I was so happy with this recommendation for The Redstone Rescue on Tumblr - such a relief to see a reader finding exactly the book I hoped I was writing.

How to Triumph Like a Girl #AdaLimon

🏴‍☠️ quote with your: cover + first page + link 🏴‍☠️ turnanother.page/book/the-red...

This gives me life.

5️⃣ reasons to vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 5️⃣ rheswm i bleidleisio dros Blaid Cymru yn 2026. 💚

Aside from the lack of history, decentralisation, constitutional protections and that the UK has a winner-takes-all political system, The Home Office is institutionally predisposed to abuse any system it can, and government procurement means it is highly likely to be disastrously implemented.

Can we hit a million signatures today? I sure think so! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Is Digital ID the same as GOV.UK One Login? Which is both a cross-service system and a native phone app. Is it the same as the "GOV.UK ID Check" app? Which itself is neither of the "GOV.UK One Login", "GOV.UK" or "UKVI ID Document Check" apps. Is it Government Gateway? Is it your NI number? 🤷‍♂️😵‍💫

A very entertaining stream that only requires a strand of your attention.

kpop demon hunters: another excellent entry in the canon of films directed by Asian millennial diaspora on a theme very dear to my heart 💗 the theme of: "your Asian parents didn't let you have emotions when you were a kid" +++

Pretending I know which way to point a bow and arrow, this evening.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1. Horses (and other equines) training, behaviour, performance, history, etc &co. 2. Software development/programming languages. 3. Guitars, electric, acoustic, and those who play them.

As someone who thrives on the joy of discovery I wholeheartedly endorse this. Stalking the corners of Bandcamp and finding something great is a real pleasure.

Pretending I know which way to point a bow and arrow, this evening.

An all-timer bassist, he also frequently played with Richard Thompson, to whom he was not related.

From the top of Moel Feddau we could turn a circle and see Ireland, North Wales, South Wales, Gower, and England. It really feels like a heart place for Wales, in sight of so much of the country. I wonder whether that is part of its prehistoric significance.

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

From the top of Moel Feddau we could turn a circle and see Ireland, North Wales, South Wales, Gower, and England. It really feels like a heart place for Wales, in sight of so much of the country. I wonder whether that is part of its prehistoric significance.

A bright and exceptionally clear day. From the top of Preseli you can see the whole of Cardigan bay, right around to the Lleyn Peninsula as well as the western Bannau Brycheiniog and Gower. All of West Wales spread out around us.

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

Do we have a new anthology project in mind? Oh yes! Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/...

In the writers' room this week for What Just Happened. Failing to play it cool. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

An essential part of my childhood - I drew every Elite ship hundreds of times in the margins of my notes at school. Also getting Robert Holdstock to write the accompanying novella was genius. It was a genuinely great read.

You can't hate yourself into being a person you'd love. You become that person by doing kind and loving things toward yourself, even when you hate yourself the most. Especially when.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

8 days to go… come on people 😱 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

This makes it very hard to unit test anything that depends on the devil.

Enjoying The Legend Of ShenLi but if they set a maximum of ten seconds for lingering stares and stopped the endless replaying of clips from earlier episodes it would be a tight half hour show instead of a slightly rambling 43 minute one.

Nothing's built to last these days - this is completely dead and I've barely had it twenty years!

When people say “climate models could be wrong”, they are technically correct but should be aware that the models could be wrong by underpredicting change.

I finished The Folded Sky today - it features academic rivalry, family drama, first contact with ancient sentience, and space pirates. I feel like these books are the closest inheritor to the Culture that I've read, albeit one where the utopian galactic polity feels a little less smooth.

As always,

You can't be held liable if a werewolf you made up somehow manifests and merks a guy. What they call a legal louphole.

Another poll today which again underlines that there is a clear choice facing voters in Wales - and two possible futures. Plaid Cymru’s policies are guided by hope not hate. We will improve public services and we will always stand up for fairness for Wales. Join us to ensure that fairer future.

Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚 alt text please

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy

Strongly recommend that that the GM, producer and soundtrack composer should not be the same person unless they're a true weirdo. The production help I had over the years was life-saving but doing all three roles myself for most of the show's run was not something I would ask of anyone else.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

In addition to his cinematic achievements, good looks, and charisma, Robert Redford was authentically a horse girl, an admirable quality.

The obvious one

7,977/10,000 signatures! Come on UK folks, let's get this to the next stage

I just finished "Orconomics" by @jzacharypike.bsky.social and it was a great time - a crew of washed up adventurers get a second chance in a classic RPG-setting world where the economy is based on adventuring. Following the concept to it's logical(?) conclusion leads to a twisty rollercoaster ride.

Pronounced with a hard "g" an evangelist becomes someone who spreads the word about mech animé.

Hera persuading Aphrodite to cast a spell on the king of Colchis' daughter so she would fall in love with Jason and help him retrieve the golden fleece is a classic early example of Medea manipulation.

It's been a rough year for everyone right-thinking and I'm just saying maybe we deserve to have a nice treat, like maybe pushing the equinox back a few weeks? Only for us northern hemisphere folks, of course - I don't want to be too demanding! Just a few more weeks...

A short story: They keep letting the creature in because it's polite. It crawls in, eats 1 of their children and leaves. They do not harm it cuz it always thanks them afterward. A young hunter offered to hunt down the creature; he was exiled. "How rude!" said the father of the last child in town.

Some more playing with the lasso and fill tools. This was a tricky subject and I don't know I quite caught it but the haws on the thorn bushes are extraordinary this year.

Writing has been completed, the frame freezes and then fades to siloe... silhoe... silohue... The frame unfreezes and a new health bar appears above the typewriter.

Does economics actually work? I know we've based our whole society on it in the same way that medieval society was based on the church, but unlike the unfounded superstitions of the past economics is a real reproducible science with proven predictive power, right? It's not just vibes, right?

Today was a climbing day - up and around the top of Cader Idris. It was tough going for us soft southerners and the rain came in hard as we reached the trig point so we were drenched, then rewarded with cloud smouldering up from the valleys as the sun returned.