Cheese on toast is good.

#IndieAuthors on Itch! My friend Kai is hosting a bundle! - Fantasy Books (Dark, Contemp, Urban, Epic, Etc, All Welcome!) - Morally Gray Ace-Spec Characters! Bring your most sus af aces to this bundle! Sign ups still open! 📦📚

Model Jessica White has sparked debate online after suggesting there is a “double standard” when it comes to bisexuality. During a recent interview with TMZ, the 41-year-old said she believes women are given more freedom to explore their sexuality than men.

"We have already destroyed 100% of the Normans’ military capability, but it’s easy for them to shoot a close-range arrow somewhere along, or in, this Battlefield, no matter how badly defeated they are.”

hey! this sale continues until the end of the day!

The bears at the river. The winter is over 🐻

A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.

my newsletter today: links to Queer Your Bookshelf and a few musings on Moby-Dick and 19th-century queerness. buttondown.com/SharonJGoche...

I'm going to have to cut my own hair this week. The friend who usually does it is sick. First world problems.

I do not have a current picture to contribute to #Caturday, as Tuz and I are not speaking. We had a miscommunication this morning where I thought we were playing and he disagreed. This resulted in him launching himself at me like a gremlin and clinging to my shin with all four paws and his teeth.

#SameViewDifferentDay. It was frosty this morning. I was up really early.

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#crochet folks: Tom has carved beautiful double ended hooks and spiral flame hooks that we have just listed. www.dyakcraft.com

Excellent 🧵. I reckon a wild animal would run away from you, so as long as you could prop open the bookshop door, you could work your way round behind it. You could pelt it with copies of books by authors you dislike and herd it along. In which case, rhino, and I would chuck anything by JKR.

UK people! I discovered that there's this website that will tell you the location of your nearest defibrillator. It's seems like a really useful thing and I didn't know it existed, so I'm sharing it. www.defibfinder.uk

Mr AL and I have been on a first aid training course today. Excellent to have refreshed our skills, but slightly wobbly about how some of the subject matter related to us personally. All in all a productive day, but I need an early night with a book now.

and the evenings are getting lighter

#Booksky You know how we keep encouraging y’all to nominate Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett’s Astreiant Series for the Best Series Hugo? Apart from a genuine belief that these are terrific books? Because it’s doable! We could see the amazing books on the Hugo ballot and that would be the BEST!

It's been raining overnight, and it's a bit gloomy. Our crow friends are there, though. #SameViewDifferentDay

Oil shock, terrorist threats and more.

Remember, even though you can find a daily writing prompt on the daily journal post on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog you can also find it on my Ko-Fi every day. ko-fi.com/post/Erasure...

We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨‍🔧💦 So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like. (1960s excavation photo) 🧵👇

spring/summer hot fashion tip: i heard that zoomorphic fibulae are expected to make a BIG comeback!

I really can't recommend this book highly enough. It's premise – that it is in loss that we find meaning – was as true for Kate’s subjects in the eighteenth century as it is for historians today.

There are too many acronyms on the internet today.

Banging little 🧵

Today's photo. #SameViewDifferentDay

I am trying to make a point of not reposting images without alt-text. How do people do the thing where you share or reply to the original image and a bot automatically extracts the text? I follow a lot of political commentators who need alt-text education and this seems like a gentle way to do it.

This morning on Exmoor …

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Oh this is a fabulous article. Huzzah!

I feel like making farming easier is good. Robots that do weeding--excellent news. But making farming a monopoly owned by one or two corporations who are the only ones who can afford the automation--bad. I don't want my food security in the hands of an agricultural Jeff Bezoz, thanks.

This whole 🧵.

See, this is the shit bit about life peerages. It's just going to turn in to a huge exercise in partisanship, a la the US Supreme Court.

We paid Mama's funeral bill today. Mental note to self: investigate some sort of funeral plan so people don't have to worry about finding £4k to bury me. I am surprisingly off balance.

He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

I'm quite pleased about this. I do think we need a second chamber though. I'm not terribly keen on life peerages, I reckon choosing at least a percentage of the chamber randomly by lottery for a couple of years at a time, and paying them, obvs, would be fairer.

Fuck me, this is glorious.

Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a book-filled cottage at the edge of the forest and solving minor mysteries in your village with the aid of a curious ghost cat.

The UK's Trans+ healthcare system isn't broken, it's working exactly how it was supposed to: For gatekeepers - not Trans+ people. Tomorrow, @ludovicparsons.bsky.social will deliver a brief UK history of Trans+ healthcare to 10K readers 🏳️‍⚧️ Join them 👇 wearequeeraf.com/milestones

Also YES HI sorry I forgot and I guess it's official now? I am giving an author keynote at the Academic Conference for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy at the end of May! (If you are in Toronto and coming to this, we can hang out!)* www.yorku.ca/accsff/

I am formatting books and updating links and all the stuff. It's all pretty tedious.

If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms. Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law. www.dontstealthisbook.com/about

Gonna try this thing where I take the same photo every morning. And it's doubling as todays #SmallJoys because the plum trees have got leaf buds. @thomasinapots.bsky.social

This is shocking. Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote. The Prime Minister is completely out of control on this. MPs must come together and stop him from undermining & restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

February sunlight on old Penguins

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts. 2/7

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.