Here are all the brilliant shortlisted books! You should check them all out, but particularly Augmented, of course!

So thrilled to have been longlisted for the fantastic #BranfordBoase Award!

Anybody have a current list of humanitarian aid groups that are still permitted to operate in Gaza? Is there anyone left?

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Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds. Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. 🧵1/3

Isaac Herzog is named directly in the UN report which states clearly that Israel is committing genocide - he is named as one of the figures inciting genocide. Last week Keir Starmer felt it was fit to roll our the red carpet for Herzog on in a visit to Britain.

My sister works for this life-changing and life-saving charity. Suicide is the leading cause of death for 16–35s in the UK. Young lives are being failed. Please can you sign the petition calling for more investment in proven support that saves lives. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.

The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.

There are two key problems with the new UK government position that it will recognise Palestine unless Israel ends the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and commits to a two-state solution. [brief 🧵]

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

Interesting thing about positive and humane asylum policies isn't just that they are more effective, but they are also cheaper, and in some cases revenue enhancing, meaning you are able to actually invest in other areas to help more people. 1/

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

The UK government is blocking Palestinian students in Gaza from taking up UK scholarships. Some have been killed while waiting @theguardian.com We’ve written to the Home Secretary demanding action and @drjogrady.bsky.social will be on @lbc.co.uk at 4 PM urging the govt to step in. tr.ee/HjzPtS

Put pressure on our leaders to act now. Donate any way you can. North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions chuffed.org/project/help...

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

We need action, not empty words. The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets.

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! 🥳🎈 you can help me celebrate by deplatforming That Vile Woman and instead boost my queer af books! 🌈 ☀️in The Sunbearer Trials, god is trans, other gods are also trans, some of the demigods are trans and EVERYONE IS QUEER!

Palestinians say they have no choice but to go to deadly US- and Israeli-backed aid sites amid growing starvation.

This is hateful and dystopian. I was just on holiday in Kent. Nice to know how welcome queer people (esp children) are there eh? Please, Kent locals, write to your councillors and resist this grossness. #KidLitUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me for Metro: The crucial point is deterrence & border violence has never & will never work We need safe routes & the right to work legally for asylum seekers - IT IS SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS But pressure might be working, we must press harder than ever for a humane policy💪 metro.co.uk/2025/07/02/a...

Last year was the deadliest year for journalists ever recorded, and 70% were Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

Next week the UK government is moving to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 5 things that could put you at risk of a terrorism charge ⬇️ 🧵

I find myself with little of use or value to say on any Israel's constant atrocities in Gaza, but one thing I can say is that what we see now is a horrific culmination of a long-term process, namely the systematic deprivation of civilian access to adequate water and waste infrastructure.

Margaret McDonald, author of Glasgow Boys and the youngest-ever Carnegie medal winner, on ‘the spectrum of masculinity’ her characters exist on and the power of literature to combat toxic masculinity. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Amnesty International, as the world’s leading independent human rights group, is deeply careful (and often criticised as being slow) when it comes to its research findings. It has now found with painful clarity that Israel is: 1) An apartheid state; and 2) Committing genocide against Palestinians.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: I’m speaking to a solicitor about our fine mess. If you have ANY correspondence with the company (beyond the “Dear Author” letters we all got) in 2024 about nonpayment or about the company’s financial stability, could I see it? I’m opening my DMs for this (don’t make me regret that)

OPEN LETTER: The UK's response to Israel is gravely inadequate ⚠️ We joined with 14 other orgs, inc @amnesty.org @christianaiduk.bsky.social and Muslim Aid to write to the UK Government to demand they do more to save lives and prevent further atrocities in Gaza www.thenational.scot/news/2520551...

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

Only the IDF would think “the child was throwing rocks” was enough mitigation for killing a child as to make that up as the cover story.

This just gets worse and worse, and Israel wants to keep killing. 💔🇵🇸

14,000 babies

This entire thread gives you hope: transphobia is not the majority perspective in parliament nor in the public.

No Eurovision buffet this year, no Eurovision on the TV - I can’t in all good conscience watch while the government of one of the participating countries is perpetrating a genocide. When Russia was expelled, there’s no excuse for Israel to still be there.

This is the final frontier of genocide.  Israeli air strikes killed over 250 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, including over 100 Palestinians last night. There are reports of entire families trapped or missing under the rubble.

Jan 2024: The International Court of Justice orders Israel to protect Palestinians from the risk of genocide Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide May 2025: The UK government ⬇️

“Everyone inside the hospital - patients and wounded alike - was running in fear, some on crutches, others screaming for their children, while others were being dragged into beds.” 18 dead in these latest monstrous strikes on Gaza’s hospitals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The actual DWP report showing why people claim PIP (they are disabled), what they use it for (basic living costs) & where they heard about it (mostly from the DWP). #KeirStarmer will kill a ton of people when he withdraws this.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Three years ago today, Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces while reporting in Jenin. Her family, friends and colleagues are still waiting for justice and accountability 3 years later. Since then, the targeting of journalists and attacks on the press have only increased.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

An urgent series of WhatsApps from one of our writers in Gaza who is living in a tent with her diabetic mother, and there is neither a reliable food supply nor reliable medicine, what hell is this, what hell, what hell.