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Read: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark 📚 One of those ‘how autobiographical is this?’ games about a struggling 1940s writer. Snarky and funny and far more tricksy than I expected. #reading #books #booksky

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@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Yeah, it’s not a good opener.

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Similarly though, sometimes journalists don’t want to accept that the answer they get isn’t the one they wanted…

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@chasemit.bsky.social Is it a sequel to this?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pop…

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@katebevan.com Annoying Bluesky scolding is a pretty high bar, too.

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@ksnightingale.bsky.social You’re absolutely right. There’s no way I’m going to let you anywhere near my work, let alone pay you.

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@ksnightingale.bsky.social If you want to sound infantile trying to flog your professional services, I’m fine with that.

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@ksnightingale.bsky.social It’s my main brand.

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I do think if you’re going to dish out (perfectly correct) advice as a professional, it’s best not to use the terminology of middle school.

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@ksnightingale.bsky.social Do you mean adverbs?

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Genuinely thought ‘Sophia Money Coutts’ was a parody the first time I came across her.

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@aaronccross.bsky.social Your website is throwing security alerts on all the browsers … I’m assuming your certificates have run out…

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@sathnam.bsky.social They want to join your ceaseless round of exchanging bon mots with your writerly friends at long drunken lunches, lurching home to knock out a short story for The New Yorker to pay the rent on your chic Paris apartment for a couple of months, and discuss your favourite brand of manual typewriter.

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social So… Liz Truss then….

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@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social This is because the leader of the free world is psychologically and emotionally a toddler, and apparently hundreds of millions of Americans either couldn’t see this or were perfectly fine with it.

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Twice.

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@zoewithasword.bsky.social It probably is dementia, but in his narcissistic case, he’s always thought he’s entitled to everything anyway. Greenland, oil, children, etc.

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@beckybunzy.bsky.social Time and again it’s clear he’s spewing random words based on whatever malign emotional vibe he’s experiencing in the moment, and the media perform exegesis like he’s Wittgenstein, not a narcissistic demented old thicko.

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@tuphlos.bsky.social And the most fanatic LLM police for this are the least likely to be Actual Writers(TM), because Actual Writers(TM) know exactly where LLM models picked up their habits.

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@marcsettle.bsky.social I think he’s got the laptop/phone set to use its internal mic and ignore the plugged in/BT one. That’s why it’s picking up a load of room and rumble and whatnot.

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@bookspotlight.bsky.social Genuinely seen correct spelling and grammar condemned as ‘ableist’ too. Also expecting authors to be readers.

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For some people, anything other than actively supporting total entitlement is oppressive.

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social … whoosh….

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Happy to enrich your day with my existence.

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social you missed ‘… write and speak while under professional restraint to do a job involving encouraging other people to state their point of view to create a balanced perspective over all and not push his own views’.

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That’s literally the rules of his job. He’s not spewing hot takes on BlueSky.

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social We need a BlueSky equivalent of Godwin’s Law, about the number of posts it takes for any discussion on BlueSky to be made about gender issues.

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I’m fine with whatever gender people want to be, but not every issue is about gender.

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@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social How do you know what his agenda is? Have you had a private conversation with him about it?

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@cantb.bsky.social Impossible and common, in the general gist, in my experience.

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@cantb.bsky.social Fine in theory, but let’s say the non-responsive person is one of the top three in their field and friends with your boss. Technically, you’re in the right. Practically, it’s bloody awkward.

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@cantb.bsky.social Thing is, the ‘bio’ and summary they submit are often too long or in other ways unusable for the programme. So then you have to get an acceptable version from them, or at least get them to sign off your rewrite. And that’s when it goes quiet.

