Sometimes the characters just say "nope, we're doing THIS now."

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Reskeeting for the later crowd.

I've been really frustrated not to be able to visit our local woods since bluebell season began, but I was thrilled to spot these rogue bluebells popping up in the garden of our new house like a taste of magic...

So Starmer has admitted being a hugely incompetent incoherent easily confuzzled wally rather than a corrupt deliberate liar, and therefore he thinks he should be allowed to keep on Prime Ministering? Dear Sweet Balletic Christ On A Pogo Stick.

I want to go back to this, please. I want someone's mum to be PM and knock everyone's heads together, listen to experts about things they don't know about, be fair and even handed and cut through all the performative stupidity. I am sick of politics being about playing the player, not the ball.

For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

With the Peter Mandelson appointment as UK ambassador to the US back in the headlines, it's worth understanding how the UK government's national security vetting system actually works. Our explainer sets out the process: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/go...

Get your Canadian stories and Canadian art right here! And... sorry 😀

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

If I saw that Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc or one of these dudes was a guest at a dinner party I was at, I would immediately excuse myself to use the bathroom and get tf outta that cursed house

Were they remanded in custody?

Certain doors demand your attention when walking passed them, demand you wonder about what happens beyond them. They generate an intimate, personal folklore, unfold odd stories in your mind. I'd knock upon them, but the sense of mystery is just too valuable. – #MattAdams

The making of END OF A HARD DAY - ink and marker on A3 297 x 420mm paper This was too much for Instagram's sensibilities so they deleted it. I've hidden it behind a label here for Artistic Nudity. Because there's a willy. Huge thanks to @flydaddy3838.bsky.social for modelling. #artsky #gayartist

It is possible to think that this whole undignified Mandelson vetting debacle does not reflect well on the PM at all, while also thinking that another leadership contest is literally the last thing anybody needs right now.

So many possibilities, but I'd try and walk the Camino from Vezalay to Santiago de Compostela, if my health allowed. Otherwise, and/or also, make an ideal one acre productive garden a la John Seymour.

Basically the one piece of advice I have for everyone under forty is "practice getting up off the floor and touching your toes daily"

Write in the way the works for you!

This is your reminder that European coffee is about forty million times stronger than British coffee and that is why I am vibrating. That is all. You're welcome.

Stonewalll is done.

Well, doh. FFS.

Are you looking for a 1970s historical romance with excellent disability rep? What about Taking Stock? "[It]... offers an earthy kind of hope, for whenever you feel like the world is falling to pieces around you." Olivia Waite, NYT. Links below.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

#DifferentView lovely morning in Crete.

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

Yep, this. You'd get a percentage of absolute nutters, but it would be a *representative* percentage.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Red winged blackbird sporting his intense mating season colours 🪶

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here" The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨ #queer #lesbians #illustration

We love the library! #nationallibraryweek

See those yellowish rocks? They're about 1.4 billion years old. The rocks on top are around 500 million years old. This is part of the Great Unconformity, where almost a billion years of Earth's history is just... missing.

The Long Neolithic is a fever. It infects all of us stone botherers – whether we are archaeologists or lithic pilgrims. None are free of its symptoms. The call to visit, that palpable feeling ongoing ceremony when you walk into a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

#PosterPit a day late #A #R with a dash of Cosmic #H #LGBTQ #Q When Danny and Nykky get hired as the touring rhythm section for an 80s band they love, they expect to wrestle with their unresolved feelings for each other. But once the tour starts, they’ll have to face fears they never imagined...

#DifferentView this is Bali, Crete.

"Drunkeness, foreigners, rude people, money obsessed climbers - London was never this bad!" Reads criticisms of London since 13th century.

It’s #BatAppreciationDay 🦇 on a #FabricFriday so please appreciate this awesome 19th c. Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky #bats: KOSODE WITH BATS Edo - Meiji, 19th century silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery; 67⅜ × 48⅞ in National Museum of Japanese History / NGA DC #JapaneseArt

I'm proud to announce that my speculative short story created with input from researcher Annette Hübschle is now available to read. appliedafricansf.com/a-shadow-in-... With thanks to the British Science Fiction Association for providing the opportunity.

Anyone own a Kobo Elipsa 2e and have thoughts about it you’re willing to share? I’m considering getting one, but I have a couple of specific use cases I’m looking at. Please reskeet for reach 💜 #BookSky

Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome! Check out the details: juliebozza.com/submissions-...

You know you want a new to you romance book, posting so many beauties right now! pangobooks.com/bookstore/b.... #romancelandia #booksky

This is amazing and definitely a Good Thing. #SmallJoys

Happy release day to Devil in the Deep by Falencia Jean-Francois!! This was a Haitian swashbuckling good time! Would recommend because it had everything - mermaids, cults, BIPOC and queer kick ass characters, and more! Huge shout out to @michaellaborn.bsky.social for getting it on my radar 💙📚

I dropped dead earlier this year in public. Was out for 15 minutes. Took 4(?) different people giving me compressions and 4 paddle blasts from the EMTs to bring me back online*. Learn CPR. It can save your local shitposters life. *And for just a few minutes, we was free.

hello, update: got 245 / 600 EUR for rent & utilities. way past due, I am extremely stressed about this. also need some extra funds for basic living expenses. any support is gratefully received. #MutualAid 💸💕 www.paypal.com/paypalme/aqu...

Tried felting a tiny puffin picture. Its unfinished and a bit simple but it isnt terrible.. #puffin #needlefelt #wool

Obligatory 'feet on holiday' pic. Mr AL is a. ginger and b. very British and therefore has his Holiday Socks on. He's also got his 'Our Man in Havana' hat. I am holidaying with a beloved stereotype 🥰

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

Bluebells appearing along a footpath near Tavistock this week, West #Devon. #photography

I am building a flock of the tiniest chickens in so many different colors because next week we are totally gonna do a Teeny Tiny Chicken Fundraiser for our Teeny Tiny Chickens and by Fundraiser I mean Sell People Tiny Adorable Shit. LOL