Unsure as to where to house your characters? The Medieval Murder Map project has plotted murders in London, York and Oxford during the 14th century:

I am a mother in Gaza watching my child fade from hunger. Alma cries for food and relief from pain, but I have nothing left to give her. We lost our home and my husband was detained. Please, don’t turn away. Your compassion can bring life to a starving child and hope to a broken mother.

Lovely turnout for @russeldmclean.bsky.social and Marion Todd at Aye Write tonight! #AyeWrite

'The only women’s rights issues that get attention are the ones men allow to be noticed' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social PIC: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

Tonight! Premiere 9pm 🔎 MURDER BY DECREE (1979) starring #ChristopherPlummer as #SherlockHolmes with #JamesMason #DavidHemmings #DonaldSutherland #GenevieveBujold #AnthonyQuayle mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles

EXC: JK Rowling and Elon Musk are funding transphobia which is seeing equality in Britain go backwards, a Labour MP has warned. Nadia Whittome said the public had far bigger concerns than trans people, but those concerns were drowned out on social media www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Excellent piece by my @heraldscotland.bsky.social colleague

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

O Caledonia is so great and so absolutely up my street I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to read it.

That kind of 3D chess where it doesn’t occur to you that you might need to explain the lie you just told.

Even I thought this was one of mine!

What did Watson and Crick discover in 1953?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes!” Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...

Nov. 7, 1775: Alexander Adie, a Scottish maker of medical instruments who invented the sympiesometer, a lightweight type of barometer used on ships, is born in Edinburgh.

Can someone please give Tom and Aaron a baking show together

That make-believe woman sending flirty texts to you is called a pig-butcher, and she’s much more of a victim than the lonely sucker who takes the bait—enslaved by a criminal gang, physically beaten and raped, and confined to a scamming compound in SE Asia. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935) 📷 google images

In Salisbury Cathedral a member of the staff witnessed a glowing noose float over to the tomb of a medieval saint. Within this tomb had been hidden the body of an 18th century lord, hanged for various outrages, and who therefore should not have been buried in holy ground. #PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Wow. As a boy, film director Duncan Jones, formerly known as Zowie Bowie, used to flit between his nanny Marion Skene's family home in 1970s tower block Cornhill Court in Aberdeen and his father David Bowie's house near Lausanne, Switzerland!

LATEST: The SNP have won a council by-election in Fife which was called after a former Labour councillor was convicted of sexual offences against a teenage girl

As we in Gaza struggle for our voices to be heard we kindly ask for your support through your donations and by sharing our stories you can become a lifeline of hope and a bridge of solidarity that connects us to the world Please,do all you can we truly need you🙏🏻 gofund.me/1cc674b2

A major protest has been held outside the offices of Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar Games in Edinburgh, after more than 30 staff were allegedly sacked for trade union activity.

As the @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social new artistic director James Brining’s first production closes, Brining talks in @heraldscotland.bsky.social about future plans, which include Sam Heughan, a new football play and more. lyceum.org.uk/whats-on www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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New from Trump: I'd like to be Mamdani's bitch

Some of the gargoyles and carvings on Walter Douglas Campbell's eccentric vSt Conan's Kirk, in Lochawe. The rabbit looks particularly rabid with the weed choked mouth. Or mad March hares?

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the darkness of the cold tent,my child sleeps,starving and terrified 😢He has no roof to protect him from the frost,no food to sustain him.Iimplore you with amothers broken heart💔dont let the cold steal his childhood&his life Every donation is warmth,food& shelter for my child🙏😔 gofund.me/74c01145

Planet: am too hot now really much too hot stop pls tnx China: uh yes but no but infrastructural hegemony Trump: something something animals IQ test drug boats asylum Labour: let’s tax EVs it seems like the perfect time Ecosystems: I might just retire

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I guess this is why he can't decide whether to go to war against Venezuela or Nigeria -- bc he can no longer tell South America and Africa apart.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Usually I only get a handful of 'Likes' on Threads. Not today!

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

I'll be talking about Madeleine Smith's murder case as part of #bookweekScotland on the 18th at Clarkston Library! Come and hear about what happened after it, too - it involves the pre-Raphaelites, a fake birth date on a ship to New York, and a Hollywood director ❤️❤️❤️

If America can do this, and elect a socialist mayor in a city that’s the heart of global capitalism then please tell me what the fuck is stopping the Starmer government giving two shits about the poor?

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

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This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

🚨🚨 The UK has become too dependent on #Musk and his Space X company for the success of its space programme, and must urgently seek greater independence from it in order to stop the “politicisation” of these services , a new Parliamentary report has warned. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

Hello Glasgow ! AyeWrite is back! I'll be appearing on Sat 15th Nov with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social & chaired by Zoe Venditozzi. I heard tickets are selling well & we'd love you to join us to chat all things Glasgow women's history. Details below 👇 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/love...

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow? (Opens BlueSky) What the f

if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”