@iamnat.bsky.social
Proofreader, mother, wife, dog owner (Tibetan Terrier), northerner, food appreciator, film-goer (very occasional), reader (of books not Kindles!).
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It's painful because it's true.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's painful because it's true.
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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Them: You have too many books
Me:
Me:
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Them: You have too many books
Me:
Me:
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Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
You know what else can recommend books to you
~a fucking librarian~
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fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
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The solving of "those thorny problems" is the job.
That's the writing.
The more you outsource it to the plagiarism engine the more you lose your hard-won ability.
That's the writing.
The more you outsource it to the plagiarism engine the more you lose your hard-won ability.
When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot
October 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The solving of "those thorny problems" is the job.
That's the writing.
The more you outsource it to the plagiarism engine the more you lose your hard-won ability.
That's the writing.
The more you outsource it to the plagiarism engine the more you lose your hard-won ability.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
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Hey kids!
Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?
Remember that?
Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?
Remember that?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hey kids!
Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?
Remember that?
Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?
Remember that?
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance
October 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Slightly diminish a band:
Dexys Midday Runners
Dexys Midnight Walkers
Taylor Slow
Heaven 16
The Thompson Only Child
Dexys Midday Runners
Dexys Midnight Walkers
Taylor Slow
Heaven 16
The Thompson Only Child
Slightly diminish a band:
Vampire Saturday Morning
Stroll DMC
Guns n’ Daisies
Plastallica
Charli xcix
Vampire Saturday Morning
Stroll DMC
Guns n’ Daisies
Plastallica
Charli xcix
Slightly diminish a band:
Green 23 Hours
Green 23 Hours
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
Dexys Midday Runners
Dexys Midnight Walkers
Taylor Slow
Heaven 16
The Thompson Only Child
Dexys Midday Runners
Dexys Midnight Walkers
Taylor Slow
Heaven 16
The Thompson Only Child
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I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book.
If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.
Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.
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If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.
Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book.
If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.
Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.
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If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.
Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.
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Library visit Round 2! The theme this time is "books I've dithered about buying because I wasn't sure they were my cup of tea and have picked up and put down in various bookshops"!
#amreading #library #books
#amreading #library #books
July 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Library visit Round 2! The theme this time is "books I've dithered about buying because I wasn't sure they were my cup of tea and have picked up and put down in various bookshops"!
#amreading #library #books
#amreading #library #books
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Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators
UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humans
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Libraries are great, aren't they?! A quick wander over yesterday afternoon in the sunshine, borrowed these two, finished the Mick Herron novella by bedtime. ☺️ Onwards to the 'Sea of Tranquility'.
Support your local library, folks.
#reading #libraries #stockport
Support your local library, folks.
#reading #libraries #stockport
July 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Libraries are great, aren't they?! A quick wander over yesterday afternoon in the sunshine, borrowed these two, finished the Mick Herron novella by bedtime. ☺️ Onwards to the 'Sea of Tranquility'.
Support your local library, folks.
#reading #libraries #stockport
Support your local library, folks.
#reading #libraries #stockport
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Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.
June 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.
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You've not heard The Prodigy until you've heard them in the original Bands of HM Royal Marines.
This is outrageously better than it has any right to be.
youtu.be/FJBdGTN56rU?...
This is outrageously better than it has any right to be.
youtu.be/FJBdGTN56rU?...
The Prodigy Medley | The Bands of HM Royal Marines
YouTube video by The Bands of HM Royal Marines
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June 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You've not heard The Prodigy until you've heard them in the original Bands of HM Royal Marines.
This is outrageously better than it has any right to be.
youtu.be/FJBdGTN56rU?...
This is outrageously better than it has any right to be.
youtu.be/FJBdGTN56rU?...
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Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
May 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
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Ncuti Gatwa is to be the UK's spokesperson for Eurovision 2025, BBC announces,
May 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ncuti Gatwa is to be the UK's spokesperson for Eurovision 2025, BBC announces,
Great thread.
I would rather rewatch by far the worst-ever historical figure Dr Who episode (Agatha & the alien wasps) on repeat for all eternity than believe this is where we're at, let alone participate in it.
May 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great thread.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.