Some of the best descriptions of what Hookland is about have come for others. @neilphilipmyth.bsky.social described it as a: 'Rewilding of folklore'. This is perfect and true. Yesterday, @kayorchison.bsky.social described is as: 'A haunting in a matchbox.' This is something I try to make true.

There's a startup radio station from #Brighton crowdfunding to deliver music, environmental action, and an antidote to #ClimateAnxiety. Sounds like a great combination to me. Please share & chip in. >> www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/launch-bra... << #Sussex #ClimateAction www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXL...

I'll be over on Dungeons & Dyslexia tonight to talk about gaming! Come and join us! www.youtube.com/live/YFzfHSv...

Last time for 2026! Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Did I mention I'm in this? Not long now!

If you're an environment artist and you're based in the UK we will be hiring in the New Year. Job listing will be posted on our website in January. #indiegame #gamedev

Using the theatre kid discourse as an opportunity to point out that Opera House is fantastic and it's a travesty it's only a silver seller - www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Have you got a TTRPG project coming out in Feb 2026 or beyond? Let me know about it! I am always on the lookout for new games to feature in my forthcoming and indie round-up columns for TTGM. DM me, reply here, email me, however you would like to get in touch.

NEW The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

"I think I am here to chew bubblegum and to kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum."

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

The world is fucking awful right now. Which means that sometimes? For some people, that thing you made and nervously shared is the only good thing, with a human scale, on the timeline. So you know. Keep going, creative friends. This really matters. Anyway thought I’d lost this image but I hadn’t.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

The ME Association is investing £1.1m in the largest charity-funded biomedical study in ME/CFS. Imperial College London, co-led by Professor Danny Altmann, will compare immune and metabolic pathways in ME/CFS and Long Covid to uncover shared mechanisms. meassociation.org.uk/2025/12/driv...

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

(You play a member of the SES, the Special Elf Service. It is Christmas Eve and Santa has briefed you personally: your mission is to deliver coal to the stockings of the worst people in the world: war criminals, dictators, corrupt presidents, tech billionaires, and J K Rowling. Delightfully silly.)

Another Brexit economic verdict arrived last month in the form of an 83-page NBER working paper - and it is devastating. What shocks me more is how politely politics continues to look away from the person who drove the bus.

What the absolute fuck, Labour. There seems to be no end to their capacity to horribly disappoint.

#OtD 6 Dec 1938 members of the Australian Aborigines’ League led by William Cooper marched to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter condemning the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...

I wrote this on the 30th anniversary and included a list of their names along with small blurbs curated about them, their lives/dreams. Then I shared a powerful story I heard when I was invited to speak at a memorial at my old alma mater, @uwaterloo.ca. #Dec6 nancyforde.substack.com/p/imagined-l...

We navigated by The Hum. Transmission tower to transmission tower, compelled to walk below its prophetic song. The electric ley of the land manifesting in sound, steel and porcelain insulators. Writing itself as map tattooed on our bones. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

Currently exactly one response to this and the call closes today so if you want to get some eyes on your project this Friday, now's the time.

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite. Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar

"The NUJ Disabled Members’ Council calls on journalists to challenge harmful portrayals about disabled people and shift the narrative from blame to one centred on rights, access and inclusion." The NUJ statement on the #InternationalDayOfDisabledPeople www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Just so sad and angry about what's happening in the UK thanks to a small group of hateful transphobes and a much larger group of people who should do better but let the bigots walk all over them.

Gotham backstreets

The Mouth Of Winter starts today. Chapter 1 is up. It's a grimdark fantasy/horror novella about mercenaries, monks, and the ancient thing sleeping beneath a mountain monastery. One chapter every day through December 25th. loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 #TheMouthOfWinter ❄️ #HorrorSky

I want to talk about Stranger Things for a moment. Before I do, I have to admit that yes, I notoriously like things, and yes, when I am part of a fandom, I generally just accept all aspects of being a fan of that thing, and care not for the little issues or problems. I LIKE liking things.

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions. The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity? An image forms in the machine. A classroom. No trousers.

TEETH BUNDLE!!!! TEETH BUNDLE!!!! TEETH BUNDLE!!!! itch.io/s/167336/tee...

Thank you, Jen Craft MP, for raising the Covid Inquiry report at PMQs. Boris Johnson's negligence resulted in thousands of avoidable deaths. That is why we are calling for his access to the £ 115k-a-year ex-PM allowance to end. Sign our Petition: c.org/7NCWHGntgg

🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Patients shouldn't be risking their lives and health when going *into hospitals* for diagnosis or treatment. #Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable. Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... #Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

There comes a point when we begin to encounter more polite, respectful and well-mannered ghosts than we do people. This is why I tell those who ask that I prefer the company of spectres to that of the living. - #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

This is outrageous from Keir Starmer. ‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ?? news.sky.com/story/starme...

Lovely to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the The Royal Photographic Society alongside some great names in the industry, including Ragnar Axelsson , Amak Mahmoodian , Richard Billingham and Janine Wiedel. rps.org/about/awards...

Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste! ➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow #asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights

I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.” If they support them they will too.

I honestly didn’t think I would have time to put anything out, but then the cat woke me at 5, I got annoyed by a gleeful Telegraph at 6:10 and suddenly the hours up to 08:30 and my lunchbreak became very, very productive.

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

The long term harm caused by #Covid is well-documented in hundreds of thousands of research papers and clinical reports. #longcovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social

you have been visited by Baby Bison and will now enjoy 48 hours of elevated serotonin

Amy Madigan! Mainly for the pictures, which are ace. Beware massive WEAPONS spoilers with no warnings) in the text. Doesn't mention Walter Hill's STREETS OF FIRE, love her in that.

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund