Day made (#nottheonion) "The video in question showed the costumed person enter the vehicle and rummage through it in less-than-convincing fashion." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What is the timeline from proposal to printed book? https://bit.ly/3baLS1E University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

This reminds me of my old-timer insight that I learned a *ton* about publishing while filing (and reading) all the carbon copies of all correspondence. And became a better writer when using a manyal typewriter and *completely* retyping drafts.

Publishers

My third attempt. Hard to believe the country isn't saved already.

📢 WE'RE GOING‼️ Please be there if you can... 👍♥️✊ #Unity #Love #Tolerance #NoToHate #Together www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Fort Collins” - www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Big men scared of sociology, but it’s illegal to research why. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

<blushing> This book and the author-illustrator team were an absolute joy and privilege.

This has been my favorite bookmark for some time.

Glad the Dublin daughter is still playing, 5K miles away.

#AAG2026 diaspora: browse @upittpress.bsky.social's online book sale here: upittpress.org/aag-conferen... Putting the value in virtual! Or grab a time slot to visit with editor Mick Gusinde-Duffy: bit.ly/3MdV2AX

Welcome to the temporary England fan club, Irish friends.

Frencher than a pack of Gauloises? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Also, this one unpacks the nostalgic misinformation mythology. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Scotland. "I'll have what they're having."

A reminder that @upittpress.bsky.social will be gracing the halls of #AAG2026 in Mick-spatial form (@mickodopolous.bsky.social). Let's book a time to talk about books: bit.ly/3MdV2AX

Armchair radicals of the World Unite! It's becoming more @upittpress.bsky.social official; tell your book-writing friends. upittpress.org/staff/mick-g...

The more things change, yada, yada, yada . . . www.ugapress.org/978082035105...

I'm sure Anti-Fraud Tsar, JD, is on the next flight out there . . . tinyurl.com/y53vhj54

Not the way, José "That’s why he’s “box office”. That’s why, a decade after he was objectively good, so many want him back in the Premier League." bit.ly/3MzmKby

Thank you Lindsay!

Publishing job, ICYMI: We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our authors and acquisitions editors! It is a good entry point for a career in book publishing. Job is on-site in Norman. Questions? [email protected] Apply here: ou.taleo.net/careersectio...

"Are you experiencing 'president envy'?" Try Six Nations Rugby.

"Ogles" <snort>

The ghost of editor @mickodopolous.bsky.social will be "floating" at #AAG2026. Cultivating book projects on behalf of @upittpress.bsky.social. Buy him a drink, or grab an appointment here bit.ly/3MdV2AX to tell him your bookish thoughts.

Preparations for a *possible* grandchild visit . . .

#acpublishinggoals ?

Some job news: In my newish role as a granddad, I changed a diaper/nappy for the first time in some 24 years. The dude (doo) still has it. Like falling off a log.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

Happy Black History Month! Today, let's celebrate the important work our authors have done to further Black scholarship, fiction, poetry, etc. May we all keep writing and #readingUP #booksky #blackhistorymonth

All in for London clubs tomorrow. Brentford, Fulham, and Spurs for the wins?

Bertrand Russell on our divided politics (in 1950!). Also on the elusive art of writing for a popular audience. Take note, publishers.

Well, let's see, what day is it? It's "Today," so, yes, this must be the darkest period (thus far) . . . bit.ly/4a6QynF

Such a thoughtful book. Congratulations, George.

Also my father's birth year, as it happens. He was more a Bach, Byrd, and Bawdy ballads man ("🎼 Life presents a dismal picture; all around is filled with gloom 🎶"), but the man could swing.

Trying to resist the "Beau knows history" line, but he does, and this is a fascinating transnational story.

That weird feeling where you find yourself rooting for United and not *completely* loathing Fernandes. Get in.

I fucking love the FA Cup.

2032 . . . . Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Still, cautiously excited about this literate young coach (not manager, then, eh Ruben?) www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"He's in acquisitions. They bring back books from all over the world. They're a different breed entirely." ---Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Great line from the Guardian's coverage of Trump post-invasion press conference: "As fragments of fact, as opposed to pure rhetoric and vague statements, come through we’ll piece them together."

This is the way. Claim your forebears in spirit and thought; speak the tradition you wish to see made real; call the community you want into being.

Not really. the point but I move to add "mindfulness" and "utilize" to this list. I leave "moist" up to the conscience of the individual.

"Concepts" of comedy.

Winston Smith turning in his grave . . . Free at last. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...