Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

The deadline for responding to this consultation (about whether we should shovel even greater heaps of bureaucratic misery onto immigrants in the hope of pacifying racists) is midnight on Thursday 12th:

While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies … There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 732: When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.

This post right here. ⬇️

Lest we forget. Robert Jenrick, the Tory defector and new chum of Nigel the jew-baiter, had a mural of Mickey Mouse at a refugee centre painted over. It had been put there to help calm the children as they arrived at the place.

I popped into the Oval Office while visiting my US family. Sorted everything out. Happy 2026 from your benevolent leader. x

One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

The ‘People’s Reform Party’ pissed £16k up the wall on helicopter joyrides and £5k on a chauffeur for Anne Widdecombe in 2024. 2025’ll be worse. Donate if you like being mugged off by posh hate tourists from Dubai cosplaying as “working people."

Cracking list 👇

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Signing this @ukparliament.parliament.uk without a doubt! My husband (with #Type1Diabetes) and I ( #asthma) paid £95 each for the #Covidvaccine - because we want to protect ourselves and others from this dreadful illness & its sequelae #LongCovid It makes good sense to be #Covid vaccinated!

Eradicating malaria by 2040 would cost between $90 billion and $120 www.cfr.org/backgrounder...

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Fun fact: most of our memories are reconstructed on retrieval which makes episodic memory extra fallible as retrieving them the wrong way, through manipulation, context, or fallibility, can modify the memory going forward Which is to say that we’re going to see more of this.

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

With it being #BookWeekScotland this week I want to use #KidsBookFriday to celebrate some great books by Scottish authors I’ve read recently. Can anyone else recommend some Scottish favourites? Or share some great books by authors from where you’re from. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Wearing a well-fitting mask on, say, public transit or in a book store is so much less of a burden than anyone like Alice—or many with less-visible disabilities—has to shoulder every day. Think about the lives of others, & their families, then think, what’s more important—them, or your convenience?

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

Meta has banned us from their monetization program for a comic where our Grim Reaper reassures a kid they won't die until they're very old, and the kid – processing this information with the flawless logic of someone whose prefrontal cortex is yet to develop – shouts "I'm gonna try heroin!"

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

If you have any capacity to help out with this whatsoever, please, please do. What’s happening in Sudan is one of the worst atrocities of modern times.

Yes. If people remember one thing from my book I hope it's the name of Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes. She has been written out of the history of science. She had one of the first successful liver transplants in Australia but sadly died in Sydney at 49. (She was an astronomer)

Crite, who spent most of his life & career in Boston, was a devout Episcopalian whose art consistently celebrated his religious faith. I absolutely adore his so-called "transit madonnas," which find holiness in the everyday ("Our Lady of the Elevated Station"; "Madonna of Dudley Station")

I genuinely think we live in a golden age of kids non-fiction, so I’m very excited for us to celebrate #NonFictionNovember with this week’s #KidsBooksFriday. What brilliant non-fiction would you recommend? This is another week where I can’t possibly stop at four. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

It has an air of Stilton about it.

Whipped up a creepy bag for the local kids to collect their sweets, if they dare...

Parker board games actually used to do this and everybody thought it was normal www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Quick, the ghosts are coming - everyone act supernatural!

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats #Halloween Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

Also health care professionals can't get the vaccine either. I saw a respiratory doctor last week at my long Covid appointment who was very concerned about lack of COVID vaccine availability. She didn't know why the government has massively cut back on this. Goes against evidence based medicine.

Please sign this. I've had the COVID vaccine every year since it's been available. But this year I can't get it, which is nuts as I have long Covid plus severe asthma. Covid breaks me every time I get it. Severe worsening of symptoms etc. I dread to think what it would be like without the vaccine.

OK, NOW you can officially do your "The Andrew formerly known as Prince" jokes

The royal formally known as Prince.

America can be pernicious. Most kids don't want turnip and mangelwurzel lanterns anymore. No, they want pumpkins and exotic squashes. You try and tell them to stick to mangels, but they just think grandad is a fool. At least they are still guising. – Ed Nazey, 1982 #VOH #FolkloreThursday

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

oh my god I've just remembered last night I dreamt that the Tories said they would ban garlic as it was "unbritish" hahahahahaha

Playing around with inky shapes as part of #blobtober. #Inktober #cats #KidsIllustration

Quick update on Covid in England - hospital data showing that the latest significant Covid wave is - thankfully - on its way down. This chart by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social and his substack bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situ...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Ahhh bums! i think my favourite shawl has fallen off in Luss. If you happen to be in #Luss and you find it, please let me know. I can tell you the pattern, the yarn, and even where the sheep who gave the wool came from!

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/