Grumpy Editor

The equinox has passed. The nights are longer than the days now. It's time to watch Midnight Mass again.

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

The democracy train has left the station, hurtled down the hill and is heading for the broken bridge. If this doesn't get people off their arses and into the streets, I honestly don't know what will. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life

Dear residents of Pissington, Since you have voted for independence, you can sort out your own healthcare, your own infrastructure, schools, etc. from now on. Oh, and grow the fuck up and get over yourselves, you gibbering racist twats. #piddington

Felt the urge to draw for the first time in forever. So I did this.

If only we had a system in place to stop this shit. Oh, wait... #AndyBurnham is a gutless twat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All I'm going to say about today's Assisted Dying debate is that when my husband was dying, and in great pain from the mets on his liver, he wanted that right.

When The Media Sees Fascism

Hi @greenburgerlit.bsky.social ! Could you explain, for the audience, what the maths are behind you putting in for 25% of Anthropic compensation on books you agented? Why is it 25% of the full sum, and not, say, 15% of the author share? Why should you get anything?

by artist Ginny Robbins

Congratulations to me! I've somehow managed to keep my freelance editing business going for nine years. Where does the time go? Many thanks to all the authors who've trusted me with their words and stuck with me. I will always be grateful. I love my job.

Not Dolly. :( Rest in peace lovely lady. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHT...

Can someone explain to me why the head of the CIA has gone to Moscow to meet with Russian officials? Make it make sense.

Housekeeping notice: The "office" will be closed from lunchtime Friday until Tuesday morning. I'm giving myself a long weekend because I can.

Sunday mornings are for Babylon 5 on Legend. Season 3 now. Episode 5. Katherine Leavitt is an uncanny replica of the Political Officer assigned to B5. @straczynski.bsky.social must've been able to see into the future when he wrote B5.

Well, that explains the smell outside, and the haze. We are so fucked, and we have a useless, vacuous prat in charge. Lovely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This sure is a great time for the country to have another useless PM and a cabinet of toadies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Our country is on fire, food shortages incoming. The fields look more like a savannah. But our shiny new PM is gladhanding his way round the country on an egowank tour spouting soundbites and platitudes when he should be convening COBRA meetings to deal with the crisis. Fuck this. #AndyBurnham

Taking a break from what I usually binge and am already five seasons into Granchester. It's fabulous!

Happy Sunday! 😁 If anyone needs any editing done, I have a couple of openings in August, and some from September onwards. Drop me a line at nostoneunturned.editing@gmail.com if you're interested.

He's doing more U-turns than a lost driver.

The world is teetering on the brink. Putin is muttering about invading a few NATO countries. Trump is threatening to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age before moving on to Cuba. And Burnham has appointed that treacherous, useless little shitweasel Streeting Defense Minister? Jesus wept. #WesStreeting

I know he's too honourable and kind a man, but if I were Kier Starmer, I'd go around the Downing Street flat sewing dead kippers into the curtain hems. Just for shits and giggles.

Not even PM yet and he's failed to read the room.

Mankind will not be free until the last billionaire is strangled with the guts of the second last billionaire.

Continuing our binge of Buffy, and have reached Hush. Fuck me, it's so clever and terrifying. And, as someone who sometimes has bouts of sleep paralysis...😱

Dear world leaders, Stop giving #Trump a platform. Don't invite him to #NATO meetings, don't invite him to the G7. No state visits. Just stop. Maybe if the US is no longer invited to the party someone in that useless fucking government will grow a spine, get off their arse and get rid. Love, Me.

What an utterly self-serving, self-absorbed, whining, hypocritical, gutless, attention-seeking piece of shit. (as an aside, is it coincidental that this happens after meeting with JD Couch-shagger at the weekend? More Heritage 2025 fuckery?)

imagine if it happens on tv

So Burnham's just Manchesterised Labour's existing policies and people are jizzing with excitement? I will never again underestimate the British public's ability to be hoodwinked so easily by someone pretending to be "one of us". Same old book, different cover. 🙄 #Labour #AndyBurnham

Swing stick

The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔

when AI companies go bankrupt

Needles

Ugh

Good friend

Housekeeping Notice: Editing is very slow-going this week. It's so hard to concentrate when the temperature in the room is 28C/82F and no AC. :/ I'm getting there, but it's at a snail's pace. Apologies! I hate this weather.

I will never cease to be dismayed by this country's capacity for self-destructive stupidity.

The UK has shit itself again. #AndyBurnham

People in this country just can't bear having an adult in charge. Fuck Burnham. Fuck the MSM. Fuck the Corbyn cultists. You've just handed the UK to Reform on a silver platter. You utter morons. #Starmer #Burnham #Labour

It takes a long time to undo 14 years of Tory fuckery. Anyone who thinks it can be done overnight needs to grow up and get over themselves. If Burnham becomes PM, the right-wing media will back calls for a GE. A Burnham government will lose. Reform will win. The UK is full of entitled morons.

Curious as to how many people who are okay with a possible leadership change in the Labour party, moaned about all the times the Tories did the same? If you complained about that, and are fine with Burnham's antics, you may want to check your hypocrisy.

Let's not forget what happened the last time a former mayor became PM.

This is just too cute. I don't send many cards these days, but when I do, they're Amelia's.

Preserve endangered animals

Big difference between peaceful protests and trashing a factory and fracturing a police officer's spine with a bat. Palestine Action is not a protest group, because criminal damage and assault isn't a protest. Get over yourselves and do better.

Social media companies could do more to help. Parents can too. Does your kid really need that smart phone? Surely a normal cell phone will do. A few years ago you'd see kids talking to each other while waiting for the school bus. Now they're all staring at their phones. At least Starmer is trying.