Vicky Booker

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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#WriteCBC "I hope I got it right."
She peered into the gift bag - were wrapping paper and sellotape too much to ask for?
"Oh gosh."
"You like that author don't you?"
"Mmm." No matter how she fixed her smile, her eyes flickered to where a copy of the book sat on the bookshelf.
"You know me so well."

This is great, thank you.

I'm always late, but this is still funny.

Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.

These are amazing, SO beautiful. Is it just me or is there a bit of Michael Caine in that grave scene Scrooge? I *love* the endpapers.

Black and white photo of young people in a protest crowd in West Bromwich, 1979 Young black man in the centre with a short afro with bleach streaks is holding a large sign on a long stick which reads "NO TO NAZIS IN WEST BROMWICH 28 APRIL 4PM HARDWARE ST MASS PICKET OF NF" (National Front) Young white man with close cropped hair has his arm protectively around the sign holder and a defiant grimace on his face Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett, all rights reserved https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/virginia-turbett-uk-protests-1970s/

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.

Photo © Virginia Turbett

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I'm in.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

This is a fabulous interview/advice column! The socks bit especially....

Following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social breaks my heart every day.
As it should.

Great thread.

The thread under the Unsolicited Hick Pic is superb.

'Making people pay for retail goods would kill the shoplifting industry.'

I like B for the bookmark, but A for the bag - sorry if that's not very helpful 🤦

Front cover of Jilly Cooper's book Riders. The picture is of a lady's bottom, she is wearing skin tight white jodhpurs and a man's hand is cupping her right buttock. She is also holding a riding whip held loosely across the back of her legs.

Picture showing the spine of Jilly Cooper's book Riders with the famous picture of a man's hand on a lady's Jodhpur clad bottom. The book spin is creased and curved showing it has been read many times, the top pages are brown with age and crinkled from much use - a bit like this reader.

Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.

#WriteCBC The lounge was more like a dentist's waiting room; hard, bright surfaces, sharp angled chrome furniture, cold white light. But behind the stinging scent of bleach something else lurked, catching in her throat, recalling a memory of biting into a crisp apple, only to find the centre rotten.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Great thread, thank you.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

I've just added a couple of Maureen Duffy books to my wish list. I knew her name but hadn't read her - yet.

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Great thread, thank you.