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I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Review of Black Gold by Tony C Scott on Amazon Title: Bravery at 60 degrees north Review: Rollicking swaggering audacious delight - from the very first page when I realised that it wasn't a dismembered *fish* we were talking about. In fact pretty much the whole way through, it was gobsmacked joy at the absolute nerve of the writer "did he actually just do that?". There are magnificent set pieces deftly handled; the locations true to life; the characters are engaging and the dialogue pitch-perfect. And if the bad men are killed a little more than is really necessary - well that's all to the good, isn't it? Do the job properly, after all - as the man says "God save me from f****** amateurs".

Look what you're missing.

#booksky #GovFinnBlack #BlackGold #indieauthor 📚💙

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

A tweet by @Llama In a Tux (dated Sep. 10, 2022): Don't you understand? The human race IS an endless number of monkeys. And every day we produce an endless number of words. And one of us already wrote Hamlet

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Review of Black Gold by Tony C Scott on Amazon Title: Bravery at 60 degrees north Review: Rollicking swaggering audacious delight - from the very first page when I realised that it wasn't a dismembered *fish* we were talking about. In fact pretty much the whole way through, it was gobsmacked joy at the absolute nerve of the writer "did he actually just do that?". There are magnificent set pieces deftly handled; the locations true to life; the characters are engaging and the dialogue pitch-perfect. And if the bad men are killed a little more than is really necessary - well that's all to the good, isn't it? Do the job properly, after all - as the man says "God save me from f****** amateurs".

Look what you're missing.

#booksky #GovFinnBlack #BlackGold #indieauthor 📚💙

Looks great - pre-ordered!

💙📚 #booksky

And very good it is too.

Live From Minneapolis (3/31/2026) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

This is how you introduce a band:

#springsteen #nokings #fuckTrump

The cover of Black Gold by Tony C Scott. Available from Amazon.

"Gobsmacked joy in the wild liberties so joyously taken from the first fucking page! I was 'Did he just do that?! The absolute nerve of the man!!'"

#bookreview #BlackGold #GovFinnBlack #booksky 💙📚

That first page gut punch energy is everything. Love the audacity and joy you captured here. Big props to bold storytelling 💥📚

Thank you 🙏

I'm afraid I can't claim any credit: Finn got a bit cranky and all I did was document it! 😂

The cover of Black Gold by Tony C Scott. Available from Amazon.

"Gobsmacked joy in the wild liberties so joyously taken from the first fucking page! I was 'Did he just do that?! The absolute nerve of the man!!'"

#bookreview #BlackGold #GovFinnBlack #booksky 💙📚

Equally annoying that you do social media as well as you write 😉

These are, annoyingly, actually free on Kindle Unlimited.

Four ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thrillers.

Or you can buy them, if you're bloody made of money.

£3.99 | £14.99

So that's your weekend sorted. You're welcome.

Quit whinging: That's a calm day in Shetland.

My first, and favourite, book review.

📚💙 #booksky

What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was broken. It’s a scenario that is far more common than is understood

Wanna know more?

Read Black Gold.

#Shetland #GovFinnBlack #BlackGold

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The cover of Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

@susiedentwords.bsky.social's Guilty by Definition is so beautifully written that finishing it felt like saying goodbye to new friends.

Highly recommended. 📚💙 #booksky

Just finished The Castle by @johnsutherland.bsky.social.

What a cracking read - and set in my neck of the woods!

Have tried Tomintoul whisky, must try Ballindalloch now.

(Interesting to compare police negotiating with what I remember from HMPS. Lots of similarities, but a few key differences.)

I don't post about my own books very often, but I'm chuffed with the most recent review of #BlackGold #Shetland 💙📚 #booksky

'Crime detection, real and fictional, is not difficult if a simple but infallible rule is kept in mind: in real life, if the evidence points to the guilt of a person, it proves he is guilty; in fiction it proves he is innocent' - Newman Levy, The Atlantic, 1946
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🙏🙏🙏 I’m with Paul on this, 100%
Also, his books are FANTASTIC.

Psst.. does anyone want to buy a book?

Hardbacks, paperbacks. I can even get hold of some spiral bound stuff, if that's what you're into.

No questions asked.

Delivered discreetly, so nobody needs to know about your book buying habits.

Email biggreenbooks@gmail.com for some hot book action.

Two toads, bufo bufo, mating outside a garden gate in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland

Behind bars.

Takes me back to when I had a proper job.

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

It used to be common to hear prison staff to say: "Everyone in here is a volunteer."

It wasn't true then and it isn't true now.

This hard-right thinking creates future victims - and prisoners at £50k p.a. - in order to court Reform voters they'll never win over anyway.

It makes no sense. None.

While our 350-mile finishers were enjoying the traditional Man Cakes and no doubt reminiscing with fellow participants about the last 10 days, while sipping coffee under quilts, there is still a 1,000 mile race going on. There had been no movement on the trail until the afternoon when Gavin continued his trek back down towards McGrath as did Takao Kitada. When hearing rumors of the trail conditions the words "impassable" and "impossible" come up. The other subject is the "trail math" conversation which is bad for any mode, but particularly crushing for the foot division. With no trail set in, and a large amount of snowfall north up the trail, rumors of 45 and 50 miles average per day needed to complete the race in the allotted 30 days feels crushing. When will movement happen? Any foot racers wanting to continue cannot wait for the trail breakers, who traditionally only come up two days before the lead dog team, as every minute they are stopped increases that daily mileage. Even though snow shoeing through thigh deep snow for hours and hours probably feels fruitless, some forward motion would need to happen. Easier said than done, slower pace through deep snow means more calories exerted, which leads to more calories needed to keep said pace, which then leads to heavier sleds, compounding the situation, a 3 or 4 day crossing becomes 8 or 10.

Mark's been forced to scratch after covering 306 miles, which must be heartbreaking for him but isn't too much of a surprise.

This screenshot from the ITI website explains how bad conditions are out there. #ITI #IditarodTrailInvitational