Joanne Harris
@joannechocolat.bsky.social
Writer. Yes, that one.
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My very favourite Christmas present (maybe my favourite thing ever), is this, from my son: a glass globe, containing a mini-colony of bioluminescent ocean plankton that light up after dark…
January 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
My very favourite Christmas present (maybe my favourite thing ever), is this, from my son: a glass globe, containing a mini-colony of bioluminescent ocean plankton that light up after dark…
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The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.
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I haven’t had time to write this up properly, but it’s the 31st anniversary today of the bank robberies which gave the world the Dunning-Kruger effect, when two men concealed their identities by the brilliant method of smearing their faces with lemon juice. Anyway, here’s a press cutting:
![the surveillance camera," recounted a still chuckling Cmdr. Ronald Freeman of the investigations branch. "He was skeptical at first but not so much as to not try it him-self."
"He said the lemon juice was burning his face and his eyes, and he was having trouble [seeing] and had to squint," said Sgt. Wally Long of the robbery squad.
But the pain was worth the pleasure Wheeler felt when he snapped a Polaroid picture of himself and he wasn't anywhere to be seen..
"When the Polaroid didn't show him, he thought it worked," Long said.
All that detectives could figure was that either the film was bad, Wheeler hadn't ad-justed the camera correctly or he had point-ed the camera away from his face when he snapped the photo.
"In any event, he went off and robbed the banks with lemon juice on his face," Free-man said. "He was shocked when we showed him the surveillance pictures."
Detectives had been tipped to his where-abouts in Lincoln-Lemington by informants who recognized him in one of the surveillance photos taken during the robberies. The photo had been telecast during the Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers Inc. segment of the 11 o'clock news April 19. Less than an](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/bafkreid7i5ez6vlukxyedk7v247slsr4gz3uuthdfdypylmbuzsty54jum@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 383278:
Your characters need to eat, sleep, play, and do things that don't serve the plot. Characters that exist only to serve the plot seldom come across as convincing.
Your characters need to eat, sleep, play, and do things that don't serve the plot. Characters that exist only to serve the plot seldom come across as convincing.
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 383278:
Your characters need to eat, sleep, play, and do things that don't serve the plot. Characters that exist only to serve the plot seldom come across as convincing.
Your characters need to eat, sleep, play, and do things that don't serve the plot. Characters that exist only to serve the plot seldom come across as convincing.
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NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
And this morning the Shed is a wishing-well, with a throat full of mossy whisperings…
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
And this morning the Shed is a wishing-well, with a throat full of mossy whisperings…
Primark Cinderella.
January 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Primark Cinderella.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at pmpp@equity.org.uk
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at pmpp@equity.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at pmpp@equity.org.uk
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at pmpp@equity.org.uk
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 9516:
To make your readers care for your characters, you have to make it clear what or who your characters most care about.
To make your readers care for your characters, you have to make it clear what or who your characters most care about.
January 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 9516:
To make your readers care for your characters, you have to make it clear what or who your characters most care about.
To make your readers care for your characters, you have to make it clear what or who your characters most care about.
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Five days into the Government's 'strong start to January.' Day 1 blame the voters. Day 2, blame the civil service. Days 3-5, ignore international law.
Voters & civil service didn't make a Labour government cut winter fuel payments & refuse a wealth tax.
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Voters & civil service didn't make a Labour government cut winter fuel payments & refuse a wealth tax.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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January 5, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Five days into the Government's 'strong start to January.' Day 1 blame the voters. Day 2, blame the civil service. Days 3-5, ignore international law.
Voters & civil service didn't make a Labour government cut winter fuel payments & refuse a wealth tax.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Voters & civil service didn't make a Labour government cut winter fuel payments & refuse a wealth tax.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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new series of Human Intelligence starts today at 1.45pm!
three weeks of an episode every day, to start your year off by learning about some stuff (if you like that sort of thing):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
three weeks of an episode every day, to start your year off by learning about some stuff (if you like that sort of thing):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Exiles: Karl Marx
Exploring the mind of Karl Marx, a revolutionary political thinker and philosopher.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
new series of Human Intelligence starts today at 1.45pm!
three weeks of an episode every day, to start your year off by learning about some stuff (if you like that sort of thing):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
three weeks of an episode every day, to start your year off by learning about some stuff (if you like that sort of thing):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
And this morning the Shed is an outpost, looking out over a landscape of ancient stones under barren heath, and quilt of newly fallen snow…
January 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM
And this morning the Shed is an outpost, looking out over a landscape of ancient stones under barren heath, and quilt of newly fallen snow…
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I feel like "pain sommelier" is a job none of us trained for but now have to perform daily. Mine usually ends up being just a sparkling pinched nerve.
