Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...
I just signed the Greenpeace petition calling on the government to power the UK with homegrown renewables. Every conflict abroad sends our energy bills soaring at home. The only way out is cheaper, safer renewable energy. Will you join me in demanding an end to the fossil fuel chaos? act.gp/4sv5VOP
They got Capone on tax evasion.
Whatever gets 'em where they can do no harm...
Hi there, Iâve just signed the petition below calling for the Government to end all contracts with Palantir - the US tech firm with a terrible record of enabling human rights abuses - Will you add your name too and then share it far and wide? 38d.gs/6ga1
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Win with the progressive majority!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wi...
On the road to music fame, desires and dreams collide. Smashwords Ebook Week Sale! Use code: EBW50 https://bit.ly/TeardownAndSmash
Teardown - like Expiration Day before it - is a book about being in a band. There's more to both, of course, but how do you convey the music and the experience of being in a band?
Here's my take on it at wordslayered.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w...
#lgbtreads #bands #music #blues #berlin #lgbtqbooks
On the road to music fame, desires and dreams collide. Smashwords Ebook Week Sale! Use code: EBW50 https://bit.ly/TeardownAndSmash
How do you escape from a dead-end, Thames Valley town like Marden Combe?
Drummer Kai plans to take the band to Germany - well, it worked for the Beatles!
Then their singer quitsâŚ
Follow Kai and the band on the road to Berlin, as desires and dreams collide.
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#lgbtreads #booksky
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill wonât even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Our public services arenât for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill wonât even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The hand of the author was too visible, the tension too patterned. Did not DNF but will not venture another.
Time for a re-read...
1 million thanks for that. "When William IV Was King" is the book I needed.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6:
Having a day job doesnât mean youâre not a proper writer. Writing for children doesnât mean youâre not a proper writer. Being unpublished doesnât mean youâre not a proper writer.
Oh, and thereâs no such thing as a proper writer. Only writers, and those who donât.
I note that readers can buy (DRM-free) ebooks on the Wizard's Tower website also. Presumably the same offer is available there?
Oh, indeed. The techbros gonna steal, and play legal shenanigans. And the lawyers will get rich.
Reasoned argument to provide fair treatment for creatives, without stifling the AI industry.
Tell me more.
If not, then I've got a vastly improved MS that I can query with agents.
The R&R is from a UK-based small press that specialises in political writing, in this case historical crime set in the 1830s - a time with significant parallels with our own in terms of active wage depression, erosion of workers' rights.
If I've done the R&R right, then an offer should follow.
As my Revise & Resubmit approaches its conclusion I've blogged on the approach I've taken in Pass 3.
Pass 3 brings the focus back to the scene level, something that works well with #Scrivener. Other #editing and drafting tools are available.
wordslayered.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/r...
â° Thames Waterâs future is hanging in the balance. Billions in debt could be written off for private owners and it could remain in private hands unless we act fast.
53,000+ of us are calling for nationalisation. Add your name: 38d.gs/tw_bs
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.socialâŹ's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
so nothing to drive users to change.
The default isn't Word. The default is .docx file format. So many programs can create it, many of them free.
The only obvious contender to that format is Open Document format. That format can also be handled by the same programs that handle .docx format. There is no advantage to either format
Need a cosy holiday read?
It's the End of Year Sale on Smashwords (ends Jan 1st 2026).
TEARDOWN is half price when you use the code SEY50: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
My book, Chasing Darkness, is part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book at smashwords.com/sale and follow @smashwords.bsky.social for more promos like this! #EOYsale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks #writingcommunity
The Smashwords #EoYSale25 is on!
Here's an author team-up to help you out:
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#mmromance
