OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?

Was told by a vet that you can 'probably' perform CPR on a snake, and all I could think was...

So here's something shitty: Apparently when they moved to Disney, all the Netflix Marvel shows got their subtitles redone, & so now, when you have English captions on, there are No English-Translated Subtitles for non-English dialogue. Like… What the actual fuck is the good of that???

5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London. I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!

A star is extinguished, and the entire world is suddenly less bright, less interesting and less fun. Miserable news.

begging you to look at the QTs on the matcha turkey post, I am ded

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

I think my version of a grief spike/wave is really, *really* needing to talk to Dad. Grief sucks. Missing the most important person in the world sucks. I do at least have a cat on my lap.

I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰

Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever

I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Best afternoon for many reasons 😍

The horrors persist: we're out of cheese.

I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no. This is quite something. metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...

Had an idea for, wrote, edited, proofed and submitted a story in about ten days. I'm pleased with it, and I love it, and it's utterly, deliciously horrid. A nice break, too, from editing The Big Thing ❤️🕷️

I made a game a couple of weeks ago! For the very first time! Nearly 5000 people have played it! It's on the international games database! That's mad! PLUS it's about attempting to strangle a horse and dying in many, many ways! What's not to like!? AND it's free! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

I got to listen to Steve read this story at World FantasyCon and it's one of those ones that keeps floating around your head for a while. Fwaaaaah.

Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. "You find the dead man waiting for you right where you left him, leaning against the old wooden fence at the side of the road." “Where the Prayers Run Like Weeds Along the Road” in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

That sort of grief dream when you don't exactly wake up utterly miserable, but you need a quieter morning and at least two cups of good tea before getting back on the world again. (Trying to get the perfect photo with my parents before time ran out. Sigh.)

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone, My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown, The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things, My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!

Beating the inspiration addiction as per @drrachelknightley.bsky.social's Writers' Gym means, to me at least, getting down the first thousand words of a short story this morning and knowing I'll come back to it tomorrow (and tomorrow, until it's ready for the world). It's a good feeling :)

‘Garth Marenghi’s Skull Flusher’ ep 1 is now LIVE. Horror Master GARTH MARENGHI flushes the creative skull of Fellow Horror Master MIKE FLANAGAN. m.youtube.com/@TheGarthMar...

et le Premier Officier, Martin du Creff

Argh.

This is just the plastic straw hysteria all over again, and it's ableism at its finest: Blame disabled people instead of the corporations that are actually wrecking our environment, that way to poor widdle CEOs won't have to deal with people telling them to fucking STOP KILLING THE PLANET.

Starting the week with editing my pastiche of Old English poetry. It's a fun start 😁 #AmWriting

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

Bought 'One Yellow Eye' at EdgeLit after hearing about it at the panel on scaring your audience, and then going up to Leigh and saying hello. She very kindly signed my copy and was just lovely💛 And then I started reading and couldn't put it down. Finished it yesterday, in floods of tears. Loved it.

Hnnnngh that whole thing about EDS and local anaesthetics sure is an Actual Thing isn't it. (Ow.)

Sunday bath with The Kitchen Cabinet. Perfect, especially given I'm going to have a go at making kedgeree in a bit 💙

New list of medieval dog names just dropped.

Out of curiosity I did a google trends search for "are orange cats dumb". As you can see, there was nothing for 17 years and then a distinct change in late 2021 which is when @jortsthecat.bsky.social hit the internet. 😆

Had a great day at Edge-Lit, learning lots, hanging out with lovely people (and a dog!) & buying books. And then I looked up the puppet from @mrholness.bsky.social's film Possum and well now I am deeply unhappy. Looking forward to watching it in the comfort of my own home and hiding behind my cat.

Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series? HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity. 🪐📚💙📚🪐 #books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪

Desk-loaf paperweight

Born #OnThisDay in 1797 was author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the Gothic novel 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The book is considered by some to be one of the first sci-fi novels, with protagonist Victor Frankenstein using both science and alchemy to create a living creature from dead bodies.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Even more obviously, if you use ChatGPT or other LLM/GAI systems, please stop. They are bad for our society. Bad for our environment. And bad for you, with studies already showing they amplify mental illness and diminish cognitive abilities. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Urgent: me and him and the cats need somewhere to live within the next two weeks, I've just been (I think very unfairly) fired and need to move somewhere ASAP