"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Have you read Eat Me? Non-fiction & fabulous.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

The Metropolitan Police will tomorrow allow tractors to block Whitehall, then travel in convoy through Westminster. Disruption could last 6 hours.

In summer 2023, Netpol logged police arresting environmental campaigners for marching in the road on 274 occasions, often for as little as 3 minutes

Lovely to see Meet Me On The Bridge enter the top 100 Kindle books again!
Only 99p for the whole of December 🎉🎉
#MeetMeOnTheBridge

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Photograph of book page which contains a short poem by Raymond Carver which reads 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

I lost a crown (to a bar of chocolate) but carried it faithfully home (on a train from Slovenia), got to the dentist & had LOST IT. £770 for a new one.

Readers, dear readers, prior to my appointment on Monday, I HAVE FOUND THE CROWN.

That’s the entire message. Best day ever.

BBC and Create Central launch new writing scheme in Birmingham and the Black Country for aspiring sc... Write Across Birmingham and the Black Country will provide up to 12 aspiring writers with a crucial insight into writing for TV

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I wonder if Walt is Robyn Malcolm’s real grandchild: or just brilliant.

Oh my God, it just gets better. The two leads are INSANELY good. Even the baby is an exceptional actor.

Just finished #AfterTheParty on @channel4tv.bsky.social. STELLAR.

Discoveries 2025 Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said:

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."

The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

Video shows the moment an Israeli air attack hit and destroyed a residential building in Beirut’s Chiyah area.

The city’s southern suburbs have been struck repeatedly in recent months, but this is the first time this neighbourhood has been hit.

Isn’t it! The end was PHENOMENAL. I couldn’t have loved it more.

Screenshot of the book’s “about the author page” which has three whole paragraphs of a biography of Alison and then in tiny writing right at the bottom of the page has the words “with Lisa Bent”.

To clarify, no, Alison Hammond (lovely though she is) didn’t “write a book”.
Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison)
Not that you’d know it😕
#TheActualWriter
#CelebrityFiction

A triumph. I highly recommend you read it. Thanks for the heads up, @jodierobins.bsky.social.

If you grew up in a home with other people, you've been using gender neutral bathrooms your entire life.

See where I'm going with this?

Yellow gorse, covered in frost

A long frosted field stretching towards the sunrise & a deer silhouetted at the top.

A deer, posing on a crystal horizon, and some gorse.

Thank you. ❤️

Article screenshot. Title: “Trump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”

The Onion. 👏😂

Could you add me too please? 😍

We must chip away at people smuggler business models, says border chief UK's first border security commander says there is no "simple answer" to stopping small boat crossings.

You could utterly destroy the smugglers "business model" in one move, but making it safer and simpler for people to seek asylum. Anything less is already shown to be counterproductive. #r4today

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Hopefully long enough to meet up for a coffee sometime.

Yes! That’s going strong: bloody hell it’s tiring though. How long are you in D&G?

Can we stop framing Inheritance Tax as being something the person who leaves it pays?
You don’t pay it.
You are dead. That’s why it is available for someone to inherit.
Your beneficiaries pay it on the free money they have just received.
#inheritancetax

Sound on (to hear the peace & solitude of the Scottish countryside).