Tom Lloyd

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99p. No idea how long for.

And Scotland now have the talent to try for more. Hopefully the nouse to not always do so!

Specific songs for just before a competition: duality, rather die (Barnes Courtney), kiss it (Dorothy), howl or the drumming song (Florence), old gods (green lung), break stuff, screamanger, we've come for you all

For writing battle scenes, I need something that's not too distracting. First choice is usually hosannahs from the basement of hell, followed by once more round the sun.

Ah Wales, you almost had me believing there... Just for a minute. Take the points next time.

If you're happy for Dan Edwards to cover 9 (As he was for ten minutes today), then genuinely just put an extra forward on the bench. Wales were in a tight game today where Ireland had them make a crazy number of tackles and had two unused subs. That's borderline unforgivable.

heh, I can imagine! But I think there's a lot to be angry about on the subject so...

This does sound good!

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For anyone interested: Misty Woman (fuzzy stoner rock), Resonance (synthy Editors type), Sergeant Thunderhoof (yes seriously, a punt I admit but seems to be folk horror type metal in the Green Lung vein), + Sword of the Sea soundtrack because it was interesting chilled stuff. Never played the game..

It's bandcamp Friday, so I seem to have found myself with new music. Weird how that keeps happening.

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Shortlist 2026 | The British Book Awards Check out the 2026 shortlist for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Year category at The British Book Awards (aka ’The Nibbies)

The British Book Awards (the Nibbies) short lists have been announced and the British Fantasy Society is proud to be supporting the Science Fiction and Fantasy category. Congratulations to everyone who made the short lists!

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Thank you! Given it's one Gollancz have done really well with, I hope we'll be able to work out a new push instead, but we'll see

Yeah - but I'm better with my formatting software these days so it's doable and it's my best-selling series by far so should be worthwhile.

Hey, look at that. I think we've fallen below the threshold on my contract. It's going to be a ballache to re-release each book in the series myself, but probably a worthwhile project. I see a week's holiday being lost here. Now to find someone to email at Gollancz

I'm still not sure I'd want Mckinsey etc helping out to decide anything - on board with your idea though

Starting to think there won't be any promotional efforts to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Stormcaller. So I better start looking at those royalty statements, check when I can revert it instead.

An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around

Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.

175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.

The My Lai massacre for our generation.

The Hague - and Hell - awaits.

the govt would probably get in management consultants to suggest the blocks though...

that's the weird thing about this nonsense, unelected house - many of them perform a vital role that I'm not sure a group of senators or whatever would. No one seems to know how we square that circle

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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"maybe all the renovations and road repairs on this street are because a builder died and keeps breaking things, because he likes to watch his friends at work"

suggests the Chosen One who coincidentally keeps reading the @dannyrobins.bsky.social book at bedtime

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use the work of novelists, artists, writers and journalists without permission. Continue reading...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

If for some reason you're a liberal who is still paying for a subscription to the NYT, WaPo, or the Atlantic, I recommend you give Liberal Currents your money instead.

Everyone’s Dropbox folders are full to bursting with sitcom scripts & treatments. And it’s harder than ever to get a meeting or a reply to an email. I’m so tired.

The cover of The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall, art by Ken Dawson The image shows the back view of a cloaked (but not hooded) warrior with her sword out. The is standing on the shore of a lake. There are mountains in the distance. Celtic knotwork decorates the corners of the cover.

Coming in April, we are bringing back Jo Hall's award-nominated novel, The Summer Goddess.
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