Hope Bastine
@hopebastine.com
Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave to 🐶
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (02/07/26)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (02/07/26)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social
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Hope Bastine
@hopebastine.com
· Mar 31
Police Scotland statement on behalf of Hope Bastine following sentencing of Derek Lincoln
Police Scotland is issuing the following statement on behalf of 41-year-old Hope Bastine, a survivor of sexual abuse who was instrumental in the conviction of Derek Lincoln. He was sentenced at the Hi...
www.scotland.police.uk
Here’s the statement I made unsilencing myself in the hope that winning my case will inspire fellow survivors to pursue justice 💪
On the loss of the last creative space in my corner of London. #CreativeCommunity #ThirdPlaces #IndependentOverCorporate
They Didn't Just Kill a Café. They Killed a Creative Hive.
Let's talk about spaces.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
On the loss of the last creative space in my corner of London. #CreativeCommunity #ThirdPlaces #IndependentOverCorporate
Ever notice this pattern? We see a gap. A need for fresh stories. We build a new platform, a new hashtag, a safe space.
And then... the same loud voices rush in, center themselves, and dominate the conversation all over again.
And then... the same loud voices rush in, center themselves, and dominate the conversation all over again.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ever notice this pattern? We see a gap. A need for fresh stories. We build a new platform, a new hashtag, a safe space.
And then... the same loud voices rush in, center themselves, and dominate the conversation all over again.
And then... the same loud voices rush in, center themselves, and dominate the conversation all over again.
I’m watching the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light about the poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley. Firstly, II adore their creative nest. Second, I love how analog they are to support that nest.
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary, Family
1h 44m | TV-MA
www.imdb.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I’m watching the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light about the poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley. Firstly, II adore their creative nest. Second, I love how analog they are to support that nest.
This #Christmas, a quiet book is outselling polemics & thrillers. It's not a children's fable. It's a precise psychological antidote for modern adults.
Read the full diagnosis & find your part (Boy, Mole, Fox, or Horse?):
Read the full diagnosis & find your part (Boy, Mole, Fox, or Horse?):
What's in Your Xmas Stack?
The Book Your Soul Has Quietly Been Asking For...
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This #Christmas, a quiet book is outselling polemics & thrillers. It's not a children's fable. It's a precise psychological antidote for modern adults.
Read the full diagnosis & find your part (Boy, Mole, Fox, or Horse?):
Read the full diagnosis & find your part (Boy, Mole, Fox, or Horse?):
Watched Nuremberg.
Until we come to terms with who we are and what we’re capable of, we repeat what we always have done and call it fate.
Until we come to terms with who we are and what we’re capable of, we repeat what we always have done and call it fate.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Watched Nuremberg.
Until we come to terms with who we are and what we’re capable of, we repeat what we always have done and call it fate.
Until we come to terms with who we are and what we’re capable of, we repeat what we always have done and call it fate.
I’m pretty sure to have a book with me. This morning it fell out my pocket into the mud. The dog came running to console me but the fucked off I go the meadow with her friends. Now I must read Leslie Jamison’s Empathy Exams covered in mud. I think I’ll keep it.
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I’m pretty sure to have a book with me. This morning it fell out my pocket into the mud. The dog came running to console me but the fucked off I go the meadow with her friends. Now I must read Leslie Jamison’s Empathy Exams covered in mud. I think I’ll keep it.
Reposted by Hope Bastine
Really useful advice for authors on how to deal with the Anthropic settlement. In my case, I'm trying to figure out whether I or my publishers are the reproduction-rights-holders, which matters for where the payouts go.
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement
Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...
authorsguild.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Really useful advice for authors on how to deal with the Anthropic settlement. In my case, I'm trying to figure out whether I or my publishers are the reproduction-rights-holders, which matters for where the payouts go.
I was chatting with someone about my plans for my next book. ‘Gosh! You’re a glutton for punishment!’ They said. No. No, I’m not. I love the planning. I love the research. I love the grafting and the crafting. I love the fails and the re-writes and growing my skill with each project. I love it all.
