Time to revisit this, I guess so I can be even more baffled bythe social media ban for U16s 😔

How grand we are this morning!

By coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury home, everybody through the street cursing him, being ready to run over them.

Good ol’ Springwatch! You never know if you’re going to see fledgling swallows jump the nest, frolicking fox cubs, or buzzard chicks sucking down intestines à la Lady & the Tramp.

May reading 12. Circe - Madeline Miller 13. Theophanes - Sarah Ghazal Ali

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: [email protected]

Cat TV is excellent this time of year!

Save the date I will be tabling @colettet.bsky.social #brixtonlibrary Readers And Writers #zinefair next month 13th June. Selling one of a kind #zines and illustrations. You don want to miss out. #zineart #handmadezine #zinefest #indiezine #zineart

We will keep fighting for trans inclusion. The legal battle continues. Support our appeal 👇 goodlaw.social/25wp

ST. LOUIS—Apologizing to all customers who had received a defective product, pet food giant Fancy Feast issued a massive recall Friday for 1 million cans of food that cats just kind of stared at before wandering away.

I’m really looking forward to this! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtq-book...

We are all the angry frog this morning

I soon realised said unit was building a fuckoff nest and now the family OWNS that tree* Eight for a wish, my friends!

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 91644: if your plot is getting too complicated, try asking these questions: Whose story is this? What do they need? What’s stopping them from achieving it? If you’re not sure if the answers, your plot structure may need looking at…

Abortion Pill Thrown Into Air And Caught In Mouth

“They say the bells of St. Fintan’s church down by O’Malley’s field started ringing spontaneously, an angelic choir announcing the birth of the glorious child. It‘s told that a lady of glimmering light, poised upon a golden chariot, passed through the market square proclaiming that Taffin was born.”

April reading: 10. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood (RR) 11. Altar - Desree ongoing: The Odyssey - Book XI: The Dead Ulysses - The Odyssey (Calpyso, Lotus Eaters)

query: when you were a tiny, did you think also wonder if the reason Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theatre was because wouldn’t take his stovepipe hat off?🤔

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

It's settled: the three genders (Kylie, Gary, and Megadeth)

I have absolutely zero skin in this game but even I am happy to see Man City concede a goal.

You can dislike a thing and find the people who like that thing annoying without trying to sell the maximal possible case why said thing is bad for everyone

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and on BBC Sounds in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

I just rveceived quite a lot of head bunting from Simone. What an honour!

I’m confident that a bewildered face and swearing at ducks is a solid foundation from which I can grow a successful campaign. I look forward to winning your full support. #Taskmaster

Taskmaster is my Champions League!🍍🍳🍌🥛

My new Ulysses pudding arrived in the post today!

Listenig to Tindersticks’ eponymous album (flamenco) for the first time in years and bloody Nora, I forgot just how funny it often is. “City Sickness”, I’m looking at you! (“I have these hands beating with love for you”…interesting verb choice.

This one just granted me a 20-second belly pass with no strings attached. An honour from any kitty, but especially Simone, who is an introvert cursed with perpetual zoomies (and a gal pal who’d rather snooze 16 hours a day and can only put up with so much).

March reading: 6. A Trace of Sun - Pam Williams 7. I Sugar the Bones - Juana Adcock 8. Ghachar Chochar - Vivek Shanbhag (translated by Srinath Perur) 9. Wellwater - Karen Solie

I am determined to carrot-and-stick my way through Ulysses by rewarding myself with a chapter of The Penelopiad for each one I finish. Joyce for first course, Atwood for pudding.

One absolute motherfucking unit for sorrow. Who is also the Michigan J. Frog of magpies, because every time I try to snap a pic, it’s mid flight, blurred and not representative of its impressive girth.

The Italian national anthem is a proper banger, innit.

The sky is barfing ice!!!

Oh no, you fucking don’t, Apple Music. You absolutely DO NOT. It hurt as a Parks & Rec joke and it still hurts now and also it’s just inaccurate!

Definitely winning at Bruxelles: seen Mannekin Pis in *two* outfits 😍

So much of the language used around the abuse of women trivialises serious crimes. If it were implemented this change would be long overdue. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

So one of the reasons why I’m an albums guy is for those magical moments when an outro is just fucking perfect - the outro to Algiers’ titular* album being an excellent case in point: cannot be separated from the whole. It is such a gorgeous experience <3

McCoy era begins. Don’t hate the new theme.

today we once again celebrate the insane work ethic of the botanicals sub-committee on the french revolutionary calendar commission

Right! The Trial of a Timelord - this ends now!

The annual Thames Water-induced bloodboil. I fucking hate these wankers so much.

Day 4 of shining a spotlight on creative women and it's Kerry and all the fantastic grrrls at Write Like A Grrrl! Their writing courses, retreats and general support have helped me and so many others. Thank you Kerry and everyone at @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social www.writelikeagrrrl.org

Honestly it feels like we've been in varying shades of "emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting" for the better part of the last decade

February reading: 4. The Matisse Stories - AS Byatt 5. Avidyā - Vidyan Ravinthiran

A true moment of hope for British politics. Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election for the Greens, defeating Reform and pushing Labour into third place. #PodSaveTheUK #Politics #News #UK #UKPolitics

A brilliant time chatting with Scott on the Creative Resistance podcast ✨️🌱 thecreativeresistancepodcast.substack.com/p/grief-as-a...

It is very discombobulating to have your cats engaging in hell-for-leather graps with Fr Brian Eno’ Music for Airports as soundtrack. Which peppier tune should I choose?

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.