Is the rapture happening before or after bake-off does anyone know

Kickflip’s script *was* written as a screenplay! Because I knew smoke else would be doing the illustrating and it seemed a logical way to present the story for someone else to interpret.

Tiny local comic con asking creators to pay £260 a table. I think the fuck not, actually.

Me: the house is freezing because the front door cannot be closed 100% right now, I will put some coal on the currently jumping wood fire for the long slow burn The fire: Fuck you I’m going out immediately

Cue Keir scrambling to say he’s going to do it first

A bookseller who went out for a run this morning. Getting back into a routine as I train for the 2026 London Marathon for @booktrust.org.uk, and I'm aiming for to raise £2000 for my 40th year! I know how much great work they do and how much they care about book accessibility.

OH - AND THE GIANT MONSTER REMAINS ALSO POWER ALL OUR TECHNOLOGY BUT USING IT THREATENS TO DRIVE US TO OUR OWN EXTINCTION?! Fuck that is just insanely good writing. God was fucking cooking with Dinosaurs

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

I hate it when you take some water and a pill and you swallow the water but the pill just hangs about in your mouth gradually dissolving like what is your problem

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Tongues don’t battle for dominance like they used to

So thrilled to be one of the judges for the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social New Writers’ Award! Send us your Children’s and YA writing! The deadline is 24th September www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

When I’m in charge, west end theatre tickets will be £30 maximum for the best seats in the house

Last week I did my first ever chairing job! Chairing is something I’ve wanted to get into for ages & interviewing Samantha Shannon at St Cuthbert’s was a dream. Thanks Toppings and Bloomsbury for inviting me, & if any other events would like me to pick some authors’ brains, I would LOVE to do more!

Rory has almost lost his baby face 😭

Saturday matinee sold out 🥹 This is already the most successful of any show I've ever done. 22-27 September Lace Market Theatre, Nottingham lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh...

There's only one week left to apply for a 2026 New Writers Award! Tell your talented writer friends. . . 📲

Teachers of Scotland! Join us online on 30 September as we share how the new 2025 Read Write Count book bags could be used for a mixed-level paired reading project in your school. 📚

Come make comics at Ness Book Fest! Saturday 4th October at Discovery College, Inverness

Kept having “New Tesco Method to save money!!” videos pop up in my fyp and no one was explaining so I had to Sherlock Holmes my way to find out what it actually was Anyway it turns out it’s just stealing 🙃

Come make comics at Ness Book Fest! Saturday 4th October at Discovery College, Inverness

Absolutely amazing how neurotypical people can spot someone with autism at fifty yards (children are particularly adept at this), but it takes so called professionals seven years to come to the same conclusion

Time to indulge in my favourite hobby, watching people argue in the comments about when they’re going to put the heating on

The sheep in this week’s Alien: Earth

Weekend boost!

I loved being part of this, such a joy to be surrounded by diverse stories and magical authors.

I resisted Uniqlo for so long because money But I went in yesterday and bought jeans And tell me why they are the best fitting and most comfortable pair of trousers I have ever owned. Is this the Boots Theory of Economics in action

Me, on the train to Inverness, looking around at the other passengers: Why are all these people going to Inverness on a Wednesday

Two days of unhappy first class journeys, @lner.co.uk. No food on the way down to Edinburgh yesterday, and no lounge access today? No alternative provision in place? I am rarely disappointed in you, but this is two days on the trot.

oh for FUCK sake

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And y’all are still publishing this person who thinks this video is showing real words, huh.

I am destined to starve today!!! My hotel offers 24hr room service so I was like yes hotel room chips, got in, dialled up…. Sorry, the chef isn’t in tonight so there’s no room service

Went to the Palestine Museum.

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Deliberately didn’t have breakfast so I could breakfast on the train but there’s no food service on the train and now I’m stuck sad and hungry on the train for three and a half hours

Evergreen skeet

Istg some people come to the gym just to cough

The man who stinks is back at the gym 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Bryan Adams trying to get the crowd at his set to be more reactionary is a) cringe, and b) maybe indicates that someone should have told him what the crowd at Radio 2 in the Park might be like

Transphobia’s effects on the brain being observed in real time over here

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Sapphic September, you say? geni.us/SomeBodyLikeMeHB

Since the WBD emails have started rolling in, here are the places it’s the easiest for me to get for visits: Scotland (in general. Highlands preferred, islands v welcome) London Manchester Bristol Belfast I’m willing to travel wherever and however, but please be aware of added costs and time 🩷😘📚

That last episode of Alien: Earth was a really good Alien movie.

The latest episode of Alien: Earth????????????

Bought one of those three in one plug in air freshener things and it’s insanely strong?? I’m sneezing, the cats have left, the whole house smells like wet laundry

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Decided to buy chia seeds, and to soak them this morning to have with breakfast later. To cut a long story short, the house is now covered in chia seeds.

Throwing paint on a plane is terrorist violence but trying to burn down asylum seekers accommodation or wanting them or trans people assaulted or dead is just reasonable legitimate concerns of the people