Dept of Interior wants devastating rollback of Public Lands Rule,the policy that gives conservation equal footing w/drilling, ranching, & other uses on shared pub lands, devastating habitat essential to 2000+ at-risk&endangered species. Pls sign &donate if you can. actionnetwork.org/letters/defe...

#UKgovt Just being useless when what we need is vision and leadership 🤦🏻. #cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are none of them attracted to the completely available option of being, say, the one guy who spent 90 billion on tackling climate change, and becoming, forever after, the most beloved man on planet earth, all while still retaining more money than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes?

Just finding out BBC's Patricia Hidalgo alarmed that UK kids arent engaging with UK tv cos they are focused on US online content. Eons ago when the BBC cut homegrown content the argument was clear. Divest from kids lives & they'll go elsewhere. Sad but inevitable. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

It turns out that #WolfAlice are great. I thought I didn't like them. I must have been confusing them with a band I don't know the name of, who I actually don't like. That awful, unknown band is, of course, still out there. I discovered my mistake by accident while dusting.

Love this mini thread 👇🏻. I too have music that is so precious I rarely allow myself to listen to it. ❤️

Now listening: Hounds of Love. Which shouldn’t be a big deal. It’s a favourite album. But so precious is it that I’d sealed it away; perhaps only one full listen in the last 15 years. So I downloaded it. And for the first time ever I am listening to The Big Sky whilst walking under a big sky.

A #sketch of a traveller on a train.

This piece is a superb essay about the ways in which racism is being normalised by the far right in the UK. Thoughtful words. And what it has to say about Theresa May and David Cameron jolted me and made me realise just how normalised racist rhetoric has become. For your consideration 👇🏻

A link www.instagram.com/reel/DP3Qxl7... to a reel on Insta about our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay that toured #bradfordcityofculture. We had amazing feedback. Sorry it's on Insta. If you don't go there, I'm planning on writing something about the experience of making this show soon.

A sketch of my cat Lara Darling.

In other news here's a photo of a watercolour sketch I did of a street looking up towards #LeedsCathedral

The Otherhood play has been out into the world twice now and we are SOLD OUT and the shows have been going great. I mean, you have to take my word for it because who reviews theatre any more? But I would not lie to you. Ever.

Nonetheless I do have news

I am the friend who doesn't call for ages, arrives, drinks all your best booze, tells you they love you and then aren't seen again for 6 months. Blue sky pals, I am shit at doing blue sky.

In #otherhoodplay news we are in Tec Tec, baby. Which gives me plenty of time to sketch our brilliant @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social team. Onwards

www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide... folks arrested 4 projecting images of Trump Epstein & Prince Andy onto Windsor castle. Malicious information apparently. I think the law was intended 2 stop folks sharing images of up skirting not satirical comment. But this is where protest is at in the UK now.

News from yesterday: For folks interested in sketches - here's one I did during our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay rehearsal yesterday. For folks interested in threads/final draft conversation - the news is that there have already been 2 more minor tweaks. And so it ever was. Good day x

I got the final* edits done on my play. Intense. Then I walked outside & a goose was standing in the middle of our street. Shouting. It made me smile to my heart. Thank you goose. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... So today's sketch day blog and drawing is of that goose. And that's the news.

It was a full moon/lunar eclipse last night. We went out to see it in its big golden orange majesty. Magical. I love how looking up at the moon always brings me back down to earth. Humans have always been looking up at it with that sense of wonder & awe. Thanks moon. I did a drawing to celebrate it.

I continue to feel the dissonance of living in relative comfort as a genocide is live streamed. It's pushing my faith in humanity. But also the actions of folks like Global Sumud Flotilla remind me that people ARE amazing. globalsumudflotilla.org Every human matters. 🇵🇸❤️ Free Palestine.

I've also been continuing my sketch a day challenge. I just haven't always remembered to say I have (wood falling in the forest, noone there etc etc). Here's a blog post with some sketches of cast & director of the #otherhoodplay @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

Sorry it's been a while.The knack of doing things & also finding ways to talk about doing those things. At the same time. I've always found it like tapping my head & rubbing my stomach. Tricky. I have been getting the rehearsal draft over the line. And now am into rehearsals for the #otherhoodplay

I am beyond stoked & honored to share this piece that I wrote for DAME Magazine about this administration exemplifying the #math of chaos - and how _that_ may be a blueprint for the opposition. Endless thanks for the editorial support I received from the fine folks DAME!