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was chatting with someone about my plans for my next book. ‘Gosh! You’re a glutton for punishment!’ They said. No. No, I’m not. I love the planning. I love the research. I love the grafting and the crafting. I love the fails and the re-writes and growing my skill with each project. I love it all.
Reposted by Hope Bastine
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
True story. #writingcommunity
How to Stab a Stalker
I just stabbed my stalker and I feel quite good about it.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
True story. #writingcommunity
It’s days like this I’m glad I kept my favourite DVDs
the internet went out for several hours and my entire family lost their damn minds. "why can't i watch netflix?" because the internet is out. "why can't you set up my ipad?" because the internet is out. "why can't i go on facebook?" because the internet is out.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It’s days like this I’m glad I kept my favourite DVDs
‘Be more Steve’ is gonna be the new ‘Bye Felicia’.
If you’ve watched Netflix’s The Beast In Me with Claire Danes and Mathew Rhys, you may, like me, wanted to see more “Steve”.
leashfreeliving.com/meet-steve-t...
leashfreeliving.com/meet-steve-t...
Meet Steve - The Scene-Stealing Dog from The Beast in Me | Leash Free Living
If you’ve been watching Netflix’s The Beast in Me, chances are you’ve already fallen in love with one particular breakout star - and no, it’s not human... guess who Steve really is?
leashfreeliving.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
‘Be more Steve’ is gonna be the new ‘Bye Felicia’.
Watching The Stringer the fire is fuelled to demand more from Prize organisations to right certain wrongs against race and women. Prestigious prizes are all about credit…
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) ⭐ 7.4 | Documentary, Biography, History
1h 43m | R
www.imdb.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Watching The Stringer the fire is fuelled to demand more from Prize organisations to right certain wrongs against race and women. Prestigious prizes are all about credit…
Dobson and the Cult of Obedience
Dobson and the Cult of Obedience
It is no secret that religious child-rearing often defaults to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Dobson and the Cult of Obedience
Tube read. Especially living @zadiesmith.bsky.social essays on Didion and Mantel. Superbly clear sighted yet empathetic. Already up there with the not yet dead English writers.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tube read. Especially living @zadiesmith.bsky.social essays on Didion and Mantel. Superbly clear sighted yet empathetic. Already up there with the not yet dead English writers.
RIP Tom Stoppard
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard
One day, we will simply have to stop. Stop engaging. Stop buying. Stop looking. Stop listening. It’s the only recourse. We simply withdraw our patronage, and the product will become obsolete and wither away. Just like any other out of date objects.
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
One day, we will simply have to stop. Stop engaging. Stop buying. Stop looking. Stop listening. It’s the only recourse. We simply withdraw our patronage, and the product will become obsolete and wither away. Just like any other out of date objects.
Finally got to see the new Orwell 2+2=5 Documentary—it did not disappoint. I was impressed with how uncomfortably honest he was about his Burmese Days.
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Finally got to see the new Orwell 2+2=5 Documentary—it did not disappoint. I was impressed with how uncomfortably honest he was about his Burmese Days.
Just finished watching The Anniversary. The modern day 1984. V powerful.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Just finished watching The Anniversary. The modern day 1984. V powerful.
The Hack. Just wow. And still, we deal with the fallout of unchecked power.
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The Hack. Just wow. And still, we deal with the fallout of unchecked power.
The snow has begun. London snow. Clean air coming soon.
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The snow has begun. London snow. Clean air coming soon.
Reposted by Hope Bastine
How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
As a writer, I find the word ‘like’ the most offensive word when my work is described. I toil over every sentence —for weeks even.
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As a writer, I find the word ‘like’ the most offensive word when my work is described. I toil over every sentence —for weeks even.
Absolutely loved Sarah Wainwright’s Riot Women!
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Absolutely loved Sarah Wainwright’s Riot Women!