Walked 14.5 km visiting all the secondhand bookshops in Dublin we could find. And one yarn shop! Con tomorrow!

Please support if you can!

TransLucent@translucent.org.uk · 14h ago

Breaking - Re: our efforts to seek a Judicial Review of the EHRC Code of Practice. Over £40,000 has been donated to our crowdfunder, and we have updated our Crowdjustice page today and sent an update email to all our amazing donors. Please read & support. www.crowdjustice.com/case/challen...

Please pick up one or several if Steph's books, she definitely could use the support! (Highly recommend Wooing the Witch Queen which is a sweet romance between a nerdy librarian and the witch queen)

Stephanie Burgis@stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 22h ago

Patrick and I have been up since 5:30 with Pebbles at the emergency vet for a glucose crash. Thank goodness she’s now stabilized. But good lord, the fees even with pet insurance - ! If you’ve been curious about any of my books, today would be a great day to snap one up! stephanieburgis.com

OMG dear gods let Fiona be reading the salt vampire! Or bones bones would be good too!!!!

Mitch Wagner@mitchwagner.com · yesterday

This is cool: The cast of "The Pitt" will do a live table reading of the first broadcast episode of "Star Trek" to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary and benefit the Writers' Guild Foundation.

😂😂😂

Heather Paterson@heatherpaterson.co.uk · yesterday

Count Binface

We arrived in Dublin! I noticed Fiona Shaw boarding right before us! And she was sitting next to me across the aisle! At take off I was thinking, holy shit I’m flying with Andor’s mom!!! I was cool and acted like I had no idea who she was but wish I had worn my I have friends everywhere shirt 😂

Reading a “historic flashback” part of a novel and it’s 1982. And the author is clearly young as she wrote, “slotted in a recording into the VHS player. Rather than “putting a tape into the VCR”. 🤣I feel old…

Why aren’t you smiling? You don’t look happy.” I answered because I’m in excruciating amounts of pain!

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3d ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

I was initially disappointed when I noticed the big package at home was NOT heavy enough or noisy enough to be Lego! But when I opened there was a surprise Chucky I forgot I had ordered! I love my proper Chuckys but this one is extra cuddly!

Trans people need your help So do disabled people - who WILL be negatively affected by it So do cis women - who WILL ne negatively affected by it Don't believe me? It's in the Govt's own damn Impact Assessment! This code is beyond stupid. It tries, and fails, to fix a problem that DOES NOT EXIST

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 3d ago

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

In the words of a very wise alien, THIS IS SOME BULL SHIT!

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 3d ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Most excellent! For the first time ever I am sad I don't live in Clapton!!!

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3d ago

53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

Absolutely this! When doing my LGBT London history talk the moral panic from 1708 to 1726 resulted in so many arrests and too many deaths. But it passed and 10 years later a mollie was accepted by her community and took someone else to court. Not fearing for her life. Despite still being “illegal”

Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Nice line from Jessicaoutofthecloset on instagram: “Moral panics end, queer community doesn’t.” Survive. Fight and survive.

The first time I ever saw Rocky Horror was on one of these on the bus to school. (But only a portion in the middle as the trip was not that long).

Malcolm Wood@woodmally1979.bsky.social · 4d ago

Saw a rec on here for This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want, and got a copy on netgalley. It was FANTASTIC! Perfect queer horror, especially if you love films or noir or just fucked up middle aged queer women. Definitely buying my own copy and reading again. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

“MAKE EVERY VOTE… COUNT!” #ClactonByElection

Organised what books to go in what cases for my next exhibition! And came across this amazing illustration! I am going to have to read this one and find out what’s going on here!

Ok finished the new Paradise Hulu tv show and that got seriously good at the end!! We need more post apocalyptic sci-fi with Black protagonists.

Turns out I was a Lego insider and I ordered the X-Files Lego and got a free autopsy Scully and yes that has cheered me up tremendously! 💜

No Context Gillian Anderson@contextgillian.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Lego X-Files set is now officially available for purchase if you are a Lego insider.

This is a super fun game! Video game Stressed Space cadet Pro choice Radical cleavage Ones that don’t necessarily fit but still made me giggle Auto erotic asphyxiation (and yes I looked at Mulder when I read that) Lude a drug I’ve never done but sounded perfect -ah the undiagnosed ADHD

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · last wk.

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

This!! The saddest part of this is so many are things the UK used to do but now have been taken from us!

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · last wk.

What I want for trans + people in the UK. The puberty blocker ban lifted. The toilet ban scrapped. Supreme Court ruling overtuned/made ineffective. An informed consent model for gender affirming care. Self ID. Non-Binary people legaly recognised. No trans + censorship in schools.

Omg this game looks SO gorgeous! I spent so many hours on podracer! I’m excited!!

Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 7d ago

youtu.be/XTnaSKrGub8 I would like this game right now please thank you

That was a really great episode of silo

Urgh what a day! Yay for the weekend now! Only 3 days of work next week then a holiday! I’m so ready for it! Except of course for all the things I need to do to get ready for it…

Fuck this bull shit!!! Everyone is afraid of her lawyers! There is no justice. We have become terf island because of a billionaires crusade against a minority!

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

I’m on the side of autism but I really hated Data! 😅 Doubly so with his autism framing. The “inability” to feel any emotion the entire drive to be human and fit in. Give me Spock as having to control everything and happy with his differences in a world around him where he gets ridiculed for it.

Earl Grey Memes Club@earlgreymemes.club · last wk.

And today I realised my SOLD OUT 85 person Theatre Collections talk is scheduled for the day I return from Dublin. I have asked our very nice events person if we can move it forward a day or a week. Sometimes the ADHD wins. My iphone calendar had the hotel dates not the holiday dates...

I've been seeing a ton of the AI destroying "rare books" articles. But when they talk about it, it's just pre-2022 books. None of which I'm guessing are actually rare... At least in the library context of "rare". Guessing the machines are designed for modern standard size paperbacks and hardbacks.

I would be a postman, (gf) a nurse, a teacher, run a christian bookshop (gm1), a dressmaker/ work in a fabric shop (gm2). And I have no idea what my 2nd grandfather did as he died before I was born and no one ever mentioned it. 😆 I don't think I could do any of those jobs!

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Ticket to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with an introduction with GA secured!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