The cheese rage is real 😭

Dry January and 100 Push Ups a day challenge to raise money for Cancer Research. Come on 2026! Just done first batch (another 100 later to make up for false start yesterday!). Anything donated is hugely appreciated! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/finbars...

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Hurrah! Thanks for the lovely piece for Literary Review and in such fine company too @philipwomack.bsky.social

GHOST featured in Irish Times' YA round up. Many thanks for this review! @chennessybooks.bsky.social Next book set in Ireland, so a good omen...

Hurrah! Thank you for featuring GHOST! 👻

Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL". Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

The Two Ronnies (15th November 1980). Swear box.

It's been a grand launch week for GHOST with lovely reviews in @theobserveruk.bsky.social and The Telegraph. Today GHOST arrived in the top 5 Amazon/YA Historical nestled between @philippullmanreal.bsky.social and Robert Louis Stevenson 👻😍👻

Skipping about the place that GHOST, out this week, is featured in @theobserveruk.bsky.social best YA books for Autumn in illustrious company with authors @tiafisher.bsky.social and her ‘Not Going to Plan’ and Manjeet Mann’s ‘Roar’ Thank you, Fiona Noble, day made!

A very Happy Book Birthday to @finbarhawkins.bsky.social whose wonderful novel GHOST is out today 👻😍👻

Join us tonight -Tues 4th Nov 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂 #YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins

WITCH is #1 on Amazon/Historical Renaissance Fiction for Young Adults, whoop! Just in time for next book, GHOST launch this Thursday 6th November. Spooky times, folks!

Five days til publication of GHOST and a couple of my illustrations from the book. Autumn is truly the best month ;-) These prints, along with many others, will be available on my Etsy store opening soon… #yabooks #ghost #childrensbookillustration

Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 4th November 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂 #YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins

Thanks, Jacqui! So kind of you! And always happy to meet fellow Birth lovers! The piece is here incidentally eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2018/05/04/o...

Grab one of the best YA books this decade. Loved this so much!

There’s a GHOST in my house! Hardbacks arrived of my new book, and I am pretty chuffed with them. @headofzeus.bsky.social have done me proud. Out in November, so bag a pre-order now!

Incredible people.

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

📢 Calling all teachers, librarians and booksellers! 📢 We have some suitably spooky bookmarks available to celebrate the publication of @finbarhawkins.bsky.social's YA novel #Ghost next month. DM with your postal address if you'd like some!

Hey BlueSkyers, My next book, GHOST, is publishing on November 6th. It's currently on NetGalley for any kindly reviewers out there... And so far people have been very kind ;-> www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

For those accused of having too many books Robinince.com #poetry #poem

As I was saying…

Me at my uncle's wedding in 1992 during the speeches when I can literally SEE the cake.

Peter Mandelson already planning his return to public life. He'll say that everybody deserves a fourth chance.

Debuting my new show in Vicar St. Dublin, Cork, London, Waterford, Wexford - loads more for the next few months. Tickets: phlaimeaux.tumblr.com/shows

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?

The left hates Jeffrey Epstein. And we know why. It's jealousy. They can't stand the fact that on THEIR 50th birthday they didn't get a personal leather-bound book signed by some of society's richest paedophiles.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!! Good. #RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔

👀 Look, teachers! 👀 This 17-week Scheme of Work for CROSSING THE LINE is live on my new website! Follow the links to tour the other resources too (videos, Carnegie shadowing pack, discussions etc) #KS3 #PSHE #RSHE #literacy www.tiafisher.com/resources

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days,in no particular order.No explanations,no expectations,just covers. Day 7: Ghost @finbarhawkins.bsky.social #netgalley November release @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #bookbloggers

'GHOST' PRE-ORDER OFFER!! Get a discount on my new book if you pre-order now! - Exclusive to Waterstones website or app - Enter SUMMER25 at checkout to receive 25% off RRP! - Offer runs til this Thursday 31st July 23:59! - waterstones.com/campaign/jul... Publishing 6th November. #wpreorder

NOT GOING TO PLAN IS ON SPESH!!!!!! WE'RE SIZZLIN' SUMMER HOT!!! An unbelievable 25% OFF RRP on PRE-ORDERS AT WATERSTONES on my new YA verse novel NOT GOING TO PLAN!!! To make it super-simple, here's the link: tinyurl.com/Water… @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

I was trapped in its spell, pinned by beautiful storytelling and the fate of three girls, joined across time by their Wicca ways and ghostly fates. With whispers of mythology yet totally fresh, and woven with haunting gossamer prose... #ghost by @finbarhawkins.bsky.social @zephyrbooks.bsky.social

BRING HER BACK is on a surprisingly different track to TALK TO ME. ruthlessly sad, nuanced on the subject of abuse, & all built up around one hell of a sally hawkins performance

Just caught up with the Philippous’ scalding horror heartbreaker BRING HER BACK and has it been said enough that a) this is Sally Hawkins’ best performance since HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, as b) basically her character from HAPPY-GO-LUCKY dealt every bad hand going in the last 17 years, and manically ruined.

This is the political video I've been waiting to see. I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)