Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett

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periodic reminder: I want to hear about your 2026/2027 horror/horror-adjacent books so I can include them on my huge running new releases list! tell me about them here: forms.gle/BBYwJCtziLkR...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

god if you'd told me that one day I'd witness people coming out of shops to take a proper look at the rain falling out of the sky, in ENGLAND

Wow, this really sucks. Seems to be especially an issue in their TV shows.

4 days and less than £400 to go! if you’ve been waiting for dramatic purposes now’s the time to make your move 👇

Happy Father’s Day to all the papas out there. May you be as joyful as my father looks with two starlings perched upon his head. Miss you, Dad. ❤️

People in the UK who care about the rights of creators to try to make a living from their work, here's a petition to parliament. Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data. Please sign and share widely. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

If you’ve seen Backrooms and want to spend more time behind the rooms of the world, then May I humbly suggest grabbing a copy of Crawl Space journalstone.com/bookstore/cr...

Yeah ❤️

thank you Anthony Stewart Head - we’re gonna miss you dude. youtu.be/IKgVln8XmuE?...

Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself

Such awful, awful news. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the four volumes of "Persepolis", one of the greatest of all graphic novels, has "died of sadness" at the age of 56, one year after the death of her beloved husband Mattias Ripa.

Those paws! He really has become a king of kings 😍

Went to see 'The Sheep Detectives' and, I confess, I wasn't ready to be quite so emotionally compromised by a silly whodunnit. Cried at least three times ❤️

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

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So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after. Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.

My cats are totally fine but I've read about some devastating losses for others today. Hold your kitties. Celebrate them. Soak up every moment because our time with them is far too short. 💔

A new series of the Kitchen Cabinet kicks off at 10.30am on BBC Radio 4, the start of an (almost) unbroken 13 week run, and we begin at Zoe Lauglin’s institute of Making at UCL. Here she is with a display of her TKC experiments.

Someone's added flags for peace and pride to one of the Oxford roundabout lampposts 🥰

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺 This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE. Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

Went to see 'Mercy' the other evening and, yeah, it was a decent action-thriller movie with sci-fi and the element of a protagonist who's mostly sitting down, great soundtrack, liked it, would watch again, etc. However. Couldn't get "He's NOT Judge Judy and executioner!" out of my head, could I.

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

Inside this isolated rural church is a magnificent and potentially unique medieval treasure. This is St Peulan's, Llanbeulan on Anglesey, which was founded in the 7th century. 1/8

2026 thread of books read - I've missed doing this the last few years, so starting it up again :) 1. 'The Chrysalids', John Wyndham.

Onwards ❤️

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

‘Ask any curator, particularly if they work in an old building, and they often have strange stories to tell.’ And none more than M.R. James who drew deeply on his work as a medievalist and as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for his ghostly tales, writes @cjfaraday.bsky.social