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Robin Pridy
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Freelance editor and writer. Canadian expat in UK. Keen on only a small number of things. One is tea. Another is cats. Sometimes things are funny, sometimes they are sad. Usually, they are both.
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Just finished North Woods by Daniel Mason... many thoughts. A very dense book! Nearly gave up, about 1/3 way in but v pleased to have carried on. So many strands, each one could be a novel in itself.

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North woods, cover of paperback novel by daniel mason
April 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Voted by post for Canadian election. First time in 25 years... elbows up.

#Canada #handsoffCanada #Canadianelections
Elections Canada postal vote envelope Elections Canada voting ballot
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Last chance to have your say on AI stealing writers' work in the UK... see the ALCS website - www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri... - for how to fill in the survey. Here's my thoughts, for what it's worth. #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator
Please focus on preserving rather than removing workers' rights - those of creatives, skilled workers and artists, designers and editors - the ones who have a body of knowledge and who are human beings rather than a computer-generated 'solution' that will only line the pockets of rich technocrats and oligarchs. The road towards allowing AI unfettered access to our hard work is the blueprint for removing our jobs, our livelihoods and our contributions to the art and culture we hold dear in a civilised society. And once that's gone, then what would you propose we do? There won't be much we can do. We will have a flooded market of sub-par art, music, film and literature - and by sub-par, I mean it will reflect whatever the operators of said tech decide it will, whether it's that Ukraine is an aggressor, or maybe that women shouldn't work, or speak out loud in town halls, or that only white men should have 'good' jobs; maybe that immigrants are scum. Whatever they want (don't worry, they'll fact-check all this). Besides, we'll all be too busy working our non-union jobs at Amazon to have the energy to speak up about this, or to care what kind of crap is being peddled as art. We won't have time to care. My work would die - I write, edit and fact-check for a living. If AI takes on these services, much cheaper than I create and/or do them – and it would be at a lower skill level – how is this quantifiable to you? That the writing doesn't make you weep? That the ending wasn't quite right? Do you want to live in a world where good literature isn't possible? It's already become the preserve of the middle to upper class as no one can afford to write. Just take a look at AI art to get a sense of what your children will be ingesting as 'art' and culture. And then what would all these creative workers like myself do for a living? Are we worthless? Non-quantifiable? Work at an Amazon warehouse? If AI does at all, to a 'workable' level, where is anything good? Gone. Fact-checking robots, ok. We can already see where that goes. Ask DeepSearch about Tiananmen Square and see where you get on 'facts'.
February 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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In case we want a poem by a 7 year old today (did).

I can smell anything
I am just beautiful
I can be colourful
I can think of anything
I can't be nothing
I can be anything I want
I am something you like that no one can hate
I AM A RAINBOW!
Poem: I can smell anything I am just beautiful I can be colourful I can think of anything I can't be nothing I can be anything I want I am something you like that no one can hate I AM A RAINBOW!
February 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Nature writing retreat in May at Starcroft Cabins.
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Writing retreat in May at Starcroft Cabins. See website.
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Writing retreat in May at Starcroft Cabins. See website.
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I'm running a nature writing retreat in May at the wondrous Starcroft Cabins. Your own wood cabin and some gorgeous walks and writing. Please share!

www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/weekendretre...

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Writing retreat in May at Starcroft Cabins. See website.
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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'If we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.' - Ben Marcus
Quote by Ben Marcus: 'If we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.'
January 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books

#BookSky

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#BookChallenge

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Cover of 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje
December 5, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books

#BookSky

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Cover of 'Visible Worlds' by Marilyn Bowering
December 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books

#BookSky

💙📚

#BookChallenge

16/20
cover of 'Staying Alive', edited by Neil Astley
December 3, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookSky
💙📚
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15/20
Cover of 'Life After Life' by Kate Atkinson
December 2, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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14/20
Cover of 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4'
December 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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13/20
Cover of Rohinton mistry's novel, A Fine Balance
November 30, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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12/20
Cover of novel, 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer.
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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11/20
Cover of 'No one belongs here more than you.', by Miranda July
November 28, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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#BookSky
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10/20
November 27, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Quite a few to read here!

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November 26, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookSky
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9/20
November 26, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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8/20
November 25, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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George Eliot's description of the pier glass and the candle in Middlemarch: [New York Times article on William James, Robert T. Richardson]

www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/b...
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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November 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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6/20
November 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM