Louisa Scott

Louisa Scott

@louisascott.bsky.social

Writer, reader, mum, business founder. SE Londoner who grew up in Portugal and Gibraltar. I like books, running, theatre, jigsaws, cooking & eating. Published in Litro.

584 Followers 607 Following 277 Posts Joined Oct 2024
4 days ago
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A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.

Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

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1 week ago
A teenager dressed as Henry Winter from The Secret History, wearing glasses, holding an umbrella and carrying a copy of the Odyssey beside a smaller child dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant in jacket and tie, wearing a hat and a skull mask. A teenager dressed as Henry Winter from The Secret History, wearing glasses, holding an umbrella and carrying a copy of The Secret History beside a smaller child dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant in jacket and tie, wearing a hat and a skull mask and carrying a copy of the novel. A child dressed as Draco Malfoy for World Book Day, carrying a wand and wearing a cloak, beside a teenager dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant wearing a hat, jacket, tie and skull mask.

Happy World Book Day to those who celebrate 📚 This year my kids opted for elitist psychopath and skeleton detective.

Apparently at least one of my children must dress as Skulduggery every WBD... (@dereklandy.bsky.social) #SkulduggeryPleasant #TheSecretHistory

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1 week ago

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

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1 week ago
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

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Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

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1 week ago

Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.

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1 week ago

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

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2 weeks ago

Sorry to read this, Emma. I know that feeling and it isn't nice. Sending strength.

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2 weeks ago
Kristen Scott-Thomas, Juliet Stevenson, Gisèle Pelicot, Kate Winslet and Samira Ahmed on stage at the Soutbank Centre, London.

A bad photo (I was weeping) of the most extraordinary evening. When Gisèle Pelicot walked out, 2000+ people got to their feet to cheer and clap. And again at the end. So much love, admiration and hope in the room. I've never been part of a moment like it and it will live with me forever ❤️

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3 weeks ago

There's two minutes of missing videotape at the exact time of Epstein's murder.
Trump went into a hospital with a gunshot wound and released a report from a doctor who wasn't there, one week later

Journalists, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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3 weeks ago
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She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

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3 weeks ago

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

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3 weeks ago

This is perfect.

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3 weeks ago

There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.

Now, what are we going to do about it?!

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3 weeks ago
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Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

Art is political. It always has been.
💪 Arundhati
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

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1 month ago

It's perfect!

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1 month ago

I do! It's gorgeous!

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1 month ago

Today President Epstein kicked off Black History Month by sharing a racist AI video of Barack and Michelle Obama.

It's not funny. He's a racist fascist pedophile who mocks murder victims and anyone who still supports him is pure evil.

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1 month ago

Thou shalt not arrest journalists for practicing journalism.

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1 month ago

Ilhan Omar is fucking awesome.

What a badass! 👊

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2 months ago
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Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather The resistance is hotter than ever

Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather

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3 months ago
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AI-generated country track 'Walk My Walk' tops US Billboard chart AI-generated country track 'Walk My Walk' tops US Billboard chart, after garnering over three million streams on Spotify

This might be where I give up hope.
I went to a talk at the @societyofauthors.bsky.social last week and AI was a hot topic but we all felt people would ultimately still want human created art. Apparently that was an assumption too far 😫 #AI #art #humanwritten

www.nme.com/news/music/a...

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4 months ago

The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.

Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.

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5 months ago
Simpsons 'tap the sign' meme with text: your reminder that the UK book industry is worth over £7bn, more than four times the steel industry (£1.7bn) and six times the fishing industry (£1.1bn) so maybe English degrees do have a point after all.
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5 months ago
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In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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5 months ago

The very definition of ‘unviable’

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5 months ago

COME ON

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5 months ago
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Deloitte refunds Australian government after AI ‘made up citations’ in report Big Four firm Deloitte is set to issue a partial refund to the Australian federal government after a report it issued contained several errors caused by the use of AI. Deloitte was commissioned by the...

news.uk.cityam.com/story/236769...

FFS. This is how human history ends, with arrogant, overpaid, supposedly smart people relying on machines rather than figuring things out or looking things up for themselves.

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5 months ago
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US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn

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5 months ago

Yep, exactly this.

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