Ali
@aligeorge.bsky.social
Work on Digital Content in the Heritage Sector, read (and sometimes write) kidlit, mostly lurking just now. Beautiful parent of two lucky children. A cat also lives here. she/her
7: mum can you put on Bye Bye Bye?
Me: … you mean the one by Nsync?
7: no, I think it’s by Deadpool
Me: … you mean the one by Nsync?
7: no, I think it’s by Deadpool
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
7: mum can you put on Bye Bye Bye?
Me: … you mean the one by Nsync?
7: no, I think it’s by Deadpool
Me: … you mean the one by Nsync?
7: no, I think it’s by Deadpool
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Weekend boost!
WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER
Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way and check out the alt text below….
Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @slgscotland.bsky.social
Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way and check out the alt text below….
Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @slgscotland.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Weekend boost!
Is the LinkedIn recommendations algo a POS, or do I need to do some profile maintenance? This isn’t even the most unhinged one I’ve had lately. Anyway brb, setting up a ‘fair museum jobs’ style account for poets. (P.S. am not a poet)
September 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Is the LinkedIn recommendations algo a POS, or do I need to do some profile maintenance? This isn’t even the most unhinged one I’ve had lately. Anyway brb, setting up a ‘fair museum jobs’ style account for poets. (P.S. am not a poet)
One day our youngest will stop calling the popular hazelnut spread ‘buttella’ and I will weep like one of the professional mourners the Romans used to have
September 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One day our youngest will stop calling the popular hazelnut spread ‘buttella’ and I will weep like one of the professional mourners the Romans used to have
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It’s publication day! 🎉
'Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces In Scotland' is out now. I contributed a piece on 90s goth club Earth Inferno 🔥
you can order it from Historic Environment Scotland:
stor.scot/collections/...
'Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces In Scotland' is out now. I contributed a piece on 90s goth club Earth Inferno 🔥
you can order it from Historic Environment Scotland:
stor.scot/collections/...
August 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It’s publication day! 🎉
'Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces In Scotland' is out now. I contributed a piece on 90s goth club Earth Inferno 🔥
you can order it from Historic Environment Scotland:
stor.scot/collections/...
'Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces In Scotland' is out now. I contributed a piece on 90s goth club Earth Inferno 🔥
you can order it from Historic Environment Scotland:
stor.scot/collections/...
Me: please make my hair look like it did in this picture of me
Hairdresser: thanks but no I will not be doing that
Me: oh ok then great have my money
Hairdresser: thanks but no I will not be doing that
Me: oh ok then great have my money
July 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Me: please make my hair look like it did in this picture of me
Hairdresser: thanks but no I will not be doing that
Me: oh ok then great have my money
Hairdresser: thanks but no I will not be doing that
Me: oh ok then great have my money
School hols day 1: “Mum, I’m just going to release the ghost kings of Scotland from their jar.”
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
School hols day 1: “Mum, I’m just going to release the ghost kings of Scotland from their jar.”
Eldest asked me to read one of my own stories at bedtime, listened patiently and responded “well. OK.” before asking for Looshkin. Humbling
June 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Eldest asked me to read one of my own stories at bedtime, listened patiently and responded “well. OK.” before asking for Looshkin. Humbling
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MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/
June 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/
I’ve been doing a short course about picture book writing. One of the first things the tutor said in the first class was that she’d strongly advise carving out 4-5 hours a week to do the course and ‘nourish myself creatively’.
June 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’ve been doing a short course about picture book writing. One of the first things the tutor said in the first class was that she’d strongly advise carving out 4-5 hours a week to do the course and ‘nourish myself creatively’.
