This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians. But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.

I’m in Australia so I’m going to go off social media for now. Here’s a restful photo of my cat Spark.

Spark didn’t like having #Carturday visitors #catsofblusky #tortoiseshellcat

@extraordinarybooks.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/extraor...

The Guardian interviewed my Stepdad about his new book on lone-mass killers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

FFC interviews Ellen Greene, star of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and the new short film BEATRIX IS INVISIBLE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/11/audr...

Keep thinking about how Sensei Sergio’s ‘little Latino Harriet Tubman situation’ is ‘All legit. From the heart. No cash’

My home town #nokings

We shouldn’t name mass killers www.crikey.com.au/2019/10/15/c...

My Stepdad, Paul Mullen, is a psychiatrist, he profiled the lone gunmen behind the Monash Uni, Hoddle Street and Port Arthur mass killings. His book ‘Running Amok: Inside the mind of a lone mass killer’ comes out in a week of almost daily US mass killings. extraordinarybooks.co.uk/book/running...

I have this overwhelming desire to watch Jane Campions’ ‘Bright Star’ right now and just leave 2025 behind for a couple of hours. #janecampion #BrightStar #athingofbeauty #moviesky m.imdb.com/title/tt0810...

Spark is agile #caturday #catsofbluesky #tortie

Vale Joe Don Baker! Loved his work since I first saw him in ‘Edge Of Darkness’ when I was a teenager.

It’s #caturday and I’m on holiday in Spain so here’s a cat I saw today fishing in the reflecting pool at the Alhambra palace #caturday #cat #tabbycat

Saw a European Green Woodpecker at the Parque del Retiro #woodpecker #bird

Squirrel #squirrel #redsquirrel

Spark is a sweetie #caturday #catsofbluesky #tortie

Spark is ready #caturday #catsofbluesky #tortie

Spark is unimpressed

Spark is determined #tortoishellcat #cat

Spark is moody #caturday #tortitude

Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Spark is not dignified

"In a strange way, the wicked witch is irrevocably dead, usurped by positive, girlboss-y representations of womanhood." @alishamgl.bsky.social on WICKED, CRUELLA, MALEFICENT and the Double-Bind of the Villainess’s Backstory

Spark is hunting

Spark is in the Christmas tree #tortoisehshellcat

Watching I SAW THE TV GLOW again and is there such a thing as a movie that's *too* good? Jiminy Christmas. filmfreakcentral.net/2024/05/i-sa...

Shona made me a crochet Pikachu and he is marvellous

Spark is a hunter

Spark is almost ginger

Spark imagines living outside

Spark is hiding #tortoiseshell #cat

Spark is grumpy

Spark is not worried about looking dignified

Spark is alert

After a week away from home I am missing my Spark. I wonder if she is missing me . . .

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Special Christmas newsletter! On It’s a Life, self-sacrifice as a trauma response, and learning to live again. Hope your holidays are amazing. episodes.ghost.io/its-a-wonder...

Still convalescing from Covid so I’m not cooking - John prescribed The Muppet Christmas Carol

Spark is relaxing

I’m worried that Jeff VanderMeer is holidaying on Summerisle and is at risk from their solstice customs

Covid for the holidays.

Spark wants to join the puma on the plains of Patagonia

One thing I’m glad about is that the film of Poor Things has reminded me how much I love Alasdair Gray’s humane, strange, beautiful novels, short stories and art. #PoorThings #Lanark #UnlikelyStoriesMostly #AlasdairGray

Spark is ambitious