The anniversary edition of #TheOssians by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social is OUT NOW!😍 Connor is brilliant, broken and out of control — and his band’s final shot at glory is about to go very wrong… ORDER NOW! 🔗https://geni.us/49IJe @portybooks.bsky.social @ipgbook.bsky.social

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Movies and television shows that show women wearing cocktail dresses to work when everyone else is in appropriate work wear FRY MY BUTT.

It's #buyastrangerabook day. If you'd like a book, but aren't sure what, let @melissaschuh.bsky.social know the kinda stuff you like reading. Melissa will offer you a choice of 4 books. Choose your favourite, Melissa will pay for it & I'll send it to you! Get in touch! UK only.

Nothing like three hours of mind numbing admin to make you lose the will to live.

PLEASE SHARE ✨ Agnes Owens at 100 ‘Out of the Margins’ celebrates her life & work with exhibitions, events & talks across Milngavie & Alexandria this spring. Join us to rediscover a vital Scottish voice. More details soon! Curated by @sorchadallas.bsky.social @agrayarchive.bsky.social

Dm me if you don’t want to go public. Otherwise i have a chore to accomplish this weekend. Yuch.

Promise it’s paid for but idiot salesperson didn’t remove. Am now home. Who, among you, can tell me how to get the bastard off without schlepping back into town? Thanks

In the 70s my (deranged) parents took my brother and I to see this in a double bill with Play Misty for Me.

If we're still here tomorrow, I have some great news. Wednesday is #buyastrangerabook day! People buy each other books cos they want to and they're ace. It'll kick off at a little after midday (GMT). Books not Bombs www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

I am perishing from hunger. It’s been aaaaages. (2 hours 39 minutes)

Astonishing juxtaposition right now between the sublime glories one is rewarded with from collaborative, outward-looking human endeavour, to the tunnel of fear and loathing that an individual human can trap themselves in, which leads to nowhere but a singularity of horror & destruction.

This is Jack. He was given a pair of overalls today. Doesn’t mind wearing them, but wants to be clear he will not be performing any manual labor. 12/10 (IG: jeffthebasset)

No autographs, please.

Did your band come in through the clouds on a jazz dirigible at your last gala ball? I thought not. From Half Marriage (1929), which is either a cautionary tale about getting all the way married or all the way not married. I'm still a bit confused.

Your regular reminder that the resident doctors in Scotland are not on strike. This doesn’t always get covered in the news bulletins on your telly.

SLEUTH-HOUND isn't even out yet (Oct 20!), but here go. 😅 Thrilled to announce ETHER WARS—the story of anesthesia's discovery in the 1840s & the fierce battle over credit. When a discovery changes the world, who, if anyone, can claim it as their own? Thanks to my agent @dconaway99.bsky.social!

Even growing up (age 5 to 18 or so) resentful of the Long Island suburbs, I had the ability to taste the history and beauty all around me. Glad the universe gave me this gift because truly I am a moany-faced bugger.

Took a wee wander around my neighbourhood and wound up contemplating (indeed self-congratulating) my ability to fall in love with places where I am lucky enough to live. Felt that way about Hoboken when I pitched up there. Now Edinburgh and my beautiful southside ‘hood.

Been trying to get outside for half an hour now. Only myself to blame. And work.

One week left to enter! ⏰️ We’re thrilled to be teaming up with Headline Eternal for Modern Stories: It Must Be Love – a new romance competition! Open to writers from a Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic background, unagented, unpublished UK writers (18+). Submissions close 14 Apr.

Coo 😍 "Shadows at the Edge of Lunar Day" 🧪🔭 Latest #Artemis images currently dropping here in high res: images.nasa.gov

Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves as a means of alerting his subjects that ice cream was nearby

Local music types, the Lothian Road Salvation Army shop has had a big donation from a conductor. Lots of vinyl, lots of old issues of Gramaphone, bound sheet music books, books about music, etc. for collagers, numerous bits and bobs including packets of stamps, postcards, and more.

YOU'RE A MOUSE

UK Bookshop tour imminent - starting in Birmingham Robinince.com

Amateur astronomers with telescopes equipped with video cameras are requested to look for impact flashes on the Moon tonight, to coordinate with #ArtemisII observations. Details here: www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash

Very much looking forward to speaking at Collected Books in Durham at the end of the month, about both my books Wildly Different and Rebel Women, out in paperback on April 21. How do you defy limits and convention when the world thinks you're not up to it? Collected share.google/oqomVtA1JPC9...

Looks great!

Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.

Ten days until the launch of 'Braver New World', my journey to 10 countries in search of best practice, to countries that are showing the kind of political courage and resilience that we need in these difficult times. I hope you enjoy it and that it helps point democracies down a better path

Wow!

In which I tell Arthur why Britain is in trouble but not "broken”, why British pluralism is admirable yet fragile, how this country is both impressively global and weirdly insular, and why it is (even) better to be allowed to work for the BBC than to be invited to a royal visit.

Uncoolest answer ever, but as an American 70s teen addicted to FM radio, it was Conquistador by Procol Harum. Took me ages to get an ID on it.

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girl take us with you

She knows what she likes

Have read the book and it’s a great story!

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, LADIES OF LEISURE (1930). #OTD 1930, Barbara Stanwyck broke out in a star-making role under Frank Capra. 🎬 🎭 Her raw, naturalistic performance helped redefine screen acting in the talkies. Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/ladi... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

I will be touring the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal and my new poetry book Let the Quiet Ones Rise from mid April #birmingham #margate #newcastle #edinburgh #tring #london #newquay #nottingham and many more www.robinince.com for details

Tired of the old "elf on a shelf" nonsense? Canada GOTCHU.

Guys, it’s a nipple. No one will die if they see it.

Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L

My collage mojo has been awol for some time. Much going in the bin.

FANE is pimping a 2021 Andy Weir interview over on Instagram. They’re not mentioning that I was the interviewer. There, for the curious.

Courtesy MrDavid.com

Go figure

And relax