Your definitive guide to the sports of the Winter Olympics

I love watching slopestyle but every time I'm thinking WHAT ON EARTH are the commentators on about: "nose butter"?? 🤣. Is there a glossary somewhere? #winterolypics #bbc

If you ever get annoyed with me for posting too often on Bluesky in an attempt to draw a few new people to my writing please remember to address all complaints to the former CEOs of my ex-publishers on an envelope marked 'GIVE YOUR AUTHORS THE FUCKING MONEY YOU TOOK FROM THEM'.

V V keen on these big silver coats tbh... #winterolympics

The jam books always go "blah blah setting point in about 10-12 minutes" mine ALWAYS takes twice as long...why? whhhyyyy?

Ugh. This is a REALLY bad look

Bought myself a present because our freezer died so now I have to make 5.5kg of plum jam tonight. Slaving over the hob wasn't in my Friday night plan! Having @warringtonruncorn.com newest album to listen to will help while I watch for things not boiling over.

Magnificent:

A waulking song ❤️ (No, not 'walking', autocorrect, WAULKING)

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just been to see H is for Hawk. What a beautiful, moving film. youtu.be/RJ29BBXfN64?...

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Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

I AM DRAGGING MY ANCHOR

We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope with a quilt longer than an Olympic swimming pool. Here's how you make your own patch. 👇

For those of us here in the UK who are watching with horror what is going on over in the US it is very important to remember that this is exactly what Reform wants for us over here. They've said so. They want 'forced deportations' in the US style. We're not safe here either if they win.

OOINYA could have sold the remaining Unbound copies of the books to me, in bulk, & no longer have had to pay for warehouse space. Instead, they have decided to sell them via Amazon, as new, interfering with my attempt to restart my career. Please do not buy these. Buy the new Swift press versions.

Just splurted my tea out 🤣🤣🤣

Can't breathe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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If you live in the UK and you were shocked to see the US ICE seize a 5 year old boy, don't forget this is what Nigel Farage and the Reform Party UK want for our country.

Are you filled with righteous anger about Donald Trump's fascism in the States? Good, but not enough. Now, make it your personal responsibility to ensure Nigel Farage never gets to introduce it here.

He's ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INSANE. (Sometimes I just need to write it down, ok? Because otherwise *I* might go insane)

I just can't anymore with this AI shit...

I'm currently buying all of 'Elementary' on DVD, even though it's currently on at least two streamers, because I'm pretty sure that one day it'll just be gone (I am worried about the day our excellent 20 year old DVD player/hard drive recorder bites the dust).

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Me too.

THREAD. How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write. My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it. Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

THIS THIS THIS!! Films used to be 90 - 120 minutes long. If you need longer than that then you should've made a TV series. Just my opinion as a film going person who likes to be out of an evening screening well before midnight. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

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Exactly this

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SO many, many reasons to just not buy stuff from Amazon...

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I'm a time travelling detective, and though I'm an actual Detective Sergeant in, I guess the, Met as I'm in London (though it's never mentioned) I'm based in an office which is actually a secret...

If you are feeling despair I suggest a couple of @naomialderman.bsky.social 's "Human Intelligence" programmes may lift you up a bit. Though only 15 minutes long, they're a pretty perfect 15 minutes. (I'm obsessed with Ida Pfeiffer now, which is this one:) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

remarkable, widespread misreporting on Grok — the undress abuse function not been removed, just according to X “geoblocked in those jurisdictions where it's illegal”—which surely means it remains for any users with a VPN app?

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Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/arti...

Garden doing its spooky mist shrouded thing.

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This is a deeply engaging & moving feature film on the iconic Newbury Bypass Protests in the 90s, by Jamie Lowe, 2018. It’s been 30yrs & though I wasn’t the bravest protester, what I did do & witnessed, changed my life completely. 1/4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfI...