if you need me i’ll be whispering the words “peach-house at scone palace” to myself

accidentally walked 12km this morning trekking round all my students’ exam rooms to make sure they were okay

that’s okay copilot, i didn’t expect to be able to actually use those two days of the calendar anyway

if you included this story in a contemporary campus novel about the state of british universities it would seem too on the nose bbc.com/news/article...

the tone of this is very much the smartarse man who comes up to you when you’re knitting on a train and helpfully informs you that “you can just buy socks from tesco, you know”

one day i’ll go into the library tower, get my books and *not *overshoot and try to exit in the basement but today was not that day

"those with power in society are deeply intolerant of any space in which exceptions are possible, in which something could happen"

now, when I read a list like this framing universities in terms of economic growth and employability, all i see is “how can we funnel money out of the pockets of students to subsidise the profits of business”

this mural in Margate station pointing out that tseliot is an anagram of toilets won a Margate civic society town pride award

So sorry to hear of the passing of Maureen Duffy, a wonderful author and a tremendous force for good in the world of authors' rights. RIP.

I have collaborated with linocut printmaker Anna Lansley who has hand pressed 100 lino prints of my Paddington Death tarot - signed by both me and Anna jimll.co.uk/products/jim...

feeling really smug that i managed to finish the yoke on this jumper just as all my MA theses got submitted for this year so i can knit the boring stocking stitch body while i read

Painting of an eye, created 1960s, by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live. Eyes appear in each one of the handful of her surviving works. Little biographical information is currently known to us

sad for us

diplom-is! gi «sitting» et nytt navn, you cowards

imagine the entirely rancid vibes at the transphobic water aerobics class

Fuck the EHRC Taken at London Trans+ Pride 2025

beginning of polidori’s vampyre but you have to read it to yourself in lady whistledown’s voice:

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

extremely nice to see all the cover pictures for these great essays in one place!

reading about iris murdoch’s beer mat collection irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2022/07/06/b...

🔴EXCLUSIVE🔴 Analysis of Reform, far right and Reform supporting X accounts by me & @fullerproject.org found a 40% increase in mentions of abortion over 4 years, with language becoming more extreme, and accounts sharing US-influenced disinformation www.opendemocracy.net/aabortion-re...

I just did BBC Front Row about this - I think the Tokarczuk stuff is ultimately more significant than a slop short story getting published. Though if she’s spent her Nobel money she should really have waited for Anthropic/OpenAI to make an offer before she gave an endorsement for free

Behave accordingly

feeling like henri cartier-bresson because i managed to catch this black and white cat running across the bottom of the steps up the hill today

if andy burnham becomes prime minister, will he be the first english lit grad to hold the office?

stupid question but has anyone worked out what the colours signify in the guardian novels list?

petshop trying to sell me a cat bunad

We're excited to share a new dataset, The Playboy Fiction Index, by Nora Shaalan. It includes metadata for +1,000 works of fiction that appeared in Playboy between 1953-2020—featuring authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, and more. data.post45.org/posts/playbo...

every character in the van helsing gang has a special power and these are the powers: jonathan: queer paprika dreams arthur: posh quincey: american john: morphine mina: has memorised every european train timetable

went to a museum the other day where they’d ai generated a picture of two people reacting to the reading from the submarine pressure gauge which you could see exhibited above

Wondered why it’d been so long since The Art of Fielding, but I guess the author got messed up running away from a fire and spent a few years housebound buying expensive coffee table books to scam refunds? Yeah, they were charred back Chad Harbach’s hardback chargebacks.

mitt lokale apotek i april: gnagsårplaster for påsketur!! mitt lokale apotek i mai: gnagsårplaster for bunadsko!! mitt lokale apotek i juni: ??

the two genders

what i hear when a critic calls someone “a poet’s poet”

jonathan harker’s diary at the beginning of dracula reads like google reviews of your local area sorted high to low (paprika spicy, trains delayed, peasants rude)

do we think they’ve given keir a spray tan?

just popping into canvas does anyone want anything?

I have no dog in the fight other than that I love lots of people in the UK, but I am REALLY hoping Zack Polanski and the Greens pull off a major win today Britain needs to kill the Labour Party Let the scientists look at Labour's bones a thousand years from now and try to determine its gender

this cannot be true

slightly diminish a book the flop era of miss jean brodie

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

what i took from this is that richard dawkins is writing a TERRIBLE novel

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

nobody: william wordsworth:

These are extraordinary findings for the High Court to make. Hard to see how the so-called Office for Students can survive in its current form.

Oh my god the Arif Ahmed/Kathleen Stock email correspondence. It sure looks like he was pursuing a vendetta against Sussex for a personal friend bsky.app/profile/nate...

It's great to know that the thing we all said at the time was the case (they were using this as a test case to bully universities into removing any stated internal policies defending trans students and faculty from bigoted comments by anti-trans academics in the classroom) was in fact the case