Spent the morning doing creative stuff and cooing over old books, resting at the museum and pondering big questions over mediocre coffee and excellent writing

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

Essay. Submitted.

I treated myself to fancy gloves, and I am SO in love with them 🤩 #Moomins

I'm obliged to point out that my 👃 book is on sale. share.google/kZFn117QImU2...

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

The perils is essay writing when you're a middle aged 'woman' with ADHD I have to constantly drink caffeine, to for fuel and sensory distractions, but I don't notice I need to pee until I take a break Aka, if you're AFAB, do those pelvic floor exercises 😬

It's essay week, I am being sulked at for being too busy/distracted for kisses #EmoKitty #MaineCoon #A344 #OUStudent

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

We are singing at LezDiff again this year! It's a lovely festival/celebration of queer female culture, super inclusive, ppl of all persuasions are welcome (we're joining with Cardiff trans singers, who are annoyingly good! *choir envy* ) www.ticketsource.co.uk/lezdiff-card...

When I started on the jabs it was made clear that I may have to stay on a maintenance dose for life And honestly, fine! It's made me realise that all those ppl saying "it's sooooo simple" are doing life on easy mode. My body doesn't process shit right, on these meds it suddenly does!

Me on literally any Teams call that takes place before about 11am. #TheTraitors

I ran a satellite bookshop at the uni near the stadium for a few terms, did I ever remember to check? Every. Damned. Time. And it meant a mile walk to get to the tube station that was still open 😭

(Going to see a band I like) this is a cool room. I hope they start to constantly email me about every single event that goes on in here.

more generations need to discover M*A*S*H

👇👇👇👇👇👇

One thing The Traitors has taught me is that the people snarking on the internet aren't lying, a lot of white men look pretty much interchangeable

Welcome to all our new followers! If you're interested in getting more museums, libraries, galleries, and archives in your feed (because why the heck wouldn't you be), here's a starter pack we made earlier: go.bsky.app/HPQsZAu

Oh gawd it's January, which means my book is coming out in paperback on the 29th! Waterstones are doing an exclusive edition with red edges, a prequel chapter AND the first chapter of the sequel, The Hoard and can be pre-ordered THUSLY: www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

Touching grass is hard when the entire field is ablaze...

So the weather is crap and it looks like snow is on the way, a nightmare for rough sleepers. StreetLink is an org that helps people sleeping rough, often finding them somewhere to rest for a night. If you see someone who needs help, just ring them and they’ll do rest. thestreetlink.org.uk/start

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

I need to become less online because you shouldn’t find out about an illegal invasion because someone posted that it wasn’t very FIFA Global Peace Prizey of Trump to do that.

This week's fun news is that I'm still quite allergic to most laundry detergent How I found out? I got a random liquid to handwash some underwear... (washing machine is borked, again, should get it fixed Monday... )

Husbands fear that she is considering joining a 3rd choir...

Present to myself (using vouchers from my FiL) Cat nativity!

Cardiff is v similar Got chatting to a random woman at a bus stop, turns out she went to school with one of my choirmates This type of thing is a regular occurrence

Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.

Blwyddyn Newydd dda i chi Ac i bawb sydd yn y tŷ Dyna yw'n nymuniad i Blwyddyn Newydd dda i chi!

Turned away to find my tapestry needle to cast off my new cowl Sigh

Can someone please write a jukebox musical of Carter USM songs?

Carrie, Stephen King Addition, mum bought it me

I am trying, really trying, not to get angry but it is genuinely unbelievable how much of our current woes you can put down to "the Conservative party thinks only in a 2 day media cycle and acts accordingly." A party gleefully smashing up the hotel room then asking whose room it is.

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Just spotted that my book The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream is currently 99p on the Kindle store amzn.eu/d/bVnbqya

Oops. Deleting that. How disappointing. I was a big fan of his go-kart racing, I didn’t know anything about his history of kidnapping princesses.

The winds are hard enough that Gävlebocken fell.

Didn’t get burned, succumbed to the wind! @gavlebocken.bsky.social youtu.be/53dBWu9sqvY?...

I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax. Hang on. I'll find my violin.

It's only a podcast if I can listen to it via any podcatcher that picks up RSS feeds. A video is not a podcast. An audio performance that I can only hear on one app or website is not a podcast.

I ight be still in my dressing gown with wet hair, BUT the quiz is finally ready 45 mins before it starts... 😬 (if you know me/he and would like to come, on zoom at 7, prod @owenblacker.bsky.social )

1. I listen to a LOT of podcasts (subbed to ~300) 2. I also watch a lot of Youtube 3. There is *zero* overlap between the two for me 4. If you put a video version of your podcast out, I'll actively avoid it Bonus: your phone will subtitle audio, certainly Android can, have a mess in access settings

STILL no trans people or drag queens implicated in the Epstein Files. Plenty of TERFs though. It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.

gonzo is a lesbian i don’t think i need to explain

I know #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is fun and raises money for charity but it also gets me emotional. Like, it's so important for us to be with our loved ones that we will sleep on kitchen floors and also those bonds are strong enough for us to say "oh you're ok with the broken camp bed, yes?" ♥️

Emo keeps getting under our feet in the kitchen, so I made a masking tape trap We just got back and found him asleep in it 😻 #EmoKitty #MaineCoon #BeautifulHimboCat

Midnight mass: SUNG! Supper: EATEN! Husband: IN BED! BRING ON THE STRONG MEN!

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?