as always, in need of hope 🪷

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Roscoe with 1983 and a postcard of her which depicts her looking unusually cheery

The rear cover of 1983

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.

It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…

a poster that says good sabbath with a heart shaped cloud ALT: a poster that says good sabbath with a heart shaped cloud

There's just too much drama in the world around us. If I want drama, I'll go to a show. What we need now is Intermission. Shabbat is my intermission from so much around us. I hope you bless yourself with holy rest, regardless of your religious tradition or lack thereof. Shabbat Shalom

Suggested Bad Buddy to someone who watches a gazillion things at once (she's curious about BL but hasn't been getting on with the ones algorithms show her) and I thought I could watch it at her pace as I've seen it twice and 1 episode in it's like inject that chaotic boy energy into my veins 😂

uff. not for me

i read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before i had the maturity or life experience to understand it.
all i remember is the main character's intention to live as an ascetic, a word i did not yet know but confused with aesthetic, which i had probably read in another book. this did not help.

i am tired of having to manage my mum's emotions

YouTube video by Movieclips The Blues Brothers (1980) - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Scene (6/9) | Movieclips

It's the 31st here now, so:

#DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge
Day 31: Sometimes, something, somewhere, somebody in the title

“We certainly hope you all enjoy(ed) the show”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV0...

thank you for sharing this with us.
may their memories be for a blessing.

For this year's "Return of the Names" on October 29 in Jerusalem, an event commemorating victims of Soviet terror and supporting today's political prisoners and hostages in Russia I read three names of strangers, did so in Russian+English+Hebrew+Arabic.
The names are as follows.

oh please no 😨

oh you'll get to see Est? happy for you 😊

and do say hello. it's hard to make friends when you have different interests, but there it's guaranteed you'll have something to chat about

It's all kinds of fun to have spent the past 2 years on this website being accused of genocide because I'm Jewish and seeing the same damn people be 100% on board with a fucking primary candidate who got a symbol of the still-within-living-memory genocide of my people permanently inked on his chest.

are you kidding me? i'll never get to go so i am living vicariously through your posts ❤️

just do it next time. you're in another country. if it goes badly you'll never have to see her again.

especially when you have a chance to bond over your favourites, even if it's just for a few minutes.

As Darfur's last city falls, fears grow 'there will be no one left to save' Sudan's army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.

The suffering in Darfur is staggering.

Now there are warnings of a repeat of the Darfur genocide two decades ago.

Perhaps no one left to save because “all eyes” were turned elsewhere by terrorist propaganda.

No protests. No flotillas. No one bothered to care.

www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

French intelligence services say the red hands were part of a long-term strategy by Russia to use paid proxies to divide public opinion, stoke social tensions and spread false information, according to court documents. Governments across Europe have accused Russia ... of a campaign of sabotage...

Shhhh 🤫

which is the museum with the creepy dolls again? don't let them see this please.

Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days

Millions starving. Hundreds of thousands killed. Ethnic cleansing killings continue as I write this. I'm sure there'll be marches and flags at any moment.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This arrived today 😊 
Thanks Tom

going to re post, i forgot to turn off the anti fingerprinting when i posted a picture of your book. it's that kind of life.

perfect 😍

if it stays dry long enough, i'll take a box out to see what Rocky thinks of it. he's not one for sitting though. maybe if i put it in what's left of the sun...

1) Reading this review on fatigue in other diseases: it's notable how it manifests early in the illness (often before diagnosis), how it's often poorly explained (correlates poorly with pathology markers), yet is reported to be one of the most disabling symptoms.

he was acting like he'd just discovered water. which seems implausible in scotland. the water in the drainage tray under a big pot needed lots of patting. even though it was wet 😊

giant floofer cat came bounding over the fence to say hello today.

he was very interested when i emptied a planting trough full of rain water... until he discovered it was wet. twice.

UK-based people: If you read this excerpt & enjoy it & decide to buy the book today, let me know & I'll send you a ltd edition postcard of the map from the book AND one of my dad's time-travelling cat postcards.

P.S. I recommend Blackwell's (free delivery): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

It's as if we were characters in a film, not actual people.

First 10 responses to a thwarted attack on synagogues and one only expressed thanks no one was hurt.

Can we just fucking not do this every time???

Of course the suspect is probably right wing, doesn’t mean we need to joke about it.

The Jews are tired.

“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found.

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

- Gandalf