If you wanted to give a bit of Hookland for Yule or Christmas, I offer The Latchless Door. Is a wee book, signed and numbered, and we always include a surprise of some sort.https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-latchless-door-rhymes-and-songs-of-hookland-signed-numbered-edition

Here's something fun for your Friday: @tomsbrown.bsky.social's first interior illustration for RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social. This dark-fantasy reads like a mashup of WORLD WAR Z, GOT, & THE DARK CRYSTAL. Fully illustrated. Coming 2026: badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

The fuss about the £9 million donation to Reform is a reminder that you need to fix systems BEFORE legitimate abuse* becomes too great to stomach. Afterwards, all the hand-wringing in the world gets you nowhere. (*Legitimate abuse: your gut says it MUST be wrong, but it's not.) See also: eg. PR.

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

For when you wish you had a lamp that only moved sideways, here is the crab lamp you've been waiting for 🦀💡 Ancient Animal Advent Day 4! Info card below.

1/2 Section 28 all over again. Girl Guiding UK and the WI have banned trans girls and women from joining their organisations. As a cis person, I cannot begin to understand how this feels for trans people in the UK. But I can listen. And I can use my skills to try to help.

Harborne, who lives in Thailand, makes largest ever political donation Reform is a party of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy We need to spread the word and change electoral law so that such vast donations by people who don't even live here are no longer possible bit.ly/4pHwaj0

Time for adults horrified by current events to step up & say ‘if there isn’t a local group, who will start one with me?’ And/or fundraise and/or volunteer special skills etc. I hope the Woodcraft grows and is able to give opportunities, fellowship & confidence to many more children #BeTheChange

Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔

Heartbroken for trans girls & transwomen, gutted by the Guides & WI. Kind of want to throw open my kitchen for trans-priority yarn-crafting parties/baking sessions/whatever else is fun. Food/crochet/sewing/making stuff is my wheelhouse. It’s what I’ve got. Feel a bit helpless else😔 #transrights

For World AIDS Day, Green Party leader Zack Polanski spells out his party’s HIV agenda: stopping transmissions by 2030 fighting stigma making testing + PrEP accessible for all Progress needs action ❤️‍🩹📣

FWIW, the Woodcraft Folk is open to kids of every gender and does very similar activities. Not that it makes the Guides having to do this any better but there are places where trans kids can learn to tie knots/camp/make fires etc if that's what they want. woodcraft.org.uk

the guides could do what the woodcraft folk do, and be inclusive to children of all genders and none

Thank you for this. Woodcraft Folk deserve all support and resourcing now more than ever.

Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE

ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence

By the way, this happened. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

They fear your divine spark That’s why they push Al, to atrophy what makes you human

Quick sketch in biro from this morning. The way the ash trees have hung on to bundles of keys is quite striking this year.

Late Sunday afternoon and it’s crafting time for me. 1. Working in the ends on a project for a secret Santa. Done! 2. Sewing up and working in ends on a project for a little present for someone. In progress!

So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin. Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten? It is Profumo on stilts

You counter evil with real life.

What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.

I again suggest that the world shut down between Thanksgiving and the Epiphany. You cover many holidays that way and we all get a rest. Essential workers make double pay and we have lots of feasts. Neighborhoods celebrate together and we bring back wassailing and 12 days of Xmas. Elect me president.

Come and grab a final fix of folk horror this festive season, with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDWINTER 2 running online over the weekend of 6th and 7th December! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #winter #midwinter #writing #writers #fiction #authors

Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap. Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long. This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters. Join.greenparty.org.uk

As the elected Leader of my chosen party says, and as our member-voted policies say: Trans rights are human rights. #HopeIsHere #TeamGreen #BackZack

Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March. Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

The _other_ #BenefitCap is still keeping children in poverty #Budget #ChildPoverty policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...

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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices. Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy. That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.

I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today. goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

Well, that was so good for my heart! I zoomed with my much-missed dear friend who lives an ocean away, & sang selected carols for her pre-Advent house-gathering, as she unpacked their history & meaning. I’ve missed streaming. Now I’m considering a seasonal interfaith (all/none!) zoom-concert… >>

The government are awful stooges for genocide.

What would the Green Party do at the Budget? 💡 Cut energy bills by ending profiteering 🚰 Cut water bills by bringing water into public hands 🏠 Give councils the power to control rents 🚸 Lift the two-child benefit cap and extend free school meals to all Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Planning and Infrastructure Bill - sadly about to clear its final hurdle. With disastrous implications for our already nature-depleted land #Biodiversity #Planning

"We want to improve society!" "Ok, but how are you gonna pay for it?" "By taking some money from all those giant piles of money over there?" "....now listen here, you little shit." - Every Political Debate for the Past 50 Years.

This seems like a reasonable request, right? Timely and relevant. Let's make it happen. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.

“You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger and a bigger and a bigger share in economies with almost no growth and not expect ordinary families to get poorer” Gary makes it simple. Without a reset on the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us things will only get worse

A Wolfenoot Blessing May you and your pack be safe. May you protect one another. May your sleep be sound. May your teeth be sharp. May your treats be sweet. #wolfenoot

Went to a thing! The lights switch-on up in town. Convivial, busy, cheesy, joyful. 1. I wore my Christmas pudding hoody. I was the Hooded Pudding. With jingly antlers. Which I jingled at anyone also wearing headgear. Because it makes people laugh. >>

If you're celebrating #DoctorWhoDay today, I'll remind you that this year, I novelised an episode of the most recent series for BBC Books. www.penguin.co.uk/books/469656...

Trans Day of Remembrance: Zack Polanski and Kate Nash deliver powerful speeches at London vigil https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-zack-polanski-vigils/?utm_content=1763889600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

Brilliant communication. It’s got the Story and it’s got the Numbers. And it’s shocking to hear, as it should be. WHY do we let people hoard wealth while others scrape?

A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨

Trans Day of Remembrance: Zack Polanski and Kate Nash deliver powerful speeches at London vigil Written by Amelia Hansford www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/21/t...