If an AI was a good creative co-brain it would say; this bit’s shit; that’s weird; you wrote that metaphor already; who talks like that?; wow the snarky girl suddenly got polite; who cares what a tree looks like; bored now!; that rhymed, cut it; what does this add?; you spoilt the joke…
This is very lovely to hear, and I just want to 100% co-sign on ‘more sci fi comics for kids please’ 👍
Picture-style pictures!
Noice.
Like the opposite of 'to advance'.
I could always put some effort into doing my own research rather than waiting for you and Ian to tell me things, TBF.
Origin Story.....? :)
Going for some quite expensive productivity hacks these days, eh?
Some interesting online events about publishing, books and AI coming up in these seminars from the day job:
@labourlewis.bsky.social - Norwich has a long history of creativity which continues to this day. Plus don't let it be dismantled to help a bunch of US tech megacorps.
Worst timeline.
Just read issue 16.
@kierongillen.bsky.social *bows respectfully*
Nobody here needs to be told that Reform's claims of cheating are utterly absurd but it's worth noting that the anti-Reform vote was so large that even if the Greens and Labour had split it 50/50 Reform would still have lost — in fact they would have come third. They only value democracy if they win
And breathe.
I was so into Red Dwarf in the mid-90s that I bought BOTH 'blooper' VHS releases and watched them multiple times through.
Sounds like you need a Crisis In Infinite Bakeries storyline.
My guide for healthy usage of Bluesky:
1. Open Bluesky
2. Check to see if @jon.inkle.co has posted anything interesting
3. Carefully ignore everything else
4. Close Bluesky
A dumpling in the form of Autobot leader Optimus Prime.
Went to a dumpling restaurant in London, where the coasters all had a little cartoon dumpling picture. The walls of the place were covered in sketches people had done. I, of course, drew Dumplingus Prime.
You should do this when you pass people, even when not walking your dog.
The government only functions if you continue drawing.
I've been writing a weekly serial for 4 years, and finished it last week.
September 2021 - January 2026
244 chapters
408,912 words (erk)
In paperback, it would be ~1,169 pages — which is about the same as the entirety of The Lord of the Rings
I'm tired.
simonkjones.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
There are two writers that I always listen to if they show up on podcasts. @jon.inkle.co is one of them. open.spotify.com/episode/58Z5...
I was also delighted that you were on this
You're saving it for the Christmas issue, aren't you?
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
I nearly did my back in yesterday because of this.
Reading this got me to buy it. It was on my very long 'to play' list, but knowing it's a 'compact' experience immediately bumped it up to the top.
'Short game' is such an overlooked marketing angle!
My main observation from this accidentally going low-key viral is that a surprising number of Bluesky users can't detect sarcasm and lack a functioning sense of humour.
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
