Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

The post office is a service. It doesn’t lose money. 9 billion is the cost for operating a vital and necessary service for the American people.
It isn’t “running out of money”. The government is refusing to pay for it.

The latest eruption at Kilauea appears to be starting! We should see large lava fountains soon. Tune in live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

We are looking at a close up of a brightly painted Royal Coat of Arms showing a lion and a unicorn. The lion is wearing a crown whilst the unicorn is wrapped in chains and has a crown acting like a bridle. The unicorn is also male and has quite pronounced genitalia.

Talking of unicorns.

This one on an armorial panel for King Charles II in the chapel is very anatomically correct. 😳

Happy National Unicorn Day to all those that celebrate!

To those that are new here, we have beef with unicorns. Specifically those in helium balloon form.

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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is about to go on an angry rant, as Green raises his tail to halt him. Blue: And don't get me started on- Green: Wait! Before you start... Blue frowns at Green as Green looks at him calmly. Green: Do you want solutions, or do you just want to complain? Blue: Can I just complain? Blue looks surprised as Green looks over his shoulder. Green: Sure, but let me make myself some popcorn first. As Green leaves, Blue looks stunned towards the direction that he left. Blue: I may do some warm-up screams while I wait. Green, already off-screen: Just don't start without me!

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch

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illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

I would almost contemplate starting to wear lipstick for some of those colors.

Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...

New #WriterBeware blog post: I'm getting a lot of reports of a new impersonation scam using the names of prominent editors to make referrals to fake literary agents and "book doctors"--though it comes from a familiar source and uses tried-and-true scam techniques writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

What's My JND? 0.0060

The closer the blues/yellows/greens, the harder it was, but in reds/purples/browns, nearly bang on. Might have done a little better if my hands didn't shake when trying to be exactly precise, though XD

Heh, and I just today requested a decrease bc the Vyvanse *really* improved my focus. Too much improvement. Extreme hyperfocus improvement. Soooooooo, maybe a little LESS of the helpfulness med, thank you.

Hope you can wrangle that increase as you need it!

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric.

Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

There are two kinds of writers: writers who know exactly what they want to write about, and then write; and writers who discover that birds have sub-atomic magnet particles in their eyes to correspond with the earth’s magnetic compass so now they need to change their whole book to fit that fact in

If you do a lot of searching on the internet (as I do), this is a really useful article. Multiple things I didn’t know and will use going forward.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

USPS must be fought for and protected. If USPS goes away, or is made private, it will negatively impact EVERYONE.

The USPS is a service and not a business. The cost for operating shouldn’t be seen as a business loss.
Stand up for the USPS!
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CALL YOUR REPS
5calls.org

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children.

We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

I *gleefully* paid real money for TWO sets of magic blue checkmarks because I thought it was the most hilarious use of 7.99 available to me. They come up with successes like that and booping day and fail to *use* them. Instead, they drop all their gold rings on Tumblr Live and reblog changes. FFS.

Every time someone wants to sue over multiple pages of “similarities” like “our heroes are both sexy” “our heroines are both from the same state,” I always say that it is a bad idea and you will lose and it will cost you a lot of money.

I choked.

if the tech bros were a little less delusional, they would be making so much money right now by offering to let us pay for the AI-free version of their programs

The Library of Congress has the largest flute collection on earth.

Dayton C. Miller, born #OTD 160 years ago, is the person to thank for that. Miller amassed nearly 1,700 wind instruments during his lifetime, donating them to the Library of Congress in the 1940s. ⬇️
www.loc.gov/collections/...

Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️