Tade Thompson

Yeah, I knew it sounded familiar.

Back at you, brother!

I know! I thought I should have made the cut 😁

It's 'What?! I didn't get in?'

My hay-fever is fully out of bed.

How many times do we have to tell these folks that racism is bad for *everyone*, not just the targeted group?

Yes.

Yep.

I cannot say this loudly enough: read to your children.

Having a [insert group here] spouse or partner is not a shield against anti[group] racism.

This is 101 stuff.

It's like the Anthropic payout.

You are compelled to include your publisher, yet you do all the clerical labour.

Nobody has writers' backs.

Remember that when AI stole your shit, Big Publishing did not fight for your copyright.

This should cause an immense shift in author/publisher dynamics because it's huge.

And yet...

I mean, kudos to her agent...

Character arcs.

I mean, it does make sense, as in, I can understand it, but I think it's daft nonetheless.

We should make t-shirts.

My life philosophy 😁

To be fair he didn't say that. I was referring to a lot of young men who flock to him as the solution to their dire love life.

You should all read this collection. It's superb.

This is a great collection and everyone should read it.

Only daft people say that without irony.

Thanks!

The fact that Andrew Tate doesn't read books should make you want to read books harder.

"Why won't anyone date me?"

Read more books, motherfucker. It's never been easier. Listen to audiobooks.

Thanks!

If you're experiencing Brain Rot from all the tech things, start a book reading habit. It'll fix you right up.

It's World Book Day.

Thank you to everyone who ever bought or read a book of mine, even if you hated it.

If you've never read a book of mine, but you've read A book, thank you too. A rising tide raises all ships. You're still enabling me 😁

The most important thing is: read more books!

It wasn't even the craziest thing we got up to that night in Spain.

We were trying to figure out how to write a book or screenplay in Esperanto.
I think we settled on a title, which I think was "The [thing] of the Underboob"

@franceshardinge.bsky.social any chance you remember the title?

I've been struggling with an opening sentence for a book intro that I'm writing.

Today, I remembered that John Scalzi tried to eat my face once upon a time, and I had my opening.

YouTube video by The Daily Show In Too Deep: Josh Johnson Dives Into the BAFTAs Racial Slur Controversy | The Daily Show

"Handing out editing awards when you can't edit" is classic.

That aside, this summarises my view. BAFTA and the BBC should have all the heat from this incident.

Good grief!

And we used to.

Just 7 years ago, we had university inreach and some of us would do shifts in the clinic in campus or act as escalation advisors for the workers there.

Not anymore.

Whoop, whoop!!!