“We can’t let the kids look at screens all day” I type in a message to my husband as we both Homer Simpson backwards into another room to look at screens all day
June 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“We can’t let the kids look at screens all day” I type in a message to my husband as we both Homer Simpson backwards into another room to look at screens all day
Anyone on here know the secret extra verse of the Skye Boat Song about the mermaid? I have it on good authority from a 3 year old mermaid correspondent that it definitely exists and I’ve got the distinct impression there’s going to be trouble if I don’t learn it
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Anyone on here know the secret extra verse of the Skye Boat Song about the mermaid? I have it on good authority from a 3 year old mermaid correspondent that it definitely exists and I’ve got the distinct impression there’s going to be trouble if I don’t learn it
On the Edinburgh Leisure website trying to find information like
a man in a tuxedo is holding a piece of paper in front of a woman in a dress .
Alt: Woman moves her head from side to side looking utterly confused as various equations pop up in front of her
media.tenor.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On the Edinburgh Leisure website trying to find information like
New Sparks! New Skunk Anansie! New Garbage! New Self Esteem! What a time for music! Except I have a 6 year old and will be listening to Steve’s Lava Chicken and (for reasons we’ve yet to uncover) Flower of Scotland on a loop for the next three years
May 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New Sparks! New Skunk Anansie! New Garbage! New Self Esteem! What a time for music! Except I have a 6 year old and will be listening to Steve’s Lava Chicken and (for reasons we’ve yet to uncover) Flower of Scotland on a loop for the next three years
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The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
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In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
Act 1: cat fails to catch mouse in the house this afternoon
Act 2: cat goes off out and finds a smaller, presumably slower mouse to bring in
Act 3: youngest child emotionally devastated by dad suggesting they not sit and watch the cat munch the new mouse
Act 2: cat goes off out and finds a smaller, presumably slower mouse to bring in
Act 3: youngest child emotionally devastated by dad suggesting they not sit and watch the cat munch the new mouse
May 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Act 1: cat fails to catch mouse in the house this afternoon
Act 2: cat goes off out and finds a smaller, presumably slower mouse to bring in
Act 3: youngest child emotionally devastated by dad suggesting they not sit and watch the cat munch the new mouse
Act 2: cat goes off out and finds a smaller, presumably slower mouse to bring in
Act 3: youngest child emotionally devastated by dad suggesting they not sit and watch the cat munch the new mouse
“Mum that’s you and in it you are a silly billy”
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Mum that’s you and in it you are a silly billy”
Me: I shall get up at 6 and do a yoga with Jessamyn video before everyone else gets up, let’s get ahead of that lower back pain woo yeah alright
My children: 5.30 call for a 2 hour Peppa Pig compilation vid? Got it, thx mum
My children: 5.30 call for a 2 hour Peppa Pig compilation vid? Got it, thx mum
April 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Me: I shall get up at 6 and do a yoga with Jessamyn video before everyone else gets up, let’s get ahead of that lower back pain woo yeah alright
My children: 5.30 call for a 2 hour Peppa Pig compilation vid? Got it, thx mum
My children: 5.30 call for a 2 hour Peppa Pig compilation vid? Got it, thx mum
You’ve heard of hot girl summer, now get ready for
April 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You’ve heard of hot girl summer, now get ready for
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Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour.
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do...
#Publishing #Books #Author #Writer
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do...
#Publishing #Books #Author #Writer
Published Doesn’t Mean Paid.
I want to talk about money.
(Ugh, I know. How crass.)
Specifically, how much money authors make, or more accurately, don’t.
I signed my publishing deal in 2023. My advance was £2,500. That’s it.
I w...
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io
March 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour.
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do...
#Publishing #Books #Author #Writer
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do...
#Publishing #Books #Author #Writer
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This story that was published last year just popped into my head again. You should read it. It's really good.
intrepidusink.com/and-heres-wh...
intrepidusink.com/and-heres-wh...
And Here's What I Said
The chase of a lifetime turns into a discovery of the heart in this tale of intrepid #literary adventure by Ross McCleary.
intrepidusink.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This story that was published last year just popped into my head again. You should read it. It's really good.
intrepidusink.com/and-heres-wh...
intrepidusink.com/and-heres-wh...