Unplugging for a while.

Robert Smith, in full make up and a scarlet polka dot shirt, holding a tiny ginger kitten and looking absolutely delighted.

It's Robert Smith with a kitten!

Art is how we know ourselves. Art is where we find each other.

My favourite Cure songs capture moods I can't even name. I remember hearing them for the first time and realising that once again, through art, something I thought was only Mine turns out be Ours.

Hey boos! It's just your girl talking Female Trauma in Horror Cinema: The Blurred Reality Between Horror & Real Life with Seed Talks, a virtual event.
We'll explore how horror narrates the real lived experiences of women. Horror has always been society's mirror. Join us: tinyurl.com/yrbjkujd 👻📽️

From an amateur fencer: look how the dominant fighter barely does any flourishes--it's all to the point flow

Jeffrey Hunter and Majel barret as Pike and Number One in the Star Trek tos pilot, ‘the cage.’ Barret’s nails are blue and look fabulous

Una’s nails tho 🥰

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...

Capybara researchers, lady knight mech jousts, and a brand new SFF magazine! @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends the must-read short stories of March 2026, now with bonus alien invasions:

Congratulations!!

Singing Bones: Bodily Transformation and Body Horror in British and Irish Traditional Songs YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

Did you miss yesterday's fab talk on bodily transformation and horror in British and Irish traditional songs?

Watch it here!

youtu.be/Yfw6wvTFvLI

Ahh, brilliant! I do love it when they look into how Betazoid empathery or Vulcan psy powers actually play out for individuals in different situations.

Of course! 😊❤️

Psychosis and the social model: making sense of a world that doesn’t make sense If we take the social model seriously, then psychosis cannot remain the exception that proves psychiatry’s authority.

This article expresses it well for me: www.nsun.org.uk/psychosis-an...

Ooh! Another reason I need to get on and watch ST Academy :-) And YES. This is the approach we take at my work as we're part of the Hearing Voices Network.

a sign that says sorry we 're closed hangs on a glass door Alt: a sign that says sorry we're open hangs on a glass door

Kaleidotrope is now open to fiction and poetry submissions.

everyone read Lud-in-the-Mist NOW

Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity A one-day conference exploring the relationship between creativity and madness.

Registration is open now for Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity conference in Glasgow on 15 June.

I'll be there, speaking about @innerworlds.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/figments-m...

Picture taken by me shows moss on a stump.

Mossy picture. 🌿

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine.

Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨

Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

"While... Apollo 11’s task was to prove that a human could go to the moon, Artemis 2 perhaps had a different mission: to bring all the other human beings along with them on the journey. Instead of asking the question “can we do this?”, Artemis 2 seems to ask: “how does it feel to do this?”"

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies Abstract. Disability can be thought of as the most universal of all identities. Whatever our gender, race, religion, nationality, class, or sexuality, we m

Zsuzsanna Chappell's and my "Philosophy of Madness" is now published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Why Public Discourse Needs a Dose of Psychoanalytic Insight Bringing depth to collective understanding

Why Public Discourse Needs a Dose of Psychoanalytic Insight

Guest post by Austin Ratner

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-public...

🦇We're so excited to celebrate #BatAppreciationDay by unveiling our Bat Ambassador Training that is free, online, and open to all!
Swoop in to learn all about bats.
batcon.org/bat-ambassadors

Country lane, Devon. Banks covered in wildflowers + moss, hawthorn trees in young leaf in the hedges, in the near distance a little woodland along the banks of a stream. The stream isn't visible here as it runs under the road.

Country lane #Devon

#FridayFeeling

Peanuts (Deluxe), by Liz Lawrence 17 track album

Can't stop listening to this at the moment
lizlawrence.bandcamp.com/album/peanut...

Some things I've been able to get via job or union with minimal paperwork:
- free legal advice
- free counselling
- free eye test and new fancy frames
- free flu and covid vaccinations
- free dental work
- free training

Thanks! :-)

Whatever weird shit youre making, NO MAKE IT WEIRDER.

A woodland clearing with bluebells spread thickly across the ground into the distance

After going to see the bluebells in the local park the other day, I was curious about how flowering plants that have bulbs actually spread from place to place