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Looking forward to chatting about Niall Ó Súilleabháin's excellent new book on Thursday with @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social, Alice Taylor and Spike Gibbs here @kingshistory.bsky.social. All welcome - you can join in person or online, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

It really IS a triumph. Science is the absolute fucking suds.

Andrew went deep-sea fishing and came back with an enormous conger.

I wrote about stories, grief and memory... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/sleepers-and...

if one of the weekend supps doesn't do a '10 recipes to make with all the tins you've just stockpiled, preferably on a camping stove that's been in the loft for ten years and doesn't really work' then frankly what are the food pages for

I know everyone asks for help with fundraising but this is the charity in South London where I am a Trustee. We provide a wide range of services to the local community. Any help, no matter how small, would be so gratefully received. Thanks. communitiesfund.avivafoundation.org.uk/p/shadeandsh...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1: Writing is about making a connection. It’s a dialogue between a writer and their readers, based on shared experience and humanity. Whatever gets in the way of that, be it AI, or ego, or a lack of regard and understanding for the readership, diminishes your writing.

Gleaning group gives £1m of produce to food banks #Kernow #Cornwall

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.

If I were a professional navigator I might have opinions about this. ... Oh wait, I am, and I do.

A genuinely good news story - the building is now safe from developers forever. And the comfort-food-heavy menu will stay as is (not least the dessert menu, where one option is an entire Stilton cheese and two spoons with which to dig out as much as you want). www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...

Le Pen is the most dangerous politician in Europe right now. And just like her late father, she is also a fascist. Please let her not become President of the French Republic.

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about worms.

Courtesy of Countryfile Magazine, a headline that I am immediately adopting as a withering put-down.

Friends in or near Glastonbury: I'm giving a talk on 'The Power of Story' with Wendy Froud (artist, author, film puppet designer for The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc.) on Saturday, 17 Oct, 2:30 pm at the Glastonbury Town Hall. In-person, not online. Tickets & info here: allevents.in/glastonbury/...

Correctly blaming Putin & Farage for the demise of the UK in one day. G'wan lad.

Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”

it really sucks that the next French presidential election is shaping up to be dipshit communist vs dipshit fascist

Jessie Newbery (1864 – 1948) Scottish artist/embroiderer, a hugely important ' Glasgow Girl' as she created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art, establishing needlework as a form of unique artistic design #WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

🐈‍⬛🎃☠️ For sale! On my Etsy shop for Halloween - Victorian & Mid-century prints of writhing snakes, toads, stormy petrels, and iridescent beetles. Edwardian sepia postcards of long-demolished hospitals, ghostly soldiers & gas-lit streets. Prices from £5 only! etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

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New publication klaxon!! Very proud of this one and very glad to have worked with @drhelenroche.bsky.social @ricardameisl.bsky.social, co-editors extraordinaire. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270364... First in a new series! 2nd volume @djrgrey.bsky.social @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social in process!

Both in this and his conference speech, Andy Burnham has marked the end of the Brexit gaslighting years. I don't believe this interference changed the outcome. But it is important that we have the truth: the EU referendum was a target because a vote for Brexit undermined European security.

I didn't know Chris Wickham, but what a tremendous loss to the world. At least we have his written word. RIP.

🦔💷 Hedgehogs are minted! But what about their future? They’re heading for Britain’s banknotes, yet still need stronger protection in the wild. Let’s make them worth more than the paper they’re printed on! Read my petition update 👇 c.org/BdXw8Rgwx2 #Hedgehogs #Wildlife

If you do like public executions you should be excluded from polite society.

What does the health of the soil beneath our feet have to do with the price of food on our supermarket shelves? Quite a lot, actually, writes Martin Lines. After a summer of extreme drought, the case for farming that works with nature has rarely been stronger.

For #RoseWednesday🌹 a few from my garden just before the rain arrived: Tea-Noisette 'Céline Forestiere' (Trouillard, 1842); Hybrid Tea 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' (Bennett, 1880); Hybrid Perpetual 'John Hopper' (Ward, 1860); & Bourbon 'Souvenir de La Malmaison' (Beluze, 1843). #Roses 🌱

Amazing news London people Persephone is coming back! 🥳

If you like to read in bed, consider yourself a librocubicularist. If that strikes a chord, I’ve written a short piece about the language of book-loving here: susiedent.substack.com/p/between-th...

You can buy signed copies here... geni.us/CRnB57

This is a thing a real thing . No scamming . No AI . Just good old paper and words and generosity. I’ve done it !

Anyone saying people fake disability to rake in benefits instead of working hasn't filled in the Universal Credit Work Capability form. Not a single question about work, but 2 pages detailing how often you shit yourself. Purposefully dehumanising for an extra 217 quid a month

Hooray!

Tessa Hadley and Jeremy Lee will be in conversation about Elizabeth David and postwar taste on Friday 9 October at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Tickets available here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

If you'd like to learn to draw plants AND the neuroscience of how making things alters brain biochemistry in extremely therapeutic ways, I have have 2 full recordings (2 seasons of plants) of my botanical illustration & mental health workshops here for £25: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/reco...

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Almost no one in the world believes in international law anymore, but we still don’t want these words to lose their meaning completely. We want international law to have real force.