't think of a headline that better sums up the BBC at present www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Decided to get off social media more by increasing my short story intake! Read @tadethompson.bsky.social 's "The Apologists" on Clarkesworld today, only intending a few thousand words, ended up finishing it. clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_...

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

Hear me out, maybe libraries ... don't need AI for anything? This is a solution in search of a problem.

Whelp! Only 3/4 packs of timber arrived and B&Q cancelled the rest of the order so I couldn't build a proper ladder 😬 Not great for Edith's disability, could any kind souls spot £15-20 to grab some more timber from the local hardware shop in the morning please? Paypal.me/ogsophiegee

Jeffrey Gibson on 10 Native Artists to Know. www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

there's no such thing as 'good illness' as many seem to subscribe to whatever doesn't kill you, fucks you up

My daughter was beaten, spat on, outed & bullied AT SCHOOL, btw. The only reason she wasnt beaten worse was because she got away, locked herself in the toilet and FUCKING PHONED ME. How would removing her phone have kept her safe?!

This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts You might like it if you like: Folklore Old buildings Friendship Records The power & magic of landscape ..

Why am I doing this? Because the publisher I originally wrote the book for folded, taking my & my readers’ money. Because I’ve spent the last year clearing up their mess. Because it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. Because I want it to reach the right people. Because this is fucking survival…

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

In Los Angeles, Kara Walker’s ‘Unmanned Drone’ reimagines a Confederate statue of Stonewall Jackson. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/kara...

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Rewaa sent me all these sketches of her interior design work- I think about how difficult it must be to have focused your life on making things beautiful and to live in Gaza

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Has anyone had dealings with the Science Museum picture library recently & have any alternative contact info? I've had zero luck getting a response from them at the general email (it's been months since my first email) & my request is getting urgent :/ www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/contact.asp 🗃️

This is seriously where we are. Slurs, misinformation and hate speech as a ‘neutral’ position.

The inspiration for the black fur of the giant fossa featured in #PrehistoricPlanet has me wondering how many other animals in the show have been influenced by indigenous wisdom & cryptid sightings. Article by @tetzoo.bsky.social share.google/kJ5HeqfsCyed...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Anyone who works for e.g. a charity can tell you the press has incredible power to help people and improve society, if they use it for good and productive purposes. I’d urge you to look at what they do use it for, instead of doing that.

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

My kid just had an exam in school that involved being assigned some chapters, summarizing them, then having an open-book test on the details. The teacher encouraged them to use AI to prepare. This paragraph does a great job explaining why I found it so disturbing. www.ru.nl/en/research/...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Agnew served as captain of the Corfu before the Aurora.

Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋ (I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.