Oscar and I are ignoring the news this evening. Necessary self care.

I suspect if Punxsutawney Phil had any actual say in the proceedings, he'd have predicted four more years of winter.

Congratulations to all the organisations who received Creative Scotland multi-year funding! It's great to see brilliant and necessary organisations get vital support after a long wait, and to see some new faces in there - especially @iamloudpro.bsky.social and StAnza International Poetry Festival. 👏

Horrifying. And there's at least 2 more years of these lying, grifting, vengeful, unfit-for-office shit-bullies, beating their chests at us while wielding unchecked power.

But, I can enjoy 30 seconds of smugness that angry little Beavis doesn't know the expression is actually 'toe the line ...'

Oscar is, like me, relieved that we didn't suffer any #StormEowyn damage, and generally trying to ignore all the other bad weather out there.

With the fight against social injustices getting a lot harder in certain countries, and governments actively dismantling policies and protections, we need to be vigilant. In how we talk about things. Or write about them. Or edit them.

This book by @karenyin.bsky.social is an essential tool:

I have procrastinated long enough, and finally started the move from the social media platform that shall not be named. I've heard it's nicer over here 🤞