In celebration of both World Dracula Day and Peter Cushing's birthday. 🧛

Too hot to go to the shops? I can post some cards to you! 😁#shopindie www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...

Any other Brits wake up - lucky you if you got much sleep last night, wishing they could’ve spent the entire night in the fridge? 🥵 🪭

Took another stab at this milky way above a mountain in the desert with a 50mm 50 year old lens. Hopefully sometime this year i'll be able to get a full milky way arch with it, which is a solid half hour of shooting.

Back from a wonderful 10 days with my fiancé. Safe to say we both needed this well earned break following a tough few months where my health has royally messed us around, including some cancer related issues. Had a great time. We created some great memories and I laughed more than I’ve done in ages.

An early example of an “no entry” roadside sign.

“… Older women don’t need permission to exist on screen. They already exist in the world, cinema just needs to catch up.” ~ Emma Thompson.

“Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds.” | via @theguardian.com *deep sigh* #FilmSky #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

“Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds.” | via @theguardian.com *deep sigh* #FilmSky #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

Thriller. Drama. Sci-Fi. Horror. Western. Action.

Hitter, hacker, grifter, thief, mastermind, nemesis who never loses.

Brexit may have defeated my ability to send a greeting card to Europe, but I am still here making bold prints, cards, homewares and t-shirts. UK orders very welcome. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Straight out of the Trump playbook. He’s dismissive and nasty towards journalists doing their job. Polls regularly state the majority of Brits can’t stand Trump. So why the hell do they want to elect Trump 2.0 to the UK?

NUJ responds to Farage doxxing a photo journalist who was doing their job. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

He's right, you know. "Speaking at the Royal Institution in his final laureate lecture, The Kids Are Not Alright, the children’s laureate linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Thank heavens for small mercies. Please dear God, may Burnham win it.

BlueSky - I need your help! For those of you who don't know, I am a social media manager and run other people's accounts for them It's much harder to get traction than it used to be, so I'm thinking about various ways I could help people - maybe a free newsletter, or a training course 1/3

Hmm, the odds aren’t with Streeting as he announces his resignation from govt. Burnham on the other hand…

Having studied Victorian literature and the social and historical norms of that period I couldn’t agree more with this. The Industrial Revolution was only terrific if you were male, a powerful boss or wealthy. For the poor, women and children it was hideous. An era of huge social hypocrisy.

one of the biggest failures of the way we teach hisyory is that everyone knows about wars but no high school level history class teaches about the horrors of the industrial revolution. we joke about victorian orphans but outside of charles dickens we never discuss victorian society.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

Turned down for some Arts Council funding today, and we're at a loss as to where to turn now, so if there's any multi-millionaire who has got bored of trying to manipulate the political landscape and would quite like to see a musical about grief with a singing tiger in it pls get in touch

When music wasn’t in the cloud.

Find it endlessly fascinating (and occasionally jarring) how *some* men feel threatened by women being financially independent of them.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I’ve put a thing on Instagram about the joys of trying to sell to the EU after #Brexit. www.instagram.com/p/DYRoCPBjE3...

It would be even funnier if he has to hand all that 5 mil back. It either been spent on his wine cellar in South Of France Chateau. Or it sitting in Crypto account and now suddenly worth £50 quid.

Wouldn’t it be a glorious plot twist if #Farage was found guilty of breaching HoC Code of Conduct? Let us pray! 🙏🏻 Standards watchdog launches probe into £5m Farage gift www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're online now we strongly recommend watching the nest box live cam.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBM_...

Entirely predictable side effects of the dearth of paid work and freelancers being forced to leave the arts are skills shortages, higher costs and lost business. It’s in everyone’s interest to find a sustainable way forward or TV, film and theatre in the UK will fade away

If you’re going to “put country before party” it’s pretty self-evident that more people like Andy Burnham above any other potential PM. Having said all that, it’s incredibly sad that less than two years after the GE we’ve got to this point. Starmer’s clearly made mistakes but seems a descent man.

“Inevitable” The automobile was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The personal computer was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The internet was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The smartphone was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it AI isn’t inevitable b/c THE PEOPLE DON’T FUCKING WANT IT!

AI is inevitable, little lady. You’re going to want to use it because everyone around will have to use it. That’s just writing and creativity works now. Take it from us. We’re tech bros and we know what’s best for you. Screw AI.

Hell yeah, Hacks! Fuck AI

Love the fact @news.sky.com has just flashed their “Breaking News” banner across the screen only for us to go live pictures of @number10cat.bsky.social waiting to be let into Number 10. On what may be a politically consequential day it’s always a joy to see Larry. They eventually let him in.

It's a bit blustery up here in Yorkshire!

Have repeatedly said on here (and elsewhere): if you’re not following @debbiemoon.bsky.social please address that. She’s one of the nicest people in the industry, incredibly supportive of people within it as well as supporting writers trying to break in. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity

Arrived home from spending a wonderful afternoon with marvellously talented screenwriter and all round fabulous soul @debbiemoon.bsky.social. Lovely to catch up with her - had a great chat about our writing, and despite the blustery conditions managed not to have her blown out to sea.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Sunday night peekaboo with farm cat Willow

Sheridan Smith will likely and quite rightly be BAFTA nominated again next year for her performance in #TheCage She’s dynamite.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

There are over 19,000 councils in the UK. Reform now holds 440 of them. In any other country Reform would not be worth 5 minutes of media attention. So why does the UK media promote Reform relentlessly? Ask yourself who owns the media & what do they have to gain.

I've been casting tiny woodland finds in recycled silver recently,incl new oak leaves & the tiniest acorn,larch cone & sycamore keys-thrilled with my treasure. PS If you'd like to learn how I made these my online silver course (as seen on BBC Countryfile) begins on 24 May-link & info in next post👇🌿

Lovely to hear proper shoutouts for the crews behind the scenes on the #BAFTATV winning shows.

*evil laugh*

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

One day I’ll tell you the story about the couple who wanted to exchange homes with me. Who gave me a 3 hour interrogation, which included whether my home had “highly dangerous” solar panels, a heat pump, a “radioactive” smart meter and quizzed me about the nearest phone transmitter. It’s a doozy!