Abbie Headon (she/her)

a puppy is laying on a couch wearing a blue pajama . Alt: a puppy is laying on a couch wearing a blue pajama .

I interviewed an author at a book festival and taught MA students about publishing! A busy week – so today I am at home in my lounging pants.

Textes from Sisyphus:

UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE

er not everyone has access to lightbulbs. Where is the candle representation

"Winding the windows down on that Messerschmidt bubblecar" #TimAndEd

Agreed! They are so positive and don't half have a way with a metaphor

"Keir Starmer has performed an unprecedented 720 alleyoop on those inheritance tax law changes. Ooof that's gotta hurt."

I'm not ready to say goodbye to Tim and Ed's commentary at the #WinterOlympics. I need them to commentate all public events from now on. "Oh my WORD that's an EPIC opening of Parliament. The King left NOTHING in his back pocket there."

Guardian headline: "Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne" with a picture of George Osborne

"Citizens who do not allow their faces to be eaten by leopards could be left behind" says the new CEO of Leopards Eating Faces, Inc.

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you

“And it’s from me!” Every time.

This is the perfect internet beef: high drama, low stakes. Like the good old days on Twitter.

Happy new decade day! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

Really in every way an astonishing, moving, shattering interview.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Still thinking about the person who came to the talk on library book bans at a conference yesterday and essentially asked “how can we make sure we ban books?” at the end

I’ve been watching the women’s halfpipe and going “OH NO” every time they fall, and it’s actually less stressful than listening to the news

Thank you to the whole @independentpublishersguild.com team for a wonderful day of learning, networking and snacking (one can’t learn on an empty stomach, after all) today at the #ipgsc. You are all so welcoming and it’s always great to see you!

Round of applause at #ipgsc when Bruce Daisley says he left Twitter before it became X and has never worked for Elon.

Oh wow this has taken a turn #ipgsc

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Pluto was robbed

Noooooo I forgot about Brexit just for a moment and then it all came flooding back.

This entire speech feels aimed at the US. Wonder if Vance is listening.

apiln not aplin sorry

I’m glad to catch up with aplin here! And with such an important news story too

And how can we get some

The Olympics said don't boo Vance but as Vance is incredibly boo-able, it had to happen

It was totally in keeping with the Olympic spirit