Goodnight from Lingley Corner on the A3016, where the metallic trauma of MGB Roadster meeting elm tree continues to echo a decade after it was first heard. Goodnight from Rosie Hope, pricking her thumb to seal a Salt Spirit bargain in the customary way. Goodnight from Hookland.

I just had the mental image of Andrew being given a pre-wrapped cheese & ham sandwich for his lunch and started laughing all over again.

So rainy tonight even the dog balked at going out. Day 2346 of rain (rough estimate)

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I imagine it was extremely disturbing

Just sayin'

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Second caffeine free day. Dear Lord.

Issue 6 (!) shaping up well. If you subscribe you’ll get it in an email. No editorials or owt in between (we all talk at each other too much imo). Just the latest NFNF issue - tiny stories I’ve chosen because I love them

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

I think the only thing thats gonna stop the rain is the sacrifice of a billionaire

Being a bear is obviously the superior state of being.

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Commenting on the news that UK heat pump sales reached record highs in 2025, with more than 125,000 units sold, @jessralston.bsky.social, @eciu.net said: "Let’s be frank, anyone arguing against heat pumps is arguing for more reliance on imported gas."

I would love to see Yusuf and his mates living in "relative poverty" for a year, and then see if they think it's still "fake" or not. Yusuf and Reform want to cut support for the poorest and give tax cuts to billionaires. They don't care about working people.

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge The Magnetic Fields - How Fucking Romantic

Bloody hell, I can see what all the fuss is about now. I think I needed to be *this* old and to have lived *this* life to be ready for Woolf, to have the patience for her.

Do the dance, do the New Jeff Noon Book Coming Dance.

Happy (Haunted) Valentine's Day from me & @hexliterary.bsky.social!

I’m reading Mrs Dalloway. Never managed to get this far in it before. Feel very grown up. Maybe I am entering my Virginia Woolf era?

Of course it will rain all next week too. I may as well take my frog form

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

I've been brutally unsubscribing from every blog I ever subscribed to because the email noise is overwhelming. Hoping to carve some silence into the day. Ironic to come on here to infect you with the chatter of my own thoughts, obviously. But so it goes

This reminds me of a quote from a small business owner I read a while back: 'I'd rather pay to train someone and then later them leave than have someone untrained doing the job.' So-called 'AI' is setting up a lot of companies for trouble in three to five years.

Still wild to think that humanity in a hundred years might be living in a climate catastrophe we could have prevented because a couple of ten thousand voters in three US states thought the reality TV star who had bungled the pandemic response would single-handedly fix inflation.

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Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified by the IOC from competing in the Olympics after wearing to practice a memorial helmet featuring images of Ukrainians killed by Russia in its war on Ukraine. Despite being unable to compete, he has become a hero in Ukraine.

Woke up this morning to consider how the micro I sent off last week had an extra ‘the’ in it I now regret. And am reminded of why I love writing, and flash in particular, so much - that extreme precision and focus as well as the extreme flights of fancy

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

In the meantime look! Right here! Issue 3 is here and busting with incredible writing. This was a thrill to publish, full of soft corners and sharp edges, hairpin turns and gentle landings. With some of your favourite writers (right?) and at least one debut author. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

In a crowded field, spraying forever chemicals linked to cancer, liver, kidney & thyroid disorders directly on to food crops has to be one of humanity's worst thought out moves ever.

Most plastics, chemicals, artificial fertilisers, pesticides & synthetic fabrics are made from fossil fuels & they emit pollution throughout their life cycle, from extraction to processing to use & disposal. Fossil fuels give birth to so many major pollution sources.

Long term, low level exposure to oil pollution can lead to lesions in seabirds' digestive tracts, internal bleeding, dehydration, starvation, reduced immunity, liver & thyroid disorders, chemicals from oil can be passed on to birds' eggs, harming the next generation: uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Gratuitous dog pic. I hope you all get to sleep as well as this fine chap (who the insurance company tells me is Senior now. Nooooooo!!!!)

ChatGPT's president is Trump's biggest donor.

Friendly reminder: NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Ah, so we are part of a phenomenon. 3 more days and we can call it biblical and start looking out for doves and rainbows etc … (plenty of rainbows in Brighton. Might have to settle for a seagull or crow instead of a dove though)

… I just sent off a micro I love & now am certain it will be declined but I don’t care I love it - until I get it back and spot its fatal flaws … is this any way to spend a life? Really? {something to talk ab in therapy, anyway. I guess}

Mood

Not a Christian but starting to believe there might be something to that whole Antichrist thing.