If you are looking for a thought provoking night out in London this week we are holding a free evening of talks, exhibits, performance and even zine making on Thursday. All on the theme of ‘Living with the Planet’. You need to book but tix are free www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

@lilyking.bsky.social are you THE Lily King, author of Euphoria - I love your work ❤️

"We're always, in everything we do in this world, she says, limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl." One anthropologist describing another in Lily King's 2014 novel, Euphoria.

Sally Rooney says she cannot safely enter UK without facing arrest over Palestine Action support www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Awarding excellence in nonfiction & celebrating 15 years of the #HilaryWeston Prize. 🏆 Meet the 2025 jury: ◢ Matthew R. Morris ◢ Lorri Neilsen Glenn @lorri.bsky.social ◢ Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social ‬ Finalist announcement on Wednesday! 👉https://bit.ly/4lXZqQk

Announcing finalists for the 2025 #HilaryWeston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 🏆 Congratulations to: ◢Omar El Akkad ◢Tessa McWatt ◢Vinh Nguyen ◢ @biidaasamose.bsky.social ◢ @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social $75K winner announced Nov 13 at the #WTAwards bit.ly/4lXZqQk

I just devoured Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. Had to pause at points to catch my breath. This description of Denis Johnson's writing tenets rings true. Thanks for sharing it, Gerard.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1959 Oil on watercolor paper 38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm) Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS) 𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Four Darks in Red, 1958 Oil on Canvas 📸 @mark.cashion (Instagram) 259.1 cm × 294.6 cm (102.0 in × 116.0 in) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

My mom. Dec 28, 1936 - Jul 21, 2014. I love you, Ma ❤️

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

I missed this in December 2024. Physicist Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Neural networks with mighty powers: what could possibly go wrong?😑 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Committee have made public their letter rejecting Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson for the role of new Chair of the EHRC. So it's official! Read their reasoning in full here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

July 18, 2025

Seems like the right time to share this wonderful moment again, now with subtitles and some context at the beginning about what they were talking about before Jeff Goldblum shared a George Bernard Shaw quote with Stephen Colbert.

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Please sign this petition. It doesn't matter that the government's initial response states lamely that the right to transition is already enshrined in UK law. If the petition reaches 100k and gets debated in parliament we can lobby MPs to ask questions as per the OP. MPs are beginning to wake up.

Govt should withdraw its guidance which prevents civil servants from speaking at public or stakeholder events as this will reduce the quality of policymaking. I’m a co-signatory of this letter in The Times coordinated by @instituteforgovernment.org.uk a asking for this guidance to be reconsidered

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

If Rank, Camus & Buber are right, man cannot stand alone but has to reach out for support. If transference is ... a necessary projection in order to stand life, death & oneself, the question becomes: What is *creative projection*? What is *life-enhancing* illusion? - Ernest Becker

This case rocked my world. I was eight years old and lived in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rest in peace, Mr Lyon, and thank you for decades of service. wtop.com/dc/2025/07/j...

Calla lilies attempting Fibonacci..

A tender sky as I walked homeward after an expansive afternoon with @madelynpostman.bsky.social

Good to see signatories now number over 80,000. Where can you share this petition that will help it reach 100,000?

WHIRLIGIG #watercolor #glitter 12.5"x 19" on Yupo paper 7/9/2025

This didn't seem like London today. Blistering hot, a breeze and such a blue sky.

It’s not your father’s midlife crisis. Millennials can expect it sooner, and differently. Here’s how to meet a crisis of meaning before it becomes a crisis. My latest for GQ: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/midl...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Securing a UK parliamentary debate on this transgender adult healthcare access petition paves the way for MPs to be briefed on crucial issues that compromise even jeopardise mental health incl multi-year wait times, GP shared care breaking down. Pls ✍️ & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Securing a UK parliamentary debate on this transgender adult healthcare access petition paves the way for MPs to be briefed on crucial issues that compromise even jeopardise mental health incl multi-year wait times, GP shared care breaking down. Pls ✍️ & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#Quadrophenia at @sadlerswells.bsky.social this evening was extraordinary! Lean, evocative and engrossing. Mr Pete Townsend was sitting a half dozen rows ahead of us, and I hope he enjoyed it. We were enthralled!

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

The sky walking home. A great day and then a perfect evening out with @indy.bsky.social

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something... My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all died of hunger. "All. How many? It's a big meadow….” Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime. t.co/9Elc3lTWud

British woman laments Brexit rules that would stop her Italian husband moving to UK

@philippaeast.bsky.social ICYMI, BPS is inviting society members to contribute to its EHRC consultation response - deadline is 9 Jun (next Monday) www.bps.org.uk/consultation...

🏳️‍⚧️🚨🏳️‍⚧️Please share! Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation. Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act... Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act... **Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Such beautiful work 🥰❤️

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

I liked how my phone summarised a Saturday in Roma and a Sunday afternoon and evening in Cambridge. The Picasso exhibit at Museo del Corso was excellent - the storytelling, layout and audio guide all top-notch. It was thrilling to be there after courgette flowers & pasta al fresco next door.

We'll be sharing the shortlist of for individual prizes throughout the day, or check here if you can't wait societyofauthors.org/2025/05/21/i...

Lovely and concise review of Tessa McWatt's far-reaching book, The Snag: A Mother, A Forest and Wild Grief Recently launched in Canada, UK and USA picklemethis.com/2025/05/20/t...

This strikes me as noteworthy: EHRC failing to read the UKSC judgement in full 🤯 Makes me wonder if not the judgement what is the basis for their draft guidance???

I’ve sent an email to all members of the Labour National Executive Committee about the thorny dilemma they are in right now following the Supreme Court ruling, about the National Women’s Conference. Feel free to use it as a template if you want to write as well (text in the alt text) 👍