The deadline for voting in the #LibDem internal elections is 2pm tomorrow. If you haven't voted already, and you want our party to live its queer-supportive values the @pluslibdems.bsky.social have a handy list of endorsements

The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own. We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us. Statement below:

Utterly insane that a payment processor of all things has this amount of clout. Your job is literally to process money people have willingly paid for an item or service. It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not. That’s irrelevant to your function as a payment processor

Every year on the 5th of November, we watch V for Vendetta. Oof. It hits differently these days.

Between Mamdani in NY and D66 in NL, that's two examples of progressives winning that day with a message of hope, unity and solidarity rather than careful milk and water triangulation.

So, I recently finished reading the Realm of Fae quadrilogy by @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social, and it's got me thinking: there are some good MM & FF #Fantasy and #Romantasy stories and series around now, exploring queer characters in the context of monarchy and monarchic power - BUUUT... 1/2

"They're behind you!"

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and you won't BELIEVE what else besides remains, click here to find out!

Excellent and sobering piece in @libdemvoice.org today by Cllr. Chris Northwood. All @libdems.org.uk members should read it. 👇

For the first time in my life I am on a train that *overshot* one of its stops - so we emergency stopped and had to reverse back. So much for a nice wander around Oxford before @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social and T J Klune's reading... 🫠

Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees for the British Fantasy Awards! It was a fucking honour to be among you this year. And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🎉💙🎉

I've had worse views during breakfast. Highly recommend Coffee Under Pressure in the churchyard of Reading Minster, should you wish to partake yourself (of either breakfast or the view). Not pictured: the bells.

With the new Guillermo Del Toro version, perhaps now there are enough film versions of #Frankenstein that someone could make an ultimate version supercutting clips from all the different adaptations together. Just a Halloween thought... 🎃

On Monday, I had a wonderful conversation with my best friend about writing and then immediately was presented with a dumpster fire that has dominated the whole rest of my week. Let's see if I get any writing done this weekend. Sometimes the world feels like a conspiracy to keep me from writing...

I am in search of good, out-of-copyright / creative commons, creepy sci-fi stories. No one wants me to sing for my supper, but I can narrate for my (& my team's) dinner. This Friday, I'm doing a spooky fundreading. 1) What kind of cosplay should I wear? 2) What should I read? cqx-fy26.org

I stayed in this hotel for one night in 2012 before collecting the keys to new student digs. It's a memory that I treasure, for the simple reason that I am a writer - the surprise at waking up alive, the relief walking across Palmer Park with my new house ahead of me and this place behind me...

Happy to confirm I have submitted all my votes, and my first pref for FCC went to @rigg.lgbt because she's flipping awesome.

Why is it that every time I square up to writing, something immediately catches fire and needs dealing with? Sometimes I think the world is a conspiracy to stop me writing...

Absolutely barnstorming piece on Lib Dem Voice by @pruebray.bsky.social about today's ill-advised capitulation by The Powers That Be. I'm her agent in the Party President election, so I'm sort-of biased - but then, the fact that she gets it is exactly why I agreed to be her agent in the first place.

Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️? If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM. Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️

This is correct. They gave - and, I hope, shared - much joy. And it was a wonderful wedding. 😁

But this misses out the best part of this mosaic! To the left of Odysseus' ship is a smaller boat with a man holding what looks suspiciously like a gigantic prawn. This man is likely to be the homeowner who commissioned the mosaic. (Mosaic from Dougga, Tunisia; C3rd AD; currently in Bardo Museum)

What's it like inside your head?

Persona non-Garter, if you will

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Define your music taste with 8 artists: - Antonin Dvořák - Ludovico Einaudi - Debbie Wiseman - Hans Zimmer - Bear McCreary - Nightwish - Poets of the Fall - Lady Gaga

This is your periodic reminder not to quote-post to dunk, not to screengrab from the Hell Site™️, and not to use AI even just to prove how crap it is. This is Bluesky, darling. 🦋💙

Amazing news from Bona Books! 🩷 Can't wait.

If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it... is... driving... us...

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "Schliemann got here first."

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "The Switches are flooded."

Of course, the picture that always does the rounds about this event - which was lovely, btw - is always this one, which while great, happens to include me sneezing beneath the R and the A of the 'Liberal'...

And, it's really good. Recommend it.

Thriplow.

"The Human Centipede of content" - welp, that's what I'm calling it now.

It's flies.

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

Patricia Routledge. What a gem. Everyone knows about Hyacinth Bucket, but look up the Kitty monologues from the Victoria Wood show - you're in for a treat if you've never seen them before. Iconic.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury is a woman, which is great, but am I the only one who finds the constant use of "female" a bit creepy? She's not a holly bush and you're (probably) not a Ferengi.

Excellent news for independent researchers. Great to see academic work made more accessible.

I am a liberal, and I am against this sort of thing

This.

Very thoughtful of the @libdems.org.uk to switch their colour scheme to match my jumper this year! I even got slagged off by Quentin Letts in the Daily Fail for this speech - made my week! 😅 Lovely to see everyone. See you at the next one. 🧡

Two hours in, and we've already had a successful Move to Next Business and an attempt to suspend the standing orders. It's definitely #LDConf.

Glad to see that @libdems.org.uk Conference had no more patience for hate on the agenda than it did last time. We, and Conference, saw that amendment for what it was. Thank you to everyone who voted.

This is an incredibly important thread, and I wish more "normal" people understood that this is how many minorities are feeling at the minute.

Okay, this is an excellent use of a Bluesky account. *applause*

A huge well done to Rebecca for her work on this, and thank you for JPAC to listening to her concerns. While the NHS is complaining of blood donation shortages, it should not be inventing barriers for LGBT+ folks who are willing to donate.

But British judges don't use gavels... 🙃

IMO almost every popular view of gender massively downplays the intensity and virulence of anti-effeminacy as a form of gender violence and prejudice.