Louie Stowell

Facebook is not QUITE dead...as I've discovered a Buffy the vampire slayer group on there that's 80% just people posting about Ben in season 5, and how his character makes no sense because we don't get his backstory, and what's his connection to Glory...

NICE!

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

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There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Out now! In paperback, hardback, ebook and audio!

My favourite magazines between the ages of 8–11 were Woman, Woman's Own, Chat (when it was printed on newspaper), ancient copies of Just Seventeen, TV Times, NOTW Sunday mag – all available at my Nana's – and the Beano.

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I swear you need a PHD in logistics to buy a damn train ticket in this country

Here to help, or at least help distract fellow writers from their work.

A PERFECT HOUND WHO IS NOT REAL AT ALL

My dog

Did you say "share a photo of your dog"?

You've understood the sneaky subtext of my post. ALL THE DOG PICS

Awwww

I would love that!

It's your fault for having a delicious face

fale? FAKE.

FAKE DOG! NOT REAL! ALL CUTE!

Blyth ex-GP says long Covid patients are being forgotten The NHS in the North East and Cumbria is closing its last dedicated long Covid clinics this month.

BBC Article
Former GP with long Covid says people with the condition are being forgotten. MP Luke Akehurst described the closure of dedicated clinics as “shocking”, while long Covid expert Dr Rae Duncan warned: “Covid isn’t over.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I sometimes see a dog and think, that HAS to be fale. But dogs really are out and about looking like jim henson made them in his lunchbreak

mention of The Storyteller has just Prousted me incredibly hard

Petition for us all to start using Prousting as a verb.

I like that giant thought, may it grow so big that no one in publishing or the media can ignore it!

The Storyteller cassettes were probably my first introduction to “stories” for fun. But Fleetways’ Sonic the Comic was the big introduction to comics and ignited the love of comics for me. Now me and my son love the weekly dose of The Phoenix each week as well as other graphic publications

That's how I learned as well, comics and magazines (and food packaging) with longer writing also around to access any time, at home and in the library. There was variety to pick up any time.

Basically, can we give the world back to kids and stop squeezing them into a digital world made by and for tech bros.

I read all the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books from the age of six. I didn’t understand most of the jokes but I just loved words like “Zaphod Beeblebrox” and “Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore from Eroticon Six.” So glad my parents didn’t care it was ‘too old’ for me.

I learned the word "simultaneously" from a Transformers comic. It was a caption on two panels which appeared to be happening at the same time, so I checked with a parent this was what it meant. And it is MUCH easier to look up a word now, you don't need to have a dictionary or a literate parent.

Have mentioned this before, but I read "better to incur a mild rebuke than perform an onerous task" in Henry Sugar when I was 8, and I have a very strong, and pleasing, memory of looking up the words incur, rebuke and onerous, and feeling like the doors of language had opened up one crack further.

A big part of what later got me into reading graphic novels, among other things, was the beano, then the funday times pages my nan posted me, then just the cartoons in private eye