Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

and I am listening along with the episodes as I read the books. It's been wonderful to listen in to the "book club," so to speak, of a storyteller I admire :)

The Family Tree is one of my favourite podcasts ever made, and when I finally got around to reading the Moomins this year a little memory pinged in the back of my mind and I thought, "Wait, didn't Dave Pickering do a show about the Moomins, too?" And to my joy it exists ++

Another bonus episode of The Podgoblin’s Hat is out! Wow! We are really spoiling you. I suggest really basking in it because looking at my summer schedule it’s going to be a while before the (already completely recorded) next season of the show comes out: podfollow.com/the-podgobli...

What’s that you say? A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Mendel Skulski from @futureecologies.bsky.social came out yesterday? Listen and subscribe to The Podgoblin’s Hat wherever you get your podcasts. podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson

This is excellent from @zinovievletter.bsky.social on the relationship between mainstream media, right wing politicians (including the Labour right) and transphobia (but also, emerging signs of resistance). novaramedia.com/2025/04/29/h...

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

Did you listen yet to the latest episode of The Breakup Monologues? Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with guests @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan. Listen now at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 #podcast #books #comedy

New episode of The Breakup Monologues! Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan Listen at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 With thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social - go and buy The Breakup Monologues book there 📚 🙌

I wrote a thing to offer some activism tips using the language of one of my favorite mediums, #TTRPG "what we can learn from collaborative storytelling games, and how to apply that to activism in the real world" kittystryker.medium.com/roll-for-ini...

Blaming the left for the rise of the far right instead of the centrists that have absorbed their policies and rhetoric and shifted everything rightward how very Guardian

Don't think the quiet part has ever been louder than in the "Palestinian refugees accidentally allowed into Ukrainian refugee program" story

The protestor who waved the Palestinian and Sudanese flag at the Super Bowl half time show has been detained #AllEyesOnSudan 🇸🇩🇵🇸

Live podcast recording 📣! Come be in the audience for this Galentine’s Day chat about breakups, love and relationships with guests including hilarious Kate Martin and Polari Prize winning author Nicola Dinan at South London gem The Poodle Club 🐩 📚🎭❤️‍🩹🤩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ wegottickets.com/event/644852/

If the right (or anyone actually) were serious about young people and sexual exploitation they might vocally support youth services and RSE. The cuts to both of these since 2010 have been destructive. *crickets*

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

It’s been my tradition to do twitter threads about what I’ve been up over the last year - mostly work and creative projects, things I’ve read and played. Because of the fragmentation of socials, this year I’ve done that as an olde worlde blogpost: martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/2...

I just worked out that in my years as a podcaster I have now made 15 Christmas Specials across multiple projects. Here are some of the best ones that work outside of context they aired in which can be found most places you get your podcasts:

you've got just enough time to catch up on #ChristmasCarollusionist parts 1 and 2 before we start part 3: The Ghost of Christmas Present today at 12.30pm PT/3.30pm ET/20:30 UTC www.youtube.com/live/mjrQfSH...

A bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest @helenzaltzman.bsky.social is out! Listen and subscribe to The Podgoblin’s Hat wherever you get your podcasts. podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #TheFirTree #MoominlandMidwinter #TooTicky #Moomintroll

My show The Time Show is now live and available to watch on YOUTUBE. If you would like to watch it I would absolutely love that. youtu.be/ifAnxeFXO2g?...

“everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing”

It’s here! And not too late to order as a Xmas gift! @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/publications...

I had a history teacher who in 1986 told us that the Berlin wall will sadly not fall in our lifetime. I think about this all the time when idiots insist that some circumstances cannot be changed

My book asks 'what can consent do?' Increasing consent increases our capacities to act and thus enjoy things more. Everything from sharing a pizza, watching a movie, to sex. It's how we deal with power and also how we get free. The drawings are cute too. www.bishuk.com/can-we-talk-...

not an expert in economics but I imagine the rational way to bend this cost curve is to deny protection to any executives who have engaged in behavior that puts them at risk of class warfare, sort of a pre-existing condition clause but for profiting off the suffering of the masses

Young people in West Yorkshire feel there is a “class ceiling” and “a lack of support and guidance” preventing them from building successful creative careers. 83% believe that not having industry contacts would hold them back. We can make a difference! arts-emergency.org/west-yorkshire

Now with a working link! www.arts-emergency.org/west-yorkshire

You might know me as an award-winning sound designer, but did you know I also make music for podcasts, live shows, and more? I am available for work, book me! youtu.be/chcewxQub4o?...

