I would've said it.

I have spent fifty years rolling my eyes at conspiracy theories where all the elite rich people are in a secret evil gang, and thrillers where everyone remotely important has the same Dark Secret, and now sodding look.

One underfloor hot water pipe + one cardboard box full of packing paper = one happy cat. #CatsOfBluesky

Rough day for Sex Matters

Dear Adobe, No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything. What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.

Generative AI steals the work of artists, and regurgitates soulless codswallop. This is my standing statement on how I will be creative in the age of AI. (Spoiler: exactly the same as before.)

It's Greens Vs Reform Hope Vs Hate. We must make sure hope wins. youtu.be/s5HdfCCaUgE?...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Them: you bang on a bit about fascists, don't you? Me: yeah, there are three different reasons that fascists would prefer me to be dead. I tend to take that a bit personally. And will continue to take it personally whenever I meet anyone who is anything other than dead set against them.

I will dance on Andrew Wakefield's grave.

This hit so fucking hard today.

For a party that claims to be against it, Reform has been taking in a lot of refugees recently.

A straight out lie from Danny Kruger MP at Reform's event today. He said that asylum seekers go straight to the top of the council housing list. In fact they are *banned by law* from accessing council housing. Further details on Shelter's website here: england.shelter.org.uk/professional...

Reform genuinely out here arguing Suella Braverman can’t have a mental health condition because *checks notes* she’s well-educated and has a successful career. Try again, lads. Your bigotry is showing.

WAIT WHAT. Reform's response to the suggestion that Braverman might have a mental health condition. Are they saying that high achievers are immune from mental illness? Or that mental illness means you can't achieve? Yes they're defending her, but like this? "Goes without saying" 🤬

Reform are fast becoming the Retirement Home For Awful Tories The Voters Hate. I'm not particularly upset by this development.

Just finished The Malevolent Seven. Sardonic narrator, morality in a billion shades of grey, humour black as the void. Peak Sebastien de Castell 10/10. #BookSky

i keep hearing about how gracious and welcoming we're going to need to be to people who are waking up and realizing they've been supporting fascism but y'all are going to have to do that bc i'm a hater ass bitch

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Nigel Farage wants ICE in the UK. Do not, under any circumstances, vote for Reform of any kind on any ballot paper.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Some of us have been saying since the moment he was elected for the second time that we needed to find a way to survive without the U.S., and find it quickly. All the appeasement was always bound to fail.

I can’t believe trying to appease a fascist didn’t work. If only there had been examples from history to show us that wasn’t effective.

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

The smuggest cat in the world, who just stole her mama's fleecy jumper and knows fine well that her mama will do nothing about it. #CatsOfBluesky

I come back to this constantly

Just been scrolling through my own posts to assess what I talk about most... golly I do swear a lot, don't I? Particularly about (at?) fascists. I promise I'm not like this in real life.

I already have more hobbies than I know what to do with, but I got a free set of Tunisian #crochet hooks with my last yarn order, so... it would be rude not to at least give it a go, right?

We're dismantling Christmas and someone finally got her paws on the tinsel she's been longing to reach for the last month. #TwelfthNight #CatsOfBluesky

This beauty is off to her forever home today. I get a bit emotional packing up a piece that I really loved making. #Crochet

This time last year I was being called alarmist by a lot of people. "He's just talk, he won't actually do anything that bad." "There are rules and laws in place to stop him." "Eh, it'll be OK." And there are still people trying to make allowances for him. What the fuck.

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.

Great thread. No actual humans - ie, those responsible for this scandal - have apologised, in fact, the humans involved have very very very much NOT apologised. And that’s a problem 👇

The WIP is officially back IP. Currently at 62k words and counting, no idea how long it'll end up. Here's to a productive 2026. #WritingCommunity

OH DO YOU THINK SO? /sarc Anyway join.greenparty.org.uk

Watching The Night Manager (brilliant btw) and remembering the main reason that I could never ever be a spy. Zero short term memory. Memorise this phone number? Fuck off that ain't happening. I'm making notes on EVERYTHING.

I don't make resolutions, so this year I'm going to continue to: Hope defiantly. Strive to improve my corner of the world in whatever little ways I can. Rebelliously be myself.

It's the day of the year where we are staying up for one reason and one reason only: to comfort the cats if someone starts setting off fireworks. Happy New Year or some shit like that.

Every time I see the new Avatar trailer I catch myself thinking god, that shot's a total rip off of The Abyss, who thought they'd get away with..... oh yeah.

Just finished Human Rites by Juno Dawson: a superb, satisfying ending to the Her Majesty's Royal Coven series. #Booksky

We opened up my Christmas present from my husband (Fate of the Fellowship by Matt Leacock) and beat it first try! True we're familiar with the mechanics already, but still! We saved Middle Earth!

So, just cos a lot of you were all "oh he won't be so stupid to invade Ukraine" a few years back when he amassed troops on the border, just a slight request for you to take this really fucking seriously this time and take your heads out of the god-damn sand. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Calls for individuals to be stripped of their citizenship to protect public safety are going to turn into calls for entire sections of the populace to get the same treatment so fast, it will make your head spin.