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We've been on an enforced hiatus. But trigger fingers get itchy when left too idle ✍️

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First daffodils have arrived!

Just a good looking coffee

Nice enough to go out for a coffee then sit on the patio for a bit afterwards. Still not 100% though - might have/had COVID?!

Celebrating 20 years of Independent publishing.

Bringing cracking stories to readers around the world.

And our first catalogue.

We’re hiring a Social Media Manager at the British Library.

Join our Digital Engagement team and help connect audiences with the stories, collections and ideas of the UK’s national library.

📍 St Pancras
Apply by 15 March 2026
More details here: link.bl.uk/rkj

Thanks. I don't read much crime fiction - I never got into it. And I was hoping to broaden my reading beyond those most of us know.

Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot lands with Danielle Deadwyler leading Sinners film-maker’s much-anticipated relaunch of the paranormal hit show finally receives official green light

Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot lands with Danielle Deadwyler leading | US television | The Guardian share.google/KQCnQboB9krX...

I know, I'm being unfair to obscure streaming platforms here...

The US: a nation that names its illegal wars like a straight to obscure streaming platform movie/bad video game

#operationepicfury

The Unseen Internet Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

Deep Dive – Tate Etc | Tate share.google/ople480BXzEW...

A young girl in a pinafore dress is standing by a round table blowing bubbles.

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists, giving you a place to start exploring.

Here's A 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-aaerens-to-ayrton-18096

'Bubbles' by Amy B. Atkinson (1859–1916) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

#WomensHistoryMonth

Starting to think I might have had COVID? First signs of feeling more like myself yesterday and this morning after a bit more than a week. Some easing gently back in to writing on the agenda today, fingers crossed 🤞✍️

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures

Celebrate International Women’s Day with the story of Dame Ethel Smyth – fearless musical pioneer, passionate campaigner for women’s rights, and trailblazer in LGBTQ+ history.

➡️ Dame Ethel Smyth: A Musical Pioneer
📅 10 March, 1pm-2pm
🎟️ Book a FREE spot: https://orlo.uk/uFaqa

Presented anonymously 2010

Lynn Hershman, Untitled (Roberta’s Signature in Guest Book), 1975
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Panorama - Will Robots Take My Job? As Silicon Valley plans massive changes in the workplace, reporter Richard Bilton investigates the rise of the robots and what it could mean for all of us.

I for one welcome our robot overlords! Can't help but think the BBC has been enlisted to prepare us for the apparently inevitable...

Panorama - Will Robots Take My Job? - BBC iPlayer share.google/QN7sMKsLnPfK...

War of the Worlds - Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres H.G. Wells’s classic novel retold by imitating the dog...

Maybe another trip to the theatre on the cards this week.

War of the Worlds - Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres share.google/Z7brFOoUqwzM...

Happy Women in Horror Month. I am a woman in horror with books you can read this month. If you don't read them, everyone will think you hate women. Maybe you do! Who is to say?

The Sacred Memory Bank – A new exhibition exploring memory and time at Kirkby Gallery. Kirkby Gallery is set to open a brand-new collaborative exhibition in the new year. ‘The Sacred Memory Bank,’ which opens to the public on Monday, 19 […]

Exhibitions I'm looking forward to in 2026: The Sacred Memory Bank – A new exhibition exploring memory and time at Kirkby Gallery. – Culture Knowsley share.google/Cf54u5fZpveM...

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He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
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John Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain A new work by Sir John Akomfrah RA will go on display at Walker Art Gallery in May 2026.

Exhibitions I'm looking forward to in 2026:

John Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain | National Museums Liverpool share.google/cXeRlpB5K4y2...

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Apparently, march is women in horror month. Excellent! I'm reasonably good on the canonical stuff - Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Anne Rice - and enjoy contemporary stuff by the likes of Catriona Ward, but could definitely be reading more widely.

Send any/all recommendations this way pls 📚

Rock in the Forest of Fontainbleau

Rock in the Forest of Fontainbleau, 1868
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11479

lololol- this just came up for me on Youtube. "Add warmth, sincerity, & nuance to your writing" by using a mechanical device. We really are living in the dumbest - and most dispiriting - timeline

Apparently, march is women in horror month. Excellent! I'm reasonably good on the canonical stuff - Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Anne Rice - and enjoy contemporary stuff by the likes of Catriona Ward, but could definitely be reading more widely.

Send any/all recommendations this way pls 📚

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

Hello! I'm still reading Possessed which, I confess, I'm not enjoying a great deal.

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley which has some pointed thoughts on war. What are you reading at the moment?