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morag
@mordant.bsky.social
Nobody loves me and the sun's going to kill me.

Dilettante, raconteur, connoisseur of human folly
Guaranteed 0.5 or less of the author @mkhardywrites
The Needfire, Solaris 2025, out now
REMINDER FOR MY FRIENDS IN UK ACADEMIA
If you're Unison, Unite, UCU, EIS, PLEASE POST YOUR BALLOT BACK by tomorrow. We're balloting for amounts to a general strike in HE. This EXISTENTIAL for the sector. Please, please get your vote in as we need to make quorum.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tfw you realise belatedly that you've dressed like an extra from Man In The High Castle...
September 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nobody actually cares about this for their own sake, Keir. Nobody is actually personally worried about this. You know why? Because it's not a real problem. When will you stop dancing to Farage's vicious racist little tune and start paying attention to the stuff that matters?
September 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Fml. Note the battery % for extra Fml.
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Welp.
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I was not NOT drunk before I made a very alcoholic chartreuse cocktail.
June 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
That time of year in Scotland where every time you're at the shops you're all "BUYING LOCALLY IS OBJECTIVELY VIRTUOUS."
June 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There goes the neighborhood.
June 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The lengthy letter I sent that this was responding to:
March 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Truly rancid response from Tess White MSP to my heartfelt letter begging for government intervention into the crisis at Dundee University. Callous to the point of malicious. Read the room mate.
March 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hah, ironically I JUST got done buying all the remaining Discworld novels I didn't already own secondhand. This is cool, though. Don't need a book or potato and couldn't pick just one favourite quote anyway, but here's a good one for these Interesting Times.
February 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My guilty secret is I love contrast thread and use it to spice up dull shirts even though Derek the suit guy disapproves.
August 5, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Okay I mostly regret getting into these fights but sometimes it's fun.
March 31, 2024 at 3:14 PM
🙃
March 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM
January 28, 2024 at 12:44 PM
This right here is exactly how I felt... until your article. Thank you!
January 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
To be fair, "idk it looks big" is basically how the UK gov has decided breed identification works too... 2/
January 8, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Our local paper being their usual balanced selves... 1/
January 8, 2024 at 10:01 AM
When this is a "bleak prediction" we have done something terribly wrong as a society.
November 3, 2023 at 9:21 AM
Just came home with this gorgeous edition of The Living Mountain for E with a MacFarlane introduction, which she received with the words "hah I just bought a book with a MacFarlane introduction!" I then messaged her YOUR post and she's like "yes that's the book I bought."
October 3, 2023 at 3:40 PM
I'm sure this will be great.
October 2, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Back from camping with only ~100 midge bites, many from the last night when I spent an unhinged 10 minutes on my knees in the rain at 4am trying to fix a broken flysheet zip. Still, worth it (not the zip part that was futile).
August 11, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Spent a chunk of the past few days sewing pocket extensions into all my stupid ladypocket jeans.
August 6, 2023 at 12:35 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married lesbian in possession of a badge maker must be in want of EVERYTHING IS BADGES.
August 4, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Now with colour.
August 1, 2023 at 10:14 PM