before you make posts like this, I need y’all to care as much about actual IRL people and the actual consequences they experience professionally, personally, psychologically, etc. as you do about your desire to feel that you watching a hot TV show is activism making the world a better place

I want all of them but I have so much yarn to get through in projects to finish first! The M&tS advent calendar yarns are stunning, and I think I will use similar colours from that together as you've made here. Yet another artistic triumph - I always love your work! #yarnspiration #knitting

I've been thinking a lot this year about something Jenny Nicholson said once about My Little Pony: "It's a little cringey but most fun things are." I think many people could do with leaning into the cringe of vulnerability and earnestness for the sake of a little happiness / diluted irony poisoning

Pthalo Green is the internet’s choice for colour of the year 2026. It’s gorgeous and very versatile if you can get over that “feminine” urge to shrink yourself and conform. You’ve been told you can’t wear green but you *can* enjoy your one precious life in vivid hues. #mothyandthesquid #yarn

New blog post - writerly updates! www.tumblr.com/prettylittle... #amwriting again at long last!

A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists

“Respect people’s sobriety. Treat it how you would food allergies. You don’t see people disrespecting food allergies!” I agree with the sentiment! Really I do! But people don’t respect food allergies. I have to be as paranoid as a monarch protecting oneself from being poisoned during court intrigues

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

At the very least use the public library if you have one. We've got ebooks, eaudiobooks, WONDERbooks for kids (combination of print + audiobook)... We'll pay to support your favorite authors, and you get to read for "Free". Everyone wins!

if you wanna read a book that makes you feel good about a lot of things read Project Hail Mary. There's gunna be a movie next year too so read it now so you have enough time to forget the details so you can enjoy the movie and not be mad about the changes they have to make.

Preorders really help authors show the industry that books are worth investing in and with a book that’s about being disabled and varying flavours of gay on national television, every little helps and you won’t be charged until next year. Neis.

But this also shows that tech folk have no idea why people watch or read stories to begin with. Stories crafted by people to explore ideas we can connect with and learn about ourselves, AI can never do that. It can imitate it, but without purpose, it’s completely disposable.

Ooh, rat-free stock! My favourite kind! #TheArchers

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

When every extremism expert and historian on bluesky is telling you not to celebrate political violence, maybe just don’t do it.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

throwing a shoe at your enemy’s head and missing: good, funny, does not escalate political tensions across your country, immediately works as a meme shooting your enemy: bad, not funny, cowardly, escalates political tensions across your country, becomes a conservative talking point immediately

#knitting is so soothing

@mothyandthesquid.bsky.social makes such beautiful yarns! This one is so soft and vibrant and I love working with it. "Great Tit" colourway on 4ply / sock yarn, 75% merino and 25% nylon for durability.

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

Not bad for an evening's work - making a tiny dent in my accidentally massive stash of threads and fabric - but I hope next time I can do it without stabbing my fingers so much! Quite pleased with this floral piece because I don't do #embroidery as often as I should. #stashbusting #crafter #fibreart

Our government punishes people who are single. Corporations punish those who are single. Finding romantic love shouldn't be a prerequisite for a safety net that you paid into. That's absurd.

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

We were saddened to learn of the death of Allan Ahlberg, one of our much-loved and respected Fellows. He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy and has earned a place in the hearts of millions of families. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

Irony is out. Joy is in. Find a niche thing to love and then love it unreservedly.

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.

being hot is overrated, i want to be loved

Words To Live By Number 179

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Out and about in Oslo! I saw this sign on a yarn store, but missed the first bit at first, so it looked kind of like a threat to knit the giver.

Quite a lot of it, apparently - I'm feeling much better and one of my friends has decided to start taking multvitamins again after seeing me get better!

#DrawEverythingJune2025 - Day 3, 4 and 5 - I've started drawing in pencil on paper, because tablet work just wasn't feeling right. I'm really enjoying myself now! @adorkastock.com

this is my new favourite video on the internet btw

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson or The Terminal Really can't decide between them

#DrawEverythingJune2025 @adorkastock.com I've drawn Angus McNicholas from my story This Still Happens. Trying on a man's kilt for the first time! #comingofage #transcharacters

I finished #knitting my dress! I designed and hand-knitted it myself, and it fits absolutely perfectly. Yarn: Yarnsmiths Merino DK on 4mm needles. This took about three weeks to knitting, and another week for me to get my act together, reinforcing the shoulders with woven tape. I'm so pleased!

Had a go at #baking madeleines this morning and everything went wrong. 1) I should've used a proper madeleine recipe instead of a pound cake, 2) I put too much batter in each shell and it glooped out of the tin, 3) I misread the gauge as C instead of F. Still tasty though; most things turn out OK.

Another episode of May in Ambridge is up on Fantasy Archers now! paranormal.org.uk/mustardland/... #thearchers #fanfiction

I think my favourite texture in the world is the back of a sheet of lined paper after I've written all over the other side. #writing #writer #texture #writingstim

🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊

Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project" Over and over until you die.

Today has been another really good day, and guess who was present when it started? Žaržipan. Proof. Positive.

I have been given explicit instructions not to "stay up and play knitting machine" (a game in which I don't have a knitting machine, I am the knitting machine), but I really want to stay up and play knitting machine :(

I've already started my next #knitting project! This yarn is so beautifully soft, and such a vibrant colour! I never knew how soft #merino wool could be.

I finished my jumper! I'm so pleased with it. It's the first jumper I've knitted for myself. I've knitted them for other people, knitted other things for myself, and crocheted jumpers, but this is the first one I've knitted, and I'm very proud of myself! #knitting #yarn

I'm ready to put my jumper together! #knitting

Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans

Why do people now have to solve a sphinx’s riddle before they pee? This is absurd and impossible for individuals, workplaces and services to manage. I think we must all just use whatever loo is free from now on. Let these ridiculous idiots have conniptions over it if they want to.