Una McCormack
@unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Hope to see this from a Cambridge paper soon.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3h agoAs the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...
"Listen, forget it," said Ford, "forget all of it. Nothing matters. Look, it's a beautiful day, enjoy. it. The sun, the green of the hills, the river down in the valley, the burning trees."
NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog
This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.
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These messages are from UK women who know that behind every headline is a human being who deserves kindness, dignity and joy. We hope these words bring even a small moment of comfort to trans+ people in the UK today. 💗 #WithTheT #NotInOurName
Guys, this is a FANTASTIC book so please do pre-order!
Anne Charnock@annecharnock.bsky.social · 10h agoAuthor copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Oh, it's just a tape measure, an innocuous device in any tailor's arsenal of equipment, held as you see here in the normal style, making it absolutely fine for you to turn your back.
This is our stuffed owl toy. When Francis died, he elected himself Pope and made himself a mitre. He's into hats. I think he's also objecting to the ALT-text description "vaguely owl-like".
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay
It's true that Tice isn't a big deal (although he is an MP) and that The Telegraph isn't admired for its journalism. We could spend all day minimising it. But it's fair to say if a TD made a remark like this about Britain, it would be a big story and consequences would be expected.
Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d agoI think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm
...Rob Shearman, Mark Morris, @unamccormack.bsky.social & @0tralala.bsky.social chat with Chris Hawton of @andwbcpodcast.bsky.social podcast. This is more than just what you've seen on the telly. This is the extended universe of Doctor Who. Early bird tix £35+bf: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
How do you tell stories when the possibilities are limitless? When time and place mean nothing and everything all at once? Join us at Writing the Occult: Time & Place on 5 September as we pose that question to some of the most accomplished writers to have set foot in the TARDIS... 🧵⬇️
Sad to hear of the death of Emperor Palpatine. He was larger-than-life, always outspoken and secretly very kind in private.
An excellent piece demonstrating why 'every one of those people is a problem for a sane society' demonstrates that Helen Joyce is a classic totalitarian. blog.beagmcd.net/why-helens-w...
Why Helen's Wrong
... and why her position is definitively totalitarian in nature.
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New! Andy Miller from @backlisted.bsky.social joins me to take a look back at Marvel's surprisingly dark and adult interlinked series following Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and Daredevil as vigilantes at large in downtown New York. timworthington.org/2026/08/02/i...
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Defenders With Andy Miller
Andy Miller joins Tim Worthington for a chat about The Punisher resolutely failing to turn up whenever anyone could actually have done with his help in The Defenders.
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Am never going to stop saying these things, even once British HE feels like a cold, dead moon.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
I just tried to find an old Twitter post of mine that referenced Australian writer Capel Boake, by googling 'konallis Capel Boake'. The result was an AI hallucination. No, Boake did not write a 1917 cycle of prose poems called 'Konallis'.
Whenever I order a pain au raison in Costa, I start off with my normal South London accent. When I get to the word "raison " I have descended into the worst, most stereotypical french accent. There seems nothing I can do about it.
This month, on A Dream Given Form, we explored the journey of Susan Ivanova across #Babylon5 with guest @unamccormack.bsky.social and her daughter, Verity. We talked Claudia Christian's amazing performance and the key episodes that defined Ivanova as a sci-fi icon open.spotify.com/episode/3wBv...
