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At some point soon someone will invent a manly branded version of Frubes for gymbros. A protein yoghurt in a tube that you squeeze directly into your mouth.

Not everyone, of course, and I do know several people in publishing with working class backgrounds, but this is overall a true thing.

Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).

Young couple in the supermarket just now having the following loud discussion. Her: we’re not getting a doughnut maker Him: we are, I’m going to order it Her: we’re not! Where’s it going to go?! Him: *desperately* the spare room?

Without downloading new pics what’s it like dating you

Idea: headphones for your nose. A device which cancels out the horrid smells in this train carriage and constantly replaces them with gentle wafts of the scents of my choice.

I am now the very proud owner of a crocheted Cubone

VERY happy to meet what Americans call a bodega cat but here is simply a Birmingham corner shop cat. It wanted to sell me fine water but had no sidequest.

Take a Break (one of the bigger magazines) is replacing all of its short story writers with AI. Easy to dismiss a throwaway lifestyle magazine but this is a canary in a very dangerous coalmine.

This does in fact help, although what it helps I do not know. But it helps.

I would pivot my socials to inspiring self-help posts but all my wisdom is things like “writers write, not much else I can tell you”, or “educated thick people get further than uneducated clever people”.