I've been away from here for a while, but hopefully back more this new year 😊
Meantime, I've started writing what I hope will become a short story collection on a theme. Around 10k down already with outlines on more to follow. I'm a plotter, so percolating the rest...
Creativity breeds creativity!
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Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
Good innit! 😁
Right! No idea it had been around for 10 years before I found it too 😁
May the 4th be with you – now more than ever!
(This never gets old 👇😁)
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A view along a shaded path in a beech wood with bluebells
In the bluebell wood 2... 🪻
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A view of a bluebell wood in shade
In the bluebell wood... 🪻
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She taught me Russian Literature: I learned a lot about the country, its history and culture from studying those authors.
No doubt some of those books are on the banned list now: Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, maybe even Dostoyevsky.
/6
College is such a valuable and important time and chance to encounter other perspectives. Erasing them erases lived history, philosophy and experience...
This week, one of my professors passed away.
/5
Put it this way: uni didn't 'wake me up' – it didn't need to. I'd not come from a soft, affluent background, had already lived its effect.
But it did facilitate my ability to question, to think critically.
/4
And the best Department of Government, with the UK's leading experts on Thatcherism and elections at the time, very much in demand in academe and the media.
/3
I was taught by Oxbridge-educated Marxist professors. Doc Martens-wearing, Smiths-listening types who rated Brecht and worked with Brenton and Hare...
...But there was an active Conservative Society on campus.
A vibrant international student body.
And incredible, sometimes heated debate.
/2
Not brutal, but an excellent class war putdown from a guy crossing the road to a posh, rah Cambridge student on a bike braying at him to 'Get out of my way!':
'Oh shut up, you plum' 😂
Calling someone a fartleberry is savage (see Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)
And just for fun, this 👇😁
Tomorrow it's the 7th birthday of #buyastrangerabook!
It first happened on May 2nd 2018.
Incredible!
Thanks so much for allowing it to keep going.
I LOVE doing it and really hope you enjoy it all too.
See you tomorrow!
www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
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Gillian, talk to a lawyer about misrepresentation and defamation. Right of paternity could be an issue here too, if ChatGPT has stolen your work and regurgitated it under your byline. People have already brought cases where AI has hallucinated and libelled them.
See also this 👇
😬 That looks like the aftermath of a medical procedure!
Are you a creative?
You need to see this 👇
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Very nice!
Excellent choice!
Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid
Post a cool library 📚
Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1800.
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😊 The atmosphere in bluebell woods is so serene and special 😍
A view of bluebells flowering in a beechwood. A shaft of light is streaming across the carpet of flowers diagonally, from left to right
It's that magical time of year...🪻
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And if he's happy in his work... 😁
Oops 😲 (One can imagine Québec was not amused...!)
😁
Picture of the front of a house with the number 39 on the nameplate, underneath it reads 'Lorem Ipsum'
One for the graphic designers and typographers out there 😁
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