Apparently arts degrees are so worthless they need to be stopped, yet the product of those degrees is so valuable paying for it would bring down an entire industry. Make it make sense.

Is Antifa in the room with us now, Stephen?

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

So I've just been crying buckets over the ending of a video game. How's your evening going?!

Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...

I'm sorry, but 'Inciting the radical left?' Starmer!?

oh no it's another interviewer asking a professional woman how hard it was to choose between her job and her family and how hard it must have been and FFS ASK THE BLOKES THAT TOO IF YOU GO THERE #TheRugby

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

I've been to a wedding this past weekend, and bar one couple, every single English person who was married to a foreign national does not live in Britain because the Home Office made it impossible for them WHAT IS THE YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS? "OPEN BORDERS"? "MASS IMMIGRATION"?

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Perfect. No notes.

Fucking hell. The vultures came to dinner to be served the remainder of our national assets. Not to mention respect.

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle. Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

Today I discovered that if you are painting the ceiling to cover over water stains from the roof leak a couple of years ago, it doesn't matter how many coats you put on, you won't cover the marks until you've given it a coat of oil-based paint first...

Great to see the @tuc.org.uk pass this motion - unanimously! - restating trade unions' solid opposition to transphobia and setting out the actions they'll take. congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-07-su... leftfootforward.org/2025/09/tuc-...

This was another game that Penny and I played together. It's very good.

This says it all about Streeting's and Starmer's double-standards. They are just transphobes and hypocrites.

You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.

They released this video on purpose? Unless it's supposed to be satire, or something.

🎵When a loon you despise, Joins Reform. No surprise. That's a Dorries🎵

Wasn't Jenrick the one who had cheery wall paintings in immigrant childrens' accommodation painted over? Or am I thinking of a different piece of shit?

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Thread: Many years ago, I realized that some of my successful writer friends who didn't seem to struggle with the non-writing side of a writing career the way I do had a special advantage: an assistant.

jk rowling accuses trans people of holding "luxury beliefs" and yes as a trans woman I am of course guilty of holding the luxury belief that I should have a livable life.

Here's my Peter S. Beagle story. I met him once, at a con, as I was just beginning my MA degree. I was in a bad marriage--not overtly abusive, but nothing I did for my husband was ever good enough and anything I did for myself was selfish. And I was still to young to see that for what it was.

One of our own in the writers community, Chelsea Qinn Yarbo, has passed. Her estate needs help to settle her end of life care. Please help spread the word and donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/6n9tz-supp...

A representative of the British state broadcaster and its nominally left-wing Prime Minister both fulsomely supporting the idea that refugees are a risk to "our daughters". The fascists own the discourse, and if our institutions aren't entirely fash yet they soon will be.

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

it's only "legitimate concerns" if it's fascist, if it's antifascist then it's just sparkling worries, silly paranoid nonsense, why on earth would you be bothered by a little militant uber-patriotism

EDMONTON: this is Fiasco, @premeemohamed.com's beautiful boy. after slipping outside a few days ago, he needs help finding his way home. can you share this with your local circles?

Yup.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

If you've not played this, take this opportunity. Machinarium is a delight.

In the past, I've wondered how we would explain jigsaw puzzles to a visiting alien. 'So you take a picture, cut it into pieces, and then put it back together again. Why?' 'It's fun!'

The volume at which I just screeched 'What the actual fuck'

Timeline cleanse: The Boogie Woogie Twins - Dr. John & Jools Holland's legendary duet from NBC's Night Music show, 1988. (It's now on Jools Holland's album Pianola: Piano & Friends)

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

Ahhhh! Ahhhh! We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow...

Wait, now there's a growing anti-sunscreen movement? I know it's been said many times, but I wouldn't have guessed that the end of the world would be so stupid...

Today is also our 35th Wedding Anniversary! The time has just gone by so fast, but it's been very good, on the whole 😀

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

I'm back! (*Pause for audience applause. Not a sausage* in best Bluebottle voice.) We had a lovely holiday, spent time with friends, now seriously considering moving to Perth...

Dear politicians (on both sides of the pond): you cannot fight a philosophy centred on the idea that some people are less human than others by treating some people as less human than others. Fighting a party which supports that philosophy is pointless if in the process you become identical.

Oh yes, one more thing: I have extended my sabbatical until the end of the year, and when I do return to work, it will be for 4 days a week. Hoorah!

In other news, we are starting on a road trip today, driving up to Perth to visit friends and staying overnight at several friends/family/hotels on the way there and back. I've decided that as well as a physical holiday, I'm going to have a social media holiday. Have fun while I'm away!