UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

"Writer Beware" flags up a new version of the old "Nigerian Prince" scam aimed at authors writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r... #books #livres

Why is Benjamin Netanyahu even allowed to speak at the UN? Shouldn't he be arrested for war crimes on the spot?

What is happening to humanity? 😢

Labour's cruelty is driving trans people to leave the country. Mission accomplished? goodlaw.social/niy4

Were Welsh women witches? 🤔🖤 Preorder Witsh: www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781916... #Witchcraft #Writing #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky

Shout out for info! (with references/evidence where possible) QUESTION: In (European) countries that already have digital ID cards: 1. what sex/gender info is required on them? 2. what’s the process for trans people updating this? 3. what issues (if any) have been reported? Thanks for any info!

Hi, can I interest you in some fantasy written by a nonbinary author? With trans and intersex characters? Not based on a franchise by a transphobic author! Dragonfall, Emberclaw, and my rewritten debut, Pantomime, are out now, and I could very much use some help getting the word out about them. 💖

Here’s the full line-up of speakers for the launch of the #SomeoneIKnew campaign happening online 8pm-9.30pm Saturday 27th September (tomorrow!). Super proud to be the spokesperson for @nionwomen.bsky.social 🤗 Grab your FREE ticket and join us here: SomeoneIKnewOnlineLaunchEvent.eventbrite.com

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

PAWS' pet pantry is almost empty again & we need your help to replenish it! We saw an incredible outpouring of support ahead of our pantry event last weekend, which enabled us to serve 127 food-insecure pet owners. Sadly, our supplies are now *severely* depleted 🧵

Really looking forward to this event on Saturday 27th September (this Saturday!) at 8.00pm. Do join us if you can! I'll be there, representing @nionwomen.bsky.social. #SomeoneIKnew Grab your FREE ticket here: SomeoneIKnewOnlineLaunchEvent.eventbrite.com?utm-campaign...

We've had an incredibly anxious night with wobbly baby Squiggle, but she's still with us & tentatively a bit better -- vet described her as "one hell of a fighter." Please help us keep her fighting ❤️ gofund.me/662b94d7e

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

The @goodlawproject.bsky.social have launched a letter-writing campaign to get Virgin Active to drop their trans-exclusionary policies, and have set up a super-easy letter writing tool here. action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ... Go lend your support! And do share round your networks.🙏🙏🙏

After seeing more bile coming from the UK government, I just wanted remind my trans friends - and trans people who are yet to be my friend - that you always have a safe space with me ♥️

Just donated to NEST to help them get up and running 🙏🪺🙏 If you are able to support too, go here: www.gofundme.com/f/nest-paren...

Someone on MetaFilter has had a reasonable stab of how this week, Rapture Week, will play out in the USA and elsewhere:

My new Mallory book is out next week. Set in a girls school near Tregaron, West Wales, it weaves in themes of dark academia, all-female societies and characters from the Mabinogion. The Death Lesson is available from indie bookshops, Waterstones and Amazon.

A poem about Dickie Bird by Ian McMillan which he read out on BBC Radio Sheffield earlier today: It's the final over Of the final test And Time is bowling The final ball; And the innings that stretched To 92 Will end just here 'Cos it's umpire's call.

It's now close to 54,000 signatures! ❤️ Keep sharing and spread our letter even further....

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Please share to help two bonded wobbly kittens find a home! Meet Lucy and Ricky located at Greenwich CT animal shelter. They're a bonded pair, effectionate and sweet but need a special home that will adapt to their cerebellar hypoplasia (the "Wobbly Cat" syndrome). www.petfinder.com/cat/lucy-and...

So I’ve done 278k steps in three weeks! Way ahead of target but I’m not slowing down. Honestly feeling great for all the fresh air and exercise. It’s all in aid of Venture Scotland and you can still donate. I’m only £22 away from £1,000, which is incredible. www.justgiving.com/page/doug-jo...

