Jack

Next Tuesday
1pm BST.
£5

Online workshop. The first of 4 on The Elements and how we can use them in writing.

Earth: caves, portals, the underworld, growth, nurture, the smell of forests after rain.

#amwriting #writesky

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323545172...

Overheard on a train 'Deptford, it's like Dalston in 1992.'

Thank you! It's like getting a tick from the teacher.

When Connor Reilly died two years into retirement MI6 cleared his flat to the last broken pencil tip on a dusty windowsill.

Six months later, when his ex wife announced an impromptu jumble sale on the first warm Sunday of May, no one except Alexei was paying any attention.

#hbp69 #spyfiction

The sound of Jell-O getting shredded is one of the most disturbing noises I ever heard in my life. This is something straight out of hell. DO NOT LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES ON!!!

This sums it up, yes.

Peter Mandelson to be announced as UK’s next US ambassador Keir Starmer on the verge of appointing Labour grandee to key post at start of Trump presidency

Never has a man been more suited the task... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is journeys!
We've picked Cumbernauld Commuters (1994) by Bill Rennie!
@artukdotorg.bsky.social
🚉☂️

Just overheard a fantastic #writingprompt on my morning walk

Said angrily: But if he's putting up shelves for all her ornaments that means...

Furiosa was this year! Time is is playing tricks on me.

I'm adopting ' those beans don't look healthy' as a general idiom.

I teach, so I can get plenty of use from it.

Is it me or is this cow a bit judgy in a positive queer-eye trim that beard kind of way.

Global investigation exposes alleged billion-dollar Russian money-laundering network UK and foreign law enforcement agencies say networks laundered cash and cryptocurrencies for organised crime gangs across the west

A global crime network called Smart?

Have self respect guys, at least go with Smersh.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

He's got a good falsetto, that's not easy! Bet he slays at karaoke.

Last week's builders next door were classic rock all the way. This week's are big bold pop hits and impressive singalongs.

I need a hero! Etc.

Dennis. Ruby. #proofofcat

Blue Has No Borders: A documentary about crossing the divide How an English seaside community at the frontline of Britain’s identity crisis shows we have more in common than what splits us apart

This seems like a very beautiful project to support #kickstarter #documentary #film

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

I demand that we bring back opium based toothpaste!

Is the Blue Hour Good? It's on my TBR pile.

Seeing as there are lots of introductions on here: my PhD research is looking at the material culture of Roman children, focussing on the site of Dura-Europos. Here are a couple of examples from the corpus of articulated bone dolls. I’m also looking at infant feeding bottles & terracotta toys.

Teaching in a new place this week and might adopt this as my power animal to get me through...

Also - 2 and 3 - can't go wrong with anything that rhymes.

Sacha! It's Meg from NMM. I literally just joined Bluesky today and was thinking this is just like old timey twitter when half the posts I saw were from Sacha about museums. I wasn't even looking for you - I was looking for all the museum peeps and you were top. How funny.

Abandoned X 2 years ago for some peace and quiet but thought if there's nice social I might join in again.

Hi!

Been here five minutes after nearly two years off all social. Have already discovered an out-of-print book so interesting it's in my world of books trolley right now, and a bunch of forgotten history walking tours I'll book once I've made coffee.

Its lovely here. Might stay.

A parody of a Tory from Private Eye: So I'm warming to Robert Jenrick. He has the vision and the haircut that could take us into 2025! He also makes a very good point about being proud of our Englishness. I myself am very proud about everything that is English - well, everything except the BBC (obviously!), the RNLI (helps immigrants), the National Trust (teaches us the wrong history), the RHS (same), the Proms (too European), the North (too depressing), London (full of You Know Whats), people who work from home (buy those Costa Coffees! young people (annoying), old people (a drain on the public purse), schools (too scary), theatres (too scary and leftie), universities (hotbeds of wokery), the courts (always complaining about lack of money), the army (ditto), the police (ditto) doctors and nurses (ditto ditto) and Peppa Pig

Private Eye hits it square on the nose again with their parody of a Tory ex-MP. These people hate so much more than they love.