Moving it around like a pain sommelier trying to see if it feels more like a subluxation or a hyperextended muscle because there are no notes of the nerve damage from last season.
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I feel like "pain sommelier" is a job none of us trained for but now have to perform daily. Mine usually ends up being just a sparkling pinched nerve.
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I was watching a video about an author who uses AI, and one of the things that stood out to me was how she talked about writing to market and how, as an author, writing what you want takes a backseat to the market when you get "serious" about it, and I vehemently disagree. 🧵
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January 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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I keep reposting this but www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I keep reposting this but www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I just do not know what looking at Amazon sales rank is supposed to achieve for authors? Are you going to… rewrite that book you already wrote and published?
Don’t look at that stuff. Write the best book you can, move on to the next. Keep going until you don’t want to anymore.
Don’t look at that stuff. Write the best book you can, move on to the next. Keep going until you don’t want to anymore.
not keeping OP's name in this as no desire whatsoever to beef but....these are choices you can already make? I got three books out, two of which were moderate successes and one of which was a genuine success, and I never spent any meaningful time worrying about Amazon - just choose not to care!
January 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I just do not know what looking at Amazon sales rank is supposed to achieve for authors? Are you going to… rewrite that book you already wrote and published?
Don’t look at that stuff. Write the best book you can, move on to the next. Keep going until you don’t want to anymore.
Don’t look at that stuff. Write the best book you can, move on to the next. Keep going until you don’t want to anymore.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 132678:
You don't need to write every day: you just need to keep your imagination alight. Feed it with books, with art, with films and theatre. That way it will always be ready when you need it.
You don't need to write every day: you just need to keep your imagination alight. Feed it with books, with art, with films and theatre. That way it will always be ready when you need it.
January 4, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 132678:
You don't need to write every day: you just need to keep your imagination alight. Feed it with books, with art, with films and theatre. That way it will always be ready when you need it.
You don't need to write every day: you just need to keep your imagination alight. Feed it with books, with art, with films and theatre. That way it will always be ready when you need it.
And this morning the Shed is a hidden fresco of a shed, revealed under the wallpaper of an old, deserted house…
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
And this morning the Shed is a hidden fresco of a shed, revealed under the wallpaper of an old, deserted house…
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Have you looked outside to seen the moon? Isn’t it beautiful! The full Wolf Moon is tonight.
The Northland Small paused on their journey to their new home to stop and look and let out a quiet howl of joy to the North Wind. Perhaps you might like to join them with a little howl too?
The Northland Small paused on their journey to their new home to stop and look and let out a quiet howl of joy to the North Wind. Perhaps you might like to join them with a little howl too?
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Have you looked outside to seen the moon? Isn’t it beautiful! The full Wolf Moon is tonight.
The Northland Small paused on their journey to their new home to stop and look and let out a quiet howl of joy to the North Wind. Perhaps you might like to join them with a little howl too?
The Northland Small paused on their journey to their new home to stop and look and let out a quiet howl of joy to the North Wind. Perhaps you might like to join them with a little howl too?
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"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
En kvinna, utklädd till rosa Power Ranger, hackade datingsida för högerextrema. Hon raderade hela sidan, men först fick hon användarna att bli kära i AI-botar som hon drev och fick på så sätt ut information om dem. Över 8000 högerextrema profiler har nu kartlagts.
cybernews.com/security/inv...
cybernews.com/security/inv...
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
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More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.
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This is well worth a read 👇👇👇
We're challenging this terrible Labour Government.
And we're ready to take on Reform.
I spoke with the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And we're ready to take on Reform.
I spoke with the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game
This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections – by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbook
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
This is well worth a read 👇👇👇
E-books are reading.
Comics are reading.
Genre is reading.
Fanfic is reading.
Text-based games are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Braille books are reading.
Non-fiction is reading.
Picture books are reading.
There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.
Comics are reading.
Genre is reading.
Fanfic is reading.
Text-based games are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Braille books are reading.
Non-fiction is reading.
Picture books are reading.
There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
E-books are reading.
Comics are reading.
Genre is reading.
Fanfic is reading.
Text-based games are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Braille books are reading.
Non-fiction is reading.
Picture books are reading.
There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.
Comics are reading.
Genre is reading.
Fanfic is reading.
Text-based games are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Braille books are reading.
Non-fiction is reading.
Picture books are reading.
There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.
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"Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance..." Shirin Neshat, Iranian artist #WomensArt
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 AM
"Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance..." Shirin Neshat, Iranian artist #WomensArt
And this morning the Shed is a wrought-iron gate, standing among brambles: guarding a city of forest and fern and the ghosts of summers past…
January 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
And this morning the Shed is a wrought-iron gate, standing among brambles: guarding a city of forest and fern and the ghosts of summers past…