Laura Robertson

Elliott Smith, Figure 8 ❤️🤍🖤 what an album.
Print by Ben O'Brien.

#vinyl #illustration #bentheillustrator
#elliottsmith #geffenrecords

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

I think you might have to sit down to read it at the right time. I've never found a way past the first two chapters before impatience with the text sets in

Two ring-like galaxies. On the left is a galaxy with a bright core surrounded by a yellow ring. There is a gap between the core and ring where the black background of space shows through. The galaxy is tilted so that the circular ring appears oval-shaped. On the right is a another circular galaxy, made mostly of a ring of bright blue dots, which are star clusters. On the bottom left part of the ring is a haze of white stars and orangish dust. The center of the ring is empty and the black background of space shows through. This galaxy looks a little like the writing of the aliens from the movie Arrival.

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298.

The clumpy, blue ring in the galaxy on the right likely formed when the companion galaxy to the left crashed through its center.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
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new bluesky people, hello.

i have written a couple of books:

THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (2025) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

LAST CALL (2021) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Something akin to fondness rather than nostalgia? Cheekiness always warms my heart. Then there's the hometown connection

ALL KINDS OF EVVVVRYTHIIIINNGGG. This was buried in my subconscious

Applications for the 2026-2027 Representing Wales programme are now open!
Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025.
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Deadline midnight tonight:
East Midlands writing mentoring scheme
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writingeastmidlands.co.uk/for-writers/...

Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World x Oliver Basciano 320. June 17, 2025, Faber and Faber. Non-fiction. It took me longer than normal to read this book; in certain places it’s really hard to get through—for empath reasons. It shows so clearly how huma…

Heartened by @hararereview.bsky.social 's description of Outcast: "Fascinating and expansive, you’ll likely never read anything more magisterial. If you read just one non-fiction/history book this year, make it this one".

Taking this as my Nobel.

hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

This tour might be fu--

Ta Roy, I'd love to 🍺 x

It'll be the first adult book acquisition for editor Nicola Hands, and my first book with an international press.

I'm still pinching myself!!!

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Released in time for Halloween 2027, NIGHT will be a luxurious hardback trade book, including approximately 150 Tate archive and collection works from international artists who are haunted by, and moved by, the night.

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It's taken five years to learn how to write a book proposal whilst juggling various academic and freelance jobs. I'm absolutely over the moon that I'll see my own book, my name, in bookshops all over the world (yes, Waterstones too!).

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EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

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"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."

From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...

📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018

Two books. The Wayfarer’s Weird, a collection of uncanny and ghost stories about rambling. And Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Another friend sent me more books and a friend paid for my fancy lunch (by bank transfer). I won at birthdays this year.

True true 😂 then, work it girlfriend

You could (and it's a stunner) but I'd be a boiling sweaty mess after ten minutes in this cardi in this weather

Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century.
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower

An extraordinary day spent with our new students, telling us who they are, who they want to be, and sharing their enthusiasms.

Then I turn into the night, check the news, and it’s full of violence and those who would like to use it to bring about even more.

Create spaces of care where you can.

Bedside table: currently re/reading for/around Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other. conference in 2026. On intersectional feminism, animism, horror and folklore.

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall The writer Sarah Hall on her new novel - Helm - and its connections to three other books.

Why have I not listened to this before? Great hearing from author Sarah Hall about her latest, Helm, and the books that informed, influenced and inspired the writing of it in various ways ▶️

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall share.google/sm6Hgob2hD8q...

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller dancing at the April in Paris Ball in New York (1957)

Stop me before I kill again

Silent Running robot

Silent Running robot

Silent Running robot

The 'Silent Running' little guys, acrylic on canvas, from a while ago.
#art #artsky

A Kestrel clings to the side of a tree trunk, head thrown back and beak wide open in a dramatic cry, its golden eyes round with outrage and wings slightly flared…the exact expression of someone being shaken awake on a Monday morning before they’re ready.

"Honey wake up it's Mon-"

"NOOOOOOOOOO."

#MondayMotivation