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Read: The Pretender by Jo Harkin 📚Peasant Pretender puppeteered by powerful Plantagenet proponents. Wolf Hall minus the portentousness. #booksky #reading #books

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Read: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚As in his ‘Say Nothing’, Keefe clearly disentangles a lot of complicated world views and confabulations to illuminate a particular world, though the overarching story isn’t as sharply defined. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 📚Cormac McCarthy with a sense of humour and optimism, and also an editor, and all the more likeable for it. #books #reading #booksky

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Read: Last One Out A Novel by Jane Harper 📚Her usual territory: resident returns to Australian small town and insular relationships (often between 3 male friends) which led to a tragedy a few years before. Realistic characters, well observed interactions, but nothing new. #booksky #reading #books

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Read: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚Fantastically researched especially the bits the TV series smoothed over. You do wonder exactly why Adams hasn’t sued over the allegations it makes about him. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Read: Pearl by Siân Hughes 📚Hughes is an award winning poet, and it shows, in a good way as her narator writes intensely and immersively about her mother’s death. As someone who felt no cause to grieve my own mother’s death, it was… informative. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Read: Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell 📚Big, detailed, accurate and gruesome. Also a cracking story (though not exactly genre-expanding). Great for immersion… #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚Freshman outrage at the shock of big companies being unscrupulous about how they make money. Nothing you can’t hear him perform any day of the week for free. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Guardian top 100 novels of all time I’ve read 25/100 and given up on a lot more on the list. Maybe I tried them too young. Also… no Hemingway? And I really don’t think Middlemarch (one of my DNFs) is the best novel of all time. #booksky

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Read: Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius 📚Drips realism and apparently the CIA uses it as an exemplar of Middle Eastern espionage. The detail draws you in and the conflicts between ethnicities and sects is tragically still relevant. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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People complained that the printing press meant people wouldn't put in the effort to learn things off by heart. matthewhurst.micro.blog

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Read: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford 📚Dark smart pastiche of Fielding, Sterne, etc, in late 18th century New York, but there’s more to it than just quality fanfiction. The characters are ludicrously alive and you can smell the horse shit and ambition. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd 📚 Juicy atmospheric procedural set in Paris just after the Germans marched in during June 1940. Not spies, but feels like Furst, Gerlis, Robert Harris. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Baseball. Invented by BF Skinner: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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Read: The Pariah by Dan Fesperman 📚Happily facetious palate freshener involving the a murderous Eastern European dictator, metoo’d American comedian, chimney cakes (whatever they are), delicate egos and many violent deaths. #booksky #books

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Read: All the Sinners Bleed A Novel by S. A. Cosby 📚Nails the atmosphere of Deep(ish) South small town revenge, tangled up in barely hidden racism, fully developed characters. Solid genre procedural but stands in its own right too. #booksky #books

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My latest ’excursion’ into podcasting is up - an interview with spy writer Michael Dylan about his latest book The New Spy, for @spybrary. Find it where-ever you get your etc. etc. spybrary.com/the-new-s… #booksky #authorsky

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Trump: I want Iran’s oil

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ATTACKS IRAN

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Media: Let us ponder why Trump is attacking Iran.

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I mean. Come on.

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Read: There There by Tommy Orange 📚Most of the book is perceptively drawn scenes of disparate cast in the runup to a powwow in Oakland. When tragic violence explodes there, it’s both the point and beside the point that they’re all native American. #booksky #books

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Read: The Fraud by Zadie Smith 📚Meaty and slightly meandering like the 19th century English novels it pastiches, with a nuanced human take on slavery’s effects rather than performative shouty self righteousness. #booksky #books

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Saw #onebattleafteranother. Self indulgent self righteous simplistic mess congealed by four over privileged stars riffing cringey stoner ‘humour’ on Pynchon pretension for spurious intellectual validation and only winning #Oscars because everything else is even worse.

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I use AI a lot in writing, to get over blank screen paralysis. I get it to generate a bunch of words which I know will be so infuriatingly bad I’ll be forced to rewrite them entirely till none of its version remains and I have created my first draft #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky

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Read: Everything We Do Is Music How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by @elizabethalker.bsky.social 📚Wonderfully nerdy cross referencing of pop music with ‘serious’ avant garde, which took my listening down many weird and, it transpired, joyously unlistenable rabbitholes. #booksky

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Read: Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie 📚Fergie/Andrew bio- readable etc. but most of it’s been in the media already. Brings together the astonishing extent of their ligging and fosters a sense of righteous outrage. #booksky

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