Happy news today to have my story "Hell Is Empty" accepted by the brilliant Supernatural Tales. Gone back to writing short fiction this year, and that's the first one to move so far.

Screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing in Ireland, Germany, France and Belgium as well as further afield. Governments aren't being transparent with the public about the severe threats to society posed by climate & nature breakdown. Until that changes, civil society is stepping up. #PEBuk

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

People here are exhausted. Every time we want to swim in the sea, we need to check an app to make sure Southern Water hasn’t pumped sewage into the sea. Now we’re in a heatwave, South East Water has turned off the taps. We have no choice about who we pay for this service. We feel powerless.

Let's reach 200k! It's decision time for NatureScot as their board is soon to decide on whether to grant a licence for the 2026 Guga hunt. Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...

Last call for bookings - WRITING THE OCCULT: SEEKERS runs tomorrow, with a wide range of talks, interviews and more! www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th... #writing #writers #paranormal #occult #supernatural #fortean #authors

Writing the Occult - Seekers

Come and join the hunt for all things supernatural and otherworldly as Writing the Occult presents its SEEKERS event!

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😀 Hey viewers. We think that you may be so profoundly stupid that you believe that we have reincarnated dead people for this episode of Question Time.

Rick Burin@rickburin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The clarification at 0:45 is fantastic

'Our Land features some of the most beautiful English vistas imaginable. Enjoy them on screen if you can, because you’re unlikely to visit them in person any time soon: vast swaths of the English countryside are fenced off by their owners, whereas in Scotland, freedom to roam is a public right.'

Our Land — a stunning documentary about the ever more inaccessible English countryside

The film, featuring Right to Roam activists and landowners alike, is a study of capital, class and exclusion

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Walk, coffee, dolphins. Good start to the day. Then one of us ate a dirty old crab leg off the pier and it wasn’t me. #sunderland #dolphins

+ 'MID CENTURY' IDENT CLOCK + Produced as a recent commission, we are making a very limited run of these handcrafted wooden clocks available to pre-order later today. 10 will be available via our mailing list at 1pm (link in the bio to sign-up) with another 10 going live at 6pm via our online shop.

tbf, she styles it out pretty well

Come to our Sunderland screening of National Emergency Briefing - Climate and Nature Crisis, May 15th, Port Independent. Film, discussion, and plans for how we follow it up.

Screening: National Emergency Briefing - Climate and Nature Crisis

Auburn Langley and Iain Rowan are hosting an exclusive screening of the National Emergency Briefing

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National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Check out your nearest screening, and we're looking forward to hosting our screening in Sunderland on 15th May.

National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨 The People’s Emergency Briefing. A new film building on last year’s National Emergency Briefing. A friendlier, watch-together version that pulls no punches and inspires action. Learn more here; nebriefing.org/the-film #PEBuk

Do they though

One week until I’ll be chatting with Mark Norman about my forthcoming book on the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas at QUAD in Derby. And it’s just one event amongst a plethora of eldritch endeavours at this year’s UK Ghost Story Festival

No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas - Jon Dear Interview | Derby QUAD

View our latest event: No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas - Jon Dear Interview. See what the available times are for this event.

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Hemingway: “There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes”.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 6mo ago

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Even the Countryside Alliance must be getting tired of this nonsense. The hunt has little to do with the 'rural way of life'. The vast majority of rural people object to it. There is no culture war. If the hunt hadn't spent two decades flouting existing laws trail hunting wouldn't be in focus now.

Buying into Prince Andrew now being 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' is political and palace sleight of hand, and plays into the suggestion he isn't exactly what he is. The son of a prince, the brother of a prince, the uncle of a prince, the father of princesses. He's not the glitch. He's the product.

If you'd like to back the call to end the hunt without going through the ad-infested hell that is any UK local newspaper, then the direct link is here. protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...

Gannet petition - Protect the Wild

Petition to NatureScot: 'Revoke the Licence to Kill Gannets on Sula Sgeir'. 24961 people have taken action so far. Help us reach 50000 First name Last name Email Phone Subject Letter We, the undersign...

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Protect the Wild@protectthewild.bsky.social · 6mo ago

25,000+ have now backed our petition to end the Guga hunt!

25,000+ have now backed our petition to end the Guga hunt!

Thousands sign petitions to see halt to guga hunt licensing — with pressure mounting on Inverness-based NatureScot

Calls to stop authorising a historical bird hunt are continuing — following protests which have seen an Inverness building vandalised.

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Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Potholes: 'I do not feel safe on the roads'

the moomins went folk horror

After a pause of a couple of days to allow for any destruction of evidence, of course.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo ago

Police search two homes connected to Peter Mandelson over Epstein scandal

Words just dropped for Democracy’s headstone

Just read Matthew Parris' obsequious hagiography of child-rapist-bootlicker Mandelson claiming the future will judge us badly for removing Petey from the Lords because he's tewwibly clever. Matthew, the present, along with me, is judging you badly for this, right now. Very very badly. Vile.

Labour owes debt to giant of politics in modern era

Mandelson has been on the right side of every important argument in the politics of the left since the 1990s

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Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.

Oooff. And what is more, ooofffff.

wariotifo@wariotifo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

someone came to you in person to raise concerns about Mandelson over 12 years ago. his connections to Epstein had already been reported in some of the UK's biggest papers, and he was several times disgraced beyond that. you chose to mock yr constituent's concern publicly to your large following

Let this be a lesson for all of us. *gestures vaguely at everything, everywhere*