🧵Spotted Recently While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (9?) is walking through a shopping arcade at Mum's side. Suddenly she realizes that all the floor tiles are an imaginary hopscotch grid! (Yay!) She hops ahead, roaring back over her shoulder for Mum to copy. (Mum does.) (1)

Listening to some fluffy songs from the playlist my current rpg character & her husband co-opted.

There is a Lords amendment that requires all phones to have unremovable spyware pre-installed, supposedly to combat CSAM. It is unsurprising that one of its sponsors is the weirdo Hilary Cass.

With a star-studded play about marriage equality, the late Rob Reiner made LGBTQ+ rights part of his legacy - buff.ly/AoCBQd3

The downside of eating stupidly late is that despite being sleepy, I need to stay awake a bit longer while food digests a bit. 😑😴

Only a few eps of Foyle left, so going to watch one as I hurridly try to make dinner before it becomes breakfast instead! 😋

I am SEETHING with rage at the suggestion that Muppets do not have souls and I - as a often cited expert on ghosts - have set the record straight. I will fight people on this. www.theghostgeek.com/p/in-defence...

Delving into my Christmas playlist again.

I still think that the last episode of The Good Place is beautiful. 🥺😆 Anyway - rewatch completed.

Last disc of s4. And it's still marvellous.

Jason remains adorable!

"... said, “I don’t know what’s going to happen.” They were very supportive." "I felt I could do it. I still had my voice. I didn’t know how to handle this sort of earwig thing." A very cute family chat between Luthen Rael and SecUnit:

Going to rewatch the last series of The Good Place, because I love it and I want the niceness right now.

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

If you're looking for a lovely fluffy, Christmas film, to distract from the world, but that is good enough that the characters feel real...then I recommend That Christmas.

Going to re-watch That Christmas while I try to do some Christmas stuff.

Moved onto a relisten of Witches Abroad, as finished relisten of Wyrd Sisters earlier!

Next Saturday we've got two #NineLessons shows at Kings Place. A family matinee and then an evening show. Here's some of the guests joining @robinince.bsky.social inc @garwboy.bsky.social, @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social, @particleclara.bsky.social and more. Tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

I have a lot of children’s books and clothes (used but in excellent condition) that I was planning to donate to charity. Before I do, I wondered if there’s anywhere locally (I'm in Perthshire) that would pass items directly to families who might need them for free?

Would you like to watch Hattie Mae eat some snacks?

It sure is something watching Girl Guides protest the exclusion of their trans members, at the same time as the BBC pushes someone out for being a trans ally and routinely updates their news articles to insert transphobic terminology.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

I think Benoit Blanc might be one of my fav Daniel Craig characters. He's got some traits & the feel of a classic detective, whilst also being different from them.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Three minutes into Wake Up Dead Man Josh O’Connor has a speech about what he thinks faith should be and it made both @margueritekenner.bsky.social and I, both as ‘ex’ Catholics as it’s possible to be, go ‘ohhhhhh fuck yeah. That’s it.’

'Tis the season. #SantasHusband by me and @sassquachcomics.bsky.social is on sale now from a local bookstore near you. 🎅🏿💕🎅🏻 #Christmas #GiftGuide #WhiteElephant #SecretSanta #OutSanta

🚀NEW EVENT! I’ll be on stage London 28th March celebrating the release of my new book Megalomaniacs! Come join in, draw along, shout out suggestions, and together we’ll make the most ridiculous comics: www.waterstones.com/events/megal... (And this is the exclusive gig poster available when ordering)

Ok team. We need information on this. There is now a literal production line of criminal cases involving hatred of trans people that the CPS are dropping. Find anything you have DM us - and we’ll engage in oversight and if necessary, a THIRD judicial review of the CPS. This can’t fucking go on 🤬

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve... #Storytime

Weekend catch-up: BBC bosses have forced Robin Ince to step down from Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage over his social media posts backing pro-trans and other progressive causes. http://dlvr.it/TPp5MB

"You taught me to be kind and helpful, I stand with trans girls".

Folk in London, go and support Robin’s live show if you can. Show the love his powerful actions deserve. cosmicshambles.com/ninelessons/

Time to rewatch the new Knives Out film Wake Up Dead Man. Previously saw it on the big screen, so it'll be a little different. 1st of 2 Josh O'Connor films I saw at the festival. Anyway - this is the vicarage style story, rather than country house or fancy island.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Pumps https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101320

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Community. We can’t just let Robin Ince walk alone over this surely? The man has sacrificed everything for us.

Very full of noodles. Mmmm. 😆

Very tired, so was tempted to go home & sleep, but also need some dinner, so picking up some noodles.

🤨😠 I feel very tired.

Scriptorium is fantastic and a perfect game to play over the xmas break.

So glad it's Friday.

reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you

It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today. We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice. And then the light returns. 💡

Oooh an episode with Andrew Scott. He looks quite young.

Huge M1 pot hole discovered.

Watching some more Foyle tonight while coming to the conclusion that my dumb body is in an anti-food mood again. 🙄