The Royal Society for Blind Children has issued an urgent appeal to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app, following its launch last week 👇 #BookSky

Start using your public libraries. ACTIVELY REQUEST books by marginalized communities so libraries know the demand & can buy them. Use your NOTIFY ME tags in Libby. CHECK OUT books (electronic and physical) by marginalized authors. Circulation numbers and holds are critical for us.

We've only received single-digit event proposals so far! 😢 Did you attend any of our incredible online panels this past year? Those came from folks submitting their panel ideas! Event proposals are open to the public. You do NOT have to be a @cartoonist.coop member to pitch us a NIF event!!¹

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

Hello teachers! My book Wild Journey will be published on 6th November and to celebrate it I’m doing a free online school event with Seven Stories The National Centre for Children's Books sevenstories.org.uk/event/author...

More events being added in the next week or two. Subscribe to be the first to hear because, trust me, you're not going to want to miss out...#VeniceNoir

WHAT. SHE. SAID! 🤷

Can anyone foster or adopt a sweet stray cat in SoCal?

After years of building in the hills of South Wales, I’ve returned to the U.S. Starting over has been tough. I’m rebuilding from scratch—tools, materials, workspace, really everything. You could help. Perhaps? gofund.me/bbe6bbc5

URGENT: For those attending #LDConf we have just learned of a likely attempt by transphobic activists to hijack the conference agenda by suspending standing orders first thing tomorrow morning at 9am. If you're going to conference please turn up to oppose this.

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

✨ We’ve Moved! ✨ Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community. 🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk

Do I know anyone in the SC area who knows someone (or *is* someone) who wants to adopt two cats? I desperately need to find a home for my parents' two cats. I already have three, so I can't take them. They are boarding at their vet while I look, and I have to go home to PA in less than a week.

7 impressive crime novels from #Finland 🇫🇮 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Norway 🇳🇴 & #Sweden 🇸🇪 are shortlisted for #PetronaAward2025 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. Congratulations to the authors, translators & publishers @corylusbooks.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social 🎉 nordiclighthouse.blog

Fresh off the BBC Radio 4 airwaves @bbcsounds.bsky.social, here is Ruth Bradley reading an abridged version of my shortlisted story "Two Hands" 🙌🏻 First published in the @parisreview.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Regardless of how much you already know, this is an excellent and very carefully thought out article and well worth a read. @tracygilbertmp.bsky.social I trust you are on board?

Bet there's never been a crime book festival in a place like this. The Ateneo Veneto. Home to Venice Noir in November. All events free. #Venice

#ShareGoodNews - despite the efforts of the Right (looking at YOU, Yaxley-Lennon/Posh Tommy and at YOU, Farage and your stooges like #LucyConnolly) London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world.

@househammerpod.bsky.social bid a fond farewell to Oliver Reed, Ronald Lewis and Yvonne Romain in "The Brigand of Kandahar." Come for the film, but stay for the curry!

Happy Book Birthday to our 9/16 titles! Suki Cat: Unicorn and Suki Cat: Dinosaur by @gracejhabib Everything You Know About The Human Body is WRONG by @emma_sarah_young and illustrated by @maribellechugaillustration Alice Éclair Spy Extraordinaire: A Spoonful of Spying by @sarahtoddtaylor

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Yarn and yarns! 🧶 Unwind with needles, hooks, and good conversation at our Knit & Natter group. A lovely, relaxed way to spend a Wednesday morning. Free tea and cake included! Every Wed, 10am-12noon. #KnitAndNatter #Craft #Community #Splott

In the 1980s, your Gran bought her Council House, at a huge discount. Over 2 million were sold in the UK. Councils paid-off debts with this money and didn't build new ones. That's why ALL people stay in crap, failed 'Hotels'. I was in 'Emergency Housing' for 4 years. Don't blame immigrants.

"Open your eyes, time to wake up. Enough is enough is enough is enough".