👋🏿 Next week is my VERY LAST in person lab exam and I'm $905 short of the coin needed to get me there/back cause Oct. gigs were iffy. Thank you for rocking with me through 2.5 yrs of continuous calamity. This is the last 13.8% of this campaign. Every bit helps.

Dydd 217 of #365DaysOfFood is a cassoulet with our own potato, swede, celeriac, shallots and garlic. Vegan / gf sausages. Lovely stuff!

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The concerted petro-populist assault on Net Zero & climate awareness has largely failed to sway the British people. But the target had always been the political class: HM Opposition AND the party leading in the polls are now gunning for Net Zero.

Fuck cancer #cansky

Ollie is seven today! Happy birthday Ollie!

This will impact EVERYONE. Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone. Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...

For @persiflage.bsky.social - handsome boy spotted by Chris near the horsebox this morning

This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.

The beat of the future starts here! Preorder JITTERBUG today from your favourite book supplier. #booksky @titanbooks.bsky.social

On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising... THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.

I want this.

Bore Da from Nantymeillion! Kettle's on so ask us anything! Back to hopefully normal #365DaysOfFood this week after a break for travelling and conventions....

The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it @westenglandbylines.co.uk @lizziejones.bsky.social westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...

When are they going to ban noisy fireworks? Charley is under the van :( I lost my heart dog Lyra to heart failure after a week of relentless fireworks and I'm sure they contributed to her death. Its not fair.

We have about 15 hours to get to £7000 - how exciting! Please consider backing if you haven't already, and please share widely!

there’s a trans woman on ‘only connect’ and graham linehan is hassling victoria coren over it. i like how he thinks he can out-fox a three time world poker champion by laying down a dipshit ultimatum and then saying ‘a simple yes or no will suffice’ like the dumbass debate-me-bro he’s become.

Huge thanks to @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @rozc.bsky.social & @hierath77.bsky.social for putting their faith in my story, & to everyone who came to the book launch this weekend. I'm very proud of this book, & to join the fantastic lineup of the @wtpress.bsky.social novella series.

Another one of my friends has taken the train too early. Fuck this year.

"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village with a truck load of Stella and the racist cunts start festooning the place with white and red Chinese tat."

My brain is stuttering at "the inhabitants of British villages are quiet, innocent folk, who like to eat breakfast and second breakfast and smoke pipes and never have adventures, and they must be protected from the forces of darkness and brown-ness." Fuck you, Elmo, you patronising wank.

Where this is reported to us we can/will investigate - there will be no tolerance for this kind of bullshit. Trans rights are human rights.

I think we were quite well behaved, having just seen @runalongwomble.bsky.social 's stash...

#JustSaying Trans women are women. Trans women belong in our communities. They are our family, our sisters and our friends. Accept that or fuck off.

I have heard more than one report of Toilet Policing at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , whether by con attendees, hotel guests or staff is unclear. Just wanna say, if you're pro toilet policing fuck off before I block you.

If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

I have had an excellent weekend at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and met / caught up with many brilliant people who I don't see often enough. Looking forward to Eastercon!

Nah, all these peppers are the wrong way up ....

Hearty congrats to all the finalists and winners!! ✨✨✨

Photos from the @wtpress.bsky.social Launch Event at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social start here: flic.kr/p/2rCRjUL #WorldFantasyCon

Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #BookSky

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team. Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social friends - i will be in the bar for the next hour or so and then in the Strange horizons tea party :) face is the same face as yesterday but slightly more hanging....

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A great story you won’t expect awaits in The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

We are 5! 🎈 THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

Please be aware if you're travelling north on the train home from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social that the trains going north / northeast are going to be very disrupted because of the terrible incident at Huntingdon. Loving thoughts to everyone who was injured.

‘The world said I was dead - in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

@sachacoward.bsky.social Fucking nailed it, well done!

Frankly gorgeous @wtpress.bsky.social boss @cherylmorgan.bsky.social and Our Lady in Reno @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social ♡

At @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - @wtpress.bsky.social have a launch in Balmoral at 3pm with @julietemckenna.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social @r-emrys.bsky.social and Chaz Brenchley (in spirit if not in actual person. They also have LOTS of books in the dealer room and are eager to sell them 2 U

Just burbled excitedly at @genevievecogman.bsky.social in the queue for the Ladies, like the very profeshanul person I am not....

@wtpress.bsky.social are still open for submissions for their acclaimed Wiz Duos – 2 novellas different writers one volume. SFF but not horror, 18-380k I understand an upbeat or upbeatish spec novella with a romantic element might find a home... @hierath77.bsky.social #booksky #writing

Saturday at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - the @wtpress.bsky.social launch is at three in Balmoral - we're launching a bunch of books and have three different kinds of cake, so be there! @rozc.bsky.social and I will also be at the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social awards, and the karaoke!

A Welsh choir performed a 'spine-tingling' version of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh national anthem, at a special concert in Malta on Friday evening which moved audience members to tears

New Review - Happy Publication Day to this great instalment in one of the best fantasy series around - The Green Man’s Holiday by @julietemckenna.bsky.social is anything but relaxing! Highly recommended and many thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Is there a Welsh version of Hallowe'en? Of course there is. But beware the Hwch Ddu Gwta! www.kickstarter.com/...

It's the last day of the 99p Kindle ebook deal for The Green Man's War. Don't miss out - especially if you want to catch up with Dan's adventures before embarking on The Green Man's Holiday which keen readers are already enjoying. You could get both for under six quid, just saying 😁

Contact @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social Day...err...3 I think! If you see this face please say hello to it! Yesterday was lovely ♡ I met @r-emrys.bsky.social and today we are launching a book together!