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It’s very much like asbestos. The companies also knew asbestos was harmful early on, but there was too much money to be made. The fight for compensation was long and companies used tactics like delaying court proceedings for years to deny those dying from asbestosis and mesothelioma compensation.

It is a hard time for academia for sure, but pretty much every sector outside of academia hires people on the basis that they will go find money (contracts, sales etc) to fund their own salary + the salaries of others + a big return for investors.

Children’s books should win all the literary awards.

Does not bode well for publishing.

‘… it isn’t really funding or institutional backing that decides a magazine’s fate, but the determination (and health, and age) of the flesh-and-blood people behind it. If they have the energy and desire to keep on, the magazine will continue.’

Great read. Thanks @gitaralleigh.bsky.social

Yayyy. In an AI world it seems vital to talk about the joys of the creative process more broadly.

I’m genuinely not sure. It’s just unfathomable to me.

Box cover of the Ticket to Ride: Europe board game. Artwork shows. Black steam train, a quaint station, snow peaked mountains in the background and a few Victorian figures in the foreground. A bright 15 million Ticket to Ride Games Sold sticker is placed in the bottom right hand corner.

Cover of A Place for All My Books board game. The artwork is soft and cozy, with a brown haired person seated on the ground in front of a full bookshelf. They’re surrounded by other stacks of books, with a cat sleeping on one stack and a hot drink places on another.

I’m never really sure why many writers festivals leave out games, zines, comics etc.
The writing, world building, artwork and design work involved is often inspired- and made to be shared.

#writers #writersfestivals #games

There’s some dark irony in this.

‘He plays by a different playbook and it's working.’
I assume she means the Project 2025 playbook?

I've been published by 3 presses on this list and enjoyed books by many more.
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Work in progress.

Colours of spring in Brisbane.

Its true. I can reveal that I was called into Antifa HQ today & taken into the lair of our leader, known only as The Subcomandante (seen here in black to conceal his real identity). Apparently I haven't punched enough Nazis this week. He was not pleased.

Interesting things about the UN launching two global governance bodies on AI. It highlights:

- the utter lack of governance and oversight to-date
- the lack of trusted scientific advice on AI
- the willingness of governments to label AI as an economic must-have, and sell out workers despite this.

I was wondering.

Enforced labour.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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If public servants talked about writing the way writers talk about writing:

- Wrote 20,000 words today
- Wrote my billionth foreword
- Used 1st, 2nd & 3rd person in same paragraph
- Another launch 😭
- Had a million edits. Gave editor the original version. She says it’s perfect now
- Need coffee.

Favourite words read so far today:

‘the Elephant of Revolutionary Oblivion…’

(In Citizens by Simon Schama)

Close up of tabby cat paw, where to stripes on the top of the paw appear to spell NO.

This is Momo, my cat.
This is his answer to anything he does not want to do.

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#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

The - I hadn’t read any of his work as I was in CAIRO at the time blah blah - superiority flex at the beginning does temper the oof a bit though.

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I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

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To be fair, Huttese is difficult to translate.

Hello, yes, I’m the author or editor of fourteen books, some of them prize-winning and some of them bestselling.

I’ve written nonfiction and children’s picture books.

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‘… it actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.’

Jane Goodall

Ach, the wee jazzy scunners.