I found him.

Sloppers: "you just have to accept me, you HAVE to, I'm special, and if you don't accept me then I'm telling on you because I'm NOT a loser! Meanwhile: Tilly Fakewood deactivated, data centers get denied land, RAM prices decrease as slop demand sinks, Xehanort kills Sora

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

I'm in this beauty, talking about Victorian chimneysweeps taking to the streets on May Day.

Unsure if it's generations of Navy blood or a touch of undiagnosed autism, but my reaction to RN ships with their flashing buttons and dangerous stairwells and funky little hatches and swivel chairs and all that grey paint makes me hoot and holler like a dirty old man.

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My new heart is seven years old today! ❤️ I hope I never need another OHS! ❤️ Because it was quite unpleasant! ❤️

please for the love of god don't let these people put you off trying to get help if you're struggling, even if it isn't ADHD or autism getting seen and heard is really really good and useful, and no one needs to have a formal diagnosis for all the informal support out there

We're watching the Chris Fleming comedy special and when he said "I'm trying to grow my fanbase beyond women who brought a knife to prom" my boyfriend slowly turned to stare pointedly at me.

this is a place of honor. something extremely cool is buried here.

After my third joke, a health meter appears over my therapist’s head

I'm going to go on Dragon's Den and make my fortune with Capri Sun pouches full of twilight sedation.

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

imagine the Pope personally calling you a fake bitch who's going to hell lol

t-shirt that says "i find victorian surgical malpractice erotic"

Obsessed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_aA...

Roderic Owen was the greatx3-nephew of Sir John Franklin. And when you read Roddy's autobiography, you'll understand that wild and often dangerous quests for the passage were something that runs in the family.

So the cat's out... I have a novella coming in May from Black Shuck Books, WHERE ONCE HE STOOD. Dark magic, disappearing houses - and a vanished child. Endorsements and pre-orders in the thread below!

“You wanna see your stuff? Gonna cost you.”

Say hello to my little frond

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

Partner asked me for a red and purple mug rug (sounds ruder than it is) and I finally got my head around mitred corners (messily) and using scraps. Still learning, but he’s pleased with it.

fuckin love some annunciation paintings, they're by far my favorite type of religious painting. love to see a medieval angel with polychrome wings and love the looks into domestic scenes wherever mary is hanging out

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Seeing a lot of posts about this - a reminder that all kinds of writers can join ALCS. So academics, journalists, poets, translators, scriptwriters, novelists, editors and more! www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works...

Margaret Catchpole, patron saint of Hit Da Bricks. www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/su...

Once again, the wonderful @alcs.co.uk keep the lights on. If you're a UK author and not registered with them, get a move on.

This was a fucking masterclass in interviewing. Crucial for any of us whose work has become fodder for AI churn in this dystopian hellscape but also just a hell of an interview for ANYONE on capitalism and exploitation, and what CEOs really think of you:

Your semi-regular reminder that I edit fiction, my rates are reasonable, and my feedback is excellent. No project too small. fruitbateditorial.com

Turns out those thick glass goblets from Primark are not shatterproof and will try quite hard to kill you and everyone in your household with shrapnel.

I keep seeing this nonsense and having a little chuckle, because my great-grandmother was forcibly taken to the workhouse and later did housekeeping for an executioner, so I imagine she wouldn't be especially impressed by a Dorito.

I would like to express something in no uncertain terms about the publishing industry re availability and I would really like this carved in stone. Carers and chronically ill writers are structurally disadvantaged in prestige economies. This is brutal and rarely said out loud. I need more support

Still patiently waiting for one of the UK's celebrity authors to get their act together and sort this out for the rest of us.

An unbeatable record.

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

I know in my heart that the Victorians would have loved lava lamps.

Growing up, I wasn't allowed to watch PG films or anything with violence (no Ninja Turtles) so diving straight into Anne Rice when I was 15 was quite an education. Never saw The Lion King; skipped straight ahead to murder and sodomy. I regret nothing.

UK gardens are full of Victorian throwaways, but I love how the dog's face is set in grim determination like, "Case closed."

I ended up shedding a few tears watching this show, and the understanding of alchemy and grimoires was excellent. The dad's story reminded me of The Black Pullet.

As a historian, do you ever read something so breathtakingly incorrect that you find yourself doing the 'plumber sucking air through their teeth' noise?

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

Like especially the second paragraph. I've seen books by non-horror peers get chewed out for being queer and not having a happy ending, where the reactions are condescending variations of "you must not have known how to write this correctly or else you wouldn't have written a sad ending."

I love finding things that explain the screwed-upness of how major studios get away with blatantly bigoted nonsense while solo queer creators get eaten alive by self-professed innocent small beans for creating art that steps out of line

This man removed me from his mailing list for politely asking if he was being a giant racist on purpose or if he'd sort of tripped and stumbled into the practise and was having trouble getting up.

More people should be calling Sam Altman a bitch in public

Not now, skeletons in the process of standing up. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I've taken up quilting as a fun little hobby to stop me going mad, and it turns out I've discovered a new way to make myself go mad.