Nothing to see here, just a crow with his chicken nugget

I mean *obviously* do your laundry

Preparing to close all the curtains like a Vampire / European

Looking forward to hosting readings & in conversation with poets Jennifer Lee Tsai @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social and Hannah Lowe @thebluecoat.bsky.social 3rd June www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/jlt-...

A day on the couch with the cat. I've been on the go for a while now - mostly good stuff. Lots of art. Yesterday we went to see the Steve McQueen Grenfell film @thebluecoat.bsky.social. Goes without saying, essential viewing. There's a space - physical and metaphorical - to decompress afterwards.

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

Can’t get past this level, keep dying

Nobody wants Wes Streeting

Me for the first 17 minutes of payday

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

Conversations with Acquaintances

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried

i asked my mother to find me some sea glass while she was in whitby so i can make necklaces out of it for me and my sisters

Just heard myself say ‘hey baby’ to a squirrel

The same way if you talk about Iran or Saudia Arabia or wherever you don't have to pepper your criticisms with random mentions of Muslims or Islam.

A cool thing you can do if you're criticising Israel is just not mention Jews at all. Like, you don't actually have to talk about anyone's religion at any point.

As someone who works in the Arts when I always feel like I could also work in Finance when I use the ‘SUM’ function in Excel

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ANYWAY

Tonight at Waterstones Liverpool! Last few tickets at the link: www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

There’s a mum on the train trying to use me as a threat (“The LADY won’t like it”) to her small boys sitting behind me but I think they’re hilarious.

It shouldn’t. Next question.

This is you commuting to work, @m-amcq.bsky.social

Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇 🎨"The Witch’s Sister on her Black Bat" (1921) by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #InternationalBatAppreciationDay

Wheeled my elderly aunt (90) around Knock yesterday, she’s a nun so this is her favourite place. She stocked up on multiple holy magical items to protect me against my enemies

I wear black hoping the ravens will accept me as one of their own

London Metropolitan Police have arrested more than 500 people at a pro-Palestine Action vigil on Saturday. The youngest was 18, the oldest was 87 years old. They were arrested for "showing support for a proscribed organisation".

Dear #booksky and #kidlituk #authors #illustrators this is a petition started by Paul of Excelsior comic awards to make school libraries statutory in secondary schools. It needs 10k signatures. Please sign 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

they need to invent a type of impeachment that actually impeaches you

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Lebanon has declared a national day of mourning after Israeli attacks killed at least 254 people in a single day.

Stylish older woman on train is trying to apologise & cajole what I assume is her sulking husband who is refusing to sit next to her. I can’t understand the language but I’m on her side.

“We have to break this cycle of impunity,” Ali Cherri, who filed a complaint against Israel in France’s War Crimes Unit, told Hyperallergic.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Being on Empire Lines podcast is a life ambition ticked ✔️ off. Doubly great to be on with @sovayberriman.bsky.social She talks about Cornwall, extraction, colonialism, class& copper. I chip in from Liverpool perspective flamm.creativekernow.org.uk/empire-lines...

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

Compare boomer nostalgia in films like hook to millennial nostalgia in films like Saltburn. In Hook: sentimental and embarrassing reassurances that you’re still cool even if you’re old. In Saltburn: “Damn, Ladytron was a good band. Also we should have been murdering rich people this whole time.”

One of my favourite librarians waived my late return 15p fine 💅

I really didnt want another cat but I was at petsmart the other day and saw this boy who was the saddest looking cat I've ever seen in my life like his ears didnt even twitch when I was talking to him because he's so sad and I cant stop thinking about him...I might go pick him up tonight 😬

Really big news! Author copies of my book are here, and they're gorgeous. The colours! The chunkiness! The big glossy cat on the front! LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is out in 2 weeks. Go pre-order it; it'll make a beautiful addition to your living space. I’m just saying…

Though best remembered for his poetry, Frank O’Hara championed artists like Helen Frankenthaler and organized several shows at the Museum of Modern Art during the Cold War.

Let’s do this Ireland… 🇮🇪⚽️ #COYBIG

How to survive an energy crunch My column this week in the @financialtimes.com 1st 300 clicks free to read... as.ft.com/r/6858da98-f...

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...