Oeste
Northerner. Big ol’ lefty. Yarn botherer. Bookish. Trans rights are human rights. She/her.
- Reposted by OesteKind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
- Anybody else finding Sainsbury’s crap stock-wise atm?
- Reposted by OesteMost exciting day of my life was when I overslept for college, so I had to ninja sneak around the house to avoid my mum until 3pm, when I jumped out my bedroom window and came in the front door as if I was coming home. I'm 40 soon and I think about that day at least once a week
- Reposted by OesteYes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.
- It is blowing a hoolie out there. #weatherreport
- Reposted by OesteSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by OesteJust accidentally typed "lolicies" rather than "policies" so that's my new political insult sorted for the run-up to the May elections
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- Reposted by OesteSpeaking of "alone in a cabin" horror, I know a translator who went to a cabin for a few days to work on a translation in the South of Iceland. She was completely alone and there were no houses close and then suddenly one day something RAMS into the front door with tremendous force. 🧵
- So, on day 4 of staying alone in a cabin when it's still really dark outside for a big chunk of the day I can tell you that if I were writing a horror movie about a writer alone in a cabin, it would be all about windows. Things appearing outside of them, things *inside* reflected in windows from ...
- Reposted by OesteFuck me 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
- Reposted by Oestei’ve always been told that taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society so like do we not have to do them this year or what.
- Reposted by OesteThis thread!
- I keep seeing this jumper for which I YEARN even though mohair makes me sneeze, I’m not a skinny young punk, black and white tend to make me look a bit deathly.
- THEORETICALLY I could make one. Big needles, series of rectangles sewn together..?
- Found the lipstick.
- Reposted by OesteHere's a groovy #buyastrangerabook day offer for you, unclaimed from last week! @ivebeenhigh.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of either Disappoint Me or Bellies by Nicola Dinan. Check them out, and if there's one that you'd like, get in touch! UK only
- IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.
- Reposted by OesteI have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about. @ginger-kid.bsky.social has bought TWO copies of Mortification by Mark Watson for me to give out. One has gone, but if you'd like the other copy, just get in touch! UK only
- Reposted by Oeste#Glasgow Join our Cameron Johnson for an evening with James Alistair Henry - creator of Green Wing, Smack the Pony, and now new novel Pagans! Get your tickets for 13th Feb at Waterstones Argyle ST below: @cameronjohnston.bsky.social @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
- Reposted by OesteI am very keen to see Thiel connections investigated and purged from UK government. Start with Streeting 🙏🏼
- If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
- Forgot both breakfast and lunch. Ending up eating cookie dough instead.
- Reposted by OesteShocking stuff from Essex Live - an entire story about ducks and not a single person saying “it’s quackers”. Broken Britain in a nutshell.
- Reposted by OesteFuck Jeff Bezos. Subscribe to The Onion. membership.theonion.com
- Made rice crispie cakes while listening to #LivesoftheCaesars. I contain multitudes.
- Reposted by OesteHere's a groovy #buyastrangerabook day offer for you, unclaimed from last week! @ivebeenhigh.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of either Disappoint Me or Bellies by Nicola Dinan. Check them out, and if there's one that you'd like, get in touch! UK only
- Reposted by OesteIT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.
- Reposted by OesteI mean, I'm no expert on the richest, most powerful men in the western world frequenting a nonce-iverse run by a historically evil madlad apparently intent on dismantling civilisation itself, but I think that maybe perhaps the whole Epstein thing should possibly be a much bigger deal than it is.
- Reposted by OesteJust a little timeline magic.
- Just remembered I have salt & vinegar Hula Hoops!
- Reposted by Oeste“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
- Reposted by Oeste@kameronhurley.com has a lot of wisdom to share here in this article from @locusmag.bsky.social. The future is intrinsically hopeful.
- H&M are doing a red blazer that I lowkey want even though it would make me look like a Butlins.
- Reposted by OesteWe've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...
- Reposted by OesteWhat I find so weird about the data centre panic is the assumption that technology won’t change again to make these needs obsolete or at least different. It’s like Victorian transport planners trying to work out where all the horses will be stabled in the year 2026.
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- 6. First job? Worked in a small now defunct bookshop. Manager used to fart ALL THE TIME and just sidle off and leave you stranded by the till in a cloud of mephitic vapours.
- 5. Biggest turn on? Tricky one. Bit aro. Bit ace. But one time a person actually picked ME out which never happens and the way it made me feel was revelatory. Is this how attractive people feel all the time? How do you get stuff done?