The problem with being sick and disabled in a not-immediately-visible way is that in order to get the help you need, people have to believe you when you say how bad things are. But the minute you become sick and disabled in our deeply ableist society, no one sees you as a reliable narrator anymore.

Why is Sky News platforming someone who supports killing children?! Yaakov Katz, ex Jerusalem Post editor, just said Israel has to keep bombing Gaza until the kids of Palestine like Israel more. FUCKING PSYCHOTIC!

Alan Cumming -- guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel's show -- gives a wonderful opening monologue about attacks against the #transgender community in the U.S., and more. www.youtube.com/watch?si=buv... via YouTube

Hi everyone, It's time for my #sketchaday Saturday-super-dump. A week of being back from hols. Lots of admin. Lots of @oldbirdtheatre meetings about the #OtherhoodPlay. draw #sketch #watercolour #ink #lifedrawing #lifewriting www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

I was doing my sketch a day this evening thinking about a post #boffwhalley wrote about populism and the need to resist (1/2) www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

This is a rather fabulous thing to wake up to. 👇🏻❤️🔥

@raynewman.bsky.social A quick ping in this morning to say thank you for reposting my blog last night. ❤️🔥

Rachel Reeves warns welfare rebels they could devastate govt. Emotional blackmail. 800,000 disabled people could lose benefits. Tories backing the cuts. Shameful if the Bill passes because of Tory support. Tell your MP to vote against the cruel cut. archive.ph/pJVcv

Today I wrote a blog about a fucking mug, trying to draw it while also feeling the impossibility but insistence of this moment on this planet. So I guess it's about the many decisions to say 'yes' involved in being alive in our here and now. Somehow, yes. X www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202...

No Kings Day is here. Today is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history, with millions of Americans taking to the streets in every state. This land is our land and we don’t do kings here. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings

Feeling seen 🐛❤️🤓. Though I did save a snail schlepping across an endless desert of tarmac last week. I thought it wld do better living in our mini critter wildlife park (AKA our garden). So there's that. But mostly, Im just sat there, sketching self-seeded flowers with no idea of their names. 🐌☘️

Three members of the Madleen team—Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes—are still illegally detained by Israel and may be held for another month. Arrested unlawfully in international waters and denied basic rights,

This is a great essay on fighting #antidemocratic force. Inspiring cos it describes the perils of this moment while also giving concrete ideas re ways to respond. While it's primarily #USA focused, it's entirely transposable for all: #trans, #LGBT #Eco, #BIPOC folks working for a brighter day. 🔥❤️🔥

If listening to poets talk is your thing check out my podcast The Poems We Made Along the Way or the podcast I run for @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Both can be found (on numerous platforms) here: linktr.ee/thepoemswema...

It was a proper thrill to see #BillieCollins's play (an awesome writer & @thewritingsquad.bsky.social grad 💪🏻💥❤️) #TheWalrusHasARightToAdventure at #LiverpoolEverymanTheatre last night. (2 post thread) #theatre #yes #gosee

Check out my new theatre company's new logo. I am ridiculously pleased with it. 👇🏻😀❤️

We’ve got a new logo! ✨ And here it is – a logo for our new theatre company and we love it We created #OldBirdTheatre to tell ambitious stories about #Bradford in affordable ways. We take inspiration from two birds...

This is a wellbeing room in my university.

Who are the other folk on here who love books, writing & icy places? ❄️ Please say hello! 👋

And we're off! I led a workshop with the new squad 12 @thewritingsquad.bsky.social writers in Leeds today. All about playing out with words, and finding your focus on the page.

Again, whether the attacks are coming from the far right authoritarians at the state level or the federal level, all the statements from university leaders about defending our core values ring hollow, because it is completely impossible to do that & comply with the fascism: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Perspicacious from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social who points to the similarities between Liz Truss and Badenoch and Farage. Liz Truss whose bizarre speech in Budapest, blaming globalists like the IMF and WHO for the downfall of the West, was faithfully summarised (& no doubt celebrated) in Russia’s Tass

Wow. This is so dangerous. I know the thing is just a plausible phrase generator, but the fact it seems to have been programmed to flatter turns it in effect into a lying seduction machine. Horrified that so many people are rotting their own brains with this this uncanny valley parasocial interface