Two pope-themed bottle openers, one featuring JP2, and one with Benedict 16th
The main thing is, you need to make sure you pick up a Popener in the gift shop: they make your beer extra-holy
Yes, it was an all-round win.
I got to meet Terry Jones for a Q and A at the Cambridge Film Festival. I had just read Gawain and the Green Knight. We had a fantastic chat about it. He was lovely
The League Cup semis were played in Feb 1994, and one was Man. U Vs Sheffield Wednesday, so that could be it? Would explain the black detail on the red, white and black can as well
I homed in on the "Feb" and completely missed the "1994"...
The League cup was sponsored by Coca Cola that year, and the same sides contested it
Thrilled to share the stunning cover for FOLKISH by @kymdeyn.bsky.social and make it available to pre-order now.
Artwork by Letty Wilson.
'Bold, inventive, sardonic. Ripe with scavenger gods, local saints and legends.'
Playful, spirited and absolutely furious.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
good moon tonight, large moon
no I'm not going to check the news, just look at the moon
Vital to CGI in the right breed of dog
If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.
This makes me wish me and my wife had called each other "my wife" before we married, so someone could say that to us
Thanks for posting this. It's very helpful.
Farming is “worthless” as a career if you decide - as many retail businesses did - that you won’t pay properly for its products. That doesn’t mean we don’t need food any more.
It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.
So knickers and bras is a no-no but can fellas go into the ladies shoes department? Handbags? Ooh, what about tights? And is the bit of the shelf in the Co-op with the tampons off limits too? Gosh, it’s all terribly confusing, almost like it’s utter bullshit.
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
Every tech billionaire’s personality can be distilled down to “what if friend computer?”
A lot of people who are like “you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t eat that” couldn’t even point to Potato on a map
Image shows a cardboard sign reading "Menopausal dyke for trans rights", with an inexcusably bad attempt at the trans flag in the bottom left corner
Complement to the sign I made for York Pride
Image shows the front cover of the 2025 York Literary Review, with a gorgeous illustration of two hand (painted in red) clasping diagonally across a cream cover; leaves and flowers garland the top hand. The book is available from Valley Press, whose logo is on the cover, alongside that of the YLR and York St John University
Image shows a black and white line drawing of a sink with buddleia growing around it
Very pleased and chuffed to get my author copy of the @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social, and especially honoured that my short piece, "Landscaping", was added to with a beautiful little illustration. Huge thanks to all the YLR team.
A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through
Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore
He is indeed an excellent sausage
That gospel would have been a bible by itself if he'd laid off the side hustles
Weird how the press allow Farage to self-identify as a working class man of the people when he was assigned son of a stockbroker at birth and spent most of his life presenting as a posh wanker
I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.
⚽️ “Throughout it all, no matter what team I’ve played with, or who I play against, my teammates and my opponents have always been extremely supportive of me as a trans woman. I have never had a remark or issues with anyone on the pitch” - Fae Fulconis, for @metro.co.uk
#TransWomenBelongInFootball
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
