Susannah

Gosh, I wonder what happened during this time...

Flyer advertising Death in the Spires at 99p for a limited time

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here!

(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)

www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Der Typ, der mich in der U-Bahn wegen meiner Maske blöd angeredet hat, ist sofort ausgestiegen, als ich ihm gesagt habe, ich hätte 'so eine leichte Tuberkolose'. Er wartet jetzt auf den nächsten Zug.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.

It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.

If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.

I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.

Pentagon chief Hegseth's "speech to the troops" is further proof that the word fascism is completely inadequate to describe the new advance. Fascism had less than a century of socialist uprisings, workers' and farmers' strikes to settle. Against the "reds," in short, on behalf of the bosses. These people want to settle accounts with two and a half centuries of democracy (starting with their own): with human rights, civil rights, women's liberation, the end of true patriarchy, the hegemony of the state in the use of force and weapons, the law as the equal rule for all. In short, they want to settle accounts with civilization, which disturbs their primitive male exuberance—the same as the colonists who built America by exterminating the natives.

These people aren't a political phenomenon, they're an animalistic phenomenon: the extreme regurgitation of the atavistic law—that of the strongest—rebelling against the very principles of mutual respect. This lunatic who rails against "the fat," against the bearded, against the cowardly and the gentle, and calls for war as the only measure of valor, isn't just a fascist, he's much worse. He's the uncivilized person who repudiates civilization, who considers the very principles of respect and tolerance a symptom of decadence. But he is decadent, a parody of an archaic culture aped by embittered males who are a hundred times more decadent, improbable, ridiculous, and weak than the worst woke activist. But they don't know it, they're in no position to understand it. And on top of being stupid and evil, they're armed. Do the math on what awaits us, the unarmed ones.

In La Repubblica, really extraordinary text (look at alt text), essentially saying calling this fascism is too subtle, that it’s worse and Hegseth is a lunatic.
Who am I to argue?

www.repubblica.it/rubriche/l-a...

Reading BritCard.pdf and finding the truly cursed phrase "build the digital right-to-work/right-to-rent
credential and integrate it with Home Office’s enforcement strategy".

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Banner held by Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

Over 50,000 have already joined our call to properly fund this service.

For a generation NHS dentistry has seen savage cuts

Restoring care to millions is impossible without real investment.

Sign here👉 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fund-nhs-dentistry-now

"It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.” - Terry Pratchett (Snuff)

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

ABSOLUTELY SABOTAGE

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

I think the existence of Mumsnet and Wes Streeting are unpleasant. Who is helping us with that???

“It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say ‘we knew how to protect you, but we didn’t.’”

A powerful speech from Violet Affleck.

A screaming llama standing in a green field in front of some Peruvian ruins.

*clears throat*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

A tiny Goldcrest perched on a branch with its head cocked to one side, round body puffed up and eyes wide. Its pale olive-brown feathers look soft and fluffed, and the bright yellow stripe on its crown stands out. The tilted pose gives it a sweet but slightly bewildered look, as if it’s not quite sure what’s going on.

Tiny, confused, and wondering where the weekend went.

#MondayMotivation

📷 Paul Browning

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

It is disproportionate to the point of absurdity to treat people sitting peacefully in a group holding signs as ‘terrorists’.

People are outraged by the genocide in Gaza and are entitled to express their horror.

Call on UK prosecutors to end these prosecutions: amn.st/63329ARB1U

Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.

One of the most shameful acts. These men and women fought alongside us in WW2 but Trump removed the names of women and soldiers due to their ethnicity/gender. #TrumpNotWelcome www.bbc.com/news/article...

ah yes the corrosive ideology of truth

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

“snub of US soybeans” makes it sound like China is somehow morally obligated to be buying US soybeans when in fact if you make US soybeans vastly too expensive with punishing tariffs you would be fucking stupid to be buying US soybeans, this was all entirely predictable, predicted, and now it’s real

Something we all need to see today: footballers with puppies.

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.