- Do you believe in soulmates, why or why not? Not sure I believe in souls, to start with. As for the mate part; divorce rates suggest it’s unlikely.
- Reposted by OestePop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
- 3. Is there something you’d like to tell someone but won’t? I owe a lot of apologies for crappy behaviour but won’t reach out because it could retraumatise someone, is it about my feelings or theirs? do I deserve forgiveness?
- 2. What is a compliment you’ve never forgotten? Someone once described me as ‘scarily intelligent’.
- 1. Do you have any nicknames? Not really. Variants on Westy I suppose.
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- Reposted by OesteFinally got my bookshop.org account up and running with a list of books that either helped inspire Pagans or were fantastic resources while writing it. Loads more to add, but this is a start: uk.bookshop.org/lists/pagans...
- Reposted by OesteI can accept English as a concession to modern sensibilities, but if the Greek subtitles are not a competent mix of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects in use at the time, I will pout and strut like any angry white man, who, if he hasn't read Homer, at least has the CliffsNotes. Fuck Charles Murray.
- Why not?
- Nicked from @avantgardening.pl ... LET'S GOOOOO
- Reposted by OesteIn an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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- I mean, I could have four meatballs and three nests but to have an even number of meatballs would be insanity.
- The problem with tagliatelle is that two nests are not enough and three are too many. Five is the correct number of meatballs, however.
- Reposted by Oeste*PODYSSEY SEASON TWO IS HERE* New Bonus Episode: The Beast In Me Did the Ancient Greeks have pets? Well, it's quite complicated, often very sweet... and sometimes a little bit weird. @sturdyalex.bsky.social 🎧 LISTEN AND SHARE 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5U4O... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
- Power cut.
- You may remember the saga of the 19 guitars when my stepdad died. Well, I found number 20.
- Reposted by OesteNEW: Reform UK says it would re-impose the two-child benefit cap - scrapped by Labour - for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs.
- I just need a couple of months in an alpine hotel to do a rest cure and make a dent in my tbr pile.
- Reposted by OesteFollowing the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?
- Reposted by OesteThe nice thing about being friends with Geordi is you get told the EXACT moment they unlock Cadburys Easter Eggs on the replicators each year.
- Reposted by OesteGood news for Peter Mandelson. FIFA have just offered him a Peerage.
- Reposted by OesteThis is the key story of Minneapolis- mass organizing of a significant percentage of the population. Rallies are great but building trained networks of activists with real skills to challenge autocracy is the key to defeating the far right over the long term.
- I kept seeing a particular author mentioned as, like, the Don of fantasy fiction. Was all MEH and WEVS and now I’m staying up till 4am listening to my second audiobook.
- I’m scared to find out he’s a wrong’un so no names. The politics of the world building suggests he’s OK but *been burned before face*.
- Reposted by OesteIt was the Fuck Around of Times, it was the Find Out of times
- Reposted by Oestebill of attainder bill of attainder BILL OF ATTAINDER
- Reposted by OesteBet he’s sweating now.
- I had banana pancakes for lunch.
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- Reposted by OesteThe Essence has made it onto the Reading List, which is unexpected but also well cool. Thank you, everyone at Locus.
- Reposted by OesteThis took me fucking ages
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- Reposted by OesteYou can't poke a big purple rubber cock in a SkySports lad's ear on live telly these deadline days because of woke. We used to be a country.
- Reposted by OesteHappy birthday Les
- Reposted by OesteHey gang, a little bird tells me that Kobo put THE TWISTED ONES and NETTLE & BONE on sale until the 15th! (I know it’s in the UK, not sure about US)
- Apropos this I am now in possession of some shiny pleather trousers.
- Toying with the idea of “getting a hold of my life” and “getting up early to exercise” and maybe “dressing less like a bag lady” to improve my current mind-set. Hence the lipstick search.
- Yet again I failed to add any chocolate to my Sainsbury’s order. Sad.
- Reposted by OesteTennessee bestie sent me this, and please don't let me find out she's a terrible terf or something - because this is a *blast* youtu.be/x-FLnQrUGTc?...
- Fellow old people! What did we call endlessly repetitive things before Groundhog Day?
- Reposted by OesteNo notes 🤌🏻
- Reposted by OesteHere are two stacks of SIGNED books. A lot of them aren't on my website any more, cos I usually take books off there when i'm down to one or two copies, in case of emergencies. Anyway, if you're interested in any of them, let me know & maybe we can do a deal?
