It may not seem like much, but EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!
Make calls, send emails, find a protest event to join on March 28.
Call - 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...
Email - democracy.io#!/
Protest - www.nokings.org
To Wasdale
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762) was an English medical pioneer, writer, and poet. She is known for introducing smallpox inoculation in Britain. Her writings address and challenge contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual growth at that time. #CelebratingWomen
This excellent cat would like you to know that he appreciates you all very much, especially when you bring BISCUIT.
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
Writing is a team sport. The idea is to go out and create more readers and get those who already do to read more. Lift all boats on a sea of words.
Apropos of nothing, writers are the nicest people, you all. And maybe I’m biased, but genre writers most of all. A young writer asked me about competing with other authors and I fell all over myself to explain that no, the way it works is we lift each other up. At least, that’s been my experience. ♥️
AI photos attached to news stories: Seriously, gtf.
bsky.app/profile/seat...
I had cake for breakfast and now I’m having a muffin for lunch. It seems unreasonable, now, to not have cake for dinner
It also looks very likely that @societyofauthors.bsky.social is using an AI generated image to promote its "human authored" campaign.
Unsolicited writing advice, no: 175:
No-one ever promised it would be easy. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
The photo shows a regal fallow deer buck early in the year. The poem reads: crowned in spine-edged vanes/ with winter-deep velvet pelt:/ sumptuous/ wary
Photopoem shared 9th March 2026
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Posting this may mean I cannot enter the US until Trump is gone - but I agree. Trump is an enemy of the UK.
A black and white illustration inspired by Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black. A woman in late Victorian mourning stands in a graveyard in a flat desolate landscape. There are two stone pillars in the foreground.
An illustration of the ghost of a woman in a dress of the mid to late Georgian era with a sort of skeletal face. She is stood / hovering in front of a detached Georgian house in the dusk, flanked by dark trees, with its front door lit from above.
A print of a black and white illustration inspired by John Masefield's novel the Box of Delights: a bearded man with a heavy pack trudges through snow pursued by wolves. There's a big white house in the distance, and a small aeroplane (in fact a car-o-plane) in the sky. The scene is flanked by trees and emerges from a square box. The face of its beholder is just visible.
A ridiculous black and white illustration (in print form) of worshippers dancing around a ceremonial bonfire in the trees. The flames take the shape of a large cat's head.
Hello! I've been a bit preoccupied lately with real life and stuff but I've finally put a bit of effort into my Etsy shop... added new prints and restocked old ones. Do have a look. Sharing much appreciated. Thank you.
sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black printing ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a Signalman and his box. The man stands at the foot of the stairs to his signalbox which is situated at the bottom of a rocky and wooded ravine. The box is illuminated from within, its light casts shadows of the man onto a railway track, the track runs into a dark and damp tunnel. Outside of the mouth of the tunnel stands a ghostly figure waving its arms, one across its face the other in the air. A gloomy and atmospheric scene.
I’m going to make prints of this one soon.
The Signalman.
cast on the carpet
light through the crack of your door
separate colours
And this morning the Shed is a constellation, marking the course of those lost at sea…
The Aurora Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed in March of 2017 in Iceland.
Born above a Barnsley sweet shop, taught French to grammar school boys, and once chased by an ostrich.
Internationally reknowned author Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social joins Tarot DMs to talk about cards, cats, Chocolat and her new novel Vianne.
#tarot #booksky #joanneharris
Still slightly amazed I got to sit down with Joanne Harris for Tarot DMs. From tarot and perfume to authors’ rights and the return of Vianne, it was one of those conversations that could have gone on all afternoon.
#tarot #booksky #joanneharris
& far out on the loch little grebes whinnying (a small horse on helium), big voices from little bodies - there is wing-shimmering & running on water, there are deep & sudden dives, vast & small-scale drama
The photo shows a deer grazing unperturbed by its stalker. The poem reads: collared against cold/ curtseying/ camera low:/ eagerness ignored
Photopoem shared 8th March 2026
Fake book cover saying ENSURE YOUR CHILD BECOMES A PROFITABLE MEMBER OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY BY SHOWING EMPATHY
Realising the book I'm editing at the moment doesn't have enough fake parenting books (as collected by Heimdall). Remembering this one I was quite proud of...
she helped found the Leeds West Indian Carnival now the longest-running Caribbean carnival in the UK and co-founded the United Caribbean Association in Leeds. She served on the government’s Commission for Racial Equality. She died of a heart attack on 7 January 1992 #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction
Gertrude Paul was appointed as the first Black head teacher in Leeds in 1976 at the school where this plaque is located. She was a co-founder of the Leeds West Indian Carnival. Shel served as a Commissioner for Racial Equality and was a prominent advocate for the British Caribbean community in Yorkshire. She was born in St Kitts in 1934 and passed away in 1992.
course at James Graham College of Education (now part of Leeds Beckett University), graduating in the early 1960s. She became Leeds’s first Black teacher and, in 1976, its first Black headteacher, leading Elmhurst Middle School (later Bracken Edge Primary School). A dedicated community leader,
This image shows Gertrude Paul, a prominent community figure in Leeds. She was the first black headteacher in Leeds. She was a founding member of the Leeds West Indian Carnival and established the Leeds International Women's Group and the Afro Asian Organisation. She was honoured with a plaque in Leeds Civic Hall for her contributions to the city. Gertrude Paul Image Family photo/Leeds City Council
Gertrude Paul was born on 6 September 1934 in Parson’s Ground Village on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts, one of eleven children. She moved to Leeds in 1956. Although she already held a teacher-training qualification from Antigua, she was required to retrain in Britain and completed a
strange Idea, now
locked in a mason jar
unidentified
found under the carpet
trying to scuttle away
#thingstowriteabout (idea) #tanka
#TankaThursday
#memory
Memories
of small children on beaches,
sandcastles ...
middle-aged adults now -
did the sea wash them away?
▫️ lost and found ▫️
a wall .. or .. a world
.
an eastern phoebe
sharing her song free of charge
magnanimity
#vss365 #haiku