It's Audioverse Award Season! We've polished our little eel show up and brushed it's teeth all sparkly and we'd love for you to put us in your ranking in the New Productions category. Head over to audioverseawards.net/vote/ before December 21st to vote.

The default example for destroying cultural heritage sites is always the Taliban's destruction of Bamiyan's buddhist statues, but never Mount Rushmore.

I do regret that none of the guests were disability activists, although part of the conceit of the episode is that it’s about talking to doctors which was partly related to how the episode was funded.

I was conflicted when I made this documentary and I remain so. But on balance as there are so many tides of fascism happening pragmatically I’m currently on the against side of the scales. But I resent that the scales exist. It could be so much more nuanced. But it isn’t.

… coupled with both better end of life care in general and a world that supports all people to live well, that is sadly not the world we currently inhabit. And yet I do believe in autonomy and less pain and suffering. And I know what my dad wanted and wish he’d had it.

Things are very different now than when I recorded these conversations (which was just before the pandemic). My personal view currently is we can’t trust the current government, or many other governments, so whilst in a perfect world I believe in #AssistedDying…

So since #AssistedDying is very topical due to #AssistedDyingBill I thought I’d share this episode of Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad which is about the issue: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Bonus episode of The Podgoblin’s Hat with Nina, Dave (me) and our guest Hanna Wołoszyn is out. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/the-podgobli... #Moomins #ToveJansson #TheHemulenWhoLovedSilence #MoominvalleyInNovember #TooTicky #Moominmamma

The strength of feeling over the last few days has blown us away. Underneath the reaction it strikes us that there is a deeper, more important anger - an anger that asks - where are the structures to support creative audio? Where do new audio imaginations get to grow? 🪴

We were in bits when we saw this open letter on Friday, put together by a group of audio-makers. It’s Sunday morning as we write this and it already has well over 800 signatures. 😭 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I would be SO fucking embarrassed if I was a @bbcradio4.bsky.social commissioner and cancelling @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social's #ShortCuts happened on my watch. Or, worse, at my behest. I'd be season 3 Kendall Roy embarrassed

We urge the BBC to reconsider their cancellation of BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts. It is irreplaceable, with a dedicated audience, an unmatched cultural impact with a team that nurtures talent and stories with a rare sensibility and care. Sign our open letter: tinyurl.com/34pn38m4

according to the derveni papyrus, an important text elucidating the beliefs of the Orphic mystery cult, the cosmos as we know it was created when zeus swallowed the severed penis of the dead god uranus and gave birth to the universe :) and i think that's beautiful

This was an obituary written for my dad by @patrickbrussell.bsky.social amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/de...

I made this podcast about my dad in the months before he died. It’s about his life, his experience of dementia and really about friendship and love. It might be the best audio thing I’ve ever made. And is availabke wherever you get your podcasts podfollow.com/sunlesspod/v...

I wrote this poem about my dad on the day of his cremation

4 years today since my dad died. Typical cis man he had to go and die on trans day of remembrance rather than international men’s day the day before! But to be honest there is always enough remembrance to go round. Sending love to people remembering people, they remain alive within us.

This poem is beautiful and relates something I have felt a lot recently. Like when I was told that 'our grandparents' survived this so we would. But you could only believe that if they did all survive long enough to meet you and tell you about it.

Interesting how the @guardian.extwitter.link was able to find the fascist funding of the anti-assisted dying campaign but not the - considerably more extensive and longer term - fascist funding of "gender-critcal" organised transphobia... It's almost as though they didn't want to find it.

because I can't count... 3) if you block someone who quoted you, your post disappears from theirs to be replaced with "user is blocked" This is the ultimate power move. Watch them scream as their timeline is just a bunch of dunks of nothing. They hate it! Keep bluesky hostile to jerks!