Setting up a diffuser and a dehumidifier next to each other, and seeing who comes out on top.

Fiancée listens to a song called Fuck Me Eyes and I always misread the title as Fuck, Me Eyes, as in, 'I've left the brightness of my phone on max and have just unlocked it in a dark room.'

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Discovering that any wedding venue that doesn't have its prices on its website is "probably too much" and any wedding venue that doesn't have wedding prices in its brochure is "definitely too much."

Promo image with the cover of my book and the details above

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Sketch of Spinosaurus mirabilis by Ole Zant

Meet Spinosaurus mirabilis.

I got to see the material and skull reconstruction in the lab last year. Lots of people have been working hard on getting this described for quite some time and it's great to finally see it published.

Mark my words, there will be an erotically charged curling TV series/film within the next few years.

Behold, the beautiful cover of THE KNIGHT WATCH, which is now available to pre-order!

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I watched the video of today’s ICE execution - a terrible idea, don’t do it - and I find this level of state evil in America incomprehensible

I’m so sorry for my US friends who are seeing this happen to their county

The American govt is a rogue terrorist faction; the world must sanction it.

Fascists like climate change, because the chaos it causes will allow populist politics to go down easy, with mass starvation and refugee catastrophes.

It is our duty to work against them. Join the most effective political group you can.

Will never tire of the culture shock for visiting Americans encountering the unsmiling bartender.

There's a little girl behind me in the waiting room, listing her favourite venomous snakes off in order, to her mum. As adults, we don't list off our favourite venomous snakes often enough, and evidently we should, because she's having a great time.

Looking at the news is like staring into the sun at the moment.

ARTISTS Written on a white plaster wall in the workroom of the Oak Society in Telina-na. What do they do, the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers? They go there with empty hands, into the gap between. They come back with things in their hands. They go silent and come back with words, with tunes. They go into confusion and come back with patterns. They go limping and weeping, ugly and frightened, and come back with the wings of the redwing hawk, the eyes of the mountain lion. That is where they live, where they get their breath: there, in the gap between, the empty place. Where do the mysterious artists live? There, in the gap between. Their hands are the hinge. No one else can breathe there. They are beyond praise. The ordinary artists use patience, passion, skill, work and returning to work, judgment, proportion, intellect, purpose, indifference, obstinacy, delight in tools, delight, and with these as their way they approach the gap, the hub, approaching in circles, in gyres, like the buzzard, looking down, watching, like the coyote, watching. They look to the center, they turn on the center, they describe the center, though they cannot live there. They deserve praise. There are people who call themselves artists who compete with each other for praise. They think the center is a stuffed gut, and that shitting is working. They are what the buzzard and the coyote ate for breakfast yesterday.

I am leisurely making my way through Ursula Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” and I came across a poem I just have to share.

The ending especially slaps.

The murder of Renee Good just confirms what anyone with a lick of sense has known for years - ICE is the American Gestapo. Protected identities, zero accountability, and unchecked power.

If the officer responsible isn't charged with murder by the state then I don't know where that leaves the US.

Like animals, Ed. Like goddamn animals.

Got one recently. Game changer.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Can highly recommend Broken Veil. Six-part pod that has some supremely chilling moments, and gets in deep into what scares us.

Recipe that you'll never make - trending audio you've heard eighteen times today - interview with technocrat discussing the antichrist - a cat - guy who lost custody of his kids explaining what the numbers mean - Stranger Things edit - former leftist turned hard right born-again after scandal.

A phone is the cigarette for the eyes. In a few swipes you can see: book recommendation list - tradwife baking - war crimes - a cat - hierarchical polycule which is somehow just as misogynistic as the tradwife thing - a meme that needs you to watch a seven hour video to understand - AI slop - a cat.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I love Claire's expression. That's exactly what anyone should look like if confronted by the world's largest terrestrial predator.

I can imagine! Quicker than drawing scales though, no?

A Christmas card featuring an illusion of a T. rex with a hat, being confronted by an armed cowgirl.

My favourite time of year has come - when Tom sends me his beautiful illustrations of scenes from my book in his Christmas card. Thank you so much! And a merry Christmas to you too @thomasdlee.bsky.social! 🎄

Finished reading Children of Time last night and here's my screaming-hot take on it; it's really, really good.