Continually impressed by the accuracy and beauty of the @effinbirds.com Field Guide to Identification

This.

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger

History is making fun of us

NEW The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This really is a scary and important read for those in the UK.

"It was not Hitler who arrested me - nor Göring, nor Goebbels. I was arrested by the janitor, the grocer, the milkman, the tobacconist. They were handed SS uniforms, SA armbands, and suddenly they were gods." - Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.” (Angela Carter “The Lady of the House of Love”) 🎨 Igor Karash #bookwormsat

As someone who took a keen interest in the Bloody Sunday killings by state appointed thugs, I’m delighted to know that it’ll only be 50 odd years before Jonathan Ross is OFFICIALLY told he’s completely innocent.

Palestine Action activist Heba Muraisi, 31, said to be “near death” after 70 days on hunger strike,

Graham Linehan is all about protecting women. Unless he is about cheering them being shot in the face.

"That's fine dude. I'm not mad at you."

From the Clannad title music on, there’s no argument from me that this was the best Robin Hood iteration ever.

Avebury under snow from the church tower. #StandingStoneSunday

Once again what is the point of Starmer other than to give the Tories a rest and roll out the red carpet for Reform?

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Bone horses still walk the village streets. ‘tis the season! But they are mummers, right? Well, let’s go to Kent and find that out, in our 35th #yulefolklore story below. 🎨 Mark C. Greene

I wish you were wrong.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Welcome to the Public Domain, MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (1930), starring Miss Marple 🔍 🧶 Agatha Christie’s other famous detective appeared in this, her first full-length novel. Uncover the killer in this newly #publicdomain work. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

YouGov found that 91% of trans, non-binary, and intersex adults distrust the UK Labour party, that two-thirds now feel unsafe in the UK, with 25% reporting they have suffered physical violence. Another poll found that LGBTQ+ voters are increasingly abandoning UK Labour, often in favour the Greens.

❤️ Happy 79th birthday to Patricia Lee Smith, the Godmother of Punk, born on this day in 1946, Chicago, Illinois 🫅 Photo by Lynn Goldsmith #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #pattismith #history #punkrockhistory #otd

YES! Thank you for recognizing her. My favorite Patti Smith cover: youtu.be/bPO0bTaWcFQ

Accurate.

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Truth may not be hopeful but the telling of it is.

🖼️ Edith Holden

Most recent publication, the first from my thesis with hopefully more to come. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Prone to throw tantrums? Naughty rather than nice? Default mode is “Defiance”? From Iceland? Then you might end up in Grýla’s pot. Read about her in our 24th #yulefolklore tale below! 🎨 Anette Pirso

"They looked towards the hilltop and saw a yellow flame rising against the sky. Too-ticky had lit the bonfire. It wrapped itself in flames at once, from ground to top, it gave a roar like a lion and threw its reflection straight down on the black ice" Moominland #Midwinter, Tove Jansson

NEWS! Vampires celebrating their longest day of the year newsthump.com/2025/12/21/v...

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Also pissed off at Steeting going off on "biological sex is immutable for screening and healthcare" in parliament, if ignoring that we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones, and that treating us as our birth assigned sex will cause serious healthcare failures.

Sentinel. In the remoter parts of the Italian Alps, away from the trampling feet and slicing skis of the tourists, it is still possible, sometimes, to catch a glimpse of an ancient little scout guarding the passes. #PlaymobilInfestation

Absolutely this. Labour are doing positive things for white, cishet, abled, employed, neurotypical people while screwing over everyone else. Oppressive and cynical.

This 👇

When transphobic “academics” complained about a “chilling effect” on their “research” they meant people describing their transphobic “research” as transphobic. Now there is a REAL chilling effect for trans academics of top-down establishment measures like fines & toilet bans. archive.is/oYqXS

Thank you all for your support

Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.

🖼️ Edward Gorey

These times need people like Robin. Thank you for taking this evidently difficult decision in the interests of kindness.

For every grassroots music venue that shuts its doors, around 200 gigs vanish from the map. 200 local shows that don’t happen. No support slots. No first-stage debuts. No tour dates in your town. No gigs = no future for live music. None of the stuff you love. Simple.

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Big stretch! Drink some water, take your meds. -Setting and enforcing boundaries is self-care. -The Cursed Object declared it needs yarn. I’m concerned. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

This is not the behaviour of allies. This is abandonment, not friendship.