"If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic." This line from a 2024 interview with Judith Butler really hit me hard. Because I think about our culture as a whole, queer culture, asexual cutlure, and what we're already deciding to "sacrifice".

Another successful year of Impact - Three years and counting!! Follow these amazing folks!!

ITS TODAY ITS TODAY!

One reason people don't trust AI is that it's being pushed on us by obviously evil people doing obviously evil things at their obviously evil companies

Look, it's the new Waterstones Children's Laureate and a pair of troublemakers! The atmosphere in the room was amazing Congratulations to Patrice Lawrence, all hail! I'm really excited to see what she does. Her speech was properly inspiring. Let's see how books can build community.

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

So Andy Burnham has written to Scots offering "greater public control" of water. Water is already nationalised in Scotland. It's downright embarrassing. We deserve better than copy-and-paste PMs with zero knowledge and even less interest in us. #IndependenceNow

Another excellent video. You can't always tell.

Hello, I’ve an event for my Muriel Spark biography next Weds (15th) at Waterstones Liverpool. We’ve sold barely any tickets, however, and it might be cancelled as a result. Please get a ticket if you’re nearby - it’ll be a lot of fun, and I’ll bring badges! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterstone...

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

Found out today that sales in some independent bookshops don't "count" towards "official" book sales as recorded for the bestseller list, just in case you wanted any more confirmation of how fucked up the world of publishing is in 2026.

the last thing england needs rn is a load of patriotic fervour. that’s why i want england to lose at the sportsfoot.

I agreed to work an extra day tomorrow because we’re very short-staffed and I am BIG MAD with Past Me for agreeing to this 😡 Stropping off to bed and SULKING!

Blatty: enemies? who could possibly hate my beloved Chicago pope?! [meanwhile] Peter Thiel: [sweating like a baked ham] the Chicago pope is in league with the gay catboy jews of the Chinese communist party and the space mutants, to elect greta Thunberg as Chicago antichrist Dan Simmons: sounds legit

What in the capitalist dystopian nightmare is this?!

Since Sondheim is no longer with us: Jinkx Monsoon 🔥🔥🔥

Had to put myself in registrar time out this week because I asked the couple about music choices, and when the groom replied with “well what’s popular?” I said “Who cares?! It’s your wedding, what do YOU like?” 🫠🫣 #NotVeryDiplomatic #LuckilyTheWeddingWentWell

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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Apps love to go "bestie if you don't sync your contacts your friends won't be able to find you ;(((" like yes very good that's the point!

Poor Kate Forbes, uniquely persecuted, seems to have forgotten that the public's response to this was not just about what her conscience told her but about the fact she said she'd ignore her conscience in favour of following male authority. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Many people abhor homophobia and think it’s wrong to discriminate against people because of who they love and used their free speech to say so. I said I would vote against LGBT rights but I’M the Real Victim™️ here because I’m entitled to be free from scrutiny and accountability”

I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

ICMI, my sapphic reimagining of the Hindu moon myth is out now and you can read it!!

July is #SouthAsianHeritageMonth And as always I am here for the books: #booksky #kidlituk #ukkidlit #southasianheritagemonth uk.bookshop.org/lists/south-...

The Line, by me and @fawa.bsky.social, is out today - it’s about the Partition, with a hopeful message at its heart. Both Indian and Pakistani voices worked on this making it particularly special. Published by @scholasticuk.bsky.social and available in bookshops now 🙏🏾 #EduSky #Skybrarians #UKKidLit

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My rent needs paying today and I'm £325 short!

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

Good morning and welcome to gay wrath month

Remember the stink when Farage had an account closed by Coutts? The reams of press and commentary, even by sensibles, was a thing. This meanwhile will merit very little.

Sonya Tolstoy, on what it was like to be... Married to Tolstoy. I am... Not surprised. 😆

I've been talking to Suad for a year or so now. She's going through so much, especially her son Omar's malnutrition and sickness. If you can chip in to her crowdfunder, it's keeping her going in the toughest of times xx

Today is #WorldSocialMediaDay! So we wanted to thank everyone who has used their online networks and social media communities to share our open letter and help get us over 100,000 signatures. We hugely value our social media followers, and love engaging with you via our social accounts 🩷

I think Lord Collins should start his global mission championing LGBT+ rights by talking to the regressive government of this little known nation called the UK.

A positive Scotland story from the BBC, though don't worry folks, it's not from BBC Scotland. I suspect 'BBC Future' will now be informally updated on their Scotland policy, and this type of article will be a one off. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

New game: restaurant roulette. If you're ever in a medium-fancy or actively fancy restaurant, why not play the game? Can you choose the hand wash without looking at the labels? Or will you attempt to wash your hands in moisturiser?

Dreamed I had to come up with the outline for a new season of Doctor Who in a hurry, on scraps of paper, with people shouting at me. It included a two-part celebrity historical about Evelyn Waugh, the episodes to be titled The Waugh Machines and The Waugh Games.

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

The real struggle for LGBTQ+ liberation is not the sanitised and breezy march toward progress that is painted by politicians. www.thenational.scot/politics/262...

Lads I'm really not liking the number of fellow children's authors who are experiencing homophobia/queerphobia in relation to school visits - lots of cancelled visits. If you happen to be a school governor/head teacher, can you give everyone's head a shake please? #KidLitUK

No YOU spent all night having anxiety dreams and woke up at 4am before eventually crashing back out 🫣🫠 Today is gonna be fuuunnnn!

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

You'd think a man responsible for a computer program that generated and distributed images of CSAM to millions of people, clearly in violation of numerous European and UK laws, would have been dragged before the courts long before he personally pushed for for a race war in Northern Ireland

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

Heritage foundation have been at the root of this from the beginning, even tho we didnt all know or understand the connections This transphobic moral panic has always been the cause of the religious conservative far right They knew the way to win was faction us up, pit us against each other

this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

So, I hate to ask, but I need financial support. I need to replace some PC components or I can't continue to work, and it's pretty urgent. I hate to ask for financial support, but if you can afford to help me out, 0lease let me know. PayPal.me/laurakbuzz

Terror acts orchestrated and carried out by the proscribed UDA & UVF. No COBRA meeting and a whitewashing of terror involvement because the North of Ireland isn’t seen as somewhere deserving safety, never mind human & civil rights. Paramilitary groups are still celebrating their pogrom operation.