Anna Fielding
@annafielding.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Formerly associate ed of Stylist. Anna.fielding@gmail.com
Some news... 1. If We Tolerate This sold just shy of 5,000 copies in its first two months. Thanks to everyone who has read, responded to or shared the book so far. 2. If you haven't yet, it's only 99p on kindle for the whole of October. Get involved! www.amazon.co.uk/If-We-Tolera...
everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · last mo.This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com
I've been awake for far too long, having bleak apocalyptic thoughts, but I do also have this creature
I was 18. When my mum stayed at her boyfriends, I would stay out all night and then get to bed before she got home. That day, having seen the newspaper headlines walking home, I was still fully dressed and standing watching TV. "You're up early?" she said, with suspicion. "Princess Diana has died!"
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · last mo.I don’t have anything profound to say about the death of Diana. It did strike me at the time when people said that “and like the JFK assassination, you’ll always remember where you were when you heard” that for most of the British public, it would be “in the kitchen, making the first tea of the day”
This is startling and horrifying and far beyond what I was expecting.
Ellie Mae O'Hagan@elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · last mo.You ever wanted to know what climate change actually looks like?
The miners' strike on TV, I think. It's either that or my mum refusing to buy South African apples in Sainsburys
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWhat's the first historic event that you remember?
The time Dolly Parton got stuck into a session in a pub in Kerry
Dolly Parton in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub
YouTube video by paidiosekerry
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Dolly was an en-masse fairy godmother. Every person she stood up for, every child given a book, everyone saved by a vaccine. She made people want to Do Better without ever being sanctimonious
Cat howling with Cassandra-like desperation as I continue to underestimate the threat posed by next door's toddler
The Goonies, which I hated as a child and gets even worse when you look at it with the eye of a modern adult.
Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise? It doesnt have to be objectively bad, you just objectively DID NOT. Heres one for me since Ive been on a Barbara Loden kick lately-
In 1982 a zookeeper at the Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka prefecture accidentally discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot springs, was born. Original post
This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2mo agoAxios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Is this English phrase correct if you're American? Or is it Duolingo's error? It's probably what I sound like speaking Greek, but I don't need the mistakes baked in
I refuse to watch Love Island. I dislike their hard dead eyes
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat mundane token of modern life have you never done? I’ve never had a takeaway delivered.
William Orbit's mix of Beth Orton's Central Reservation is my favourite ever remix in a crowded field. It takes the one-night-stand regret and yearning of the original and switches it into a joyful, giddy morning after.
These wildfires are not natural disasters: at every step they are the predictable result of decisions usually made for profit. Welcome to the pyrocene, by Richard Seymour www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Welcome to the pyrocene
This summer has proved that some people would rather watch things burn than inconvenience capitalism
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it is 32 degrees and my neighbours are hosting a new age drum circle
Earlier I was trying to work just exactly which office block was Sony Music, when a girl walked out of the building with bell bottoms, a little embroidered top, a big guitar case with stickers and a far-away look. And ain't it sometimes just like the movies?
LOVING Wayne Rooney flatly dismissing the whole half-time show as "crap"
It *has* made me happy seeing Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
I've just filled this in - hopefully this terrible idea will collapse before it's implemented. Monthly tax admin would crush me.
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 3mo agoSelf-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/
I live near two schools and often overhear chat. V small boy: So we lost? Man: Yes, to a country called Argentina Boy: Are you sad? Man: I am, a bit Boy: Are Argentina a bad country? Man: [pause that contains an ocean of struggle] ... There are lots of people in every country, some good some bad
This is the kind of horror story people always dismiss as an urban myth. Jesus Christ.
Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight
Serbian man reportedly saved by wife hanging on to his legs after window shattered on journey from Greece
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We drove through the first day of this last year, taking the cat to the emergency vet. It managed to be both sad and intimidating. There were people waving toy boats, badly spelled posters and off-the-scale sunburn. But...
The battle over the Bell hotel: how a year of asylum protests tore apart a pretty, prosperous Essex town
Last summer, a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an asylum seeker in Epping and this small community was engulfed in protest. Can it recover?
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