JL Kaufmann
@jlkaufmann.bsky.social
Overcaffeinated scribbling person
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Just seen somebody point out that as Twitter is creating and hosting CSAM, there is the possibility that UK based users could, in theory, be prosecuted for strict liability offences just for opening the app...
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Just seen somebody point out that as Twitter is creating and hosting CSAM, there is the possibility that UK based users could, in theory, be prosecuted for strict liability offences just for opening the app...
The weather here is utterly heartbreakingly beautiful. Clear cold bright sunshine lying rosegold, silvergold, rosegold again over the fields. Sunsets pink and lavender and blue.
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The weather here is utterly heartbreakingly beautiful. Clear cold bright sunshine lying rosegold, silvergold, rosegold again over the fields. Sunsets pink and lavender and blue.
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Mini of the month - Not very Christmassy
Entry 16 by @tammi.bsky.social
++MECHANICUS CHRISTMAS ++
An Adept Minoris of the Divisio Psychologicus, dressed in seasonal robes, visits Oldgate down in the Necromunda Underhive.
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Entry 16 by @tammi.bsky.social
++MECHANICUS CHRISTMAS ++
An Adept Minoris of the Divisio Psychologicus, dressed in seasonal robes, visits Oldgate down in the Necromunda Underhive.
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Mini of the month - Not very Christmassy
Entry 16 by @tammi.bsky.social
++MECHANICUS CHRISTMAS ++
An Adept Minoris of the Divisio Psychologicus, dressed in seasonal robes, visits Oldgate down in the Necromunda Underhive.
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Entry 16 by @tammi.bsky.social
++MECHANICUS CHRISTMAS ++
An Adept Minoris of the Divisio Psychologicus, dressed in seasonal robes, visits Oldgate down in the Necromunda Underhive.
#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
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I dust my house. My AI robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I dust my house. My AI robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
Mum, by text: Would you like a full English breakfast?
Me: Ooh yes please! *gallops downstairs to the kitchen.
Mum silently hands me a frying pan and a packet of bacon.
Me: Ooh yes please! *gallops downstairs to the kitchen.
Mum silently hands me a frying pan and a packet of bacon.
January 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Mum, by text: Would you like a full English breakfast?
Me: Ooh yes please! *gallops downstairs to the kitchen.
Mum silently hands me a frying pan and a packet of bacon.
Me: Ooh yes please! *gallops downstairs to the kitchen.
Mum silently hands me a frying pan and a packet of bacon.
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New Year Sale: "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James"
£12.50 inc p+p to UK (usually £17.50).
Fourteen M R James stories adapted for solo performance; plus introduction.
To avail yourself, email me at address here: www.nunkie.co.uk/contact
£12.50 inc p+p to UK (usually £17.50).
Fourteen M R James stories adapted for solo performance; plus introduction.
To avail yourself, email me at address here: www.nunkie.co.uk/contact
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
New Year Sale: "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James"
£12.50 inc p+p to UK (usually £17.50).
Fourteen M R James stories adapted for solo performance; plus introduction.
To avail yourself, email me at address here: www.nunkie.co.uk/contact
£12.50 inc p+p to UK (usually £17.50).
Fourteen M R James stories adapted for solo performance; plus introduction.
To avail yourself, email me at address here: www.nunkie.co.uk/contact
I am lying in bed in my pyjamas listening to the New Year’s Day Concert live from Vienna. Ridiculous spun-sugar waltzes and polkas in a sea of flowers and gilding. It’s adorable.
January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I am lying in bed in my pyjamas listening to the New Year’s Day Concert live from Vienna. Ridiculous spun-sugar waltzes and polkas in a sea of flowers and gilding. It’s adorable.
We have been dancing about the kitchen. My mum, my sibs, and a senior friend who can still do the twist so there. New Year’s Resolution - sod being cool, be joyful instead.
Good riddance 2025 and may 2026 behave its bloody self.
Good riddance 2025 and may 2026 behave its bloody self.
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We have been dancing about the kitchen. My mum, my sibs, and a senior friend who can still do the twist so there. New Year’s Resolution - sod being cool, be joyful instead.
Good riddance 2025 and may 2026 behave its bloody self.
Good riddance 2025 and may 2026 behave its bloody self.
Having had a small funeral/cremation service for stepDad yesterday, we’re having a big memorial service in a couple of weeks. Mother has INSTANTLY snapped into worrying about THAT mode. Lord love her, but we all just needed to flop for a couple of days.
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Having had a small funeral/cremation service for stepDad yesterday, we’re having a big memorial service in a couple of weeks. Mother has INSTANTLY snapped into worrying about THAT mode. Lord love her, but we all just needed to flop for a couple of days.
I just want 2026 to be really really boring but *makes flappy gesture at world* there's no way to get to good old boring without a lot of painfully exciting.
May you all at least have PERSONALLY very boring 2026s, with all the excitement coming in the form of love, health, and financial stability.
May you all at least have PERSONALLY very boring 2026s, with all the excitement coming in the form of love, health, and financial stability.
December 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I just want 2026 to be really really boring but *makes flappy gesture at world* there's no way to get to good old boring without a lot of painfully exciting.
May you all at least have PERSONALLY very boring 2026s, with all the excitement coming in the form of love, health, and financial stability.
May you all at least have PERSONALLY very boring 2026s, with all the excitement coming in the form of love, health, and financial stability.
