Dear Mr. Clegg

I have started a business, selling the contents of your house

I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house

Without this access my company will not be profitable

Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree

Please advise how I should proceed

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Stride for Palestinians 2025 I am striding for Palestinians in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Starting on Nakba Day, I will be completing 107km in one month and virtually covering the distance from Occupied East Jerus

Aha! Jim Medway proving himself to be not just a fantastic cartoonist but also a fantastic human being. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jim-medway

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 15,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookTheives by adding your signature here✒️ authr.uk/sp40

All my Julius zebra books are in there, the thieving bastards.

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Already well thumbed, with thanks @wrdmag.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social. Julius Zebra's latest adventure, this time in Ancient China. An absurdly comic piece of fiction studded with fascinating historical facts. Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social always has us howling.

‘Something magical is happening’: sales boom for children’s comics creating young readers of the future Publishers and analysts say popularity of genres like manga and superhero comics is a gateway into reading

Oh hey that’s my quote.
Incidentally I spent Saturday writing my speech for London Book Fair. I’m chuffed with how it turned out. It mostly covers how children’s comics were abandoned by publishers in the 90s/00s, and in doing so we lost a generation of readers.
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Thank you 😌

Had a brilliant #worldbookday, fantastic, jolly upbeat teachers and kids, 110% effort in costumes all round too! Such a life-affirming day :) A visiting parent (who was also a teacher) asked me in reception if I was an author, because I looked like one! 🥸 I’ve no idea what that means!

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The word you’re looking for is “stolen”, not ‘given away’

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity.

Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright.

Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator

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Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.

I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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Aw, thanks old bean. Always appreciated :)

Yeah, I got proper mixed up there, sorry Mark!

Fair enough, thank you!

Agree with the sentiment, but how did you get from a million a week, to selling 2 billion? There weren't two million weeks selling a million copies (or two hundred thousand weeks, depending on what you believe is the definition of a billion!).

I remember only finding them in Pontins!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands up . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands up .

Top of this week's "Who gives a sh*t?" news. "Why we're selling family castle after 700 years" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing!

Find Gary at @stupidmonster.bsky.social

YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Gary Northfield has been writing and drawing comics since 2002. He is most famous for Derek the Sheep - which appeared in The Beano. He has also created many jolly comics for The Phoenix, National Geographic Kids magazine, The Dandy, and Horrible Histories magazine.

Mark Zuckerberg looking pensive at the inauguration

Beaker, the dopey looking muppet.

I assume I’m the billionth person to notice that Zuckerberg looks more like Beaker every day.

How can there be so many people in the world who want others to suffer?

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

Hector Ayala, the White Tiger, by George Perez