Vanessa Yardley

GET OUT OF MY WAY, I'M A CATHEDRAL

the year is 2015. without realising it, I am writing the best character ability I would ever create

Do I have any followers on here based in London who could pick up a programme for me from the Harold Pinter Theatre for A Man for all Seasons please?

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

In Somerset they know fairies have to be treated with extreme care, at least

Once I tried to get @tkingfisher.com to remove an em dash. She sent me a photo of STET THIS across her knuckles.

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

How will I be able to fund my stroopwafel addiction with sales like these??
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Holding my face up to the camera to prove I should be allowed a ninja sword, realising too late I have failed the most basic test of the ninja

These days, make sure you're really buying what you want to buy online. Also, if you see news that a favourite author has written something unexpected, unless that comes verifiably direct from them or their publisher, double and triple check that it isn't one of these increasingly prevalent frauds.

Women want men to be Aragorn, not Uruk Hai, but y'all men still listening to the Saruman podcasts for dating advice.

A director who lets a machine dictate their shot choices and camera movements is, by definition, not a director.

Happy anniversary yesterday to this shining light of headline writing and rest in peace to the man for whom everything was wrong.

Boundless is going under, it’ll cease trading by end of day. Archna has emailed Neem Tree Press authors about this but not Unbound ones :/

Authors, a couple staff members are working hard to get reversions, subcontracts, and files to us—if you need them email NOW before the lights go off

Speaking of fingers, my favourite Brazilian phrase to describe a clusterfuck or a shitshow is dedo no cu e gritaria. It means “a finger in the ass and screaming everywhere.”

Happy World Middle Finger Day! In German, the middle finger is called Mittelfinger when referring to it generally / anatomically. But when used to describe flipping someone off, it’s known as the Stinkefinger. In Welsh, one of the words for the middle finger is bys y din, which means “arse finger.”

Time Tub Travellers and the Silk Thief by Claire Linney longlisted in the children’s category of the Diverse Bool Awards

I cannot tell you how much this means to have Time Tub Travellers long-listed in the Diverse Book Awards. As a self published author I’m excluded from entering most awards so this was just…amazing. And 10 of the other books long-listed for teens and kids I’ve read and loved.

Folks- Mr Jason Arnopp is going through some scary shizzle at the moment, and needs some help with funding urgent cancer treatment. If you can donate or even share, please do, as I want to keep insulting him for many years to come… Link in next reply, because aLgOrItHm:

YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: Viking Women

New episode with the hilarious Chloe Petts and historian Dr Eleanor Barraclough — listen now only on BBC SOUNDS in the UK, or get early access overseas with an Apple Podcast Premium subscription

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Promenade plaque celebrates Cleveleys Star Wars connection The marking shows where the seaside town was transformed into a planet in Star Wars spin-off Andor.

Absolutely love this plaque they've put on Cleveleys Seafront marking the Andor filming location

The 'he was just a tourist!' line is a lovely touch

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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.

This includes being lied to by yourself, by the way.

Last push as offer ends today OMG

I Am Required By Natural "Law" To Register As An Apex Predator With All PetCo Stores In A 50 Mile Radius Of Myself

I Can And Will Beat Up ANY Conservationist Attempting To Keep Me From Eating Fistfuls Of "Dwarf" Hamsters

Rodents Look At My Hands With Trepidation, I Am Your God And I Am Hungry

With alt text for nested screenshot. Because everyone needs this bit of inspiration.

Born in the wrong generation You have gone nowhere. There is nowhere for you to go.

This is a pretty good, nasty little story

YouTube video by HDPinkFloyd Kate Bush /David Gilmour - " Running Up That Hill "

It’s Kate Bush’s birthday.
She was discovered by David Gilmour when she was 15.
And that eventually led to this brilliant live version of Running Up That Hill:

A packet of sliced ham which is a particular type of ham called Drury Lane Ham

what actors call that one legend who’s always overacting

Oh crap. I certainly shouldn't have said I knew Jeffrey Epstein was kidnapping young girls from my hotel spa.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.