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Submit requests bc I love listening to @margaretadelle.bsky.social talk about books and I wanna hear her talk about YOU, indie author friends!
I'm on track to reopen to indie review requests on Thursday, January 1st!
If you're interested in sending a review on that day or after, please give my policy a read-through, even if you already have. It's been updated a bit.
#booksky
If you're interested in sending a review on that day or after, please give my policy a read-through, even if you already have. It's been updated a bit.
#booksky
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December 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Submit requests bc I love listening to @margaretadelle.bsky.social talk about books and I wanna hear her talk about YOU, indie author friends!
Our back to the sunset, watching the Moon.
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Our back to the sunset, watching the Moon.
Why is my hair sticky?
Wait, this is the lemon drizzle cake icing.
Why is there cake in my hair?
Wait, this is the lemon drizzle cake icing.
Why is there cake in my hair?
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Why is my hair sticky?
Wait, this is the lemon drizzle cake icing.
Why is there cake in my hair?
Wait, this is the lemon drizzle cake icing.
Why is there cake in my hair?
The funeral went very well. The funeral tea went very well. I have a headache. We’re all shattered. This is all as to be expected.
Here is a favourite piece of stepDad’s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-8...
Here is a favourite piece of stepDad’s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-8...
Maayan Licht - Ombra mai fu| Handel
YouTube video by Maayan Licht
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December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The funeral went very well. The funeral tea went very well. I have a headache. We’re all shattered. This is all as to be expected.
Here is a favourite piece of stepDad’s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-8...
Here is a favourite piece of stepDad’s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-8...
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
December 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
Have just discovered my mother in the kitchen making parmesan sablés for the post-funeral tea tomorrow.
I backed silently away.
I backed silently away.
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Have just discovered my mother in the kitchen making parmesan sablés for the post-funeral tea tomorrow.
I backed silently away.
I backed silently away.
Back at parents’ place at last. Very very tetchy. So tetchy. ’
December 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Back at parents’ place at last. Very very tetchy. So tetchy. ’
Young man on train has no ticket and is refusing to get off. So train is refusing to go. So everyone is shouting.
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Young man on train has no ticket and is refusing to get off. So train is refusing to go. So everyone is shouting.
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
I HAVE HAD A YEAR OK?
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I HAVE HAD A YEAR OK?
I got home, I ran up to my flat, everything seemed fine, I ran down to the shop on the ground floor.
“Oh no!” they said, “It turned out to be the flat roof behind! It wasn’t coming from above at all!”
Whereupon I burst into tears right there in the shop.
“Oh no!” they said, “It turned out to be the flat roof behind! It wasn’t coming from above at all!”
Whereupon I burst into tears right there in the shop.
The landlord of my block of flats called to say there was a water leak somewhere in the building. My downstairs neighbour isn‘t answering. I’m trying to get back to London on the Day Of Shitty Trains. The funeral is tomorrow and I have duties and this is VERY NOT OK.
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I got home, I ran up to my flat, everything seemed fine, I ran down to the shop on the ground floor.
“Oh no!” they said, “It turned out to be the flat roof behind! It wasn’t coming from above at all!”
Whereupon I burst into tears right there in the shop.
“Oh no!” they said, “It turned out to be the flat roof behind! It wasn’t coming from above at all!”
Whereupon I burst into tears right there in the shop.
The landlord of my block of flats called to say there was a water leak somewhere in the building. My downstairs neighbour isn‘t answering. I’m trying to get back to London on the Day Of Shitty Trains. The funeral is tomorrow and I have duties and this is VERY NOT OK.
December 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The landlord of my block of flats called to say there was a water leak somewhere in the building. My downstairs neighbour isn‘t answering. I’m trying to get back to London on the Day Of Shitty Trains. The funeral is tomorrow and I have duties and this is VERY NOT OK.
My parents moved to Italy when I was a baby and we three sibs grew up bilingual. My mother, who has been speaking Italian for longer than I have, and who is beautifully fluent, has NEVER mastered matching the genders of verb and adverb and noun and pronoun. She’s on the phone and it’s fascinating.
December 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My parents moved to Italy when I was a baby and we three sibs grew up bilingual. My mother, who has been speaking Italian for longer than I have, and who is beautifully fluent, has NEVER mastered matching the genders of verb and adverb and noun and pronoun. She’s on the phone and it’s fascinating.
Yes, Bardot had a remarkably lovely face and body. She also had a remarkably ugly mind. So.
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yes, Bardot had a remarkably lovely face and body. She also had a remarkably ugly mind. So.
He’s only been and gone and done …this.
Stupid lore Sunday
It is no secret that the imperium of man is a deeply stratified society. The gulf between the haves and have nots is extreme and permeates all aspects of life. The rich and powerful can expect to live in luxury for many lifetimes whilst the poors existence is short and brutal
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It is no secret that the imperium of man is a deeply stratified society. The gulf between the haves and have nots is extreme and permeates all aspects of life. The rich and powerful can expect to live in luxury for many lifetimes whilst the poors existence is short and brutal
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December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
He’s only been and gone and done …this.
We have watched The Princess Bride, because the niece has never seen it.
I am glad to report she found it delightful so I don’t have to disown her.
I am glad to report she found it delightful so I don’t have to disown her.
December 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We have watched The Princess Bride, because the niece has never seen it.
I am glad to report she found it delightful so I don’t have to disown her.
I am glad to report she found it delightful so I don’t have to disown her.