If you need to be distracted by watching an hour of someone’s delightful special interest and learning some history today, I got you youtu.be/ukmIXUEDAkE

The cat has melted in front of the fire, I have gathered kale from the garden before this week’s big freeze, and I’m flipping between a fiction book and these (snagged 6 glass demijohns, fermenting buckets, and related odds and ends from a neighbour 🤓) Have a great 2026, you lot

How everyone in this house feels today

Oh no. #Whamageddon

I never want to live in London again, but this visit hasn’t been half bad so far. I thought my now-rural brain would struggle but nope, it all snaps back into place

This book is fantastic and you should read it and give people copies

calling it now, the “look for the helpers” of 2k26 is “look for the anarchists”

New gig starts tomorrow and I’m excited, but also more anxious than usual. Can’t afford more time off to recover from the toxic job I quit, so back on the horse I go!

Me before October 7 🥲

🚨glucose monitor recall

When you are stuck in bed-gaming mode because sitting up hurts too much, so your partner surprises you with fairy lights to brighten the view ❤️

Tiny birds were VERY ready for this feeder top up! Getting a dozen at a time but managed to capture a few. Male and female pheasant stroll through to snack on whatever drops; haven’t gotten a photo of them yet. And next door’s little black cat sits at a distance and watches them all

UK friends, please take a moment to nominate this awesome charity? (Category in the dropdown = ‘community’)

Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen... Iggy Pop Leonard Cohen Björk Elvis Costello PJ Harvey

Kagi+Orion (search engine you pay for vs being the product & privacy-focused browser) are really good so far. I also like that my new (used) iPhone lets me toggle browsers and use any source of truth for site logins. Not the Linux phone of my dreams yet, but slight improvement.

My brain has decided I’ve had enough downtime and the only way to be unemployed now is to keep tackling the backlog of house chores. At least I’m getting a lot of audiobook time as I shift and scrub things…

Heads up! Amazon have a deal on the print version of @wtpress.bsky.social Fight Like A Girl 2 - a mere 4.99 for something both signable and absorbent, if you like that sort of thing... please share? www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...

Drifty in-between time while I’m unemployed. Snow let up so I made it out to the garden. Plenty to harvest, & even ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse! Watching YouTube talks on subjects I’m interested in. And ofc always reading. Mask will be up soon enough. Now I have a little time to just be me.

very important cause and I suggest everyone buys a copy in order to support that worthy cause, the pictures are irrelevant I read it for the articles

Trying to find ways to feel like myself again while I shake off the effects of the job I quit. Today’s supporter package from @pmpress.bsky.social definitely helps! ❤️

What are your top 5 media* genres? mine are: Friends & frenemies band together to fight scary things Woman achieves greatness in the face of adversity Dystopian hellscape + found family Singing where you wouldn’t expect singing Kaiju! *modified to include other media (was movies)

My face hurts. Because capitalism.

Read this (then of course read Hild and Menewood if you have not) Seriously. Top of your TBR

Unfollow or block every single person who uses body shaming or homophobia to attack anyone, including fascists. It’s just lazy. And wrong. Fash are such easy targets, we can all do better. And the attack never lands on them. It lands on the fat/old/queer person who reads it.

PSA: if you are a cannabis grower in the United States or have been thinking about starting to grow, get any seeds you’ve been wanting to buy online before the end of the year. The new changes to the hemp laws make buying seeds online illegal again as of January 1, 2026

Me: it’s all muscle memory now, I can play the post-ending version of Hades 2 on painkillers after a hard day deep-cleaning the house. I want to finish the story, it’ll be fine. Game: surprise! You now randomly drop into the first game’s boss fight no matter how few boons you have #gaming #hades2

No human on earth should go without access to nourishing food, a safe home, and adequate healthcare Borders should be abolished Coercive hierarchy should be dismantled at every opportunity (Ok maybe I’m actually 357 woke opinions in a trenchcoat)

Damnit all. Mortality keeps taking the good people from us 💔

Everything about SARS-CoV-2 weakens us as a species. Population-level immune dysregulation leading to both reactivation of latent pathogens and creating niches for new ones; the politicisation of our response regressing public health and massively amplifying anti-vax ideology.

My most woke opinion concerns what we should do with billionaires and it can’t be shared in public But I’m 158 woke opinions in a trenchcoat, so…

I had the best conversation with today’s chimney sweep. Turns out that of course I know half his relatives (rural life) but I didn’t know that he is planning and building an amazing off the grid farm nearby. Super fun to hear about while he made sure we were ready for winter

Ok so far, being unemployed is exhausting. All the neglected chores have become urgent. Plumber and heating engineer and chimney sweep and getting the house semi-presentable for the lot of them. Am now flopped in on an armchair now with ice on various joints

I know *why* I feel so low (season change, legal fuckery, job change worries, grief, stress-eating junk instead of healthy food) It’s just annoying that knowing doesn’t fix a damn thing. It’s just one foot in front of the other time for a while. Do the job that’s in front of me, Sam Vimes style.

Come on Scotland, us next

Anyway this 58 year old late gamer perma-beat both bosses in Hades 2 last night. Video games are art, and building new skills is amazing

It’s dark as night here and SO RAINY Set the new overhead SAD lamp to “warm tone” and Holly (who is usually on a windowsill by now) has joined me under it

I fell asleep on the bed listening to a book and (worried rescue cat) Holly stayed with me for 90 minutes. This is the longest she has stayed in the bedroom since becoming the only cat (cat politics meant it wasn’t her territory before) ❤️💔❤️

This account continues to brutally murder me.

Remembrance without peacemaking is just pissing on war graves.

I have been supporting Ahmed and his family for months now. He is real, he looks thinner every time he has a new account, and if you have even a little to spare I hope you will help them 🙏

My darlings, I have been home from international travel for a week. I’m immunocompromised. And despite being in a room for days with someone who tested + for #Covid, and sitting on a plane with someone visibly unwell I AM NOT SICK FFP3 mask, antihistamine nose spray, and oral antihistamines

I have a new book coming out in January: SHE IS HERE. Every time I look at the cover I smile—and am struck by just how unusual both the photo and book itself are. Let me explain using many visual aids... #SheIsHere #NetGalley

Another negative (pluslife molecular) covid test! I feel tired and run down, so still worried. But that could be jetlag and grief and hating my job

Another negative (pluslife, molecular, expensive) Covid test! Still anxious about my seatmate on Friday’s flight and I don’t know the incubation periods of all the variants RN. Also I’m an idiot and forgot to skip methotrexate, so my Covid vax is at ~25% potency So much work, staying alive

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and highly enjoying Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anton for some epic fantasy back in my life. What are you reading at the moment?

Woke up at home! Have slept but still hurt all over! Time to hydrate and start the pluslife Covid tests. I’m particularly worried about my seatmate on the long flight home. He was 88 years old, chatty, and symptomatic with *something* Was my mask game good enough or am I fucked?

Fun things about Florida: -Cuban food! -Amazing music everywhere -Rapidly re-learning Spanish because the service workers don’t speak English and expect gringos to at least know the basics -Iguanas! Less fun things about Florida: -Most of the white people