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Big bonus with Kagi is that its image search also lets you exclude AI images! And Erin is 10000% correct about the quality of search results. It took me time to adjust to actually finding what I was looking for each time, and not automatically scrolling halfway down the page. 😅

A blog post about writing and also drawing cows and a calf. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

Hi loves. The House Martins returned. I wrote a blog about it and made some drawings. Here it is www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

Hi, I wrote a blog about drawings falling off pages + facing the Reform fear and I guess, radical hope. Here it is: www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... Ps the blog has a drawing attached that shows an ink and watercolour sketch of a woman in a beanie hat, sitting on a sofa reading.

I saw my first bee in the garden this morning. So few bees arriving for the buffet we have put on for them, so far, this year. It was a thrill. I said thank you. And also, keep going friend. I extend that wish to you too. Thank you. You are needed. Keep going. It's tough but we can do it. 🐝

I've written about attending @improbable1.bsky.social's Dedicated & Disgruntled gathering last weekend. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... It's a love letter. But it's something else too. It's a coming out, a meditation & a prayer. If you read & like it, please share. Thank you x #DandD21

I am getting back on the Blue sky train again. I thank @terri-ann.bsky.social for never giving up on me here. And always pinging out power punches my way (despite my loooong silences). Thank you Terri-Ann ❤️🔥

Rebecca Solnit's essay made me howl rage at inequality AND feel inspired. It lays out the importance of the ecology of resistance. Every act matters. Keep going'The work continues'.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/22/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-epstein-files-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

My sketch a day 2026 challenge (is it a challenge anymore? Is it more a practice that I'm trying to build into a non-negotiable habit?) is well on its way. So far this month has involved a trip to the Lakes and Glasgow (a writing squad adventure, that was fun) and a lot of musical writing.

Dear friends, just a quick ping in to say - my first week or so of the 2026 sketch a day challenge is go. Today's sketch was of a handsome horse. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... but there is a sketch for every day of 2026 so far on my blog. If you fancy such things. That's the news x

It simply isn’t true that international issues and local issues are separate.

Yesterday I completed my sketch a day challenge for 2025😀🙏🏻🔥 Today I started all over again. To celebrate I drew some mushrooms growing on a tree. As ever there is a blog post that goes along with this drawing. If you fancy it click this link: www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

A reminder - the BBC charter renewal process has begun! The government have opened up a consultation on it and you can all have your say. I've already responded. Don't miss out on this opportunity. open.substack.com/pub/warrenoa...

Christmas continues into the weird few days before new year. Some years I have to work these. Some years I don't. Whatever, they are some of my fave days of the year. They have a bumbling/low stakes/ expansive quality that brings new ideas and excitements.

Ive LCD Sound System's 'New York I Love you' with alternate lyrics 'bluesky I love you, but I'm forgetful as hell' inside my head as I ping in 2say - I'm writing musical songs in a hotel room in Bradford this weekend with writing partner Josh. Extreme fun. I sketched this to celebrate. Good morning.

1. Great, let's do this 2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators 3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Here is a picture of my dog smiling and a link to the blog, should you want it. Good evening www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... ps the alt text = a sketch of a spaniel looking up, against a backdrop of a huge angular structure and a stormy skyline.

Sadly, I don't think solving the problem that needs solving is the problem they want to solve.

The fact that even a rich, famous actor can’t afford cancer treatment in the US is unimaginably fucked up. We HAVE to save our NHS.

Hi #writers #playwrights all of the bluesky fam - just a quick reminder that I am a playwright. I also sketch stuff. I post a sketch with words everyday. Links in my bio. Meanwhile, here is a sketch I did of a village at dusk in #bradford called #micklethwaite. Good afternoon. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

The to do list at the bottom of this article is a neat reminder of important things to think about (not just for free lancers)

Dept of Interior wants devastating rollback of Public Lands Rule,the policy that gives conservation equal footing w/drilling, ranching, & other uses on shared pub lands, devastating habitat essential to 2000+ at-risk&endangered species. Pls sign &donate if you can. actionnetwork.org/letters/defe...

#UKgovt Just being useless when what we need is vision and leadership 🤦🏻. #cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are none of them attracted to the completely available option of being, say, the one guy who spent 90 billion on tackling climate change, and becoming, forever after, the most beloved man on planet earth, all while still retaining more money than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes?

