Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Good morning! I’m finally getting round to Blood over Bright Haven which has been on my shelf forever, and I’m really enjoying it 100 pages in!
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Good morning! I’m finally getting round to Blood over Bright Haven which has been on my shelf forever, and I’m really enjoying it 100 pages in!
also love that he just casually dropped this into conversation as he was heading upstairs. like what do you MEAN you messaged guillermo del toro for me?! get back here!!!!
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
also love that he just casually dropped this into conversation as he was heading upstairs. like what do you MEAN you messaged guillermo del toro for me?! get back here!!!!
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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thank you for the thought! alas it’s a central disorder so the epley doesn’t help 💔
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
thank you for the thought! alas it’s a central disorder so the epley doesn’t help 💔
it really is!!!! filler duck face is a real problem 😭
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
it really is!!!! filler duck face is a real problem 😭