There is something both very funny and sweet about complaining your whole career about being typecast as Dracula but also naming your cat Renfield.

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

Donald Trump ran for office for three reasons: 1) stay out of jail 2) exact revenge on his enemies 3) line his pockets Everything else he says is bullshit.

Here is the article. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Did another incidental manifestation yesterday evening: "I will not leave this beach until I find something cool and/or unusual". Ten minutes later: a round swirled seaglassed glass button. That'll do, pig. That'll do. (The fact I went to two more beaches after that is neither here nor there)

YA THINK??

Last day of wee trip and, as per the law, I have run myself so ragged I am a floppy noodle. Averaged at least 10km per day for all 3 days with lots of inclines, hills and scrambling. Totally worth it :D

Emma Thompson, 67, said: “Women are 1/2 the population and we get older. Where are the stories about us? The older we get, the more interesting we are. We are compelling, relatable, and overdue for centre stage. Older women don’t need permission to exist on screen, cinema just needs to catch up.”

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

we live in hell

Thinking about folk with such limited media literacy that they read "we've got other pronouns here", encounter Cheery, meet the High King of the dwarves, read a whole book about tipping over the gender binary and go "that writer would side with the t3rfs" 😒 #gnuterrypratchett #howtheyriseup

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

First chapter of new fic I'm working on hit 10k. It's going to have six chapters. Oh noooooo 😅

Helen Lewis is one of the terfs who is trying to relitigate Pratchett's values to justify their own transphobia despite his own daughter calling them out.

I can't remember if I ever posted these over here, so since the series is now entirely done, here's the alphabet muppet countdown I made for S2. A-D #GoodOmens

How do they rise up, rise up high? #theglorious25thofmay #gnuterrypratchett #discworld

Because self-driving cars went *so* well and didn't at all end up getting stuck in a cul-de-sac or trapped by unexpectedly deep water 😬

This is hugely important whether you're trans or not. If they don't know you're trans, they can't easily discriminate against you. And having cis people do it too makes it much harder to assume that anyone who prefers not to say is doing that because they are trans.

There's a corollary to this that even though almost all Americans are living in the lowest murder and violent crime rate of their entire lives, by a wide margin, they live in a constant state of fear, agitated by the people and factions who profit off it. Americans are kept in a terrified state.

Adjudicated rapist says what?

I think I miss dedicated fan sites the most. Not just for information, but for the specific personalization of each one. You'd get details available nowhere else online, but filtered through someone's entirely unique tastes. Helpful, bizarre and everything in between.

yuri on ice potentially back??? hello??? in 2026?????

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

‘American officials themselves have told Iran in multiple messages that "Trump's tweets are primarily for domestic American propaganda and media consumption" and "should be disregarded."’ From:👇

No you don’t understand, this $25 billion for the country we inexplicably attacked means we won super hard

We let the Confederates off the hook after the Civil War and that didn't go well either.

Re. my repost, do you think the Google CEO was told by AI that he was smart and super evolved and that's why he's the best of the best and so much smarter than the average human and oh he knows the right thing to do and digital mommy says she loves him?

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Got a bit of sunshine today 😊 Also some rocks

Me: I shall have a relaxing and restful holiday Also me: up the hill, down the hill, over the hill, fossick fossick fossick, find shiny stones, run away from incoming tide, run back out, run away from incoming tide (repeat for 20 minutes), back up hill, around, many beach squats, run run run

Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including the one behind the current crisis

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Once again, if you support isr@el in any way at all, unfollow me and get fucked

No, this isn’t about the grave finder on the Arlington National Cemetery website, which still works. it’s about other materials that *used* to be on the website that described and highlighted women and non-white veterans - and have now been deleted, while materials about white male veterans remain.

"What’s more, three of those Democrats — Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez and Vindman — are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights"

let this be a message to Americans who join the military. the GOP will campaign on your death and use their power to delete your existence from the history books once it becomes inconvenient.

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

you know your deal is shit when even the trade mags are (sometimes) being honest with themselves about the impact of pointless debt-addled consolidation

Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.

one of these things is not like the other this argument is entirely tendential. can you tell which thing is not like the other? it's the one that's not a myth you absolute pencil.

"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

"This is what it looks like when workers hold the line – it sends a message to every media company in the country that AI cannot be used to circumvent union contracts or undermine journalistic integrity." Academics please take note!

It’s amazing to watch the professional journalism class dance around this:

gdi weather. gonna go and run about daft until the big wet descends

Have hit 6 beaches so far today. Epic island times :D

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

This is a good and smart thread.