Just finding out BBC's Patricia Hidalgo alarmed that UK kids arent engaging with UK tv cos they are focused on US online content. Eons ago when the BBC cut homegrown content the argument was clear. Divest from kids lives & they'll go elsewhere. Sad but inevitable. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

It turns out that #WolfAlice are great. I thought I didn't like them. I must have been confusing them with a band I don't know the name of, who I actually don't like. That awful, unknown band is, of course, still out there. I discovered my mistake by accident while dusting.

Love this mini thread 👇🏻. I too have music that is so precious I rarely allow myself to listen to it. ❤️

Now listening: Hounds of Love. Which shouldn’t be a big deal. It’s a favourite album. But so precious is it that I’d sealed it away; perhaps only one full listen in the last 15 years. So I downloaded it. And for the first time ever I am listening to The Big Sky whilst walking under a big sky.

A #sketch of a traveller on a train.

This piece is a superb essay about the ways in which racism is being normalised by the far right in the UK. Thoughtful words. And what it has to say about Theresa May and David Cameron jolted me and made me realise just how normalised racist rhetoric has become. For your consideration 👇🏻

A link www.instagram.com/reel/DP3Qxl7... to a reel on Insta about our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay that toured #bradfordcityofculture. We had amazing feedback. Sorry it's on Insta. If you don't go there, I'm planning on writing something about the experience of making this show soon.

A sketch of my cat Lara Darling.

In other news here's a photo of a watercolour sketch I did of a street looking up towards #LeedsCathedral

The Otherhood play has been out into the world twice now and we are SOLD OUT and the shows have been going great. I mean, you have to take my word for it because who reviews theatre any more? But I would not lie to you. Ever.

Nonetheless I do have news

I am the friend who doesn't call for ages, arrives, drinks all your best booze, tells you they love you and then aren't seen again for 6 months. Blue sky pals, I am shit at doing blue sky.

In #otherhoodplay news we are in Tec Tec, baby. Which gives me plenty of time to sketch our brilliant @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social team. Onwards

www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide... folks arrested 4 projecting images of Trump Epstein & Prince Andy onto Windsor castle. Malicious information apparently. I think the law was intended 2 stop folks sharing images of up skirting not satirical comment. But this is where protest is at in the UK now.

News from yesterday: For folks interested in sketches - here's one I did during our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay rehearsal yesterday. For folks interested in threads/final draft conversation - the news is that there have already been 2 more minor tweaks. And so it ever was. Good day x

I got the final* edits done on my play. Intense. Then I walked outside & a goose was standing in the middle of our street. Shouting. It made me smile to my heart. Thank you goose. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... So today's sketch day blog and drawing is of that goose. And that's the news.

It was a full moon/lunar eclipse last night. We went out to see it in its big golden orange majesty. Magical. I love how looking up at the moon always brings me back down to earth. Humans have always been looking up at it with that sense of wonder & awe. Thanks moon. I did a drawing to celebrate it.

I continue to feel the dissonance of living in relative comfort as a genocide is live streamed. It's pushing my faith in humanity. But also the actions of folks like Global Sumud Flotilla remind me that people ARE amazing. globalsumudflotilla.org Every human matters. 🇵🇸❤️ Free Palestine.

I've also been continuing my sketch a day challenge. I just haven't always remembered to say I have (wood falling in the forest, noone there etc etc). Here's a blog post with some sketches of cast & director of the #otherhoodplay @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

Sorry it's been a while.The knack of doing things & also finding ways to talk about doing those things. At the same time. I've always found it like tapping my head & rubbing my stomach. Tricky. I have been getting the rehearsal draft over the line. And now am into rehearsals for the #otherhoodplay

I am beyond stoked & honored to share this piece that I wrote for DAME Magazine about this administration exemplifying the #math of chaos - and how _that_ may be a blueprint for the opposition. Endless thanks for the editorial support I received from the fine folks DAME!

The problem with being sick and disabled in a not-immediately-visible way is that in order to get the help you need, people have to believe you when you say how bad things are. But the minute you become sick and disabled in our deeply ableist society, no one sees you as a reliable narrator anymore.

Why is Sky News platforming someone who supports killing children?! Yaakov Katz, ex Jerusalem Post editor, just said Israel has to keep bombing Gaza until the kids of Palestine like Israel more. FUCKING PSYCHOTIC!