No, this is a fine madness!
Gather your popcorn and indulge; your mind would delight in a little holiday!

Bilal Hasna - British-Palestinian actor, writer and playwright.

@goodomensprime

Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Screenshot/X: Yuri Goddess - @youryurigoddess.bsky.social

#goodomens3 #goodomens

Taliesin, in repose. Tali the husky/collie mix, draped artfully over an armchair and ottoman.

Taliesin:
"What? There's plenty of room!"

There was no answer.

To quote Charles Darwin:

“But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.”

A row of brightly coloured raised flower beds in the sunshine

It's the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and look at our lovely new planters which we'll be adding to our Interactive Orkney Flora Trail very soon! ❤️

Each planter is decorated by panels featuring illustrations of flowers done by local schoolchildren. 🌼🌸🏵🌺

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beautifully laid our raised borders

Short on time at your allotment? Build raised beds using old planks, logs, or bricks. Fill them with fertile soil and organic matter—the borders keep it contained. Benefits: loose, no-dig soil, warms up quickly, good drainage. Minimal upkeep—just add organic matter occasionally. #GardeningTips

PNW wood rat on cement block. Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

I cannot mentally differentiate between the rats I kept as pets and the ones who live outside in the woods.

Pooky. 🩷

Green and blessings parakeet, little Richie Starshine.

Well, they survived escape, eagles and sheltered here moments before a massive storm on 3 July 2020.

Richie Starshine took to their freedom flight early this morning.
Mate George is bereaved.

Wishing you clear skies, little buddy.

I once was Extra Spicy,
But now I'm Found...

@gleafer.bsky.social
Hello.
My name is Elaine, and I am... a MegaPigeon.

#littleblondeangelsupportgroup

And thus, with no kiss, I die..

Photo of sunset, with the words "I worked in a bookshop from 2005 to 2020. Today, I thought about the kid who walked into the store during a severe thunderstorm in 2009 and said "I'm looking for something dystopian." I don't want to be a jerk, kid, but you might have set some weird shit into motion.

A fluffy fat black cat stands on tiptoe to eat off a plate on a kitchen table.

William, standing on his tippy-toesies to eat his dinner off a plate like a proper lil man...
I cannot! 😭

It’s been a while since I've posted anything anywhere, but I didn't want to let any more time go by without thanking everyone for all your kind messages of support over the last year and a half. I've learned firsthand how effective a smear campaign can be, so to be clear: The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them. These allegations, especially the really salacious ones, have been spread and amplified by people who seemed a lot more interested in outrage and getting clicks on headlines rather than whether things had actually happened or not. (They didn't.)

One thing that's kept me going through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out. I expected that when the allegations were first made there would be journalism, and that the journalism would take the (mountains of) evidence into account, and was astonished to see how much of the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored. I was a journalist once, and I have enormous respect for journalists, so I've been hugely heartened by the meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing of one particular journalist, whom some of you recently brought to my attention, who writes under the name of TechnoPathology. I’ve had no contact with TechnoPathology. But I’d like to thank them personally for actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done. If you are curious about what they've uncovered so far, the link in this post takes you to really good investigative reporting.

It's been a strange, turbulent and occasionally nightmarish year and a half, but I took my own advice (when things get tough, make good art) and once I was done with making television I went back to doing something else I love even more: writing. I thought it was going to be a fairly short project when I began it, but it's looking like it's going to be the biggest thing I've done since American Gods. It's already much longer than The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and it's barely finished wiping its boots and hanging up its coat. And I spend half of every month being a full-time Dad, and that remains the best bit of my life.

It's a rough time for the world. I look at what's happening on the home front and internationally, and I worry; and I am still convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind. Thank you again to so many of you for your belief in my innocence and your support for my work. It has meant the world to me.

Reporting referenced in my statement: technopathology.substack.com/p/neil-gaima...

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Merlyn the AusPyr and her new little brother Taliesen, the husky-Muppet mix. Photo by actuallyelaine.bsky.social

Six weeks ago, Merlyn got a new little brother.
After a bit of hesitation, they are now officially Best Friends.

#MerlyntheAusPyr
#TalitheHuskyMuppet

Poster for my tour. A version of the Flamarrion Woodcut, with me in it. All occult and shit. ANDREW O'NEILL - ESCAPE - First tour dates now on sale! Manchester Feb 16th Leicester Feb 17th Cardiff Feb 18th Leeds Feb 25th Portsmouth Mar 8th TICKETS: andrewoneill.co.uk/shows

Come to this or I will have to remonstrate with you on your doorstep. andrewoneill.co.uk/shows

Out now!

Oh, this sounds like a winner!!

What an honour, on both sides!

Machinery warning sign. Shows a hand being crushed between two cogged wheels.

2026 has a Warning Label, at least.

Taliesin Dante, husky shepherd x, asleep on the slate by the wood stove

Happy sleepy 2026 from this lil pupper.
Taliesin.🩷

And to you!!

@paganmusic.bsky.social
Our wee Taliesen, having a nap, listening to Uncle Damh.
Blessings to you, my friend.