Yeah, maybe do this.

A Year in Willerby. 12 tales from a haunted village, bound with original lino cut prints and sent straight from the village with a handwritten letter. Latest orders being sent out tomorrow morning. Order before then to have a limited edition copy sent out. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

aaaand drawn. The cover art (at pencil stage) for Woodwosing, a companion volume to The Latchless Door by @taliskimberley.bsky.social .

PSA for the UK - channel 4's catchup platform currently has The Admirable Crichton, and The Lavender Hill Mob!

My next task is to edit a long piece I wrote some years ago, ready for the little book project 'Woodwosing' This means blending the original version & the rewrite with new thoughts to nake the best possible version It's 24 verses long... I may be a little while! #writing #poetry #songwriter #folk

Me, writing book: It's a story about people who get their poorly thought through planned wish, only to realise a few years later that everything's going to hell and they were lured there by a privileged swine profiting at their expense. Me, reading news on Brexit Day: ...

categoryes of magic system: • soft • harde • scramblede • over easye • Benedict

A red weather warning has been issued for some parts of the country. We need the rules to keep us all safe at work. Please sign the petition for a maximum working temperature. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

I'm busy editing & auditing pieces for a second booklet, following The Latchless Door. Every piece bar the last 3 is now either better by some degree or edited right out. Really enjoying looking with fresh eyes at things I wrote a bit ago, & seeing where to improve them #writing #poetry

Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure

The Keir Starmer legacy is simple. Lied to win Labour leadership. Won the easiest General Election in history. Promised change & delivered none. Targeted pensioners/disabled/Trans ppl. Involved the UK in the Iran war & pretended not to. Clear, unequivocal & continuing support for a Genocidal state.

Two nested threads of good advice for surviving the heat. Do the ones you can, prep to facilitate more. (This is climate change. This is why Net Zero. This is why I joined the Green Party over ten years ago) Heat will kill you sure as cold. Take care, everyone. See you on the other side.

I'm so glad to have met you and R! Thank you so much for making the journey, you were both *delightful* audience🌞 (Loom weights & spindle whorls🥰) It was just what I needed, & I'm so glad you & all the folks there enjoyed my songs - I loved sharing them!

and a perfect occasion for Corn Jenny.

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Singing in the Wire. A Willerby Story. A call centre connecting the living to their beloved lost Five minutes. Who would you call? What would you say? willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...

Congratulations to Andy Burnham. But this isn’t a team of advisers which looks like challenging wealth and power. The race for Greater Manchester mayor starts today and it’s Greens v Reform.

"The Land remains, the Land endures; the Land remembers all And likewise all the bonny sheep still heed the shepherd's call" (from my song 'Close the Gate') My songs are, too, of Hookland.

okay so the postie collected orders today, the tshirt printers are back printing tshirts so we are back on the hustle, please to buy my fabulous queer things 😘 shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #artsky #tarot #witchsky #crow #queer

This is your occasional reminder that if you've been waiting for permission to make the comic you've always wanted to make, you have it. In writing, even --

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

I am SO DAMN PROUD that my songs inspire Thomas's art! SO proud! He brings them to life in a whole new way and finds layers of magic I didn't put there! #songwriter #folksong #folklore

Ooh, this should be very good!

Woah. Eight tasks to get done, ideally in the next hour or two. None really horrid, just... always more things. My list is an hydra. Cheerleading always welcome, and I will count them down here as I go. Let's do this!

I'm a kind of social chimera, an economic harlequin. All my tags are in flux now anyway. I went to a (rather bad) private school & learned Latin, but I was a looked-after child (orphaned, 'family' 'care'). I've been a single mum on benefits, but I've Chaired a Parish Council. #PeopleAreComplicated

Tasks are getting finished, longstanding projects ending, some blue sky is starting to appear between the clouds of life's needfuls (MOT, tenancy, green bin, vet, packing) I put on a new-to-me frock & got taken out to dinner; there was much woodwosery, laughter, & also affogato! #TheTimeForJoy

Corn Jenny, sweet Corn Jenny!

SUCH a good rehearsal session today! I was very rusty with so long between gigs (life-stuff is very tangled just now) but really, there's nothing like just doing the work, for getting better at it. I mean to give my very best at my Midsummer gig next Sunday. #folksinger #songwriter #Litha #Solstice

"This verdict will have a gigantic chilling effect on our wider rights to protest." Siân Berry MP on the Court of Appeal upholding the proscription of Palestine Action

Urban Explorers. A Willerby Story. Two lost boys in abandoned lost worlds. willerby.substack.com/p/urban-expl...

This is utterly lovely AND has amazing alt-text, for which, thank you!

One of our most popular stories and a great way to meet Jack..

A lesson I've learned about "saving the world" or "making the world a better place" is to figure out what I can do, with the skills I have, and do that, instead of thinking I need to do what other people are doing because I think it is somehow more legitimate or important, and then doing nothing.

We cut down the trees and then wonder why the Earth is getting hotter. The shade we destroyed yesterday is the heat we are suffering from now. A tree is not just wood—it is oxygen, rain, cool air, shelter, and life. Plant trees. Protect forests.

We need to spend more on defence. But we can’t survive much more austerity. There are not many levers to pull. But signalling you’ll put EU membership in your next manifesto and begin talks now, would (almost certainly) rally sterling, reduce borrowing costs, boost invsmt & help the headroom.

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

Everything's a mess, life's all in flux, today has been tearful. But. Jane Yolen lived, wrote, & made beauty, & that is not nothing. My Polish friend sings my songs. My work has inspired pictures. My lyrics have prompted tears. And Jane's writing shines still. #ThereIsStillBeauty #ArtMakesUsUs

Oh gods this story! Yes!

Elon Musk, the most hated person in the World in the UK, has called Zack Polanski a scumbag and a traitor. What an amazing endorsement.

@carolinerussell.bsky.social was a huge support to me back when I was a Green GE candidate prepping for my first hustings, & I've followed her career with pride & awe ever since. This is what we need from our politicians - heart, integrity, clarity & courage. Thank you, Carokine, & thank you, Zack.

Important letter to the Health Secretary from my brilliant colleague at the London Assembly. 👇🏼

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

Hurrah! Yarnbombing day! #knitsky

What a gift to be given some things that belonged to my dear friend & mentor Ann, 5 years after she died. A book of knitting patterns & a cloth bag embroidered with an initial were clearly given her by my MIL 15+ years ago - she lived here for 6 months during her last illness. Things go around.

We're at the point where the Telegraph are literally making up quotes. I said when veg is sold for pennies in supermarkets, it's a sign someone's not being paid properly. Farmers being paid a pittance for their produce. Workers on less than a living wage in supermarkets.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a peanut-stuffed badger - I'm starting with 'Jodrell Bank around Pex Hill, Cheshire', D. Alun Evans, acrylic on canvas, 2011.

Timeline cleanse 🐊 Such a happy murder-babby 🥹

And for UK people who enjoy music, this one closes sooner. Require all AI 'musicians' and songs to have a visible AI notice. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Remember, while 'likes' are nice, reposts get these in front of more people. (Bluesky is not Twitter.)