Erica Wagner

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Salt Books is an excellent publisher who put out exciting books that most multi-nationals wouldn't go near. Think I've bought more @saltpublishing.com titles than any other Indie (bar the ones that publish me, anyway) Why not help them grow? gofund.me/f8293c76d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Sarah Hall had a “human-made” colophon for her new novel Helm and wants others to use it —

Sigh.

I've made a donation to @npr.org today: will you join me? Whether you love (or are about to discover!) Tiny Desk, Fresh Air, Wait Wait, Planet Money — NPR's goals are worth supporting, now more than ever.

thank you, off to the tap

This is what I don’t get about Gen AI. Everything meaningful we do is *process*. And yes: everything is, can be, meaningful.

These two pages, generated by genius, are thinking visualised.
Messy, unsure, questing.
Thinking is all about questioning, doubting, exploring, stumbling and imagining.
Darwin and Mendeleev scribbled, walked, visualised, pondered, re-examined and then took leaps into the unknown.
This is human.

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Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

Debunked Keir Starmer audio reappears ahead of Labour conference in Liverpool – Full Fact This audio clip of Mr Starmer saying “I f****** hate Liverpool” was first shared in 2023, but there’s absolutely no evidence it’s a real recording, and it may have been generated using AI.

An audio clip of Sir Keir Starmer supposedly saying that he “hates” Liverpool is re-circulating on social media.

However there is absolutely no evidence it’s a real recording and it may have been generated by AI.

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

Morning walk

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Hear bloody hear —

This is an incredible opportunity! I won this fellowship and used the time to edit my first novel, You Will Be Safe Here. To meet and learn from writers in Aotearoa New Zaland and to gain valuable teaching experience. Previous holders inc Louise Welsh, Janice Galloway and others. Apply!

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Better film than Mary Poppins. Fight me.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

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Join us today from 10am-4pm in Victoria Park Market, eat some food inspired by @NigelSlater's recipes and get a free copy of the paper with every order.

We’ll be serving roast pork with plum chutney, and tomatoes, coconut and sweet sour onions, as well as cheesecake with damsons

I have also heard that writing a letter, an actual physical one with a stamp, is still a very good way to make your feelings known.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Pleased to be reposted by @indexoncensorship.org; really sorry I had to write this piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Firing Jimmy Kimmel confirms the US media is being silenc... The first amendment protects freedom of the press. Trump, our great patriot, is trampling all over it

Five alarm fire. Goodbye Jimmy Kimmel, @karenattiah.bsky.social — and press freedom. Follow @rbreich.bsky.social if you don’t already to see how all this works. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Shall we add to this fantastic list by @naomialderman.bsky.social? With so much to choose from, I’m going for The London Mithraeum. 12 Walbrook. It’s FREE. Just go.

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world